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Rep. Keith Ellison blasts hearings on homegrown radicalization

Here's a good example how some of the far-left media, in this case MSNBC's Ed Schultz, work with Islamists.  The interviewer spurred on the first Muslim elected to the U.S. House of Representative, Keith Ellison, as he blasted Rep. Pete King's plans to hold hearings to help find the root cause of homegrown Islamic terrorism, which, by the way, threatens us relentlessly on an on-going basis. 

Think about it.  Why would any Islamic leader NOT want to find the cause???  

Wake up call: CAIR, free speech, Juan Williams and Islamism!

Here's a Fox News video about Islamism which is very much worth watching when Juan Williams hosted the Bill O'Reilly show last Friday.  Williams discussion about Islamism with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser is important.  Dr. Jasser is a Muslim I very much admire, he heads the American Islamic Forum on Democracy:

 

CNN contributor Mona Eltahawy tweets I'm a teabagger!

Recently, columnist and CNN contributor (CNN video) Mona Eltahawy wrote an article tltled Hey, America: I’m a Muslim, Let’s Talk.  She published this on her blog after she spent four days in front of the Park51 building (the controversial site for an Islamic center in NYC) with other supporters and talking to people over the Labor Day weekend.  One thing she said stood out to me; "I learned to resist labelling as a “bigot” anyone who opposed its building."    Park51 tweeted her article yesterday to its followers. Eltahawy is a feminist and a Muslim.

Really?  She wants to talk.  Ok.  I'll give it a try.

I tweeted her a perfectly reasonable question if she supported Imam Feisal Rauf after news that Union City, New Jersey had sued him and that 9/11 truther, Faiz Khan, had preach from his mosque for seven years,  which had come to light this week:

Me:  "so, u support Imam Rauf, a slumlord sued by city who had 9/11 truther preach from his mosque 4 7 yrs? Classy."

She replied with a non-answer: "Who are you and your assumptions and whatever gave you idea I have to justify my "classsiness" to some faceless entity on Twitter?"  and in a follow-up tweet, she wrote;  "I see you're in Oklahoma - I'm here to teach at OU so I guess someone in your home state thought I was "classy" enough"

What?  Come to find out she's here teaching college students how to become blogging activists at the University of Oklahoma.  Great.  I asked her the same question again; "1 more try OU teacher. Do u support Imam Rauf, a slumlord who had 9/11 truther preach from his mosque 4 7 yrs?"

Eltahawy replied "You obviously need to join my class because you lack basic intellectual skills."

Come on Mona, my question was straight-forward and simple.  Why the derogatory reply? 

Me:  "Your predictable leftwing name-calling diversionary response didn't answer my question #OU. 

She sounded as defensive as do most leftists and Islamists when confronted with a prickly question who quickly try to stomp out answering it with ridicule slung hard at the questioner - you know like a verbal slap-in-the-face to shut them up.  So, I did a quick search on the Internet where I found something interesting she wrote about her support for the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization banned in Egypt for its religious supremacy goals and out by the FBI in 2007 for their incrimental and detailed plans to take over the American government through their networks of organizations that will use strong relentless Islamic activism (the "grand jihad") to change it.

I tweeted @ouWGS (OU Women's & Gender who were pleased to have their "Center for Social Justice's Activist-in-Residence Eltahawy there) Are you proud to have pro-Muslim Brotherhood @monaeltahawy at OU???

Eltahawy:  One of my fave tweets! Hilarious! “@ztruth: @ouWGS Are you proud to have pro-Muslim Brotherhood @monaeltahawy at OU???”

Eltahawy:  I'll explain really slowly; u tweet a string of accusations I am supposed to condemn, ur tone is accusatory & u expect an answer? 

Accusations?  But, I continued.

Me:  "Your opinion piece "I Will Stand Up for the Muslim Brotherhood" is quite telling @ouWGS #OU"

Eltahawy:   @ztruth Brandi! You can read! I'm impressed. 'Atta girl!

Eltahawy:  But can you read beyond the headline, I have to wonder. That's a bit more challenging, no?

Ok, she sort-of questioned their misogynistic treatment of women but certainly not their seriously religious supremacist ideology.  And she wrote of the irony of defending them.  This is an organization that openly supports Hamas, which grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.  Their goal is the destruction of Israel for Islam and they are strongly anti-American.  At this point, Eltahawy was not happy with me and called me something she has just written she would refrain from labeling others:

Eltahawy:  "I should've called u a bigot from the get go for ur assumptions. Now this "pro Muslim Botherhood leftie" laughs at ur ignorance"  

Assumptions?  Keep in mind, she hadn't even answered my initial question.  What did I assume? I was asking for claraification. 

Eltahawy:  "And I urge you to collect your fellow teabaggers and protest a leftwing, pro Muslim Brotherhood brainwashing the youth of ur state."

Ok, now she's down and dirty.  This is the first time in my life I've been called a teabagger (I know this is a highly repugnant name but I've chosen not to find out exactly what this means).  

Me:  "Bottom line is you defended a movement that seeks Islamic supremacy @ouWGS #OU."

Eltahawy:   "It's no longer fun dealing with @ztruth. If anyone else wants to explain the world beyond teabags to her, be my guest."

Oh no, Mona doesn't think I'm fun anymore.

Me:  "Defending yr. positions by name calling is weak. And, you teach "Blogging for Social Change" at OU? LOL @ouWGS #OU"

Eltahawy:  Brandi, sweetie, told you already I'm here on stealth jihad not to teach but to brainwash. Now leave me to prepare my nefariousness

How proud OU must be.

By the way, Mona, do you know you misspelled "Muslim" in the title of two recent articles on your blog? 

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Also see:

The Women’s and Gender Studies’ Center for Social Justice  (FB) is sponsored, in part, by Center for Middle East Studies at OU

My other posts on Park51, Imam Rauf and Sharif el-Gamal

Inside GZM video: segregates women, shows little need for 13 story project!

Yesterday Park51, the name for the GZM project, tweeted a link to a Time video titled Ground Zero: Inside the Park51 Mosque.  There it was, right away, the repugnant and disturbing segregation of women in America! Only a few Muslims were actually there clearly showing little need for a 13 story Islamic center at the site that had it roof ripped open from the landing gear of a plane that hit the World Trade Centers.  Its part and parcel of the 9/11 attack and it will be seen as a victory for Islamism! I can assure you.  The poor taste and insensitivity shown by Park51 continues to create stress and concern for many.

The Time video included the ability to embed it into websites and is one more effort by Time to do fluffy little pieces about the GZM and its backers, including the highly controversial Imam Feisal Rauf.  Time selectively ignores valid concerns showing just how piss-poor they are at what they do.

More posts on GZM are here.

 

 

Bloggers report on ranches seized in Texas by drug cartel not credible

The AP reported a horrible gun battle took place over the border from Loredo, Texas Friday night but said it didn't spill over to the U.S. side.  However, for some unknown reason several bloggers claimed some ranches near Loredo were seized by a Mexican drug cartel.  These bloggers appear to have made a serious error in judgment and published this information in haste without the proper due diligence and have hurt their credibility.

Michelle Malken wrote about this and gave some weight to Digger’s Realm whom she said was a veteran immigration blogger who wrote about this take over. But, Malken has since updated the headline to state the story about ranches seized was not credible.

Bloggers who did not verify the story besides Digger's Realm are below (some have pulled their story but you can see the google listing when it was published yesterday):

Los Zetas drug cartel seizes 2 U.S. ranches in Texas   San Diego County Political Buzz Examiner Kimberly Dvorak  Her blog has been deleted from the Internet (see url)

FBI: Texas Cell of Mexican Drug Gang Los Zetas Have Acquired Ranch Inside ...

Weasel Zippers (blog) - The FBI is advising law enforcement officers across the country that a Texas cell of Los Zetas — an increasingly powerful arm of the Mexican Gulf ...

Mexican Drug Cartel Seizes Two Texas Ranches: 2005 Department of Justice ...

DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts 

By LBG1 There's a story unfolding in South Texas involving local authorities who refuse or deny two South Texas ranches were taken over last night by a ...

 

REPORTS: Texas Ranches Seized by Mexican Drug Cartel; Violence Spills over ...

 

DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts 

By Mondoreb Los Zetas, the Mexican cartel execution arm that is battling a Mexican drug cartel for control of Nuevo Laredo, seized two ranches near Laredo ...

 

Mexican drug cartel invades Texas, seizes two ranches

 

W.C. Varones (blog) 

In what could be deemed an act of war against the sovereign borders of the United States, Mexican drug cartels have seized control of at least two American ...

 

Drug Cartel Gunmen Invade Texas, Ranches Seized

 

Jawa Report (blog) - Mike Pechar 

(Laredo, Texas) This report should be the headline story put out by the American media. The idea that drug cartel raiding

 

Multiple Ranches In Laredo, TXTaken Over By Los Zetas : New ...  

 

New Patriot Journal

Jul 24, 2010 ...The bloodbath continues along our southern border and now word is coming in that Los Zetas, the highly trained killers formerly with the ...

 

Breaking, Urgent: MULTIPLE RANCHES IN LAREDO, TEXAS TAKEN OVER BY ...  

 

Breaking, Urgent: MULTIPLE RANCHES IN LAREDO, TEXASTAKEN OVER BY MEXICAN INSURGENTS. July 24th, 2010 Posted By Pat Dollard. aa-zetas. H/T @KnottieNature ...

 

BREAKING: MULTIPLE RANCHES IN LAREDO, TXTAKEN OVER BY LOS ZETAS ...  

 

BREAKING: MULTIPLE RANCHES IN LAREDO, TXTAKEN OVER BY LOS ... - DiggersRealm UPDATE: Story is now 100% confirmed by second source within the Laredo Police ...
dailyradar.com/

 

BREAKING NEWS: Multiple Ranches in Laredo, Texas Taken Over by Los ...   

 Jul 24, 2010 ... Obama and Media Cover Up! Why the hell are our borders not locked down now? Please get this out ASAP! MEXICAN Cartel ARMY Invades TEXAS ...
www.sodahead.com/

MEXICAN Cartel ARMY Invades TEXAS Ranches « Temple of Mut  

 Jul 24, 2010 ... BREAKING: MULTIPLE RANCHES IN LAREDO, TXTAKEN OVER BY LOS ZETAS. The bloodbath continues along our southern border and now word is coming ...
templeofmut.wordpress.com/

Two Laredo, Texas Ranches Seized By Los Zetas Mexican Drug Cartel ...  

Jul 24, 2010 ... It is not fear that grips me… only a heightened sense of things.
ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com

CNN omits controverisal facts about Islamic Society of North America

The Islamic Society of North America held their annual conference over the 4th of July weekend.  CNN sent their own Soraya Salam to report on the conference.

...The highlight of the convention was Saturday night’s main session, featuring high-profile speakers like world-renowned intellectual Tariq Ramadan, Ingrid Mattson, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf and Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, one of the highest spiritual leaders in Sunni Islam.

CNN failed to provided important facts about this highly controverisal organization right on the heels of having to fire their Senior Editor for MidEast Affairs for prasing a Hezbollah leader who was a designated terrorist.  First, it didn't mention the conference was held over the 4th of July weekend.  Something that is not unusal for many Muslims who do not relate to our cherished patriotic holiday since it is likely considered anti-Islamic.

