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		<title>Brandeis Students Threaten Journalist for Reporting Anti-Cop Statements</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradford Thomas]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/brandeis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248166" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/brandeis-450x253.jpg" alt="brandeis" width="297" height="167" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="www.truthrevolt.org">TruthRevolt.org.</a></strong></p>
<p>Pro-Israel student activist and TruthRevolt contributor Daniel Mael has come under fire from campus progressives and fellow students for writing about a Brandeis student representative’s tweet declaring that she had “no sympathy” for the two NYPD officers murdered in Brooklyn Saturday. Since the story went viral, Mael has become the target of personal threats and a campaign to see him suspended or expelled from the school.</p>
<p>In his <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/student-leader-no-sympathy-executed-nypd-officers">piece</a> Saturday, Mael quoted multiple Twitter posts by Khadijah Lynch, at the time the Undergraduate Department Representative for Brandeis’ African and Afro-American Studies program, which expressed her lack of “sympathy” for the two police officers murdered earlier that day. &#8220;i have no sympathy for the nypd officers who were murdered today,&#8221; she wrote Saturday, followed by &#8220;lmao, all i just really dont have sympathy for the cops who were shot. i hate this racist fucking country.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mael followed the quotes with other inflammatory statements posted by Lynch, including posts asking “what the fuck even IS ‘non-violence’,” decrying “Zionism,” declaring “the fact that black people have not burned this country down is beyond me” and “I am in riot mode.”</p>
<p>TruthRevolt contacted Lynch for clarification about her statement about the NYPD officers; she responded by saying that any publication of her Twitter posts was “slander.” Mael reported that Lynch then returned to Twitter to say that she needed to “get my gun license. Asap.” and that “amerikkka needs an infitada” (a violent uprising).</p>
<p>This is the second time in recent weeks that TruthRevolt has been accused by left-wing activists of defamation for simply quoting them. The abortion activist and actress Lena Dunham went so far as to serve this publication with a <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/lena-dunham-threatens-sue-truth-revolt-quoting-her">cease and desist </a>for reporting statement made in her own book.</p>
<p>When Mael’s article went viral, Brandeis officials distanced the school from Lynch’s comments, calling them “<a class="external" href="https://twitter.com/DanielMael/status/547079015916642304" rel="nofollow">hurtful and disrespectful</a>,” and African and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Chad Williams issued a <a class="external" href="http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/afroamerstudies/docs/AAASstatementKhadijahLynch.pdf" rel="nofollow">statement</a> announcing Lynch’s resignation from her position as student representative for the program. Williams also denounced online criticism of Lynch, which he described as “horrifically racist, sexist, Islamophobic and threatening physical violence.”</p>
<p>Now Brandeis students supportive of Lynch are attempting to start a movement to have Mael either suspended or expelled.</p>
<p>The Daily Caller <a class="external" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/23/brandeis-students-rally-around-peer-with-no-sympathy-for-dead-cops/" rel="nofollow">reports</a> that a member of the 2014-15 student conduct board sent an email Monday to the Brandeis president, senior administrators, professors, and students calling on them to &#8220;stand up for the principle of social justice&#8221; and hold Mael “accountable.” Entitled “VERY IMPORTANT: Holding Daniel Mael accountable, and other threats to student safety!” the email charges Mael with “expos[ing] Khadijah to the largely white supremacist following of the website” and claims that he has “potentially” violated student conduct policies. (Full text of email below.)</p>
<p>Due to the threatening nature of much of the pushback, Brandeis law enforcement officials have met with Mael to discuss his safety on campus. WFB <a class="external" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/brandeis-pro-israel-leader-under-threat-by-progressive-activists/" rel="nofollow">reported</a> Tuesday that Brandeis officials told them that they were “in touch” with campus law enforcement who was working to address threats against those on campus but could provide no further details due to student privacy and security policies.</p>
<p>As of the time of publication, the administration at Brandeis has made no public statement in support of Mr. Mael&#8217;s first amendment rights or, as with the statement from Department Chair Chad Williams, denouncing the racist and sometimes violent statements being made by actual Brandeis students against him.</p>
<p>Text of email from Brandeis student conduct board member:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Subject:</em></strong><em> <strong>VERY IMPORTANT: Holding Daniel Mael accountable, and other threats to student safety!</strong></em></p>
<p><em>Hello to all,</em></p>
<p>This email is similar, but not identical, to one that had been sent out previously today. The first was to call attention to the issue, whereas this one is a request from many members of the Brandeis community that the student responsible for the incident be held accountable for his actions. We apologize for any redundancy.</p>
<p>As you may have been made aware, the safety of one member of the Brandeis community, Khadijah Lynch, has been compromised by the actions of another Brandeis student, Daniel Mael. Those of us within the Brandeis community who value the safety and integrity of all members of our community are requesting that action is taken to hold this student accountable for his actions, which have directly put Khadijah in danger and continue to do so.</p>
<p>Mael, a regular contributor on a website called &#8220;TruthRevolt&#8221;, a popular conservative-oriented political website designed, according to its mission statement, to &#8220;unmask leftists in the media for who they are, destroy their credibility with the American public, and devastate their funding bases,&#8221; wrote an article targeting Khadijah for a series of tweets she made on her own personal Twitter over the last month. In doing so, he posted a photo of her as well as information about her as a student as well as giving people access to her Twitter username. The article can be seen here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/student-leader-no-sympathy-executed-nypd-officers" target="_blank">http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/student-leader-no-sympathy-executed-nypd-officers</a></p>
