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		<title>America&#8217;s Rape Hoax Epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why we must refuse to let the UVA rape hoax story be sent down the memory hole. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247706" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800-450x337.jpg" alt="uva-2-800" width="346" height="259" /></a>In response to the total implosion of Rolling Stone&#8217;s preposterous story about a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia, the media have reverted to their Soviet-style reporting. They&#8217;re not even saying: We&#8217;re choosing not to talk about UVA because it&#8217;s a side show. It&#8217;s more like: UVA? That&#8217;s a school?</p>
<p>Not only did the UVA gang rape turn out to be a hoax, but then President Obama&#8217;s own Department of Justice completed a six-year study on college rape, and it turns out that instead of 1-in-5 college coeds being raped, the figure is 0.03-in-5.</p>
<p>Less than 1 percent of college students are the victim of a sexual assault &#8212; 0.6 percent to be exact &#8212; not to be confused with the 20 percent, or &#8220;one in five,&#8221; claimed by feminists and President Obama.</p>
<p>But neither the DOJ report, nor the UVA rape hoax have dissuaded Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill from pushing their idea that the nation is in the grip of a college rape epidemic.</p>
<p>This week, Gillibrand dismissed the UVA outrage, saying, &#8220;Clearly, we don&#8217;t know the facts of what did or did not happen in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, we know quite well what happened in this case. A disturbed young woman invented a fake boyfriend and a fake gang-rape to get attention, and an incompetent journalist acted as her transcriber. It was a total hoax &#8212; just like the Duke lacrosse case, the Jamie Leigh Jones case, the Tawana Brawley case, and every other claim of white men committing gang-rape.</p>
<p>Gillibrand and McCaskill: Perhaps the accusations against Dreyfus were overblown, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s not an epidemic of Jews selling secrets to the Germans!</p>
<p>We are truly in the middle of a rape epidemic: an epidemic of women falsely claiming to have been raped.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s said that &#8220;women never lie about rape!&#8221; But the evidence shows that women lie about rape all the time -– for attention, for revenge and for an alibi. All serious studies of the matter suggest that at least 40 percent of rape claims are false.</p>
<p>The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false.</p>
<p>To put it in terms Kirsten Gillibrand would understand, two in five women claiming to have been raped are lying.</p>
<p>So why are we always being hectored: Only 2 percent of rape allegations are false!</p>
<p>That oft-cited number comes from Susan Brownmiller&#8217;s 1975 book, &#8220;Against Our Will&#8221; &#8212; which sourced the claim to a mimeograph of a speech by a state court judge, who made a passing remark about a New York police precinct with an all-female rape squad. Nothing more is known about whether this was an actual study, and if so, what was examined, how the information was collected or the actual results. Nor can any trace of the speech, the precinct or the data be found.</p>
<p>In Women&#8217;s Studies classes, that figure is called a &#8220;home run.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why the feminists are so anxious to move on from the UVA nonsense rape story. They want to move on now so they can come back to it later, when everyone&#8217;s forgotten, and start citing UVA as their No. 1 example of the fraternity gang-rape culture.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s crucial that we get a letter in the file that says, &#8220;This was total B.S.&#8221; Otherwise, the UVA hoax will remain in an open file, marked &#8220;unresolved.&#8221;</p>
<p>All we&#8217;re hearing now is, Enough! Enough! Don&#8217;t be a bad winner. All this coverage is putting Jackie in a precarious emotional state. If you were a gentleman, you would drop the subject.</p>
<p>Then in three months, they&#8217;ll be bringing up the UVA gang rape as proof of a college rape epidemic. In six months, the case will show up in feminist textbooks.</p>
<p>Wait a minute! That was a hoax!</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t agree it was a hoax. We conceded nothing.</p>
<p>The Duke lacrosse case proves that. In an unusual move, after that gang-rape turned out to be yet another hoax, the players refused to accept the case being dismissed for &#8220;insufficient evidence,&#8221; which is how prosecutors usually drop charges. They insisted on being declared &#8220;innocent.&#8221;</p>
<p>This, the attorney general did. He also denounced the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, and saw that he was disbarred.</p>
<p>A few years went by, and then, this year, some douchebag wrote a book that claims &#8220;something happened&#8221; in the Duke case between the players and the stripper (who has since been convicted of murder). The book got a rave review from The New York Times.</p>
<p>With feminists, either you lose or the game was rained out.</p>