Nor were readers informed they was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case.  Holy Land was the largest Islamic charity in America.  ISNA filed in court to have their named removed.  But, federal prosecutors responded that  "numerous exhibits were entered into evidence establishing both ISNA’s and NAIT’s (North American Islamic Trust) intimate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestine Committee, and the defendants in this case'.  See GOVERNMENT’S MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO PETITIONERS ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA AND NORTH AMERICAN ISLAMIC TRUST’S MOTION FOR EQUITABLE RELIEF, pg 2. 

The point here is that Americans must spend more time studying the Muslim Brotherhood, these organizations, related court documents, evidence, and their leaders own words and actions over time. 

Shame on CNN

CNN Senior Editor, Octavia Nasr, tweets admiration for Hezbollah terrorist!

Octavia Nasr is CNN's Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs. This supposedly "unbiased" correspodent tweeted her admiration for a Hezbollah terrorist following his death on the 4th of July (of all days):

 Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot.. #Lebanon 3:24 AM Jul 4thvia Twitter for BlackBerry®

 

screen shot taken 7/6/10

Nasr explained on CNN's blog, moments ago, her tweet for the designated terrorist was an "error in judgement." 

And, why are CNN rating's so poor?

Update 7/8/10:  The New York Times reports Nasr, a 20 year veteran at CNN,  was canned today.  She'll probably show up on Al Jazeera soon.

Also the British Ambassador to Lebonon praised his passing, too.

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CNN Editor Mourns Death Of Hezbollah Cleric Possibly Responsible for 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut   (NewsBusters)

CENTCOM questions US policy of isolating Hamas, Hezbollah 

Ya Libnan - Sharmine Narwani - ‎Jul 2, 2010‎

Citing a meeting between British Ambassador to Lebanon Frances Guy and Hezbollah in 2009, the report urges the British to pursue further talks with “vigor. ...

From the archives: 

7 More Die In Beirut Slum Warfare . News-Journal - Google News Archive - May 22, 1988 ...Syrian army Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said in an interview that will ... Saeedfatahuprising from most of their positions in the nearby refugee ...

ABC News & Little Green Footballs mock Oklahoma on Sharia Law amendment

In November, Oklahomans will likely vote on a constitutional amendment called "Save Our State" (SQ 755) that would prohibit state courts from considering or imposing sharia law or international laws when they decide cases. This amendment would stop foreign or Islamic religious laws from creeping into our legal system but it has met with some ridicule.

But, do not kid yourself that elements of Islamic law are not creeping into America.  Recently, the American Academy of Pediatricians issued a policy statement about FGM and felt a "nick" in a young child's privates should be allowed!  This caused a number of groups to express outrage.  Shamed, AAP reversed themselves and removed the policy paper from their website.

Yet, Oklahoma is considered foolish by some.  In a ABC News article titled Islamic Sharia Law to Be Banned in, ah, Oklahoma, they believed the prospect of sharia law ever being applied in the sate was remote based on the relatively low number of Muslims.  Have you not noticed their numbers are small most everywhere in Amerca but their activism is very high?  Do you think the use of the phrase "Ah, Oklahoma" was suppose to be a dig against Oklahoma legislators for being so far out there it's ridiculous? The legal commentary ABC sought was Fordham professor, Jim Cohen, who represented several Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants in the past and who spoke out against the U.S. case against Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a CBS interview in 2008, so his comments seemed biased to me and meant to put the proposed legislation in a bad light.

Hummm...

Little Green Footballs, a former conservative blog written by Charles Johnson that swung 180 after Obama was elected and shortly after Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated CAIR filed a complaint with the FBI about some reader's comments, wrote Oklahoma Will Ban Sharia Law, Which Was Just About to Take Over and categorized it in the far right-wing nutsville world: Oklahoma, Far Right, Republican Party, GOP, Religious Right, Sharia, and Bigotry.

Bigotry? Far Right?  Nope, it's more like willful neglect on Johnson's part who knows first hand how CAIR tries to stop free speech over and over again when it comes to criticism of Islam or Islamism, which is one and the same to them. 

I wonder if he or ABC News has heard of the Texas Islamic Court?

It also appears they know very little about the long Islamist history in Oklahoma dating as far back as a 1988 speech made to Oklahoma Muslims by Abdullah Azzam - the godfather of Al Qaeda! What about the very open jihadist convention held on Christmas Day in the convention center in downtown Oklahoma City in 1992?  A convention stumbled upon by a CNN reporter whose life was changed forever.  And, from the NEFA Foundation read about The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States; which referenced a Muslim Brotherhood document written by Zeid al-Noman aregarding their weapons training camps in Oklahoma and how officials started getting suspicious (page 8 which referenced Government Exhibit 003-0089; 3:04-CR-240-G; U.S. v. HLF, et al.. p.18.).

Isn't it a strange coincidence that 9/11 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi was ticketed in Oklahoma in April 2001 and that Bin Laden's pilot, Ihab Ali Nawawi, trained in Norman, Oklahoma - you know the same place where 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui trained for a while? Airmen's Flight School was on the radar of the FBI in 1999 and before. A September 2001 Boston Globe article Flight school says FBI trailed suspect prior to hijackings (archive) gives more detail:

The vice president of a flight school in Oklahoma told The Boston Globe yesterday that three weeks before Tuesday's suicide hijackings, FBI agents interviewed him about a suspected terrorist who had trained at the school.

Dale Davis, the vice president of Airman Flight School in Norman, Okla., said FBI agents showed up at the facility asking questions about Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in Minnesota last month after he tried to get flight simulator lessons on flying a commercial-size jet.

In addition, Davis said that FBI agents visited his flight school two years ago to ask questions about a former student who had been identified by federal authorities as an associate of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born dissident who is the prime suspect in organizing last week's hijackings.

in January 2008,  the Islamic Society of Tulsa invited a known Muslim Brotherhood leader by the name of Jamal Badawi, who was individually named an unindicated co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror-funded trial, to represent them in a debate about Islam and Christianity with a Muslim convert who is now a Christian pastor. The summer before, CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, was apparently invited to start a chapter here by local Islamic leaders.

But, what do these things have to do with Islamists and their left-wing partners infiltrating Oklahoma's legal system?  Well, to being with, Gov. Brad Henry (D) created the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council at the request of several Muslims who, in short order,  offered free copies of the Quran to every state legislator in 2007 that was embossed with the state seal.  That move got national attention when some of the offended legislators were highly ridiculed.  Razi Hashmi, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma said distribution of the Qurans was to educate legislators. He said the rejection was disturbing.

Why was a council, created by a governor and supported by the Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management which is funded by taxpapers, giving out a religious book, anyway?  Since that event one of the council members was placed on the influential Oklahoma State Textbook Committee and this spring Rep. Tom Cole held a special "townhall" for Muslims which was not listed on his schedule of public townhalls.  Cole's office insists it was not a townhall but it certainly was advertised as one.

The director of CAIR Oklahoma, Razi Hashmi, shilled for Hamas in the Oklahoma press last year and implied U.S. Rep. Mary Fallen (running for governor now) should keep her mouth shut about her support for Israel.  Oklahoma even has an Assistant Attorney General by the name of William F. O'Brien who shills for CAIR in opinion articles published in the Edmond Sun - a paper based in a suburb of Oklahoma City.  His boss, Drew Edmondson (D) is running for governor.

CAIR's national spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, said the "anti-Islam rhetoric is approaching “Nazi-like” levels" when asked about the proposed amendment.  Saad Mohammed, CAIR Oklahoma co-founder, claimed extremists have distorted Sharia."  Does he also mean Saudi Arabia which shows the world almost daily the harsh life under Sharia?  CAIR and many other Muslim groups proudly claim Islam is the fastest growing religion in America.  Are you paying attention?  But It's important to distinquish secular Islam from Islamism which has a goal to gain power, bit by bit, for their religiously supremacist ideology.  Islamists do not recognize Islamism becasue it's all Islam to them. Islamism's goal is to dominate.  Chrisianity once thrived in the Middle East and is now a minority religion there because of Islamism and it can happen again, if we don't pay close enough attention. 

Golly,  gee whiz, ABC News and Little Green Football -  do you think it's possible there are other Islamists and their minions from the left who have worked or will work their way into Oklahoma government that could eventually influence legislation and/or our state courts? 

I say this is one smart move, Oklahoma!

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Also see:

Oklahoma State Rep. Aims To Stop 'Liberal Judges' From Imposing Sharia Law TPM  (BTW, I would have advised Rep. Duncan not to go on far-left anti-conservative MSNBC)

Islamophobia Watch - Documenting anti Muslim bigotry - Ballot to ...  

Jun 5, 2010 ... Ballot to ban Sharia law in Oklahoma ..."SQ 755 will constitute a pre-emptive strike against Sharia law coming to Oklahoma." State Sen. ...

Islamic University of Minnesota graduates first class  The university is divided into three colleges: the College of Sharia Law, the College of Islamic Education, and the College of Arabic Language.

New York Times hires former CAIR lobbyist to write about Gound Zero Mosque

Former employees tied to CAIR are working for the media and may be less-than-balanced on the news they cover,  such as the Ground Zero Mosque.

From NewsBusters:

...Sharaf Mowjood, who helped pen the Islam-focused articles for The New York Times and the Times' world-affairs paper the International Herald Tribune in December of 2009, worked as a government relations coordinatorfor CAIR up until at least March of 2008.

Mowjood's gushing, 1,200-word article on the controversial mosque planned for construction near the former site of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks was titled "Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero." All eight of the sources cited in the piece said they approved of the project or lauded its advocate Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

...The Associated Press also employed former CAIR Canada spokeswomen Hadeel Al-Shalchito cover subjects like Israel-Palestine relations, the Goldstone report that condemned Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic radicalism.

...The [Muslim Brotherhood] website described Islamonline as ‘the most prominent voice of the global Muslim Brotherhood,' wrote the IPT. However, Al-Shalchi's story "cast the Brotherhood as moderate and Brotherhood spiritual leader and Islamonline founder Youssef al-Qaradawi as a ‘relative moderate.'"

Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood has issued fatwas approving of martyrdom against Israel and has spoken of the desire for Islamic domination.

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Must read: More about Imam Feisal, leader of proposed Ground Zero mosque

Restaurant thrives in Gaza and more

Here's something you won't see CNN or any of the left-controlled media report to you about Gaza:

Watch a promotional video for Roots The Club restaurant in Gaza which I found on Tom Gross's Mideast Dispatch where you will find many more pictures of life in Gaza. 

Cactus Development and Investment owns this restaurant.  It also owns a number of other restaurants in Palestine, too:

Gaza a concentration camp?  I'm so confused.

Helen Thomas tells Jews they are in occupied land and to get out!

White House correspondent Helen Thomas,  a columnist for the Hearst Newspapers, apparently hasn't a clue  that Palestine did not exist in Bibical times which is why it was never mentioned in the Bible or the Quran.  On the other hand, Israel is mentioned in both books. 

Palestine was a territory of the Islamic supremaist Ottoman Empire which drove out many, many Christians and Jews over the centuries.  Helloooo???  Is anyone paying attention here?

This woman sits in the front row at White House press briefings.

Video filmed at the White House on May 27th:

More troubling leftist media bias. 

Update 6/6/10:  Yesterday, Thomas apologized over the remarks she obviously meant.  Today,  entertainment agency 9 Speakers, Inc. dropped her as a client and she was dropped from speaking at a high school graduation later this month.

CBS News opinion article on Muslims lacks transparency

CBS News used an opinion article, America's Muslims: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?,  written by a far-left guest writer for TomDispatch which is supported by the " progressive" (i.e., anti-American)  Nation Institute which CBS failed to disclose.  This article paints a nasty picture of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts and argues that Muslims should police themselves.  Hummm...   How's that worked out so far?