<p>Whether one agrees or not with the very blunt comments Khadijah made on her Twitter account, the audience of these postings was originally those who frequented her Twitter. We do not propose to offer any opinion on the posts themselves, but it is important to note the sequence of events and intended audiences. After having posted the aforementioned article, Mael has exposed Khadijah to the largely white supremacist following of the website on which he posts, which has led to harassment, death threats, rape threats, and excessive hate speech directed to her personal Twitter (now private), Facebook (now deactivated), and Linkedin. People who frequent TruthRevolt have also gained access to Khadijah&#8217;s personal email address and her Brandeis mailbox number, and have threatened to contact her persistently. We have taken screenshots of some of these threatening comments and have attached them to this email, although more will likely be posted after this has been sent.</p>
<p>As can be seen in the article itself, Khadijah specifically requested that her personal comments be removed from the website and the article in question taken down, but her wishes were ignored and Mael continued to post updates to the article until Khadijah made her Twitter private.</p>
<p><strong><em>In doing so, he has potentially violated multiple parts of Section 2.10, particularly 2.10.f of Rights and Responsibilities, and we have screenshot and uploaded as an attachment the relevant portion. It is essential that this be taken into consideration. Other sections potentially violated are 3.2a (stalking), and attention may also be warranted about Section 17, 20, and 21.4. </em></strong></p>
<p><em>A Facebook page has also been made on which hate speech, directed toward Khadijah herself as well as a plethora of racist comments, have been made, and there has been word that professional hackers may have now stated plans to target specific members of the Brandeis community. The safety of the Brandeis community has been placed in jeopardy also by another student named Ben Vizlakh, who posted an article to this Facebook page telling its members that this email was going to be sent out, mentioning one student by name (a screenshot of his post has been attached here). <strong>Vizakh has potentialy violated 2.13 (retaliation) with regard to spreading the word of this email to people who pose a threat to the safety of Brandeis students. </strong>Here is the relevant Facebook link:</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/340022509539521/?pnref=story" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/340022509539521/?pnref=story</a></p>
<p><em>Upon Khadijah&#8217;s resignation as a UDR, Mael also posted the following, which did little more than to spur more negative comments about her (including another rape threat) as well as Brandeis University and its faculty:</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/student-leader-resigns-after-stating-she-has-no-sympathy-murdered-cops" target="_blank">http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/student-leader-resigns-after-stating-she-has-no-sympathy-murdered-cops</a></p>
<p><em>Additionally, if you go to Google and type &#8220;Khadijah Lynch Brandeis&#8221; this story has been reposted all over the Internet, with similar hateful comments and threats directed toward her. Not only does the posting of this article put Khadijah in danger, but also the Brandeis community at large, given the volume of hateful messages being posted about the school on social media by strangers.</em></p>
<p>The most pressing concern ought to be the safety of our students, and as such we request that action is taken to ensure Khadijah&#8217;s safety. A large part of this involves holding the student responsible who callously disregarded her safety. With the speed at which information is spread digitally these days and the fact that her personal information has been compromised and is in the hands of strangers, it is essential that action is taken. As students and community members who know Khadijah personally, we neither condone nor condemn the statements she had made, but we must understand the intent with which her posts and personal information were made accessible by a fellow Brandeis student to the general public, especially on a website frequented by white supremacists that seek to threaten and intimidate anyone with views that differ from their own. It is unfathomable to many within the Brandeis community that such an action could have been carried out with anything but malicious intent, as contributors to websites are perfectly aware of the following their websites receive. As a journalist, he must be aware of the impact that publishing such articles could have on other people&#8217;s safety, and it is important that he be held accountable for his actions.</p>
<p>Included in this email are students within the Brandeis community who stand in solidarity with Khadijah in this difficult time and who wish to see action taken to hold the student in question responsible and to protect her safety. As Chad Williams, Chair of the African and Afro-American Studies Department mentioned in his statement on this situation, &#8220;While it may be easy and convenient at this emotionally charged moment to condemn Ms. Lynch, we must also strive to understand why she would make these comments. This means openly and honestly recognizing the very real pain and frustration that many young people of color struggle with in trying to navigate their place in a society that all too often delegitimizes their existence.&#8221; While Khadijah has taken responsibility for her comments and has withdrawn from her position as a UDR, it is the responsibility of our community to condemn the threatening and hateful comments she has received and stand up for the principle of social justice on which Brandeis was founded.</p>
<p><em>Thank you so much for your time and we hope that you have a Happy Holiday!<br />
Best wishes,<br />
The Brandeis Community </em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>The Suicidal Hashtags of the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/twitter_2094423b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247682" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/twitter_2094423b-450x281.jpg" alt="twitter_2094423b" width="370" height="231" /></a>On Monday, Australian police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney, where an Islamist terrorist named Man Haron Monis had taken dozens of hostages and held them for 17 hours. Three people were killed, including Monis, and several others were wounded. Monis, an Iranian immigrant, had a long criminal record, including 40 charges for indecent and sexual assault, as well as an outstanding charge for accessory to murder in the killing of his ex-wife. Before his death, Monis requested an ISIS flag, and forced hostages to hold up the so-called Shahada flag, which proclaims in Arabic, &#8220;There Is No God But Allah, and Muhammad Is His Messenger.&#8221;</p>
<p>In response to this Islamist terror attack on a civilian hub in the center of their city, Australians all over the country took action: They tweeted with the hashtag #illridewithyou. This hashtag came from the mind of one Rachel Jacobs, who witnessed a Muslim woman removing her hijab on the local train after the news of the hostage situation broke. Jacobs tweeted, &#8220;I ran after her at the train station. I said &#8216;put it back on. I&#8217;ll walk with u&#8217;. She started to cry and hugged me for about a minute — then walked off alone.&#8221; Soon, the hashtag had been launched, and quickly trended globally.</p>