<p>So before anyone moves on from UVA, we need to get it in writing that this case was a hoax. Jackie&#8217;s got to apologize to the fraternity; UVA&#8217;s president has to not only apologize, but pay restitution to the Greek system for shutting it down for an entire semester; and Rolling Stone authoress Sabrina Rubin Erdely has got to swear that she will never, ever write again.</p>
<p>She cannot be an &#8220;investigative journalist.&#8221; She cannot even write movie reviews. Remember, Sabrina: No means no.</p>
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		<title>Leftist Lynch Mobs from Ferguson to Rolling Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left has become America’s biggest hate group.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/protest.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247109" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/protest-425x350.png" alt="protest" width="328" height="270" /></a>Did you bury a teenage girl alive after shooting her? Are you on death row after a string of crimes too gruesome to describe? Or are you just a member of Al Qaeda dedicated to destroying America?</p>
<p>If so progressives will fight for you. Just dial 1-800-IAM-VICTIM and the leftist waiting to take your call will insist on your presumption of innocence. Its activists, reporters and lawyers will exploit every pretext to get you off the hook and they will call that justice.</p>
<p>The judicial process, they will say, matters more than public safety, public outrage or the victims.</p>
<p>When the crime wave set loose by their own activism flooded the country they clung to Blackstone’s formulation of “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”  As murders, rapes and robberies rose, the value of that formulation went up from ten to ten thousand.</p>
<p>But it had to be the right ten thousand.</p>
<p>Leftist lynch mobs rioting in Ferguson, marching through Manhattan and screaming in Oakland assert that the presumption of innocence doesn’t apply to police officers or white Hispanics. Their poses of victimization with their cries of “Black lives matter” and “I can’t breathe” disguise what they really are.</p>
<p>They were protesting before the case moved forward. They have continued protesting after the verdict was in. That’s not a call for justice. It’s a lynch mob that knows what the verdict should be and seeks to intimidate the authorities into giving it to them by taking the law into their own hands.</p>
<p>Rolling Stone’s rape story was cooked out of the same ingredients; a presumption of guilt and a lynch mob demanding its own brand of justice. The facts never mattered.</p>
<p>The assistant managing editor at the University of Virginia’s student paper admitted that when she argued, &#8220;To let fact checking define the narrative would be a huge mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was never about the facts. It was about the narrative. And the narrative was not only the guilt of a few men, but the way that their guilt stood in for the guilt of all men or all white people. The factual question of whether Officer Darren Wilson or a few UVA students committed a crime was a technicality.</p>
<p>Since the racist and sexist narrative states that all white people or all men are inherently guilty, the factual question of whether a few men actually raped someone doesn’t matter. The factual question of whether a police officer is actually guilty under the law is so obscure that it isn’t worth discussing.</p>
<p>Fact checking just obstructs the narrative that all white people or all men are guilty.</p>
<p>The old lynch mobs presumed that a black man was guilty on account of his race. So do the new lynch mobs.</p>
<p>Wilson’s crime wasn’t shooting Michael Brown. It was shooting him while being white. If he had been black, we wouldn’t be talking about it now. If the black sergeant supervising the takedown of Eric Garner had been the one to restrain him, there would be no protesters shouting “I can’t breathe”.</p>
<p>Subtract the race of the perpetrator and the case wouldn’t exist. That’s what makes the case racist.</p>
<p>A lynch mob brought into existence by the race of the man they want lynched is a racist lynch mob.</p>
<p>At Ferguson and the University of Virginia not only was the crime assumed into existence before the verdict was in, but the action of one police officer in Ferguson was used to indict all police officers and then all white people. The actions of a few men at the University of Virginia were used to indict the entire fraternity and then all fraternities and then all men.</p>
<p>Classic lynch mobs treated the actions of one black rapist as a justification for repressing all black people. The leftist lynch mobs at Ferguson and the University of Virginia used the accusation of an individual crime to call for the repression of entire groups, to attack all white people and all men.</p>
<p>Even if these crimes had turned out to be substantiated, indicting hundreds of millions of people for the actions of a few is the narrative of a hate group. And that’s what progressives have shown that they are; a respectable establishment hate group that demonizes millions of people and leads lynch mobs.</p>
<p>One of the greatest lies of the left is that it believes in civil liberties. The ACLU’s civil libertarian colors were a convenient costume. It never existed to protect the rights of the people against leftist governments. It existed to protect the privileges of leftists.</p>