By the way, Noam Chomsky and Islamist-loving Juan Cole also guest write for TomDispatch. 

I say the more you know...

Kelsey Grammer: All that is right with the world

Rightnetwork is a new independently owned media company for right thinking Americans with plain old common sense (my words) that will be launched this summer.  Watch a video by Kelsey Grammer about this network - it will put a smile on your face!

Video:

 

ABC News employs former CAIR official

What a shocking story by Debbie Schlussel who informs us that Sharaf Mowjood, the former Government Relations Coordinator for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Greater Los Angeles,  has been hired by ABC News who now apparently have sunk to a despicable new low.  Mowjood co-wrote a story about the death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in Detroit and reported about CAIR's involvement in the case which paints the U.S. as the bad guy!

EXCLUSIVE: ABC News Reporter on CAIR Story Was CAIR Official!

Jon Stewart slams CNN

Everybody knows CNN has lost a ton of viewers, right?  Well, you've got to watch Stewart's rant about them and their hiring of a right-wing blogger bythe name of Eric Erickson.

Video:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
CNN Hires Erick Erickson
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

 

Ann Coulter may file a human rights complaint in Canada!

Last Friday, Ann Coulter received an email from Francois Houle, Vice-President Academic and Provost, at the University of Ottawa advising her of the limits on the freedom of expression in Canada and wrote “Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges,”  before her speech at the university scheduled for Tuesday evening.

While I find her manner of speaking irritating it's noteworthy to call attention to the warning she received.  As a result, Coulter threatened to file a human rights complaint:

Speaking to students and academics at the University of Western Ontario Monday, Coulter said the e-mail sent to her Friday by Francois Houle, vice-president academic and provost of the University of Ottawa, targeted her as a member of an identifiable group and as such, she will be filing a complaint with the Human Rights Commission alleging hate speech.

“I’m sure the Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of it,” Coulter said to loud cheers from the 800-strong audience. “I think I’m the victim of a hate crime here. Either what (Mr. Houle) did was a hate crime, or the whole commission is BS.”

...Coulter’s targeting of the University of Ottawa administration and Canada’s Human Rights Commissions came at the end of a half-hour speech that attacked political correctness in the United States and the mainstream media, which she said was uncritical of the Obama administration and unfairly biased against conservatives...

Update 3/24/10: Coulter speech canceled amid fears of violence at the University of Ottawa when around 2000 students did the very thing the university warn Ann about -  making hate speech. 

Way to go Canada.

The City Sentinel shills for Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas unindicted co-conspirators!

Robin D-Townsend, Associate Publisher of The City Sentinel wrote an article Friday titled A new era of hope; progress in understanding continues that shills for CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America who was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror-funding trail for this reason.  See this recent DOJ letter.

Townsend included a picture she/he took of Nihad Awad and referenced this CAIR founder.  I've added another one of him for your review.  CAIR was named unindicted co-conspirator on page 5 under Section III titled:  The following are individuals or entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.

A 1993 Palestine Committee document states it was formed by the Muslim Brotherhood (U.S. vs. HLF, Exhibit 003-0017). 

In their phone book (U.S. vs. HLF Asqar Search 1) it lists Sadoun as living in Tulsa, Nihad Awad, CAIR's Executive Director is listed along with Ahmad (Ahmed) Agha of Ponca City, #34, 32, and 24 respectively.  This committee wrote of the Islamic Association of Palestine on page 8.

USvHLFinindicted_co-conspirators.pdf (U.S. vs. HLF copy of CR NO. 3:04-CR-240-G Attachment A)

Saudi influence hangs over Fox News!

Here's some more information about recent developments at News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News found at Family Security Matters in an article titled Exclusive: Fox Becomes a Hen? ‘CAIR’ and Imbalance? News Corporation Falls Under Saudi Control. 

I am just wondering here if Fox New is now Sharia compliant?. 

...The first development was the news that Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, invested $70 million in the Rotana Group, an enterprise owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah. The Rotana Group operates a host of of TV channels throughout the Middle East and is a leading producer of Arabic movies.

Next came Mr. Murdoch’s decision to make Abu Dhabi, the headquarters of the News Corporation’s global media operations in the Middle East.

On Monday, the Fox Network announced that it will dispatch a full-time correspondent to the Middle East in order to inform Americans of the unique business opportunities in such places as Syria, a country that provides shelter for Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah and support the insurgents in Iraq.

...Other news about the parent company of Fox News began to surface, including reports that Kingdom Holding owns at least 7 percent of the News Corporation and has become the second largest shareholder in the Murdoch conglomerate. Some speculate that the actual shares controlled by Kingdom Holding through a hedge fund may exceed 25 percent. As for charity, he gives millions to Hamas and other pro-Palestinian other and Hamas millions gives he charity..,

Walid Shoebat, Robert Spencer and Brigitte Gabriel critics of a particularly rigid strain of Islam, which includes political Islam with its persistent and never ending goals to get Islamic supremacists in power, claim they are no longer invited to participate on Fox News.  Neither is Geert Wilders, a very vocal critic of Islam, itself, who is now referred to in derogatory terms, whereas before he was an invited guest, the article claims.

This is a great boost to Islamists, like the Saudis who own and control the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC), a caliphate in the making right under our noses,  that's working to get a legally binding resolution at the U.N. that would ban all criticism of Islam worldwide.  It's the second largest inter-governmental organization in the world!  The largest is the U.N.

Murdock is partnering with a prince whose uncle, KIng Abdulla,  rules over its citizens with rigid Sharia law.  This country has been ID'd as one of the worst human rights violators in the world!  It is also the birthplace of Islam and it provides the world daily glimpses of Islamic rule and its not pretty.  So, is Murdock doing this for money?  Whatever the reason is here, it's shocking. 

Just two days ago Murdock  urged Middle East governments to end censorship of the media - but yet isn't that what he does at Fox News?

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Also see:

 Murdoch Urges 'Light' Middle East Regulation to Develop Media

BusinessWeek - Kristen Schweizer, Brett Pulley - ‎Mar 10, 2010‎

Murdoch, whose company last month agreed to buy a 9.1 stake in Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Rotana Group, urged the region to create “a marketplace ... The company will move some Fox satellite channels to Abu Dhabi ...

 

  News Corp. Units Head to Abu Dhabi

Wall Street Journal - Chip Cummins - ‎Mar 8, 2010‎

Fox International Channels said Monday it is basing the Middle East operationsof its global online advertising networkin Abu Dhabi and setting up an ... 

 

 Opportunity: Investing in the Middle East

FOXNews (blog) - Frank Merola, Cheryl Casone - ‎Mar 2, 2010‎

I just finished a four day assignment in Damascus for Fox Business. We were the first business network to report live from Syria so the pressure was on me ...

 

Vocal American Muslim group cast as object of mistrust

 

New York Times - Mar 14, 2007
They include Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas leader deported in 1997 after the United ... like $500000 from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia to help ...

...CAIR has raised some suspicion by accepting large donations from individuals or foundations closely identified with Arab governments. It has an annual operating budget of around $3 million, and CAIR said that it solicited major donations for special projects, like $500,000 from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia to help distribute the Koran and other books about Islam in the United States, some of which generated controversy.

TBS 16 Interview with Tareq Alsuwaidan, General Manager of Al ...  (2006)

Interview with Tareq Alsuwaidan (z:  he is a top Kuwait Muslim Brotherhood leader who purchased a mosque for the Islamic Society of Tulsa), ...Funded by Saudi billionaire Walid bin Talal, the man behind Rotana, the popular music video channel, Al Resalah has spared no expense in an effort to bring the production of Islamic TV programs to a new level of sophistication and cool.

Rontana website

Fox News parent, News Corp largest stakeholder is Saudi prince!

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a well-known Saudi billionaire is chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, and is the largest financial stakeholder in News Corporation, outside the Rupert Murdoch family.  It's the parent company of Fox News.  Apparently, he has upped his stake from 3% to 7, if this article is correct (see 2005 artlcle below for reference).  He has smaller stakes in Disney and Time Warner.

He is the nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.

One anti-Islamist critic complained recently that the voices against Islamism, i.e.,  political Islam, have been banned from the air at Fox News. Voices like Brigitte Gabriel of ACT for America and others.   Have you noticed if this is true?  Islamists always call their critics Islamophobes and do not separate their political agenda with the theology of Islam.  Islamism is the goal of gaining political power for the religion of Islam with a global supremacy agenda and is not the same things as secular Islam.

I do not know if all this is true but am passing it along as something to pay attention to going forward.

Disturbing.

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Also see:

 Prince Al-Waleed Comments on Global Businesses, Citigroup, and News Corp.

Diana West: We can't decide if Fox doesn't cover it

9/6/05 Saudi prince ups News Corp stake

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal now has 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp through his investment company, Kingdom, replacing a 3% stake in non-voting shares he held previously.

CAIR Oklahoma's 2009 "peace rally" had pro-Hamas signals

screen shot of video by Muskogee Political of Gaza rally 1/5/09 organized by Razi Hashmi, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma

CAIR Oklahoma sponsorship of a so-called "peace rally" in January 2009 bothers me a lot and now, before their annual banquet in March which features an anti-Israeli speaker, it's a good time to revisit it.  I believe when you look at the visuals of the rally, the statements made by Razi Hashmi, the director of the Oklahoma chapter of CAIR, an organization ID'd as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial, the rally was, in part, a front for supporting Hamas.

First, take a look at the screen shot above of a video taken by Muskogee Political.  See the strong anti-Israel messages?  Most Oklahomans are Christians and our allegiance to Israel is deep within our Biblical text and is unbreakable.  So, to deliberately offend the majority of Oklahomans was foolish to do.

In two NewsOK articles about the rally, the allegiance to the "Hamas rulers" seemed unmistakable.  On January 5,  2009, the day of the rally reporter, Michael McNutt wrote, Oklahoma protesters call for end to fighting in Gaza:

More than 200 people, most of them Islamic- Americans, demonstrated peacefully today outside the state Capitol asking state and national leaders to press Israel for a cease-fire against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers...

The next day,  McNutt wrote another article titled Group protests Gaza unrest at Oklahoma state Capitol.  This time, he wrote what Razi Hashmi said:

America should take immediate steps to end Israel’s "illegal and immoral” offensive against the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers, the executive director of the Oklahoma City chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday.

No mention was made by Hashmi that Israel was defending itself against Hamas rockets and live to this day in fear of rocket attacks by a group that has vowed their destruction which they have in writing in their Hamas Charter.

You can watch the videos of the protest again here and here (taken by Muskogee Political).  Only one sign at the rally was removed and that was the one of the swastika over the Israeli symbol but the man carrying that sign can been seen leading the chant in the 2nd video (midway through) without the sign.  This photo was taken by Okie Campaign. No other anti-Israel signs were removed.

During this time,  Hashmi had the gall to put words in our mouths by claiming he thought Oklahomans are concerned about our support of Israel, which is simply inaccurate:

Hashmi, an Edmond resident, said the U.S. government has not made it a secret that they support Israel. He said he thinks Oklahomans are concerned that taxpayers’ money is helping fund weapons for Israel, which are being used to attack the Gaza Strip...

When U.S. Rep. Mary Fallen spoke out against Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Hashmi said she should be neutral. Let's just remember the Gaza Strip was violently over-thrown by Hamas in 2007 and embedded themselves among the civilians. Any retaliation against Hamas would, by default, involve civilians but that doesn't seem to bother Razi Hashmi, in the least.