<p>Australia&#8217;s race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, added, &#8220;Let&#8217;s not allow fear, hatred and division to triumph.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, Australia has a race commissioner, but nobody who thinks it&#8217;s a bad idea to let Islamist fanatics immigrate, or to keep those same Islamist fanatics in jail after they&#8217;re charged in the stabbing of their ex-wives.</p>
<p>Priorities!</p>
<p>Never mind that nobody had said a word to the woman in the hijab — pre-emptive anti-Islamophobia was the first response to an Islamist taking Western hostages in a Western capital.</p>
<p>Across the globe, in the United States, two dueling hashtags debated the relative guilt of American law enforcement. After New York City man Eric Garner resisted arrest, and then died thanks to his pre-existing health conditions after being taken down by police, the hashtag #ICantBreathe went viral.</p>
<p>That hashtag fought for prominence with one dedicated to Michael Brown, the 18-year-old black man who was shot to death after attempting to take a gun from a police officer and charging the police officer: #HandsUpDontShoot. Never mind that the first hashtag was taken wildly out of context — Garner was not choked to death — and that the second was completely fictitious — autopsy showed Brown did not have his hands up when he was shot.</p>
<p>These hashtags aren&#8217;t just the work of lazy activists with nothing better to do. They&#8217;re signifiers of a suicidal west that believes it bears bloodguilt. No real allegations of Islamophobia or racism are necessary — those can be assumed. We immediately go into preliminary disassociation mode, attempting to demonstrate to our friends and neighbors that while our civilization may be Islamophobic and racist, we are not. After all, we even tweeted using the day&#8217;s popular hashtag!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the problem: Islamists don&#8217;t care about hashtags when they can take hostages and earn the sympathetic hashtags of others. Those who resist law enforcement or attack police officers outright are happy to do so when they become causes celebre, no matter what they do wrong.</p>
<p>The West has its evils. There are instances of racism and Islamophobia. Nobody with a brain would deny that. But to slander the West with a sort of communal guilt for an Original Sin, even as the West is under fire from those who would seek to destroy its civilizational foundations, is nothing less than barbaric.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When journalism doesn’t fit the leftist narrative.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cjrr.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246399" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cjrr-450x251.jpg" alt="cjrr" width="283" height="158" /></a>Charles C. Johnson is an investigative journalist with a knack for enraging progressives. His recent coverage of issues in Ferguson has made him such a gadfly that trolls in social media convinced Twitter to shut down his account – because, as Johnson put it, “Twitter apparently has a journalism problem.”</p>
<p>Johnson, who has worked with both the late, great Andrew Breitbart and Alan Dershowitz, is the founder and editor-in-chief of Gotnews.com, which seeks “to transform journalism by empowering everyday people, experts, and sources to break news” – very much a Breitbartian aim. A contributor to the Daily Caller and The Blaze, Johnson is also the author of <em>Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President</em> and <em>The Truth About the IRS Scandal</em>. He has written for <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>New York Post</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>American Spectator</em>, and others.</p>
<p>“It’s no secret that I’ve been targeted by the Ferguson mob for publishing material that they don’t like,” Johnson wrote at Gotnews. For example, he reported that Michael Brown’s stepdad Louis Head, who <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/video-compilation-mikebrown-s-parents-incite-a-riot-burn-this-btch-down/">incited a riot</a> by telling protesters, “Let’s burn this b*tch down!” <a href="http://gotnews.com/breaking-cops-michaelbrown-stepfather-inciting-ferguson-race-riot-blood-gangbanger/">was a former Blood gangbanger</a>. Johnson is also delving into information provided by Ferguson police that Brown himself had been charged with 2<sup>nd</sup> degree murder – but that was as a juvenile, so the records have been sealed. Now that Brown is dead, Johnson has sued for the release of those records. That investigation is still ongoing, Johnson told me.</p>
<p>Then, after the grand jury came back without an indictment for Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, <em>The New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/news/ferguson/2014/11/24/quiet-wedding-for-darren-wilson-police-officer-in-ferguson-shooting/?_r=0">published</a> the home address of Wilson and his wife. It was an unconscionable and reckless act, considering the target it put on the Wilsons’ backs, but not an unexpected one from the leftist news media, which have been known to willfully endanger people on the wrong side of the leftist narrative before (e.g., the gun owners whose addresses were <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/25/us/new-york-gun-permit-map/">mapped out</a> in <em>Journal News</em>).</p>
<p>In response, Charles Johnson called the homes of the writers responsible for the article, Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson, to ask them about it. Bosman later tweeted that she revised the piece by removing a photo that contained specific information which should not have been made public. But it <em>had been</em> made public and the potential damage was done. Charles Johnson felt that turnabout is fair play, so he posted Bosman’s and Robertson’s home addresses online as well. <a href="http://gotnews.com/breaking-cops-nyt-reporter-published-darrenwilson-address-calling-cops-nonstop/">According to Johnson</a>, Bosman has been phoning the police incessantly complaining of harassment and requesting protection.</p>
<p>Afterward, Johnson was <a href="http://gotnews.com/journalist-chuckcjohnson-censored-twitter-support-ferguson-mob/">notified</a> by Twitter that his account had been “permanently suspended” without any warning. “I didn’t violate Twitter’s terms of service,” he said. “Twitter just decided that I had. They’ve decided to make up the rules as they go and work with the mob to target journalists.”</p>
<p>It wasn’t the first time his Twitter account had been suspended – he had been shut down twice before: once after he published the name of the Ebola nurse Nina Pham twelve hours before the major networks did, and again after he published the address of Youngor Jallah, the daughter of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan’s fiancée and the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/06/Dallas-County-Judge-Abandons-Ebola-Exposed-Family">last person to have contact</a> with Duncan. “I have liberal trolls that follow me around and try to get me suspended,” Johnson told me in a phone conversation Friday.</p>