<p>That’s a direct quote from its co-founder.</p>
<p>Roger Nash Baldwin wrote, “If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight against censorship, it is only because those liberties help to create a more hospitable atmosphere for working class liberties&#8230; When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever.”</p>
<p>When Baldwin wrote these words, he was speaking of a Soviet Union led by Stalin which was maintaining its dictatorship of the proletariat through a secret police, torture and mass murder.</p>
<p>The co-founder of the ACLU was not only endorsing Stalin’s crimes, but he was also looking forward to an American Stalin rounding up enemies of the state and shooting them with the support of the ACLU.</p>
<p>The presumption of innocence is an idea that leftists only believe in when they aren’t in power.</p>
<p>When the left isn’t in power, then it may protect civil liberties to protect itself. When one of its own radicals is sitting in the White House, then it leads lynch mobs through the streets. The protests aren’t acts of weakness by victims, but signs of strength by oppressors.</p>
<p>The left is rejecting the democratic results of the midterm elections and turning to street violence. Their confidence is derived from the support of the establishment from the White House to the media. Never have lynch mobs received such universal acclaim from all the powers of the United States of America.</p>
<p>The progressive lynch mobs in Ferguson and at the University of Virginia contend that some crimes are too hurtful to a particular population to be protected by the presumption of innocence. Some suspects should be presumed guilty because of the combination of their race and gender with a national crisis.</p>
<p>After fighting for Al Qaeda terrorists at Gitmo, the left hypocritically decided that the presumption of innocence should apply to Muslim terrorists but not to police officers. The civil libertarians of the left went from championing the rights of criminals over those of victims to embracing the conservative position of victim rights… as long these rights are reserved for only the right sorts of victims.</p>
<p>The activists of the left must be forced to admit whether they are for or against the presumption of innocence. If they want to dispense with the presumption of innocence when it comes to enemies of the people like police officers and fraternity members, it will also go away for Islamic terrorists and violent thugs. Not to mention Weather Underground terrorists teaching at prestigious progressive colleges.</p>
<p>We cannot have a presumption of innocence for some people and not others. The left is not entitled to create two justice systems for two types of people. One group will be lynched with a formality of a trial manipulated to produce a verdict that not only damns one defendant, but also his entire race or gender. The other will receive every possible defense no matter how obvious his guilt may be.</p>
<p>America is a nation of laws, not of racist lynch mobs. Its trials are based on facts, not on narratives. The presumption of innocence matters more than the narrative and the social justice hashtag. Without it all we have left are racist lynch mobs with smartphones marching through Manhattan.</p>
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		<title>To the Left, Lying About Rape Is Just Dandy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Lena Dunham and the Rolling Stone do harm to actual rape victims. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247112" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227-389x350.jpg" alt="UVa Fraternity" width="319" height="287" /></a>This week, Rolling Stone printed an editor&#8217;s note retracting one of the most highly praised pieces of investigative journalism in its history. That piece, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, alleged that several members of the University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, had raped a 19-year-old student named Jackie, including with foreign objects, as she lay on a floor covered with broken glass. The article resulted in the university suspending the fraternity&#8217;s activities, and national outrage over the so-called &#8220;rape culture&#8221; on campus.</p>
<p>That rape culture supposedly leads to one in five women being sexually assaulted on campus — a faulty statistic from a poll that didn&#8217;t even ask women if they were raped or sexually assaulted, and instead defined sex while inebriated at any level as rape. With regard to reported rape, the federal government reports a rate of just 1.3 per 1,000 Americans. That is, of course, far too high. But it is not a rape culture by any plausible definition.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the narrative of women as victims of brutish male society must be forwarded at all costs, for political purposes. If Americans are brutish sexists waiting to rape unsuspecting women, bigger government becomes a necessity. That&#8217;s why President Obama has cited that one-in-five statistic, and suggested that America experiences &#8220;quiet tolerance of sexual assault.&#8221;</p>
<p>In order to forward that narrative, all rape stories are treated as fact sans investigation of any kind. And so Jackie&#8217;s story of gang rape received plaudits across the media landscape.</p>
