Archive for October, 2007:
Olbermann, Huffington Blast Rudy for Something He…Never Said
Nice job by AmSpec’s Philip Klein here. Keith Olberdouche and Krazy Huffy lambasted Rudy Giuliani on Olby’s Countdown, for apparently saying the Dems would invite Osama bin Laden to the White House.
That was based on a report by an AP story, quoting Giuliani as saying:
“This is the world we live in. It’s not this happy, romantic-like world where we’ll negotiate with this one, or we’ll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we’ll invite (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad to the White House, we’ll invite Osama (bin Laden) to the White House,” Giuliani said.
“Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball,” he added.
Emphasis mine. One problem with all of that. Rudy never said “Osama”. He said Assad; As in Bashar al-Assad, whom many Dems said they’d negotiate with without any preconditions. Despite actually playing the clip at least once on his own show, Olby and Huffy continued lambasting Rudy for saying something he never actually said.
Klein writes:
Now, it’s perfectly accurate for Giuliani to hit Obama for wanting to invite Ahmadinejad and Assad to Washington, as Obama said he was willing to do here. Clinton later joined him, at least on Iran, here. If you want to argue that Giuliani went overboard by joking that the Democrats “are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball,” that’s one thing. But clearly what sensationalized this entire story is the idea that Giuliani was saying that Democrats want to invite Osama bin Laden to the White House. That’s a claim that Giuliani clearly did not make, and the AP, as well as bloggers who picked up the story, and Olbermann, should correct the error.
Olberdouce? Apologize? I’m not holding my breath.
H/t Allah.
Nickelodeon Website Shills for World Can’t Wait
I’m kidding, right? Um, no. As part of its “Rebel With A Cause” clip, it highlights teens taking part in the BDS group “World Can’t Wait”. They’re seen protesting the war, “taking on the government”, and protesting in Gitmo-style outfits. To examine how extremist-Left this group is, Communist literature is literally sold and touted at their rallies. Mao’s red book is a popular commodity at the book store. Ernesto “Che” Guevara shirts are in plain sight. Their belief is that Bush is not only a criminal, but a terrorist. You can purchase “9/11 was an Inside Job” bumper stickers.
Allah points out:
I’m trying to think of a right-wing analog to WCW to communicate the absurdity of seeing this on kids’ TV. The Birchers? Maybe Vlaams Belang? You wouldn’t even need to go extreme to get the left in a froth about political indoctrination of kids. Try running a three-minute segment of Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about open borders and see what happens. You’d have to duck and cover from the blast.
Indeed. But for a far-Leftist (you can’t even call it just a Left group), it’s simply “fighting the man”. It’s “using your rights to express your opinion”. Let’s see a Conservative kid get on there and talk about border enforcement or S-CHIP. Yeah, right.
Contain your shock that they’re from Berkeley. More at Michelle’s.
Sounds Vaguely Familiar: Russians Ordered to Attend Putin Events
In the latest attempt to advance into the 1980s, Russians were ordered to attend Putin rallies, according to documents acquired by the Guardian.
Hundreds of students and state railway workers were ordered to attend demonstrations in Russia calling for Vladimir Putin to stand for an illegal third term as president, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
Regional government officials demanded that schools in Tver region and railway departments in Novosibirsk provided pupils and employees to cheer for the president at Soviet-style rallies in recent weeks.
Prosecutors are examining official telegrams laying out requirements for attendance at the rallies. The papers were uncovered by opposition politicians and appear to be a blatant breach of electoral law.
I would be shocked. Shocked, I tell ya!
It’s not clear if it was ordered by the Kremlin or the smaller governments, but:
A campaign to keep him in power has peaked in recent days with a series of demonstrations across the country. Mr Putin’s supporters gathered in Novosibirsk, Magadan, Tver, Volgograd, Voronezh and the capital of Chechnya, Grozny, where they hung a large banner reading, “A third term for President V V Putin strengthens Russia’s role as a great power!” Yet while Mr Putin enjoys genuine popular support, it seems the demonstrations were not entirely an expression of free will.
A telegram from Sergey Lemikhov, a railways boss in western Siberia, to department heads, union representatives and veteran committees, gives a detailed breakdown of how many workers from each section should attend the Novosibirsk rally on October 24, which drew about 30,000 people. “Organise participation in the demonstration by workers and veterans of collectives and members of their families in the following quantities,” it orders. Hundreds of employees are told to attend.
A similar order by education bosses in Tver region demands that 55 schools provide teachers and pupils to attend a rally. There, supporters waved flags reading “Putin, we trust you!” The Union of Right Forces, a liberal opposition party, said it had lodged a complaint with the central electoral committee about the order.