CAIR, is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America. The Muslim Brotherhood is a religious supremacist global organization whose branch in Palestine started Hamas with the express goal to destroy Israel for Islam.  It's important to remind everyone that Palestine was a territory of the Islamic Ottoman hegemony. Now, Islamists want Israel under the control of the Islamic world as it was under the Ottoman caliphate and is part of their goals to create a new caliphate.

Lastly, Palestine has been offered statehood before. First, it was proposed in the U.N. Partition Plan in Resolution 181 on November 29, 1947.  Israel accepted it and the Arab world did not.  Then, a United Nation General Assembly resolution was adopted "acknowledging the proclamation of the State of Palestine by the Palestine National Council on the 15th of November 1988.  This proclamation declared Jersusalem their capital which was under the control of Israel.  Please keep in mind the earliest Jewish temples are in Jerusalem and had mosques built over them.  The U.S. and Israel voted against this resolution. 

But most people don't know these facts. Furthermore, the two governments within Palestine, itself, don't even get along.

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more pics of rally by OkieCampaigns here

UN documents by date

HISTORY OF THE PALESTINE PROBLEM  UN

The Palestine  problem became an international issue  towards the end of the First World War with the disintegration of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.  Palestine was among the several former Ottoman Arab territories which were placed  under the administration of Great Britain  under the Mandates System adopted by the League of Nations pursuant to the League's Covenant

Liberal Air America goes bye bye

Air American, the far-left liberal radio station that helped Al Franken and Rachel Maddow rise up as some of the voices for the libs is going out of business.

What a shame - where's my tissue?

The Oklahoma Daily misleads on CAIR Oklahoma protest

The University of Oklahoma independent student newspaper has posted the press release from Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate about their planned protest this Saturday against CAIR Oklahoma but it was given a title that is misleading and will surely anger many Muslims: Brief: Group to protest Islamic involvement at OU!

2009 a tragic year for journalists

In 2009, 138 journalists died doing their job.  The majority were murdered or killed:

In the past year, 138 journalists have died in the course of their work. The International Federation of Journalists reports that 113 were murdered or killed in other violence, while the remaining 24 died in work-related accidents.
 
The most recent journalist to be killed was Canadian Michelle Lang, who died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
 
The report identifies the Philippines, Mexico and Somalia as the most dangerous countries for journalists to work in. Last month 31 journalists were killed in the Philippines after being abducted. In Iraq, the worst country for fatalities among journalists over the past decade, five media workers were killed this year.
 

This is another sign of the dangerous world we live in.  Let's hope for a better 2010.

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Also see:

Statement:  2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ

CBS News reports anti-Muslim propaganda also drives homegrown Islamic terrorism!

NewsBusters, an anti-liberal organization owned by Media Research Center,  wrote a great piece today about a CBS News segment that aired over the weekend which conveyed the sentiment of unnamed American Islamic leaders who said that young people here are being DRIVEN to homegrown Islamic terrorism by anti-Muslim propaganda.  In addition, they pointed out the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan help our enemies use this as an attack against ALL of  Islam, itself.  No mention was made about the multitudes of jihadists material easily available all over the Internet, especially on YouTube. 

Americans, I dare say,  are overwhelmingly against Islamism - the political component of the literal interpretation of Islam which can and does ferment terrorism to help move their supremacist agenda forward which can leads to Islamic law or Sharia - the absolute ruling authority over others.   U.S. Islamic leaders could do a world of good to help Muslim youth understand secular Islam versus Islamism - but you don't hear that talked about,  do you?  Well, you should.   

Historically, most Muslims were always under the rule of an Islamic caliph for the entire history of Islam until 1924 when the last caliph was defeated.  This history should not be ignored.  Today, large global Islamist forces want to reestablish a caliphate.

So, the poor CBS News coverage here is a great example how the media is not being honest with you.

Comcast acquires controlling interest in NBC Universal

A major announcement was made today about the parent company of NBC and MSNBC News, NBC Universal:

Comcast and General Electric announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast, 49 percent owned by GE and managed by Comcast.  The joint venture, which will consist of the NBC Universal (NBCU) businesses and Comcast’s cable networks, regional sports networks and certain digital properties and certain unconsolidated investments, will be well positioned to compete in an increasingly dynamic and competitive media and digital environment. 

Comcast serves around 24 million cable users.  It has been sued for interfering with Internet use; Comcast hit with class-action lawsuit over traffic blocking.  The status of the lawsuit is unknown.

Politically, the CEO of Comcast, Brian Roberts, contributes primarliy to democratic candidates.

Shame on columnist Susan Campbell

I came across a blog called Fear, itself,  written by Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell.  In Singling out the Muslims,  Campbell made the statement "And last time I checked, we were not at war with the Muslims, either -- extremists or not," which caught my attention.  I responded to her in a comment about the largest global Islamist organization in the world, the Saudi-based and backed Organization of Islamic Conference,  whose own Fiqh Council approved of martyrdom to illustrate to her the scope of the problem we face from Islamists - or political Islam.  Here we have an inter-government organization second in size only to the U.N. who approves of martyrdom who is trying to stop any criticism of Islam with a legally-binding U.N. treaty all in the process to create a caliphate.

I suggested to her she needed to do more research.

Lou Dobbs resigns on air; last of the original anchors at CNN

Lou Dobb has been at CNN since it first came on air nearly 30 years ago.  Tonight, abruptly, he resigned. 

I don't blame him.  CNN sucks. Tonight, of all nights on Veterans Day, not even a week after the Ft. Hood massacre, Larry King interviewed Nidal Hasan's attorney.  First thing that popped out of King's mouth was about Hasan getting a fair trial.  His attorney said  " I'm greatly concerned that in the memorial service that was conducted here yesterday, we had an assemblage of some of the most senior members of the military establishment present.  Oh my God,  even the President was there he went on and then King said: "Well, is it obvious, Colonel, that the defense is going to deal with the mental responsibility question"?

Mental health?  Hasan was very vocal about his religious idealogy.  I had to change the channel, at that point, which I do all the time with CNN.  You simply do not get the full story on this channel, at times,  or you get a seriously liberal-tainted story. 

Watch Dobbs' resignation below. 

Video:

 

White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett strikes out at Fox News

Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama was interviewed last night on CNN's Campbell Brown show. 

While Jarrett was quick to call Fox News biased she stumbled when Brown asked a reasonable question about the anti-right bias so evident on MSNBC every single night. 

Transcript:

Video clip:

VALERIE JARRETT, SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: We saw all of the distortions in the course of the summer, when people were coming down to town hall meetings and putting up signs that were scaring seniors to death, and we have seen commercials go up on television that are distorting the truth.

We're -- we are actually calling everybody out.

end of video clip

...BROWN: Officials have been very public about their feelings about FOX News and what they believe FOX News is and represents. And they made a point of coming out and saying it.

JARRETT: What we're saying is, is that we want the public to understand what's going on.

When we saw the kind of distortions this summer, particularly directed at seniors, over health care reform, it was really outrageous. And I think what the president said in his message before Congress is, we're going to speak directly to the American people and make sure that they understand the truth.

And so, certainly, if we see somebody distorting the truth, we're going to call them on the carpet for that. But we don't want to take our focus away from the core issues that are so important to the American people. Now, when there's all that chatter and distortion and false information, we have to disseminate -- we have to distinguish between truth and fiction.

BROWN: So do you think FOX News is biased?

JARRETT: Well, of course they're biased. Of course they are.

BROWN: OK. Then do you also think that MSNBC is biased?

JARRETT: Well, you know what? This is the thing. I don't want to -- actually, I don't want to just generalize all FOX is biased or that another station is biased.

I think what we want to do is look at it on a case-by-case basis. And when we see a pattern of distortion, we're going to be honest about that pattern of distortion.

BROWN: But you only see that at FOX News? That's all that -- you have spoken out about FOX News.

JARRETT: That's actually not true.

I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we're going to speak truth to power. When we saw all of the distortions in the course of the summer, when people were coming down to town hall meetings and putting up signs that were scaring seniors to death, when we have seen commercials go up on television that are distorting the truth, we're actually calling everybody out.

So, this isn't something that's simply directed at FOX. We really just want the American people to have a clear understanding. There's so much at stake right now. We really don't have a lot of time for nonsense and distortions.

The American people are also smarter than that. Let them reach their own judgments based on the facts. Let's just take health care, for example. Reasonable people could differ about the right approach. So, let's have a conversation about that. Let's not scare people by telling them that things are going to happen that are actually not even on the table. Let's just talk about the facts.

That's pathetic.  The heathcare reform actually includes cutting millions from a Medicare Advantage plan for seniors. 

Any reasonable person knows that providing healthcare coverage for everybody for nearly everything will result in cuts or rationing of services because there isn't enough money to pay for it all.  Everyone knows this will happen.  And everyone with any common sense knows it will cost a lot more than they say it will.

Whoever at the White House who came up with this media control strategy should be fired.

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Also see:

Obama Advisor Tells CNN Fox Is Biased, Won't Comment On MSNBC

Shocking: White House tries to ban Fox News from press pool event!

CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, bias clear in interviews at Chicago Tea Party

Liberal talk radio host Stephanie Miller calls for Rush Limbaugh execution on CNN!

The anti-right bias of CNN's political contributor Paul Begala

CNN: bias for sale

Shocking: White House tries to ban Fox News from press pool event!

Yesterday, the White House tried to ban Fox News from a press pool event.  Four members of the pool, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS said if they left Fox out they would leave!  The White House trelented but reduced the interview time from 5 minutes to 2 minutes per reporter. 

The action by the White House gives, what appears to be,  their desire and attempt to become a dictatorship that controls the press.  This is a clear violation of America's free press and is stunning. 

Congratulations must be given to the news networks who stood up to the White House for what was right.  Thank you.

Below is more information and analysis in a video from Fox News:

 

White House whines about Fox News

There seems to be a lot more to criticize the new Obama administration about these days after a short ten months in office.  So,  did they try to create a diversion by attacking Fox News?  Is this a possibility to consider?  The Dems do try other tactics such as calling those who speak up at town hall meetings the mob, astro turfers, racists and so on.  All this is classic lefitst Sal Allnsky techniques for shutting down those who criticize. But, it's important to remember that the media should be skeptical in order to flesh out the truth.

What about MSNBC and their opinion shows which features strong and constant anti-conservative rhetoric?  No problem with that, right?  I didn't think so.  Nor will the White House have  problems with CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS who all tend to spin the news from a leftist perspective unless they start turning up the heat on the White House actions, that is.

Van Jones; Obama's Green Advisor, Color of Change, STORM and Glenn Beck

Van Jones, is President Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs. He's the co-founder of Color of Change, an organization that seeks to strengthen the black voice in politics.  Color of Change is working hard to get advertisers to dump the Glenn Beck show for being so critical of President Obama, specifically his opinion that he thought Obama was anti-white! 

So let me make sure I've got this right.  The organization that is working to destroy the career of Glenn Beck, who is on Fox News, was co-founded by the president's Green Job Advisor! 

Somehow, that doesn't seem quite right, does it?

Color of Change states on their about page Jones has been inactive there in "recent years".  However, the last archived page taken November 11, 2007 shows he was listed as active.  Their "recent years" statement could be a stretch.  It would be helpful to have the archived pages for 2008, but they are not available, at the moment.  Then there is an article from SFGate.com dated May 27, 2008 which referred to Jones as co-founder of Color of Change.  No mention was made he was no longer involved with the group.  That was just last year.