<p>Then it fell apart.</p>
<p>The Washington Post quickly debunked the story. According to the Post, the fraternity says there was no event the night Jackie was allegedly raped, Jackie&#8217;s friends &#8220;have not been able to verify key points in recent days,&#8221; and one of the men named in Jackie&#8217;s report stated that &#8220;he never met Jackie in person and never took her out on a date.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the Rolling Stone report collapsed, members of the left jumped to defend Jackie.</p>
<p>Sally Kohn of CNN.com tweeted that people should stop questioning Jackie&#8217;s story: &#8220;While aspects of UVA rape story now in question, still unsettles me that pouncing by skeptics mirrored sort of doubt rape victims often face.&#8221; Feminist Melissa McEwan wrote, &#8220;If Jackie&#8217;s story is partially or wholly untrue, it doesn&#8217;t validate the reasons for disbelieving her.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under this logic, Atticus Finch was the villain in &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird.&#8221; After all, how dare he question the rape allegations of a victimized woman and defend Tom Robinson?</p>
<p>But for the left, it&#8217;s narrative first, facts second.</p>
<p>The same holds true regarding allegations made by HBO star Lena Dunham, who wrote of her own alleged rape at the hands of an Oberlin &#8220;college Republican&#8221; named Barry. When it turned out that Barry, a readily identifiable person from Dunham&#8217;s days at Oberlin, did not rape her, the media largely went silent; Dunham still has not spoken on the issue.</p>
<p>Narrative first. Facts second.</p>
<p>Here is the reality: All decent human beings believe that rape is evil. They also believe that false allegations of rape are wrong. These two positions are not mutually exclusive. They complement one another. False rape allegations do actual rape victims a tremendous disservice: to lump in false accusations of rape with true accusations of rape makes people more skeptical of rape victims generally, a horrible result. Rape should be taken seriously; rape accusations should be taken seriously. That means taking factual questions seriously, not merely throwing the word &#8220;rape&#8221; around casually, without evidence, and without regard for truth.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real reason the former NYC mayor lashed out at "rural" Colorado. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bloomberg-angry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236212" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bloomberg-angry-427x350.jpg" alt="Bloomberg-angry" width="268" height="220" /></a>Some sore losers just don&#8217;t know when to pick up their billion-dollar marbles and go away. Far, far away.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking at you, Michael Bloomberg.</p>
<p>The former New York City mayor mouthed off about my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs and my friends in nearby Pueblo in Rolling Stone magazine this month. He snidely bashed our neighborhoods as backwater holes &#8220;where I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s roads. It&#8217;s as far rural as you can get.&#8221;</p>
<p>Snotty Bloomberg is as clueless about geography as he is about the Second Amendment. Colorado Springs and Pueblo are the second and seventh largest cities in the state, respectively. If we&#8217;re hee-haw, everyone&#8217;s hee-haw. (And what&#8217;s wrong with hee-haw, anyway?)</p>
<p>Why such vitriol and hatred for the Rockies from the man who pompously co-founded the &#8220;No Labels&#8221; movement for &#8220;civility&#8221; in politics?</p>
<p>Simple: Bloomberg&#8217;s still smarting from the ground-breaking losses he and his gun-grabbing East Coast elite pals suffered last fall.</p>
<p>Grass-roots activists — independents, former Democrats, constitutional conservatives and Republicans — successfully recalled two top gun control zealots in our state legislature.</p>
<p>The recall organizers were outspent by a whopping 7-to-1 margin. Bloomberg poured $350,000 into the failed effort to stave off the historic recalls.</p>
<p>Listen up, Bloomie: Butt out of our state and mind your own crumbling city before you bash anyone else&#8217;s infrastructure.</p>
<p>You were mayor of New York City for 12 years. How are your roads, bridges and utilities doing, Pal?</p>
<p>According to the Center for an Urban Future&#8217;s Adam Forman, &#8220;1,000 miles of water mains, 170 school buildings and 165 bridges were constructed over a century ago.</p>
<p>The city&#8217;s public hospital buildings are 57 years old, on average, and 531 public housing towers were built prior to 1950.&#8221; The center&#8217;s report documented 403 water main breaks last year. And in 2012, &#8220;162 bridges across the city — or 11 percent of the total — were structurally deficient,&#8221; and 47 of these were deemed &#8220;fracture critical.&#8221;</p>
<p>Take a Big Gulp of these additional fun facts:</p>
<p>— &#8220;Thirty seven percent of all subway signals exceed their 50-year useful life, slowing the movement of trains.&#8221;</p>
<p>— &#8220;Approximately 4,000 miles of sewer pipe across the city are made of vitreous clay, a material susceptible to cracking and blockage.</p>