<p>Johnson urged his thousands of followers to contact Twitter and complain about the shutdown of his account – it must have worked, because that “permanent suspension” was lifted after only fifteen hours. During that time, the controversy brought him over a thousand new Twitter followers. Johnson complained that “I’ve been threatened with death threats and had my site hacked but I’ve pressed on. Twitter hasn’t suspended any of these accounts… If my account is suspended, the <em>New York Times</em> journalists’ accounts @campbellnyt &amp; @juliebosman should also be suspended.”</p>
<p>Johnson strongly suspects there was a political motivation to the censorship. He noted that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey “wants to run for mayor of New York City. He’s a well-known liberal Democrat. Imagine if he got power if this is how Twitter treats journalists.”</p>
<p>Johnson’s Twitter account is back to going strong, and he and Gotnews.com continue to investigate Ferguson-related stories, such as “<a href="http://gotnews.com/breaking-meet-rich-white-guy-running-black-boycott-capitalism-ferguson/">Meet The Rich White Guy Who Is Running the Black Boycott of Capitalism #Ferguson</a>” and “<a href="http://gotnews.com/breaking-overwhelmed-ferguson-police-welcome-libertarian-oath-keepers-militia-protect-order/">Overwhelmed #Ferguson Police Welcome Libertarian ‘Oath Keepers’ Militia To Protect Order</a>.” Johnson is also pursuing his goal of taking down the biased mainstream media one journalist at a time. “I will soon be running a professional team of oppo research committed to nothing more than exposing the media frauds. We will go one by one,” he wrote in a recent <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckCJohnson/status/538876028119027712">tweet</a>.</p>
<p>None of this is likely to win Charles C. Johnson any friends within traditional news or political circles. But as Johnson has <a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/02/chuck-c-johnson/12052915/">said</a> in a different context, “I don&#8217;t really care what the political consequences of doing the right thing is.”</p>
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		<title>Truthy: The Tax-Funded Speech Monitoring and Suppression Project</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One professor's million-dollar campaign against conservatives, courtesy of the taxpayer. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5582_h.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245261" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5582_h-393x350.jpg" alt="5582_h" width="311" height="277" /></a>Leftist speech suppressors are at it again, but this time they’re apparently being subsidized by the American taxpayer. On Monday, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) sent a <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/Letters/Smith%20Letter%20to%20NSF%20Director%20re%20Truthy%20Project.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">letter</span></a> to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF), demanding information about the nearly $1 million spent on the “Truthy” data-mining project that monitors political speech on Twitter. “The committee and taxpayers deserve to know how NSF decided to award a large grant for a project that proposed to develop standards for online political speech and to apply those standards through development of a website that targeted conservative political comments,&#8221; Smith wrote to NSF Director France Cordova.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The letter continues:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">While some have argued that Truthy could be used to better understand things like disaster communication or to assist law enforcement, instead it appears Truthy focused on examples of &#8220;false and misleading ideas, hate speech, and subversive propaganda&#8221; communicated by conservative groups.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Then comes the kicker that should infuriate Americans who believe in the First Amendment. “Whether by amazing coincidence or on purpose, it appears that several media accounts that were highlighted by Truthy were subsequently terminated by the owners of the social media platforms, effectively muzzling the political speeches of the targeted individuals and groups.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Smith also references a book, <i>The Death of the Internet, </i>co-written by Filippo Menczer, professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University. Menczer is the project’s lead researcher. The book was released in 2012 and contains a <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ABUSE-OF-SOCIAL-MEDIA-AND-POLITICAL-MANIPULATION-copy.pdf">chapter</a></span> titled &#8220;Abuse of Social Media and Political Information,” in which Menczer notes that “Truthy was originally deployed in the run up to the 2010 US midterm elections with the explicit purpose of detecting and tracking political astroturfing attempts in real time.” According to Menczer, astroturfing is the employment of “deceptive tactics” that can be used to &#8220;gain a large numberers of followers and obtain a voice of importance within the community.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">For Menczer and his ilk, the idea that Americans should have the freedom to determine which messages are true or false is a bridge too far: he writes how he and his team managed to get Twitter accounts suspended.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Washington Free Beacon <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/house-committee-demands-answers-on-truthy-project-2/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a> the original scope of the project, noting that &#8220;Truthy tracked up to 8 million tweets per day in the run up to the 2010 midterms, and stored 600,000 political tweets in their database.” Menczer <a href="http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/how_misinformation_goes_viral.php"><span style="color: #1255cc;">denied</span></a> that database’s existence. “The headlines are saying something that is completely false and fabricated,” he insisted. “We are not defining hate speech. We are not tracking people. We don’t have a database.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The project began in 2011 at Indiana University following the awarding of $919,917 <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1101743&amp;HistoricalAwards=false"><span style="color: #1255cc;">grant</span></a> &#8220;aimed at modeling the diffusion of information online and empirically discriminating among models of mechanisms driving the spread of memes. We explore why some ideas cause viral explosions while others are quickly forgotten….Additionally, we will create a web service open to the public for monitoring trends, bursts, and suspicious memes. This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda, and assist in the preservation of open debate.