Over at Little Green Footballs, a once conservative blog that has gone anti-right in recent months, Charles Johnson wrote on Tuesday that more advertisers drop Beck and labeled it with the following tags;  Glenn Beck, Kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Advertising, Boycott.   Kooks? Extremism?   On Monday, he wrote Glenn Beck's Continuing Problem with Idiocy.  Idiocy?  Does Beck act silly sometimes, even goofy?  I would say, yes, but have you actually researched what he is telling you? I'm not talking about his opinions here which are subjective and don't really matter. Is he inaccurate on what he tells you about his research?  That's the real issue here.  So, I say to those of you who want to demonize him and destroy his career - prove him wrong.  Start a website, then list all the proof sources that back up each and every falsehoods told by Glenn Beck.   Show us your facts so we can make up our own minds, thank you.   Prior to LFG recent rants against Beck since, I guess,  he joined Fox News, he wrote an article in 2006 about Beck titled Glenn Beck: The Extremist Agenda where he said his show was worthwhile to watch.  He was on CNN Headline News then.

Johnson didn't mentioned that Van Jones was once a self-described black nationalist and a communist, according to an East Bay Express article and cover story written by Eliza Strickland on November 2, 2005 titled "The New Face of Environmentalism" (update 9/1/09 the original article didn't open but I do have a saved copy).  East Bay Express, also reposted it here and then blasted Glenn Beck (they call him a "Fox News Whack Job") for informing viewers what Jones said!  Talk about dishonesty.  Nowhere can I find that Jones' renounced communism so this is hanging out there, big time.

And since when did it become wrong to look into the backgrounds of people who were hand-picked by President Obama or his staff?

Excerpts from The New Face of Environmentalism:

Picture:  Van Jones as a radical activist (source:  East Bay Express)

"...Jones came from rural Tennessee, by way of Yale Law School. The self-described former "rowdy black nationalist" is best known as founder of the Ella Baker Center, an Oakland-based nonprofit group with roots firmly grounded in criminal-justice issues that affect low-income people of color.

...He arrived at Yale Law School wearing combat boots and carrying a Black Panther bookbag, an angry black separatist among a sea of clean-cut students dreaming of Supreme Court clerkships."

...Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

..."One of my big heroes is Malcolm X, not because I agree with Malcolm, but because he wasn't afraid to change in public," he said.  (z:  What is that suppose to mean?  It's real clear what X was all about)..."

Is this article accurate?  Did you notice they quoted the man?  His reference to jail had to do with his arrest following the Rodney King verdict but later he won a settlement for being arrested wrongly, as I understand it. 

The Apollo Alliance, mentioned above, is a project of the Tides Center, whose parent is the Tides Foundation, funded mostly by wealthy left progressives.

Jones also was the founder or was involved with a neo-Marxist group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, according to Wikipedia (see Origins;  update 9/1/09 Wikipeida removed the statement Jones was the founder).  The East Bay article above discussed Jones involvement with STORM and its Marxist ideology which was started in 1994 when he was 26.  STORM's 2004 summation report put together after they disbanded lists the pages where their Marxist ideology is laid out  (page 4) but when you go to the pages where this ideology should be we find "Romantic Relationships between Revolutionaries" instead (Download STORMSummation which I obtained from leftspot.com (here's an archived copy from this website should it not work). Their "Points of Unity" are listed on page 31 and 32, which include marxism, communism, the defeat of capitalism and global white supremacy.  Their response to 9/11 leveled anger at the U.S. government and rely on global justice because U.S. Imperialism is the problem (page 28 and 29).  It quoted Amilcar Cabral, a Black African Revolutionary and Marxist, on page 3.  In an article titled I'm Bad, I'm Slick dated April 2008 we read Jones named his son Cabral (see below).  What a coincidence!  But, it's unclear if Van Jones took part in STORM's summation report.

Jones, was interviewed for The Witness in 2002 in an article titled Addiction to Punishment: Challenging America's Incarceration Industry.  Jones talked about getting burned-out after being "involved in all sorts of politics of confrontation and outrage". He spent two weeks at a retreat called Windcall that supports progressive social justice leaders (didn't know there was such a thing, did you?).  Jones said he just cried and tried to get his head together there. He also went to church more and sought counseling following his stay.  Common Counsel Foundationis Windcall's fiscal sponsor. Notice that ACORN is involved on the board of this organization that uses philanthropic resources for progressive social movements.  So progressive activists have a retreat provided to them free of charge when they get burned out?  How thoughtful.

It's quite possible Jones was a communist and is not one now.  But, he spoke ill of capitalism as late as February of 2009 (video) and how green jobs are just the tip of the iceberg to a new social order. The White House is just ignoring this hoping it will blow over.  I don't know how long they can stay silent with continued public and elected officials outcry.  It seems to me, the left response is very weak calling Beck and others whacko, nutjobs, rightwingers and so on for brining Jones background to the public eye.  This includes turncoat Charles Johnson.   

Update 9/2/09:  Van Jones called Republicans A** Ho***! (notice his dig about capitalism near the end of the video)

Update 9/3/09:  Is President Obama's green job czar, Van Jones, a 9/11 Truther?

Update 9/4/09:  Senator seeks congressional hearings on Van Jones

Update 9/5/09: 

Van Jones at Media Reform convention in 2007:  You don't have to call somebody the n-word if you can call them a felon."  Private prisons are "this new Jim Crow."  Van Jones

Is Van Jones is part of a global effort against America and Israel?  Warning this audio/video may be disturbing to some.

Krauthhammer on Van Jones

Emergency Action Against Racism and War (Oakland):  "...A recurring theme of the speakers was the brutal violence committed by or supported by the United States government on a daily basis. "The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City," said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who also warned against forthcoming violence by the Bush Administration. "The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad."  (9/13/01)

UPDATE 9/6/09:  Controversial Green Job Czar, Van Jones, resigns

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The advertisers who have stopped ads on the Glenn Beck Show because of the actions of Color of Change.

As boycott continues, Glenn Beck's audience swells:  Color of Change, an African American political advocacy group, organized the boycott last month to protest Beck's comment that he believes President Obama ...

Glenn Beck goes after Color of Change co-founder Van Jones  ‎ - 1 day ago
Instead, he spent a large share of his program suggesting that Jones, who co-founded Color of Change in 2005, is a radical. Jones now serves as a special ...

1/13/09:  zTruth : Does Obama's Climate Czar, Carol M. Browner, have ...  

"... I read last night the Washington Times reported President-elect Barack Obama's selection to be his "Climate Czar" is ...

8/25/09:  What is going on at Little Green Football?

8/13/09:  Speaking Power to "Truth" Melissa Bradley Chair of the Board, Tides HuffingtonPost.com:  As Congress debates Health Care Reform, the stimulus package starts showing signs of positive impact, and the war on Afghanistan intensifies...

4/11/08:  "Im Bad! Im Slick!":  ...With his new $1 billion Green for All initiative, Jones, who named his 3-year-old son, Cabral, after an African freedom fighter, aims to replicate on a national level the coalition of government, industry, labor, and community-activist groups responsible for passing the Oakland jobs-corps legislation.

 

Eva Paterson: Glenn Beck's Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies & Falsehoods  ‎ an article from the leftist perspective and a person he worked for.

 

The 2009 TIME 100: Van Jones  (Time spins the news towards the leftist ideology as does their sister company, CNN;  both owned by Time Warner)  Time never mentions Jones worrisome background.  Time magazine named Jones one of the 100 most influential people in the world.  Why?

 

1/15/05:  Human rights defenders honor King with truth  CNN

..."In the 1800s, it was the enslavement of African people. In the 1900s, it was Jim Crow and segregation. And in the new century, it's the incarceration industry which created these slave ships on dry land called prisons. That's the new Jim Crow."  Van Jones.

11/8/04:  A Phoenix from the Ashes by Van Jones after the 2003 election: "... Plus, we have an abundance of new leaders and smart organizations. They include Code Pink. The Hip Hop Summit Action Network. Barack Obama. America Coming Together. Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans. MoveOn.org. Progressive Majority. Michael Moore. Rock The Vote. Michael Franti..."

 

Related:

Apollo Alliance | Project Directory | Tides Center:  Tides Center is a nonprofit fiscal sponsor to forward-thinking activists and organizations. 

The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral:  Amilcar Cabral 1966. The Weapon of Theory. Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in ...  (Marxist.org)

President Obama's Czars

FCC's new Chief Diversity Officer, Mark Lloyd

 Mark Lloyd is the new FCC Chief Diversity Officer and Associate General Counsel for the Obama administration.  His picture here is from a post at civilrights.org which states he is a staff member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.  This was dated July 29, 2009.  Their Executive Committee includes leaders of AARP, Asian American Justice Center, ACLU, AFL/CIO, and SEIU to name a few.  So, I guess, he is a civil rights activist.

You may want to pay serious attention to what he does going forward to see, if or how, his actions might affect free speech in America.  For example, he is one of a number of people who co-authored a report in 2007 titled, “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio,” which seeks to change the structure of the media.  In a follow-up article,  Lloyd wrote the report did not call for a return to the Fairness Doctrine but wants more local ownership.  He also said; "We trace the rise and influence of Rush and other conservative radio hosts to relaxed ownership rules and other pro-big business regulation that destroyed localism..."  

In a speech before the lefist National Conference for Media Reform last year he highlighted Rwanda and Venezula for their ability to make social change through state run media (see below for video).  Talk about disturbing.

Is Lloyd in a position of power to actually make sweeping leftist changes to the FCC? 

Update 8/27/09:  CNSNews wrote about his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America

” ....Lloyd also said that public broadcasting should be funded through new license fees charged to the nation’s private radio and television broadcasters, and that new regulatory fees should be used to fund eight new regional FCC offices.  These offices would be responsible for monitoring political advertising and commentary, children’s educational programs, number of commercials, and content ratings of the programs...Frequently referencing one of his heroes, left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, Lloyd claims in his book that the history of American communications policy has been one of continued corporate control of every form of communication from the telegraph to the Internet...Government, Lloyd said in his book, is the “only” institution that can manage the communications of the public, arguing that Washington must “ensure” that everyone has an equal ability to communicate..."

The government is the only institution that can manage the communication of the public?  Are you kidding me?  I haven't read this book yet but the author of the article apparently did.  It's possible his book could be at your local library so you can read it for yourself.

Update 8/28/09:  In a 1998 Essay, Lloyd said the Republican communication policy hurts minorities.

Update 12/15/09: FCC Diversity Officer Lloyd Vociferously Denies Things He’s Written and Said on Tape

...Because we have a written, video and audio archive of his thoughts, positions and policy prescriptions.  So we know the differences between what he has said in the past, and what he claimed yesterday to have said in the past.

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Videos:

Lloyd spoke at the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform:

NCMR 2008 Media Reform and Social Change w/Mark Lloyd 1/2 (8.38 min)

NCMR 2008 Media Reform and Social Change w/Mark Lloyd 2/2

In this video Lloyd discusses two countries and their ability to be able to make social change through their state TV:  Rwanda and Venezuela.  This is beyond disturbing:

mass genocide was able to be committed by state radio in Rwanda---Chavez led an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution ------- media and social change ---

Also see:

AmericanProgress 2004 archive page on Mark Lloyd: states he was a as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN, and a consultant to the Clinton White House.  He also worked for George Soros Open Society.

Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a project of the Tides Center.  Lloyd was the executive director in 1994 according to this archived page.