<p>— Meanwhile, 1,500 of the 2,600 public housing buildings do not comply with local standards for exterior and facade conditions.</p>
<p>— In Manhattan and Staten Island, less than 60 percent of roads were rated &#8220;good&#8221; by residents. A &#8220;staggering 65.9 percent of streets in West Harlem/Morningside Heights&#8221; were in &#8220;fair to poor condition.&#8221;</p>
<p>— Highway maintenance has deteriorated over Bloomberg&#8217;s tenure. In 2012, 51 percent of highways were rated poor to fair, compared to 38 percent in 2008. &#8220;Conditions have declined in every borough except Brooklyn.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, and dare I mention to you and your city slicker clique that embarrassing time you had a few Christmas seasons ago dealing with a few feet of snow. Hundreds of ambulances were left stranded. Mass transit was paralyzed. Businesses suffered. Your bungling and AWOL jet setting (Bloomberg was flying to Bermuda while New Yorkers braced for the storm) cost taxpayers the entire $40 million snow removal budget and $30 million in city overtime.</p>
<p>But we&#8217;re the bumbling yokels?</p>
<p>Go home, Nanny Bloomberg. Keep your high-and-mighty nose out of our business, your hands off our guns and your money out of our state.</p>
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		<title>Weiner and the Brotherhood Bunch &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dissecting the maze of a sex-obsessed politician and his Muslim Brotherhood wife and in-laws.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bb_edited-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-199030" alt="bb_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bb_edited-1.jpg" width="350" height="233" /></a>This week&#8217;s Glazov Gang was joined by <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong>, author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Dont-Know-Revolutions/dp/1118133390">The Devil We Don&#8217;t Know</a>,</em> <strong>Jen Serrano</strong>, a <a href="http://politichicks.tv/">PolitiChick</a>, and <strong>Tiffany Gabba</strong>y, the National Development Director at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.</p>
<p>The Glazov Gangsters gathered to discuss <em>Weiner and the Brotherhood Bunch, </em>dissecting the maze of a sex-obsessed politician and his Muslim Brotherhood wife and in-laws.</p>
<p>The episode also focused on <em>Rolling Stone’s Glamor Shot of a Jihadist </em>and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/african-rap-star-with-2-5-mil-mansion-tells-african-americans-to-move-back-to-africa/"><em>Musician Akon Tells Black Americans To Move Back To Africa</em></a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A liberal magazine's twisted romance with an Islamist killer -- and how it backfired. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ALeqM5gsldNJXyGqlSpCHNp_nq4Cr-tSvA.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197444" alt="ALeqM5gsldNJXyGqlSpCHNp_nq4Cr-tSvA" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ALeqM5gsldNJXyGqlSpCHNp_nq4Cr-tSvA-379x350.jpg" width="227" height="210" /></a>In a shameless display of the Left&#8217;s romance with the murderous enemies of America, <i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine has <a href="http://townhall.com/news/us/2013/07/18/bomber-as-rock-star-rolling-stone-cover-outrage-n1643489">put</a> a picture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of its August issue, being released to newsstands today. An outcry of national proportions has ensued, best expressed by bombing survivor James &#8220;Bim&#8221; Costello, 30, of Malden, MA, who needed several pigskin grafts, and has three friends who lost legs in the atrocity. &#8220;I think whoever wrote the article should have their legs blown off by someone, struggle through treatment and then see who they would choose to put on the cover,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was equally <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2367366/Rolling-Stone-cover-boycotted-CVS-labelled-total-disgrace-Boston-Mayor-Thomas-Menino.html">reviled</a> by the decision. &#8220;Why are we glorifying a guy who created mayhem in the city of Boston?&#8221; he fumed. &#8220;Why would we want to heroize this guy? He’s a terrorist. We don’t want him in our neighborhoods. We don’t want him on magazines. We don’t want him anywhere.&#8221; Menino also sent a <a href="http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/07/read-boston-mayor-thomas-meninos-angry-letter-to-rolling-stone/">letter</a> to <i>Rolling Stone</i> publisher Jan Wenner, castigating the decision to give Tsarnaev &#8220;celebrity treatment,&#8221; further noting such treatment &#8220;reaffirms a terrible message that destruction gains fame for killers and their &#8217;causes.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>At least five retailers, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/18/retailers-vow-not-to-sell-rolling-stone-as-critics-blast-decision-to-put/">including</a> CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Stop &amp; Shop, the Roche Bros grocery chain, and Tedeschi Food Shops, a Massachusetts-based convenience store chain, have announced they will not be selling the issue. A statement released by CVS, which operates in 7,300 locations nationwide, illuminated the prevailing sentiment. &#8220;CVS/pharmacy has decided not to sell the current issue of Rolling Stone featuring a cover photo of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect,” it said. “As a company with deep roots in New England and a strong presence in Boston, we believe this is the right decision out of respect for the victims of the attack and their loved ones.&#8221;</p>