Coming Soon: Creepy Terrorist Boy Band
I doubt their tickets will sell at Hannah Montana prices…
From the people who brought you that Jew-hating Hamas Mickey, comes the newest addition to the creepy Hamas entertainment faction: The Hamas Boy Band.
Hamas militants have launched a new weapon in their struggle with Israel: a troupe of honey-voiced singers known as Protectors of the Homeland.
Wearing crisply pressed fatigues in urban camouflage blue, the six band members gather each day to practise in an old office within the Gaza City police headquarters.
The small room throbbed with energy as their dusty 12-track amplifier screeched with feedback before being tamed by an engineer.
To the accompaniment of a backing track from a laptop computer, the men then started polishing their routine of songs, almost all of which have strong Islamic and militaristic content and titles like Change and Reform. Such uplifting lyrics as “By the shrouds of the dead we are inspired” are typical.
“It is our job to inspire the foot soldiers,” said Maj Hosam Abu Abdu, a 40-year-old former police officer who now fronts the band. “We want to urge the soldiers and officers to push on, to make the effort needed in the struggle to end the occupation [of Palestinian land by Israel].”
Wait, it gets better.
But Maj Abu Abdu, who also uses his fine voice to call the faithful to prayer at a mosque, outlined ambitious plans for Protectors of the Homeland — to produce their first recordings for distribution, to build a theatre in Gaza City and even to start public dancing.
Being an Islamic group, the plans do not involve women and the band leader looked slightly shocked when asked if any of the activities might be unisex. “Not possible,” he said.
In all fairness, if this what your back-up dancers would look like:
well…
Available for weddings, parties, but probably not barmitzvahs (although they could very well play to inspire those planning on attending uninvited).
Just in time for Halloween…
Senator Clinton, Yes or No?
If you haven’t seen it already, here’s Hillary completely skipping the question as to whether or not she supports giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens:
I’m sorry, I missed where she actually took a stand with a simple “Yes” or “No”. Oh, right, she didn’t. Why? Well, it could have something to do with the fact that Spitzer’s pissed off the general New York public by doing this. So, instead of saying “No, I don’t support it” or “Yes, I do support it”, Clinton resorts to attacking “George Bush” and saying “What’s the Governor supposed to do?”.
Well, Hillary, “George Bush”, whom I refer to as “the President”, isn’t running in ‘08. You, on the other hand, are. We all know what Bush did, and I’d point out that the President supported the same so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” that you did. It was stopped in the Democratic-controlled Senate after even some Democrats voted against it. Bush intended to sign it into law.
Why won’t you commit one way or another? Take a stand. Let’s “Have a Conversation”, shall we?
HuffPo Commentator Who Claimed LGF Death Threats “Can’t Remember” Details
Of course not. A few days back, HuffPo commentator Dennis Perrin alleged that he received death threats from LGF commenters. Now he’s responding to CJ’s demand to prove it, and to hand over the names that allegedly threatened him. Charles pointed out that his allegation:
At Little Green Footballs, several commenters bluntly advised me to leave the site, or they would track me down via my IP address and kill me. Probably hot air, but there are plenty of crazy people in the world, and arguing at an anti-Arab racist site wasn’t worth taking the risk, however slight.
is impossible. Why? As a commenter at LGF, no one would have his IP address but Charles himself.
Well, now Perrin claims he “can’t remember” his user name and that it actually took place 5 years ago.
It’s been brought to my attention that Charles Johnson, the Mud King of the Widdle Gween Nerfball tribe, is upset with my contention that I received a death threat at his fine site many years ago. “Man up,” ChazJo growled, beating his chest as his followers grunted their approval. “Prove it, or retract it.”
I’ve also received several emails from what I suspect are Nerfballers, daring me to do the same thing. So, in the interest of full clarity, and because I want to get back to some actual work, here’s the deal.
There was never a death threat made against “Dennis Perrin.” This is because “Dennis Perrin” didn’t use his real name when commenting at ChazJo’s joint. “Dennis Perrin” used a single, anonymous tag — a rare practice online, I’ll concede, but what the hell, you only live once. What that tag was I have no idea, since I posted there maybe five years ago, two computers and three hard drives in the past.
I knew very little about that site’s politics at the time, as I was relatively new to the Web, so I thought I could argue from a different perspective in good faith. Umm, right. My biggest mistake was insisting that the Palestinians are human, which is science fiction to Chazzy’s tribe. Several commenters told me to leave, and one said that if I didn’t, he’d track my IP address and “hunt” me down, encouraged by a few others. Now, whether this was possible or not, I don’t know, but as I said in my earlier post, I figured, f*ck it, and moved on.
Amazing. He can’t remember his own tag, can’t produce evidence it happened, etc. Yet, he can make blatant allegations against LGF and its commenters on The Huffington Post, recanting the details of exactly how he claims they’d track him down.