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">False and misleading idea, hate speech and subversive propaganda, <i>according to whom?</i> Menczer&#8217;s personal political activity shows support for radical leftist groups, <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-creating-database-to-track-hate-speech-on-twitter/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">including</span></a> Organizing for Action, <a href="http://moveon.org/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Moveon.org</span></a>, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority. And he has <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/11/12/big-truthy-is-watching-some-of-you-n1917391"><span style="color: #1255cc;">admitted</span></a> that Truthy was inspired by the Twitter bombing campaign against Senate Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in 2010. Coakley lost that election.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, in presentations to academic groups, Menczer has highlighted his research efforts focused on conservative groups, individuals and hashtags. Examples include the conservative Heritage Foundation’s use of #obamacare, pro-Sarah Palin tweets, and tweets using the hashtag “#tcot,” which stands for &#8220;Top Conservatives on Twitter.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Menczer&#8217;s self-stated goal? To detect the dissemination of particular <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-defines-a-meme-1904778/?no-ist"><span style="color: #1255cc;">memes</span></a> (transmitted cultural ideas, symbols, etc.) &#8220;early before damage is done&#8211;that is what we&#8217;re trying to do.” He also insists that while the project is non-partisan, &#8220;almost all of the most popular hashtags, the most active accounts, and the most tweeted URLs, are from the right. We looked really hard for any &#8216;truthy&#8217; memes from the left.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Columnist Michelle Malkin cuts right through that ridiculous assertion, citing the #StopRush smear campaign where a total of 10 Twitter users accounted for 70 percent of the campaign-related tweets to advertisers that were amplified by “illicit software.” And the Beacon cites two accounts Truthy got suspended. One was that of health insurance broker <a href="http://csteventucker.wordpress.com/about/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">C. Steven Tucker</span></a>, who used the hashtag “American Patriots,” or #ampat, and the other was @PeaceKaren_25, an account suspended after expressing support for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Tellingly, this story has reached critical mass at the same time President Obama revealed he is intent on <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/10/7185933/fcc-should-reclassify-internet-as-utility-obama-says"><span style="color: #1255cc;">regulating</span></a> the Internet, reclassifying it as a utility in order to bring it under the increasingly tighter yoke of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). &#8220;To put these protections in place, I&#8217;m asking the FCC to reclassify internet service under Title II of a law known as the Telecommunications Act,&#8221; Obama <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKcjQPVwfDk"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> in a statement released Nov. 10. &#8220;In plain English, I&#8217;m asking [the FCC] to recognize that for most Americans, the internet has become an essential part of everyday communication and everyday life.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Obama and his followers also support “net neutrality,” which is the idea that every “packet&#8221; of information sent across the Internet be treated equally, regardless of source, destination, or content—with very limited exceptions made for illegal, malicious, or unwanted transmissions. The public utility model would require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to wire up every house in the country irrespective of cost, with the FCC granted the power to set prices offsetting the additional regulatory burdens, and allowing the ISPs to make money.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other words, the Internet would no longer be subject to market forces of supply and demand. Obama and his supporters ostensibly don’t want that to happen, but <a href="http://www.laweconcenter.org/images/articles/tf-icle_nn_legal_comments.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">legal obstacles</span></a> abound, the foremost of which should sound quite familiar to most Americans:</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“In its proposed rules the FCC is essentially doing what can only be proposed by Congress: invent a new legal regime for broadband.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://reason.com/">Reason.com</a></span>’s Grant Babcok reveals why the Obama administration is obsessed with getting more control over the Internet, noting that &#8220;the federal government is attempting to use the Internet to build a global Panopticon, capable of accessing everyone&#8217;s personal information at any time for any reason or no reason,” and that &#8220;securing the cooperation of private companies” is part of that effort. He explains the government bullying that would be necessary to obtain that cooperation has happened before during the financial crisis, when the Federal Reserve forced banks to take TARP money they didn’t want. &#8220;The threat to Internet freedom is government control,” he concludes. &#8220;That means that if you care about liberty, you should oppose Net neutrality and Title II reclassification.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Despite all denials to the contrary, the objectives of Truthy and net neutrality—and let’s not forget the IRS’s targeting scandal as well—bear a striking resemblance to each other: suppression of speech on one end of the equation, buttressed by greater government control over one of the foremost engines of that speech dissemination on the other.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Tellingly, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/ted-cruz-net-neutrality-is-obamacare-for-the-inter/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">labeled</span></a> net neutrality as “ObamaCare for the Internet.” That would be the same ObamaCare that <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/11/10/aca-architect-the-stupidity-of-the-american-voter-led-us-to-hide-obamacares-tax-hikes-and-subsidies-from-the-public/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">relied</span></a> on “the stupidity of the American voter” to secure its passage, according to MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, one of its chief architects.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Americans need to be very clear here: leftists like Menczer, Gruber and Obama, along with countless others who share their bankrupt ideology, have nothing but <i>contempt</i> for their fellow Americans. It is a contempt buttressed by unrelenting arrogance that drives all of them towards imposing ever-increasing amounts of government control over the “benighted” masses they see as fundamentally incapable of making rational decisions on their own.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Twitter liked claiming credit for the overthrow of Mubarak, but now its social media organization is largely at the disposal of Jihadis. The company has had a fitful and uneven record when it comes to cracking down on terrorist accounts.</p>