<p>Outrage was also expressed on social media sites. &#8220;This cover makes him look like some kind of cool rock god&#8230; it&#8217;s horrible&#8221; said one Twitter user. &#8220;Why give the guy the cover of Rolling Stone?&#8221; asked another. “Kill an 8-year-old, land on the cover of Rolling Stone,” <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/rolling-stones-boston-bomber-cover-stirs-firestorm/article13273146/">tweeted</a> Brian Ries, senior editor at <i>Newsweek.</i> &#8220;TIME gave Charles Manson the cover and all the magazines carried pictures of the Columbine shooters on the covers, too. Don&#8217;t make martyrs out of these people,&#8221; said another enraged user. All of them reflect the reality that the Twitter feed, &#8220;#Boycott Rolling Stone&#8221; is <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/rolling-stone-cover-sparks-boycottrollingstone-after-alleged-boston-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-1349183">becoming</a> an increasingly popular topic on the service.</p>
<p>At the magazine&#8217;s Facebook page, where more than 5,400 people <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/17/rolling-stone-cover-featuring-dzhokhar">left</a> comments in the first 12 hours the cover was posted online, the overall sentiment was equally incendiary. &#8220;Whoever subscribes to this worthless rag should cancel their subscriptions TODAY!!! This is unacceptable!!&#8221; said one. &#8220;I shared this on my news feed, but not in support of your magazine, I shared it to show people how low you have gone by putting this terrorist on your cover. Rolling Stone, go and read all the shares of your picture, there are a lot of angry people that you would make such a disgusting choice,&#8221; said another. &#8220;Very un-American. F**k you Rolling Stone. I thought it was supposed to be an honor to be on your cover?&#8221; read yet another disgusted reader.</p>
<p>The last comment cuts to the heart of the issue. For decades, getting one&#8217;s picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone <i>was</i> considered the ultimate affirmation of rock stardom. So much so, the phenomenon was immortalized in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q">song</a> &#8220;Cover of the Rolling Stone,&#8221; written by Shel Silverstein and performed by Dr. Hook. It is virtually inconceivable that <i>Rolling Stone</i> publisher Jan Wenner would be oblivious to the obvious connection most people would make with regard to giving a jihadist bomber the &#8220;star treatment.&#8221;</p>
<p>More likely it was precisely the point. For some time, Tsarnaev has been the subject of conspicuous fascination, and not just by deranged college co-eds. For the Left, Tsarnaev is exotic and, most importantly, at war with America, which leftists also despise. This is why, since the time Tsarnaev&#8217;s identity was uncovered, the Left has been consumed with offering bogus motivations for the atrocity, such as the Iraq War, poverty and the sorrows of being an immigrant &#8212; the point of which is to use <em>our</em> crimes to account for <em>his</em> crimes. Most of these grievances, of course, leftists share. In all of this soul-searching and sympathy, it is no surprise that they have to some extent fallen in love with Tsarnaev in the process.</p>
<p>Sales are down for the <em>Rolling Stone</em> and continue to plummet, and no doubt openly flaunting their worship of Tsarnaev was a gambit the magazine&#8217;s editorial board had hoped would pay off. In the first half of 2010, the magazine suffered a 26.9 percent <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704388504575419202376842786.html">decline</a> in newsstand sales, compared to an overall drop of 5.6 percent for the industry, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. In a list of magazines <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation">sorted</a> by their paid circulation in the United States, it currently ranks 53rd, with an overall circulation of 1.47 million, of which <a href="http://money.msn.com/now/post--rolling-stones-boston-bomber-cover-is-backfiring?ICID=InvestorPlace">1.34 million</a> are subscriptions. The risk, however, has not been worth it. One independent Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BoycottRollingStoneMagazineForTheirLatestCover">page</a> alone, &#8220;Boycott Rolling Stone Magazine for their latest cover,&#8221; had garnered more than 155,000 &#8220;likes&#8221; by the time of this writing. Many on the page are urging subscribers to drop their subscriptions.</p>
<p>In a self-serving statement, <i>Rolling Stone</i> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57594205/rolling-stone-defends-cover-featuring-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect/">defended</a> its decision. &#8220;Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, and our thoughts are always with them and their families,&#8221; it said. &#8220;The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone&#8217;s long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.&#8221; The magazine further insisted &#8220;the fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens.&#8221;</p>