An affiliate of the Asian American Justice Center mentioned in the post abouve is the Asian Law Caucus: 

zTruth : Asian Law Caucus claims Muslims are being targeted advise ...  

Aug 13, 2009 ... An Asian Law Caucus staff attorney has informed the public they advise people NOT to talk to the FBI because if they were to lie or ...

Saul Alinsky: 

Saul David Alinsky  He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing in America. He was from Chicago,  Wikipeda (9/1/09 Wikipedia removed the word "communist")

Saul Alinsky on McCarthyism and Woodlawn  (he said he never joined any organization - even the ones he created!

Saul Alinsky. Interview with Saul Alinsky, Part Ten ... PLAYBOY: What was your own relationship with the Communist Party? ALINSKY: I knew plenty of ...Back in the Thirties, the Communists did a hell of a lot of good work; they were in the vanguard of the labor movement and they played an important role in aiding blacks and Okies and Southern sharecroppers...Without the Communists, for example, I doubt the C.I.O. could have won all the battles it did. I was also sympathetic to Russia in those days, not because I admired Stalin or the Soviet system but because it seemed to be the only country willing to stand up to Hitler. I was in charge of a big part of fund raising for the International Brigade and in that capacity I worked in close alliance with the Communist Party. "

Book Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

---Random House, Inc. Academic Resources | Reveille for Radicals by ... 

---Mere tolerance is not enough (excerpt from book for a college course) at Virgina Tech

Book:  Rules for Radicals  Amazon

In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the ...

Word for Word | Saul Alinsky New York Times  Noam Cohen

 ‎Aug 22, 2009‎ This article claims that the angry citizens at Town Hall meetings got their approach from Alinsky!

For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone ...  

Saul D. Alinsky, the Chicago community organizer whose ideas intrigued and influenced Hillary Rodham and Barack Obama as they began their careers. ...

 

Older Articles:

 

Faculty Forum Another Side of Grapes: Daily Collegian (1940 - 1987) - Penn State University - Nov 6, 1969 For example , Mr. Shall quotes Mr. Chavez in Pittsburgh last Saturday: " We ... fact that he received most of his organization training under Saul Alinsky, ... Alinsky Defied Labels, Too St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive - Jun 16, 1972   A Commentary on the Industrial Areas Foundation Catholic Culture - Jul 11, 1986 Rules for Radicals opens with a quote about Lucifer, written by Saul Alinsky: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first ... But Saul Alinsky was an American revolutionary which meant he saw our history as a series of revolutionary upheavals. His favorite Jeffer son quote was ...

 

What is going on at Little Green Football?

Since President Obama's election, it seems the tone of some of the posts have changed over at Little Green Football.  This one-time techno blog became more political and conservative after 9/11/01.  Charles Johnson, the owner,  is also the co-founder of Pajama Media, a group of mostly conservative blogs, although they don't describe themselves as that but if you look around their website, you will get the drift. 

But, when I saw an advertisement for an upcoming event featuring Weather Underground Bill Ayers a couple months ago on his front page, I was startled and knew something was amiss.  I should have saved that webpage for you to see. 

The morphism of LGF continues as he posted yesterday a thank you email from someone who said they appreciated his efforts against the right on healthcare and other issues.   Today, he referred to the GOP as hostages of their lunatic base. 

Johnson also took the side against angry citizens at townhall meeting when he wrote Mob Mentality at Town Hall Meetings on the 8th complaining about the right.  

...There’s a place for yelling, screaming, and protesting — at demonstrations scheduled for that purpose. When these Tea Partiers and Glenn Beck drones charge into town hall meetings, shout down speakers, and act like angry children throwing tantrums, they achieve nothing but to further cement the impression that the right wing is going dangerously nuts.

I do believe there are also unhappy Democrats, as well,  who also expressed their views but Johnson just lumped them all as right-wingers going over the top and dangerously so.

From Wikipedia:

...According to Johnson, "political correctness has kept a lot of the hard truth from being spread by the mainstream media."^[6]

Johnson coined the term "idiotarian"^[7], popularized the epithet "moonbat"^[8] and promoted the sarcastic use of the phrase "Religion of Peace" to describe Islam.^[9][10][11]

...After the Virginia Tech shooting, Johnson indicated that he opposed stricter gun control by posting on his website an episode of Penn & Teller which is strongly critical of any such moves. ^[15]

Johnson sharply disagrees with all intelligent-design alternatives to the modern biologic consensus, and argues that the Republican Party has a "problem" from base to leadership with creationism.^[16]

When I did a search on his website for "Religion of Peace" references it comes up zero.  Could his website have been scrubbed of these references because CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure, contacted the FBI regarding some comments made on his blog?  This is just strictly an observation, I have no-way of really knowing.   Maybe, I just searched wrong.

But, in September 2008, he wrote CAIR Seething Over References to 'Islamic Terrorism' at GOP Convention.  Now, let's jump ahead to June of this year, when CAIR actually referenced LFG as a tool to help them stop an anti-Islamist speak!  What?

His own tag-line now confirms Johnson is not the same as when I first started reading his blog in 2006 on occasion:  

Little Green Footballs   

Aug 23, 2009 ... Weblog covering issues dear to both conservatives and US liberals.
littlegreenfootballs.com/ -

Below is a screenshot taken today, August 24th:

 

All this is from the co-founder of Pajama Media whose TV division is seeking citizen reporters at townhall meetings?    Johnson has already called these angry citizens mobs so are they wanting to demonize them?  I'm so confused.

Is it just me, or is the co-founder of a conservative group of bloggers actually going after his base?

Update 8/28/09:  Johnson is at it again, this time taken a shot at Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe calling him a religious fanatic in his post today titled Sen. Inhofe Says US is 'Reaching a Revolution' for his comments about the anger in America being expressed at Town Hall meetings across the country:

The history of posts about Inhofe is very limited and this one is the first post he has written about Senator Inhofe specifically.  Johnson tagged it : GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Fundamentalism, Religious Right, Revolution, Health Care

See what I mean?

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2/20/08:  CAIR: Muslim Group Says Mosque Threatened

"...Another blog, called "Little Green Footballs," linked to the "Gateway Pundit" post, and several comments on "Little Green Footballs," caused the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations to contact the FBI, said Ibrahim Hooper, the council's spokesman.

Archive of Pajama Media about page - see blogs (very conservative ones)

CNN "report card "on President Obama: highest voted section: F

CNN is conducting a "report card" poll on President Barack Obama's performance in difference catergories untill tonight when the results will be aired.

On his handling of the economy the largest votes were in the F category where 36% of Americans gave him a failing grade, at this point in time:. 

(screen shot at approximately 7:15 PM CT)

On heathcare reform the F voters are at 49% of the vote.

Did this pro-Obama network's report card  backfire?

Iran arrests Washington Times freelance reporter

The Iranian-run Press TV reports today that a Washington Times reporter was arrested late last week at an airport as he tried to leave the country.  Another report states he is a freelance journalist who does work for the Washinton Times but he is a Greek citizen. The Times cannot confirm his whereabouts.

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Reporters Without Borders: Repressive mania continues : three more journalists arrested

CNN panelist: Muslims expect Obama to speak like the great caliph!

"We at times tend to expect him (Barack Obama)  to speak like the great caliph of the Muslims."   ---Anwar Ibrahim

As I was finishing up this post this morning, news came in from Israel that four suicide bombers were killed from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip before they had a chance to cross the border and carry our their martyrdom missions. 

This news ties in with a panel discussion with a group from various parts of the Muslim world on CNN's Fareed Zakaria show yesterday about President Obama's speech in Egypt.  The above quote was expressed by one of the panelists, Anwar Ibrahim, who spoke first.

Zakaria may be the first Muslim to have his own show on a major American news network.  His comments about President Obama's speech touched on Obama's familiarity with Islam:

"My reaction? I thought the way in which President Obama was able to use the symbols and symbolism of Islam, and his familiarity with it, was very powerful. He was able to convey to the audience and to the world that he knew Islam, he understood it..."

Below are the panelists who appeared on the  program and some information that I added:

Hanan Ashrawi  Palestinian scholar and activist

"Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and spokeswoman for the Palestinians, frequently appears on American television and radio. She makes an emotional case in a rapid-fire, filibuster style of expression that flouts historical fact and present reality. All too often, her interviewers are unequipped or unwilling to challenge the barrage of inaccurate and distorted statements..."

Anwar Ibrahim  Malaysian opposition leader

"...But many Malaysians, particularly non-Muslims, see it quite differently, pointing to Mr Anwar's political roots in radical Islam.

He made his name as a student leader, defacing English language signs at the University of Malaya and founding Malaysia's Islamic youth movement, ABIM.

Rami Khouri  Palestinian-Jordanian and U.S. citizen

"...Israel still has not come to grips with the fundamental dilemma that its creation in 1947-48 came at the expense of the integrity and rights of the native Palestinian Arabs, who now find themselves in exile, under occupation and siege, or living as second-class citizens inside Israel. That fact must be acknowledged and rectified if there is ever going to be peace for Israelis and Palestinians and many others in the region..."

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Commentator Rami Khouri writes: “A Hamas-led Palestinian government and the new Israeli government to be elected next month face a historic opportunity,

Maziar Bahari  a Newsweek journalist but was introduced just as the Iranian filmmaker and journalist

Saad Eddin Ibrahim  exiled Egyptian activist (one trustee of his center is Gamal El-Banna, the brother of the founder of thee Muslim Brotherhood who signed a document that blamed 9/11 on America (see below)

Benny Morris a controversial anti-Israeli professor

"...Morris basically claimed that all the Israeli historiography that preceded his book and several other writings was completely fabricated, a series of untrue myths designed to serve the Zionist need for legitimacy..."

Juan Cole a professor and influential blogger

"...According to Jonathan Calt Harris, Cole "is blindly anti-Israel to the point of being an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, an apologist for radical Islam, and someone who despises American public opinion." Cole has supported the Israel divestment campaign by numerous American colleges, on grounds that Arabs are "mistreated" by Israel.

I have learned, particularly in the last 18-24 months,  that the bias CNN uses to deliver the news makes them a poor choice as one's sole source of accurate news.  

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CNN Transcripts

An urgent appeal to the nation and to the kings and heads of Arab and Muslim  statement blaming 9/11 on America.

Obama Submits

Tulsa World editorial on President Obama's speech falls short

The Tulsa World wrote an editorial claiming President Obama's speech to the Muslim World (i.e., the Muslim Ummah)  "was full of honesty and straight talk."  I was surprised to see only 32 comments on their online edition but understood why when I tried to post my own.  Apparently, they shut down comments denying readers an opportunity to voice their opinions. 

Anyway, their mostly glowing response to Obama's rhetoric needs some serious feedback:

First, they overlooked how President Obama went to great lengths to distance himself from his Muslim roots while campaigning but now that he is in power he emphasizes his generations of family Muslims. He quoted the Quran and talked about the Islamic call to prayer using the correct Islamic term, azzam.

Then and now. 

For some, President Obama seems to be elevating Islam and diminishing Christianity.  Is this a legitimate complaint?  I'm not really sure yet but something doesn't seem right. 

The Tulsa World and President Obama overlooked or didn't know that Egypt was once a thriving Christian nation until it was seized by Islamic caliph Muʿāwiyah Ibn Abī Sufyān who took the rein after the assassination of the previous caliph thus sealing the fate of Christians to live under Islamic rule.  Is it dishonest to ignore this history?