<p>Despite occasional takedowns, multiple ISIS accounts are active and running including ISIS Media Hub. You can easily see ISIS Jihadists displaying photos of prisoners, trophies and corpses.</p>
<p>But even the occasional shutdowns have angered ISIS supporters who until recently w<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/isis-praise-be-to-allah-who-gave-twitter-to-the-mujahideen-so-that-they-may-share-their-joys-and-not-have-listen-to-the-bbc">ere thanking their Allah deity for Twitter</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Praise be to Allah, who gave Twitter to the mujahideen so that they may share their joys and not have listen to the BBC, al-Arabia, Al-Jazeera,” an ISIS affiliate wrote on his Twitter page in Arabic.</p>
<p>The message posted under the profile entitled “Soldiers of Iraq and the Levant,” triggered enthusiastic responses from dozens of jihadists who ‘Praised Allah” for the media platform.</p></blockquote>
<p>But now they&#8217;re <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/08/isis-now-threatening-twitter-employees-for-shutting-down-terrorist-accounts/">less enchanted with Allah&#8217;s work on Twitter</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>ISIS-affiliated terrorists tweeted a series of death threats to Twitter employees in San Francisco and across Europe, encouraging “lone wolf” attacks on the company’s workers as revenge for shutting down ISIS accounts.</p>
<p>The Twitter account, @dawlamoon, claimed to represent Al Nusra Al Maqdisia, which declared its loyalty to ISIS last February, Vocativ reports. The group, apparently displeased with Twitter for shutting down the accounts of ISIS terrorists, tweeted several threats to the social media giant’s workers, targeting those in San Francisco and Europe.</p>
<p>Along with the hashtag “#TheConceptOfLoneWolfAttacks,” the account signaled its anger with Twitter management’s apparent “campaign” against the vicious terrorist group. The group also included the note “AttackingTwitterEmployees” in one tweet.</p>
<p>“The time has arrived to respond to Twitter’s management by directly attacking their employees and physically assassinating them!! Those who will carry this out are the sleeper cells of death,” one tweet read, according to Vocativ’s translation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now that the terror is hitting home, maybe Twitter will finally stop hosting terrorist accounts. Aside from ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah are both on Twitter.</p>
<p>Twitter also insisted on keeping the Taliban up <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8984705/Twitter-threatened-with-court-over-Hezbollah-tweets.html">because they weren&#8217;t an official terrorist group</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called on the firm this week to shut down accounts that support the Taliban.</p>
<p>Twitter reportedly rebuffed his call on grounds that the Taliban is not officially designated as Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the State Department.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Pakistani Taliban account is still up, it just hasn&#8217;t bothered to Tweet since last year.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Patrick Leahy champions Internet freedom everyplace on earth -- but Cuba. Why?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Twitter-censor.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223525" alt="Twitter-censor" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Twitter-censor-350x350.jpg" width="280" height="280" /></a></span>It’s not often that a U.S. government agency gets caught red-handed abiding by its charter and performing its publicly-avowed and legislatively-approved duties. But last week the AP “broke” a long and breathless story from Havana that nailed the USAID (United States Agency for International Development) for just that.</p>
<p>In their own words, “a secret plan aimed at undermining Cuba’s communist government,” was courageously exposed by the AP’s intrepid Havana bureau.</p>
<p>Such is the magnitude of the scandal that a red-faced and snarling Senator Patrick Leahy is now chairing hearings on Capitol Hill where he grills USAID director Rajiv Shah on his agency’s “<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/04/sen-patrick-leahy-rips-cuban-twitter-cockamamie-idea/">cockamamie!” plan.</a></p>
<p>The diabolical cloak and dagger scheme hatched in 2008 during George Bush’s term (which may account for Democratic Senator Leahy’s dudgeon) amounted to setting up a “Cuban Twitter” named ZunZuneo (Cuban slang for a hummingbird’s tweet) in order for Cuban youths to text each other without snooping by Castro’s KGB-mentored secret police.</p>
<p>Caught your breath back? Yes, amazingly such a scheme somehow escaped the imaginations of Ian Fleming, John Le Carré <i>and</i> Tom Clancy.</p>
<p>In sum, a brief effort was made (lasting from 2008-12 and involving 68,000 of Castro’s hapless subjects) to allow Cubans (who pre-Castro enjoyed more phones and TVs per-capita than most Europeans) to communicate with each other in the same manner as do teenagers today in such places as Sudan, Papua New Guinea and Laos.</p>
<p>Understandably this scheme to facilitate a tiny window of freedom for a tiny fraction of their subjects greatly alarmed Cuba’s Stalinist rulers. After all, it wasn’t easy converting a free and prosperous nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe, a flood of immigrants from same and the first Mercedes dealership in the Americas into a totalitarian pesthole that repels Haitians and features a glorious rebirth of communications by bongo-drum and transport by oxcart.</p>
<p>Well, the news was barely broken by Castro’s U.S. media allies when, as mentioned, Castro’s U.S. legislative allies picked up the signal from Havana and erupted in outrage—not against the KGB-mentored censorship by a terror-sponsor mind you. But against the U.S. attempt to foil it.  No. This is not your father’s cold war.</p>
<p>Senator Patrick Leahy, true to his historic role as U.S. legislative messenger for Castro’s every whim and wish, promptly denounced the program as “dumb, dumb, dumb.” “What in heaven’s name are you thinking?”‘ Leahy complained to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC about the USAID scheme. “This makes no sense at all.”</p>
<p>What really “makes no sense at all” is Senator Leahy’s hypocritical carping  during the hearings and to Andrea  Mitchell–who, by the way– is famous for gushing that  “Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly—even paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure!”</p>