<p>All of which could have been accomplished without putting Tsarnaev on the cover in the all-too-familiar celebrity pose, along with the headline &#8220;The Bomber&#8221; in large lettering, followed by the sub-heading, &#8220;How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly the magazine&#8217;s choice had its defenders. &#8220;The problem here isn’t the cover itself, or the image: it’s the reaction,&#8221; <a href="http://flavorwire.com/404630/the-problem-with-rolling-stones-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-cover-isnt-the-image-its-the-reaction">wrote</a> <a href="http://flavorwire.com/">flavorwire.com</a>&#8216;s Tyler Coates. Author Tony Castro <a href="http://www.voxxi.com/rolling-stones-bomber-first-amendment/">contended </a>the publication &#8220;is obviously still doing what it has&#8211;trailblazing.&#8221; After conceding the cover was &#8220;a big turnoff for many,&#8221; he defended it, even if it had been touched up for publication. &#8220;Was it touched up? Probably, but likely no more than the mug of New England Patriots’ star quarterback Tom Brady on all those sports magazine covers and his Uggs ads,” he wrote. &#8220;If you’re going to buy covers with touch-ups of your heroes, you better also expect touch-ups of your villains.&#8221; The Atlantic Wire&#8217;s Eric Levenson <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/07/boston-bomber-was-bro-and-other-new-tidbits-rolling-stones-profile/67295/">contends</a> &#8220;the brouhaha over the cover photo ignores the main reason <i>Rolling Stone</i> used that selfie in the first place; the piece is excellent,&#8221; he writes.</p>
<p>Levenson is disingenuous at best, and the Daily Caller&#8217;s Matt K. Lewis <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/18/calling-bullshit-on-rolling-stones-defenders/">explains</a> exactly why. &#8220;The disparity between the number of people who see a cover versus the number of people who read a story is staggering,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;What is more, even the words splashed on the cover are easily overcome by the image. Anyone who knows anything about optics and public relations knows this to be true.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is virtually impossible to believe that one of promotional advertising&#8217;s oldest adages, &#8220;image is everything,&#8221; is lost on the editors of <i>Rolling Stone</i>. It is certainly not lost on the clueless cadre of dimwitted young &#8220;fangirls&#8221; caught up in the &#8220;Free Jahar&#8221; <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/girls_lovesick_twisted_OLK6eLVJM5U6618gAVXT0O">movement</a> that has had thousands of them swooning over the alleged mass murderer. Such swooning includes blogs with pictures similar to the one published by <i>Rolling Stone.</i> Since <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=free+jahar,+young+girls&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a">several</a> stories about this odious phenomenon were published in May, along with explanations about the psychological motivations that animate it, namely the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-fan-club-teen-girl-following_n_3275653.html">twisted desire</a> for fame above everything else, the idea that <i>Rolling Stone</i> is surprised by the outrage its cover engenders strains credulity. Moreover, by publishing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev&#8217;s picture on the cover, <i>Rolling Stone</i> feeds into the exact same need for fame that has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/opinion/what-drives-suicidal-mass-killers.html?_r=0">driven</a> some of the nation&#8217;s worst mass murderers.</p>
<p>As for the magazine&#8217;s professed desire to &#8220;gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens,&#8221; spare us all such pious nonsense. First and foremost, a carefully planned and executed terrorist attack that wounded 264 people, many of whom had limbs blown off, and killed three, including an 8-year-old boy, is <i>not</i> a &#8220;tragedy.&#8221; It is a cold-blooded <i>atrocity, </i>the &#8220;complete understanding&#8221; of which can be reduced to two words: radical Islam. Furthermore, the <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/jahars-world-20130717">article</a> itself, entitled &#8220;Jahar&#8217;s World,&#8221; is a long, detailed effort that comes across as an attempt to elicit some level of empathy for Dzhokhar. It is a function of the left&#8217;s ceaseless efforts to cast sociopaths (especially liberal-aligned sociopaths) as sympathetic, relatable figures with &#8220;dysfunctional childhoods&#8221; and &#8220;broken homes,&#8221; shifting the proximate cause of their evil acts to &#8220;society&#8221; or &#8220;the system.&#8221;</p>
<p>Conspicuously missing from the article? Any details about the <i>victims</i> of the bombings. Jen Regan, fiancé of Marc Fucarile, who is still hospitalized as a result of the attack, offers some much-need <a href="http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/22859505/2013/07/16/rolling-stone-features-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-on-cover">perspective</a> in that regard.</p>