There's no getting around that Obama's speech was masterfully given and overall was good in trying to build bridges towards a common ground yet there are a few problems that popped out at me right away: 

Obama said" "Recent colonialism that denied rights to Muslims" (i.e., it's the West's fault)

"...globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile"  (it's the West's fault, again)

"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition." Political Islam (Islamism) is exclusive and in the Quran.

Obama referenced a verse from the Quran about telling the truth.  Islam is the ONLY religion that allows lying in order to gain advantage over its enemy, or to make things workable between a husband and wife or to bring peace between others.

Dr. Shahid Athar, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine and a recent president of the Islamic Medical Association of North America wrote about these reasons and a fourth one:  to make unbelievers realize the truth (see above link).  Photo source:  New York Times.

Obama said: "It was Islam at places like al-Azhar that carried the light of learning through so many centuries"

An excerpt from a TV interview with Al-Azhar University President Ahmad Al-Tayyib, former mufti of Egypt, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on October 10, 2007, sheds some light:

Ahmad Al-Tayyib: We do not permit the killing or terrorizing of peaceful people --- But with regard to Palestine and Israel, this is not the case, and to say otherwise is to confuse things...Is it easy for a Palestinian to bring his life to an end? No, it isn't. He too is a human being, who wants to live. What makes him resort to this method? It is not despair, as is claimed by many people who try to interpret martyrdom operations as suicide operation driven by despair. No. That is not true. The Palestinian martyrdom-seeker knows that he is free to go to this operation, in order to please Allah and enter Paradise, in defense of his religion, his country, and his land.  (MEMRI clip number 1622)

Obama also said:  "I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco" 

The Treaty of Tripoli which he referred to after making the statement above was signed after years of unprovoked attacks by Islamic pirates on our our ships and the taking of hostages and holding them for ransom - sometimes for years.  This went on for decades as America was forming.  By saying Morocco was the first country to recognize America implied something completely different by his glaring omission of what led to the treaty.  It was in this treaty that our founders emphasized that America was not founded on the Christian religion; "as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of  Mussulmen." 

Why do you think they did that? 

Numerous Islamic terror-funding networks were shut down under President Bush. Yet our new president, while on foreign soil, said to the whole world that in the United States, rules on charitable giving has made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation.  "That's why I'm committed to work with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat," he said.  Is he going to let it go back to the way it was?  Surely not,  but he wasn't clear at all.  He spoke directly to the small Muslim population in America and not to the concerns of the far greater majority.

Lastly, Obama announced a new global effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference to eradicate polio.  This Saudi-based organization is considered by some experts to be the next caliphate-in-the-making.  It's the largest Islamic body in the world and has UN status.  It also works hard to encourage countries and communities to make it a crime to criticize Islam. Its subsidiary Fiqh Council approves of martyrdom which ruled it is not terrorism and that it is forbidden to say the word terrorism.

Considering the above, the Tulsa World editorial was written with an appalling lack of knowledge about historical and current facts. 

We deserves much better.

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Text of President Obama's speech

Z's posts: Organization of Islamic Conference

Dr. Shahid Athar Wins “2009 Distinguished Physician” Award

Shahid Athar, M.D. Islamonline

The Agonies of a Muslim Living in a Non-Muslim Society  Dr. Shahid Athar

What state has the highest per capita taxes?

Have you ever wondered what states have the highest per capita state taxes?

Vermont is the highest with each person paying $3,600 per year.  Next is Hawaii followed by Wyoming, Connecticut, and Minnesota, according to the U.S. Census Bureau for 2005.

What prompted me to look into this was a statement made by a Fox News commentator who said how come the highest taxed states are in the worst financial shape referring to New York and California.  But this is incorrect.  Per capita California is ranked 10 and New York 11th so they are not the highest taxed states.

Oklahoma ranks 35th at $1,933.00!

New York Times Maureen Dowd cuts and pastes blogger's words

Using a portion of someone's else's work is done correctly all the time in print and on the Internet when a blogger or writer correctly credit the source of what they referenced. 

However, on Sunday New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd copied and pasted a paragraph written by a blogger without giving him credit.  She changed two words in the paragraph and used it as her own work.  The changed words are highlighted below:

Dowd's opinion piece titled Chaney Master of Pain (see link below) published yesterday where she set the tone by stating Dick Cheney has done many dastardly things in the first sentence.  She then moved on to Nancy Pelosi making a rather stark point. "It’s discomfiting to think that the woman who’s making Joe Biden seem suave is second in line to the presidency."

Ouch!  But, she decided what Pelosi knew or didn't know is irrelevant compared to the evil-doers of the previous administration. It is always the fault of the Bush administration not matter what, according to the left.

Below is what she lifted from blogger, Josh Marshall, at Talking Points Memo: 

“More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”

Josh Marshall blogged on May 14th: 

“More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”

Today, at the bottom of Dowd's article appears the following:

"This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: May 18, 2009
Maureen Dowd’s column on Sunday, about torture, failed to attribute a paragraph about the timeline for prisoner abuse to Josh Marshall’s blog at Talking Points Memo."

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Cheney, Master of Pain

New York Times - ‎9 hours ago‎

By MAUREEN DOWD Dick Cheney has done many dastardly things. But presiding over policies so saturnine that they ended up putting the liberal speaker from San ...

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (a helpful resource for legal guidance for bloggers on how to correctly cite a source and under what circumstances)

"A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.

Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you..." 

Two points I found interesting:

• How often are legal threats used to silence Internet activity? Help us to find out and counter baseless threats with the "chilling effects clearinghouse."
•  Under the fair use doctrine, it is not an infringement to use the copyrighted works of another in some circumstances, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, or educational use. The defense generally depends on a case-by-case judgment of the facts.

...We are gathering a searchable database of Cease and Desist notices sent to Internet users like you. We invite you to input Cease and Desist letters that you've received into our database, to document the chill. We will respond by linking the legalese in the letters to FAQs that explain the allegations in plain English..."

10 random minutes at CNN and Fox News

Here's another radomly picked 10 minutes of what is being aired at CNN and Fox News:

First CNN:

Death toll of Chicago school age kids keeps rising  9:14-9:17 

Dave Bing (sp?) has been elected Detroit's new interium mayor  9:17

commercial break

we have a new CNN news webpage - shows audience  9:21

Hearings:  Overhauling healthcare, swine flu breakbreak

The first U.S. death was pregnant and in a coma

Testosterone injections may surpress sperm production 9:22-9:24

Next, Fox News:

Kidnapped child in California - drug cartels may be suspected - sketches coming out, showed video of boy   9:25-9:26

Man married to one of the sexioust women  teaser;  more to come  (re. Cindy Crawford)

Why has the White House decided to dropped the public prayer on National Prayer Day?  9:27

commercial break

White House no gala event, no clergy, ends a Bush tradition.  Is the WH planning to recognizes the National Day of Prayer tomorrow?   Video of Press Sec Gibbs.  Obama will pray like he does everyday in private -- Bush made it a big event...prayed for the good of the country 9:31-933

AIG bonsues were much larger than first thought  450 million - or 4 times the amount previously thought  9:34

New Craigslist crackdown  AG in SC asked Craiglist to take down porn ads  9:34

Deadly auto accident, the driver was painting fingernails.  Son talks bout the mother he lost. 70% of accident involves a distraction...9:34-9:35 

10 minutes up.

Red Cross: Dozens of cilivians killed in Afghanistan, CNN report disputes toll

The leftist media news organizations in America would be all over the killing of civilians in Afghanistan if this happened under the Bush administration.  So when it was reported by the International Committee of the Red Cross that around 100 civilians were killed by the U.S. military yesterday in Afghanistan, the only written report from CNN that I could find stated the killings are disputed (see link below). Yet, the Red Cross said these deaths are confirmed.  Who in the hell is telling the truth?

Dare I point out that on the same day of these cilivian deaths, CNN decided to air an interview with a Tailban spokesman! 

From VOA:

"The airstrikes took place during fighting that broke out after Taliban insurgents publicly executed three civilians.

There were reports that militants took refuge in civilian homes during the fighting.

Earlier, Afghan officials said the strikes killed dozens of civilians and 25 Taliban insurgents.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for greater protections for Afghan citizens.  Speaking in Washington Tuesday, he voiced support for anti-terrorism efforts, but he said measures must be taken to protect Afghan civilians.

The U.S. State Department expressed deep regret over the loss of life among innocent Afghans from operations in which U.S. forces are involved.  

VOA

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US probes strike on Afghan civilians

CNN International - ‎10 minutes ago‎

By Barbara Starr WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A US airstrike likely wounded at least 11 civilians in southwest Afghanistan, a senior US military official said ...

 

Red Cross confirms dozens dead in Afghan air strikes

Washington Post - ‎18 minutes ago‎

Villagers who survived the bombing of houses packed with terrified civilians told Reuters by telephone dozens of members of one extended family alone had ...

 

US Afghan strikes kill 100, 'mostly civilians'

AFP - ‎46 minutes ago‎

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — Police in Afghanistan said Wednesday that US-led air strikes against insurgents had killed 100 people, most of them civilians, ...

Tomorrow is World Press Freedom Day

Tomorrow is World Press Freedom Day.  There are many hundreds of examples where freedom of the press is not allowed in a number of countries. 

For example, right now two female American journalists are being held in North Korea and one is in prison in Iran.  Here is a list of other journalists held in prison.

To highlight this event and call attention to these journalists, members of Reporters Without Borders will go on a hungry strike tomorrow:

"Several members of Reporters Without Borders USA, from the NY and DC offices, will go on a hunger strike in New York City on Sunday, May 3, World Press Freedom Day in support of imprisoned Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi. They will also call for the release of American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, held in North Korea..."

So let's hear it for freedom of the press and pray for the release of all reporters being held across the world.

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Senate resolution recognizes World Press Freedom Day

CPJ Press Freedom Online - ‎May 1, 2009‎

...  "in 2008, 673 journalists were arrested, 929 journalists were physically attacked or threatened, and 29 journalists were kidnapped," according to the Paris-based monitoring group Reporters Without Borders

Action Alert America: Contact News Corp and Fox on employee Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo, whom I consider a little known actress, went on the Keith Olbermann show, which is on MSNBC, on April 16th following the hundreds of tea parties held across the nation.  Garofalo called tea party attendees "a bunch of teabagging rednecks!  She added those who attended actually hated a black man in the White House.

Ms. Garofalo is an employee of Fox Broadcasting and appears on the TV show 24.

Let's take action about her disgusting tirade by not stooping to the level of the usual left-wing name-calling smear, but instead contact News Corp and Fox Broadcasting Company to express your disgust in a polite manner concerning the hate-mongering of one of their employees:

Action: Tell News Corporation and Fox Broadcasting Company your concern about the hate expressed by one of their employees on national TV.  Be polite, of course.

News Corporation

(chaired by Rupert Murdoch) and parent of Fox Broadcasting
1211 Avenue of Americas, 8th Floor
New York, New York 10036

News Corp's Phone Number:

(212)-852-7000

FOX Broadcasting Company
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035

FOX's Phone Number:

310-369-3553 

Fax: (310) 969-3300

(310) 369-3066 - view comment line

Scott Grogin, Senior Vice President Communications
Fox Networks Group

Phone: 310-369-4733  (his direct line)
Fax: 310-369-1283

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Watch the video of her appearance on MSNBC:

Janeane Garofalo calls Tea Party attendees racist and tea banging rednecks!

Janeane Garofalo snubs Rush Limbaugh, Lynne Cheney on '24' set ...