<p>Leahy’s carping features prominently in <i>all </i>the AP stories and raised a few suspicions among Cuba-watchers regarding the source of the story, because for a certain propensity Senator Leahy has long been nicknamed “Leaky Leahy,” or “Leahy the Leaker.” This propensity reached such a level that in January 1987 Senator Leahy was forced to resign as vice chair of the Intelligence Committee after leaking classified information about the Iran-Contra affair.</p>
<p>(For you millennials, “Iran-Contra” was a Reagan administration plan to foil a Castro/Soviet takeover of Nicaragua. So naturally Senator Patrick Leahy sided the communists who came within a hair of nuking us.)</p>
<p>The Senator is also an unabashed champion of <i>the very thin</i>g he now calls dumb and senseless. Here’s language from a recent Appropriations bill sponsored<i> by Leahy</i> <i>himself</i>:  <a href="http://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/s1372/BILLS-113s1372pcs.pdf"><i>State, Foreign Operations Appropriations</i></a> bill:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>SEC. 7072. (a) Of the funds appropriated under titles 8 I and III of this Act, not less than $44,600,000 shall be made available for programs to promote Internet freedom globally: Provided, That such programs shall be prioritized for countries whose governments restrict freedom of expression on the Internet, and that are important to the national interests of the United State.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Well, as far as “restricting freedom of expression on the internet” the Stalinist Castro regime, according to rankings by Freedom House, holds top honors in the Western Hemisphere <a href="http://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net-2013-global-scores">and 2<sup>nd</sup> place on planet earth.</a> In fact Senator Leahy specifically sponsors ZunZuneo –type programs for Syria, Belarus, Burma, Bahrain, Sudan and Egypt.  Yet Cuba’s ruthless and wholesale internet repression surpasses the internet restrictions by every one of these nations—and often by huge margins.</p>
<p>Given the above “inconsistencies” (let’s call them,) Senator Leahy’s monkeyshines (the snarls! The grimaces! The finger-pointing!)  during the recent hearings certainly command the professional respect of many Cuba-watchers, especially the movie and Broadway aficionados.</p>
<p>Castro’s fiefdom is also an official “state sponsor of terrorism” whose master spy managed the deepest and most damaging<i> </i>penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Montes, known as “Castro’s Queen Jewel” in the intelligence community.  In 2002  she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg  and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison, only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenberg’s.</p>
<p>And speaking of Cuban spies. In one of their many stories exposing this hideous scandal, the AP consults one of its favorite Cuban sources Josefina Vidal, introducing her as “director of U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry.” “The ZunZuneo program shows once again that the United States government has not renounced its plans of subversion against Cuba,” recites Ms Vidal.</p>
<p>It’s galling to be accused of something we no longer have the sense or guts to do, but it’s the AP’s innocuous description of Josefina Vidal that merits attention here, because in fact: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Josefina Vidal was booted from the U.S. in 2003 for espionage.</a></p>
<p>This Stalinist, terror-sponsoring regime sitting 90 miles from U.S. shores also has the blood of countless American citizens on its hands, billions dollars worth of stolen U.S. property in its coffers and boasts a multi-documented record of craving to nuke us—and not only once and 50 years ago.</p>
<p>So it seems that if <i>any</i> nation merits the type of USAID attention championed by Senator Leahy its Cuba.</p>
<p>Don’t look for this anywhere in the MSM (<i>especially</i> the Associated Press!) but just three months ago the Castro regime announced that it would <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/banking-and-finance/2014/01/25/Cuba-to-freeze-foreign-funds-linked-to-al-Qaeda-Taliban.html"><i>stop</i> laundering funds linked to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.</a></p>
<p>You read right. In essence the Castroites answered the famous gotcha question:  “when did you stop beating your wife?”  In other words, they’re implying that for years (and during a long period preceding, during and after the 9-11 terror–atrocity) they partnered financially with America’s terrorist enemies.</p>
<p>Now <i>here’s</i> a story, it seems to many Cuba watchers, worthy of a major media expose in the U.S. But we know better by now. Cuba’s Stalinist rulers, after all, don’t bestow Havana press bureaus randomly. And like all “control-freaks” they conduct frequent “performance evaluations” to monitor the toadyism of their U.S. media hirelings.</p>
<p>So regarding their Havana bureaus, the Associated Press and MSNBC must feel very secure. And consider Senator Leahy’s Cuba visa gold-plated.</p>
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		<title>Please Stop Paying Attention to Laura Levites</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Who is Laura Levites? About the only people who have heard of her are conservatives reading reports about the latest offensive thing that she said on Twitter.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t like covering something offensive that Cher, Betty Midler or some other celebrity said. This is turning a Twitter troll no one had heard of before into a celebrity by rewarding her every time she says something awful about conservatives. By now Levites knows that if she needs attention, all she has to do is saying something ridiculously outrageous and offensive. And voila.</p>
<p>Is that really what we want to be doing? Turning trolling us into a career strategy? Levites&#8217; Twitter profile directly references the fact that she&#8217;s trolling. And she figures that if she does this enough, it&#8217;ll compensate for her lack of talent.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no winning strategy involved in turning a troll into a celebrity. It&#8217;s feeding the outrage machine on thin gruel. There are plenty of things worth being angry about. Pretending that Levites&#8217; latest flame bait is one of them is not a good use of our time or energy. There are plenty of offensive people on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Facebook.</p>
<p>Rewarding them for being offensive is not a smart strategy.</p>
<p>Laura Levites is a troll. Ignore her and she&#8217;ll have nothing to do buy mark time by going back to her one-woman show of complaining about her boyfriends. Keep paying attention to her and she&#8217;ll be able to parlay that attention into a career and then she&#8217;ll be the new Kathy Griffin.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Facebook Strategy for Ukraine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/48f009975b7d50cae54cd3f902e618a7.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221460" alt="48f009975b7d50cae54cd3f902e618a7" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/48f009975b7d50cae54cd3f902e618a7-450x300.jpg" width="270" height="180" /></a>It&#8217;s unfair to expect Obama to do anything about Ukraine when his biggest priority is convincing twenty-somethings to buy worthless health insurance policies by appearing on online comedy shows and deploying his March Madness bracket.</span></p>