<blockquote><p>For over 3 months now, Marc has had to wake up every day in a hospital dealing with pain, dozens of surgeries and intensive rehab therapy. Our entire family has been focused on Marc&#8217;s recovery while we anxiously await when he can return home. The new Rolling Stone cover is disgusting. It sensationalizes Marc&#8217;s pain as well all the other victims and survivors. It is an insult to the families and people impacted that day. We know that the people of Boston are better than this and will continue to rise above this meaningless story and keep the focus where it belongs on the victims, survivors and their families who face a lifetime of challenges. We look forward to welcoming Marc home soon and thank everyone for their continued support.</p></blockquote>
<p>The victims are the <i>real</i> face of this atrocity. That <i>Rolling Stone</i> chooses to ignore such an obvious reality in favor of giving an Islamic jihadist the so-called &#8220;rock star treatment&#8221; is a utter disgrace.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the progressive faith expose their vicious nihilism again.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Julian-Bond.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125213" title="Julian-Bond" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Julian-Bond.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="450" /></a>When SEAL Team Six took out Osama bin Laden last year, there was widespread celebration across America. Many on the political left, however, affected a moral revulsion at the jubilation. Celebrating the death of any man is unseemly, immoral, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0502/Celebrating-Osama-bin-Laden-s-death-is-anti-American-and-not-very-biblical">even anti-American</a>, they argued.</p>
<p>Any man except a political enemy, that is. As soon as the news spread of last week’s untimely death of conservative super-journalist Andrew Breitbart, many began dancing on their arch-enemy’s grave in gleeful, macabre celebration.</p>
<p>Breitbart, 43, was the relentless, charismatic warrior behind the conservative new media that was pounding the left with devastating exposés on <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968">ACORN</a>, <a href="../2011/01/10/obama-carries-on-the-pigford-fraud/">Pigford</a>, and “Weinergate,” among others. Like other conservative political pugilists such as David Horowitz, Breitbart was a former leftist himself who understood well that politics is war, and that the left fights to win. He railed against the inability of conservatives to grasp this, and urged them to go on the offensive and destroy the left’s hateful false narrative. Also like Horowitz, Breitbart’s intimate understanding of the enemy earned him their most vicious hatred.</p>
<p>And so, immediately as the news of his death broke, the left began lobbing disgusting and ghoulish volleys online. Conservative websites like <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2012/03/01/devastating-andrew-breitbart-r-i-p/">blogger Michelle Malkin</a> began compiling a repugnant litany from the social network Twitter, such as this sensitive eulogy:  “America truly lost an asshole. I’m sure Satan will treat him good.” This is precisely the kind of ugliness directed at the bulletproof Breitbart on Twitter on a daily basis, which he enjoyed retweeting to his many followers in order to expose the left’s true nature.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/burn-in-hell-shocking-tweets-celebrate-andrew-breitbarts-death-on-twitter/">TheBlaze.com listed</a> more tweets which reveal their barely literate authors’ unrestrained ugliness and cruelty:</p>
<p>@darrenfiorello: Andrew Breitbart died? Is it wrong that I’m happier about that than when they got bin Laden and Saddam?</p>
<p>@johnkapp: Andrew Breitbart was a racist, sexist, homophobe. Good riddance.</p>
<p>@jeffglasse: Andrew Breitbart now enjoying afternoon tea with Hitler #goodriddanceyouhack</p>
<p>@AlmightyBob: @AndrewBreitbart haha youre dead and in hell being a gay with hitler</p>
<p>@Chico Delainky: I wonder how #AndrewBreitbart died? If he was found with some type of foreign object in his butt., that would be really funny.</p>
<p>@dufus: Did we cry when Hitler died? No.. #Breitbart see you in hell asshole</p>
<p>And how about this particularly depraved gem?</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/doublemewa">alex prestin‏@doublemewa</a>  My only hope today is that <a title="#AndrewBreitbart" href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23AndrewBreitbart">#AndrewBreitbart</a> gave his entire family <a title="#AIDS" href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23AIDS">#AIDS</a> before mercifully shuffling off this mortal coil.</p>
<p>That’s right: in addition to celebrating his death, Alex Prestin wishes AIDS on Breitbart’s widow and four young children.</p>
<p>Of course, anyone who has spent fifteen minutes on the internet knows that it is ordinarily packed to the virtual gills anyway with mean-spirited bullies emboldened by anonymity. Yet even keeping that in mind, it’s difficult for decent human beings to comprehend the vicious glee over Breitbart’s demise, just as it’s mystifying why so many on the left irrationally view him as <em>worse than Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and bin Laden</em>.</p>
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