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That goes for Fox TV's 24. I won't -- , but I'll write their sponsors and let them know that thanks to Janeane ...

Janeane Garofalo calls Tea Party attendees racist and tea banging rednecks!

Janeane Garofalo, a little known actress and comedian, who believes she is far superior anf smarter than anyone who is conservative, rips into the most disturbing and offensive rant about Americans who attended the Tea Party protests held across American last Wednesday.  Keith Olberman was just as pitiful and clearly doesn't speak well for MSNBC. 

Garofalo who has/had a role in Fox's show 24, no doubt, offended half its audience.  This is a woman without a college degree who, ironically,  has a tatoo on her arm that reads "think".

I "think" I will never watch anything she is in again.  No, no  scratch that, I know I will never watch any show or movie she has a part.

This helps explain why MSNBC does poorly in ratings, don't you think?

Video:  April 16, 2008 (5.50 min.)

Action: Let News Corporation and Fox Broadcasting Company know you disgust expressed by one of their employees.  Be polite, of course.

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Update 7/20/09:  Janeane Garofalo claims the media in the U.S. is much more to the right!

CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, bias clear in interviews at Chicago Tea Party

Below is a video of a couple interviews by reporter Susan Roesgen, who is the general assignment correspondent in Chicago for CNN, at a Tea Party in Chicago:

If this one doesn't work there is another one with more footage below:

Apparently, CNN is busy trying to pull uploaded vidoes of this reporter from YouTube.  The above video was copied by an unnamed YouTuber and uploaded by Founding Bloggers blog. (H/T BNN broadcast)

AP allegedly sends ceast and desist letter to its own affiliate!

Here's an interesting story from PC World who reports the AP apparently doesn't realize they supply embed codes on their YouTube channel.  So when one of their affiliates posted an AP video on their website, the AP blew a casket.

From PC World:

"The Associated Press is giving away video content--inadvertently, it seems--on its YouTube channel, but don't embed it in your blog unless you're ready for a fight. That's what happened earlier this week to AP affiliate WTNQ-FM in Tennessee, who received a cease-and-desist letter from the AP's Chicago office after posting content from the AP's YouTube channel on its Web site.

The strange thing is that when WTNQ called the AP, the AP itself seemed baffled to learn an AP YouTube channel existed. Worse still, the AP didn't seem to understand that anyone could grab AP content from YouTube and embed it on their own Web site or blog..

...UPDATE : Since this blog first went live the Associated Press has sent PC World a statement regarding the matter:

There was a misunderstanding of YouTube usage when the Tennessee radio station was contacted by the Associated Press regarding the AP's more extensive online video services. No cease and desist letter was drafted or sent by AP to the station at any time. The AP was trying to offer the station a superior service for their needs. - AP

...As of 9:40 AM April 9, 2009 embed codes were still available on videos from the AP's YouTube channel."

I just checked one of their videos and the embed code it still there.

Go figure.

Sacremento Bee shills for Sharia law!

It's disturbing to read in an American paper how Sharia law would help us in this recession.  This was done by the Sacremento Bee in California in an article today by Stephen Magagnini listed under their "Top Story" section:

"The recession gripping the nation has taken less of a toll on American Muslims who follow age-old Islamic laws against paying – or charging – interest.

..."If everybody was Shariah-compliant, there would be no recession," said Farouk Fakira, a Yemeni immigrant who moderated a discussion on Islamic finance at Sacramento's Masjid Annur last week.

...About 20 percent of the Sacramento area's 50,000 American Muslims closely follow Islamic rules of finance – especially the prohibition against interest – said Irfan Haq, an economist who's president of the Council of Sacramento Valley Islamic Organizations , an umbrella organization representing 10 mosques.

Sacremento Bee

Ten minutes of fluff at CNN

I just randomly picked 10 minutes to track what both CNN and Fox News reported on just now.  I began to notice how seriously CNN was in the tank for President Obama a few months before the election.  It is so bad now,  I can hardly stand to watch this biased channel anymore:

CNN  1:18 PM CT

Why America loves Michelle Obama (snippet)

North Dakota Flood update story  Reynolds Wolf

Weather report

Money segment on financial debt

     personal questions answered

Next we will see how the Brits are securing the G 20 summit

 break for commercial

10 minutes up.

Fox News  1:28.5 PM:

President Obama arriving in London for G20 summit tension rising, context, analysis and breaking news

   commercial break

Dows in good shape today.  ...Award in smoker trial...

London arrival of President Obama.  Facing a stern first test overseas.  A lot really riding on this summit...

The economy has declined since the last summit...

Push back from Germany...French President more regulation needed or he may walk out.  Will fingers point at the U.S.?

Tone is the U.S. the problem. 

Global financial regulator?

Lot of history at G20 summit...1933 summit in London was a fiscal with a new Democratic president.

What we are seeing is European wanting more tighter policies...

10 minutes up

Of course, this was just 10 minutes out of a 24 hour news day and it really doesn't prove anything.  BUT I have noticed how soft CNN is on President Obama.

Update 2:31 PM:

I thought I would do 10 more minutes on CNN to give them another moment:

Dick Cheney accused of orchestrating assassins overseas...There is a list..  Hersch says a military hit squad...Cheney's attempt to undermine Obama's authority with Israel...

Commercial break

Hit squads CNN reported - have gotten a response from the military - all units in the arm forces report through a chain of command up to the president and NOT the vice president.

Did Cheney diss Obama in Israel?

CNN Rick Sanchez asks Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News about the rebuttal from the military.  When you listen to that - does someone really know?   He implies the military is not telling the truth...

Sanchez implies Cheney may have had a much control as the president...

Let's talk about the 2nd part -- Cheney talked to the Israel negatively about presient-elect Obama.  Normally, you would never think he would do this but it is consistent with Cheney...

10 minutes up

WOW!  No fluff there but a real character assisnation taking place.
 

Update 4/1/09 10:40 am CT:

I'm going to turn on the TV and do 10 more minutes at CNN, so here goes:

tax on tobacco - that's unfair to us who are poor - a video I reporter

Live from London now, there is the man who threatens to walk out..

we will monitor this news conference.

commercial break

Bernie Madolf story -- ceasing a custom made boat, an antique, more properety will be ceased later on today.

Look at those who are venting their anger at the G20

A brush with royalty, President Obama on the world stage

another commerical break

The Obama Justice Dept will drop the case against Rep. Ted Stevens in Alaska

we asked what you all think about this - people hate this decision...

We, the citizen have come to expect this from our government..more citizens criticism given.

30 minutes away from President Obama's visit with the Queen so we have pagentry and oppostion for you.

He has been meetng behind closed doors with leaders...

10 minutes up

Well, that wasn't so bad.

 

Liberal talk radio host Stephanie Miller calls for Rush Limbaugh execution on CNN!

More CNN anti-right bias was evident in a big way on the March 3rd Larry King Show which bordered on insanity. What liberal radio talk host Stephanie Miller said about Rush Limbaugh, as an example of a way to get attention, was in extremely poor taste.  

Yet no one on the show even attempted to clarify that what she said was inappropriate:

8.27 min.  (see Miller's comments at the 1.00 mark)

H/T  Lib Talker: 'Maybe Limbaugh Should Be Executed For Treason'

The anti-right bias of CNN's political contributor Paul Begala

On CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday night, the anti-right bias of their own employee, political contributor Paul Begala, was oozing.  Anderson Cooper did an excellent job trying to nail Begala down about talking to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on a daily basis:

"...COOPER: Paul Begala joins us now along with former Bush communications director Nicole Wallace.

Paul, is this Politico article accurate? Are you and other Democratic strategists like buddy James Carville working with the White House to paint Republicans as the party of Rush Limbaugh?

PAUL BEGALA, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: I don't have to. But first off, I don't work for the White House or any other politician, as you know. I live my life out loud. If I think something, I say it, and fortunately you and the other folks on CNN are good enough to give me a platform to do that.

But this was one of those occasions where, you know, I try to be an honest analyst, and of course, I'm also a committed partisan. In both roles, the statement is, I believe, inarguably true that Mr. Limbaugh is the leading, most powerful force in the Republican Party.

I think it's an undeniable truth. Go ask Michael Steele.

COOPER: But you didn't answer the question. Are you working with James Carville, perhaps Rahm Emanuel, others in the White House as part of a concerted effort to do this?

BEGALA: I don't know what you mean by concerted effort. I guess the short answer is no. I do what I do. James, he and I agree. He's my best friend. We've been in business informally at least or formally for 25 years.

COOPER: Well, let me go back...

BEGALA: And back on this Limbaugh thing as you will recall, on election night of '06 I was hammering Limbaugh.

COOPER: According to this Politico article, though, this began with a poll that James Carville's company took.

BEGALA: Right.

COOPER: In which they discovered that Rush Limbaugh had very high negatives. How bad were his negatives?

BEGALA: They were catastrophic. It was in October of '08 if memory serves when the Republicans were ginning up a lot of controversy about Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright. So Democracy Corps which is a nonprofit that Carville is affiliated with did a poll. And they put Limbaugh's name in there as well as those two who were central I think to some of the Republican attacks on then Senator Obama. And it turns out that Mr. Limbaugh's negatives was 58.

And that Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright were right about 50.

COOPER: So he had more people didn't like Rush Limbaugh than didn't like Reverend Wright?

BEGALA: Yes.

And yet now, in fairness to the data a whole lot fewer people knew who Reverend Wright was, a lot more people liked Limbaugh as well as disliked him so it probably averaged out where the net might have been better for Rush. But the negative rating -- that is the disapproval -- of Limbaugh was 58, higher, significantly higher I think than either Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayres who were central to the debate and I remember thinking then why isn't Limbaugh central to the debate?

And God bless Rush, he then made himself central to the debate by saying he hopes that the president fails.

COOPER: But according to this Politico article, it says by February Carville and Begala were pounding on Limbaugh frequently on their appearances on CNN.

BEGALA: Sure. Not just CNN. Street corners, at the dinner table, wherever two or more are gathered there, too, was my anti-Rush (INAUDIBLE), and they've been longstanding, as I was saying a moment ago. On election night of '06, when Rush Limbaugh was then engaged in a big fight with Michael J. Fox, I suggested that one of the reasons Claire McCaskill won the Missouri Senate race two years ago was because, as I said then, it came down to a beloved actor, Michael J. Fox, against Limbaugh, who at that time I described as, I think it was, a gasbag or drug-addled gasbag -- I think that was it.

So I have a long history of disliking Rush, and I don't intend to stop now.

COOPER: So Nicole, I'll bring you in a second, but I just want to try to get an answer on this. You allegedly Paul, have daily phone calls with Rahm Emanuel an old friend of yours as well as James Carville. This is all what I've read. It's been reported.

So clearly the light bulb goes off with you and Carville about Rush Limbaugh on his high negatives. Is that something you tell Rahm Emanuel? Because all of a sudden this weekend Rahm Emanuel out of the blue, unprompted, started talking about Rush Limbaugh.

BEGALA: Well, you have to ask Rahm what prompts him to do anything. But we are very close friends. But I don't take orders -- I love Rahm, he's a good friend of mine -- I don't take orders from him or anybody else. I don't work for any politicians. I work for CNN.

COOPER: But clearly you're talking to Rahm Emanuel every day on the phone and this light bulb has gone off in your head and James Carville's head I find it hard to believe you don't say to Rahm Emanuel guess what? Look at these poll numbers?

BEGALA: Well, I don't know. I don't keep careful note of these things. My view is I keep private conversations private, Anderson.

COOPER: Ok..."

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