<p>The Obama Twitter feeds are filled with desperate pleas to buy ObamaCare; harnessing every memeworthy bit of internet detritus from cat pictures to twerking in the hopes of convincing  healthy young people who don&#8217;t want health insurance to buy it anyway.</p>
<p>On March 17th, Obama&#8217;s Twitter linked to a statement on Ukraine and then it was back to &#8220;There&#8217;s only 14 days to get coverage.&#8221; It&#8217;s currently down to 12 days. It&#8217;s like holiday shopping, but with a $6,000 deductible.</p>
<p>Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) went to Ukraine, called Russia&#8217;s invasion a &#8220;weak&#8221; and &#8220;panicky&#8221; reaction to Obama&#8217;s strength, and then announced plans to speak about the &#8220;Between Two Ferns Effect.&#8221; The &#8220;effect&#8221; is the sheer awesomeness of Obama&#8217;s appearance on an internet comedy show to promote ObamaCare.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s that kind of 21st century thinking that sets Barack apart from Vladimir&#8217;s 19th century hunger for territory. While a former KGB agent wastes time conquering countries, a former community organizer focuses on selling nationalized health care to young invincibles through a website that works about as well as a Soviet Yugo.</p>
<p>Putin&#8217;s power rests on a shaky energy industry, but Obama&#8217;s power rests on ObamaCare. Kerry scoffed at Russia&#8217;s invasion as so 19th century. In the 21st century, power doesn&#8217;t come from land or armies, but from online popularity. Online popularity took a radical Illinois State Senator and turned him into a world leader. Online popularity is the WMD that the State Senator is convinced will save ObamaCare.</p>
<p>In the post-modern America, leaders claim absolute power while making self-deprecating jokes. They discard the rule of law and then hawk nationalized healthcare in infomercials for an effect more surreal than a crony capitalist KGB man with a law degree taking off his tailored suit and $500,000 Tourbograph watch to play Great White Hunter.</p>
<p>Putin poses on horseback, in a wetsuit, finding ancient urns in the sea or shooting tigers. Obama poses playing with a lightsaber, makes an unimpressed face with McKayla Maroney and unveils his March Madness picks. The Russian dictator strikes heroic poses straight out of the 19th century, while Obama struggles to hold the unstable attention span of 21st century millennials.</p>
<p>Putin is playing the part of the great leader, while Obama disguises the enormous power he wields by acting more like Ellen; a talk show host endlessly cracking jokes and posing for goofy selfies.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to laugh at Putin&#8217;s posturing, but Obama&#8217;s public image is no less cynical. Both men are instinctive totalitarians with backgrounds in Marxism and little respect for the rule of law.</p>
<p>Obama is a creature of a more modern media age catering to a demographic which prides itself on skepticism, at least where Western religion or nationalism are concerned, while being as gullible as any of the old ladies clutching red portraits of Stalin in Simferopol when it comes to the progressive agenda.</p>
<p>Putin enhances the public perception of his power while Obama downplays it. Putin&#8217;s base likes their red meat raw while Obama&#8217;s base prefers a soy burger that looks and tastes exactly like meat so that they can have an ersatz imitation of the real thing that preserves their moral superiority.</p>
<p>Obama delivers Putin&#8217;s totalitarianism in soy form. It looks a lot like a burger, but it&#8217;s really just an Asian legume. It looks a lot like tyranny, but it falls apart when confronting an actual tyrant. It&#8217;s easy to raid guitar factories, lock up anti-Muslim filmmakers and send the IRS after political opponents, but that sort of pettiness is an ordinary day in Russia which just banned lacy underwear. The EPA, USDA and even the IRS are no match for Russian teenagers with assault rifles.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s Mean Girls strategy for Putin is to make him unpopular. The various White House responses talk of isolating Russia. But Obama needs Russia to isolate Iran. He needs China to isolate Russia which will become inconvenient when China starts a shooting war with Japan. Obama can&#8217;t isolate everyone or anyone. He has just now gotten around to kicking Syria out of the US after Russia and China prevented him from isolating Assad.</p>
<p>The Hills and Big Brother are poor models for international diplomacy. While Obama is figuring out how to convince Russia to stop talking to Iran and China to stop talking to Russia and everyone to stop talking to North Korea, these countries are moving their own agendas forward by doing things, instead of by tweeting them.</p>
<p>The social network strategy for Russia will work about as well as it did for Syria or for ObamaCare. Twitter mobs can destroy the lives of individuals who make racist jokes, but they&#8217;re no match for a conquering army. Progressive nerd bullies are as vicious online as they are impotent in real life.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s plan to make Putin unpopular while he gobbles up countries isn&#8217;t a brilliant show of strength; it&#8217;s a passive aggressive display from the twitterer-in-chief who excels at putdowns, not at takedowns.</p>
<p>The left has gotten its own way for so long that it has forgotten that the Colbert Report isn&#8217;t real life, that snide remarks are no substitute for strength and that there are some men who are not afraid of being mocked by Saturday Night Live.</p>
<p>The men and women in charge of our countries treat every problem like an online debate. They assemble allies, troll the opposition and then declare victory.</p>
<p>&#8220;The world has seen through Russia’s actions and has rejected the flawed logic behind those actions,” Joe Biden declared. That might be a winning line in a Facebook debate, but it doesn&#8217;t do anything to move Russian forces out of Ukrainian cities. Meanwhile the failure to stop Putin will make him more popular in the places that truly matter, where no one buys ObamaCare and no one is impressed by accusations of flawed logic.</p>
<p>Putin has demonstrated to Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria and China that America is weak, that it has become a nation living inside its own imagination, and he has shown Eastern Europe and the rest of the world that America is a bad friend while Russia is a dangerous enemy.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s 21st century world is an imaginary place whose virtual territories depend on real infrastructure and energy. Underneath the glittering cities in the sky where everyone is part of a virtual community are the real roads and cities of stone and steel that can be taken by anyone with enough men and determination to capture them.</p>
<p>The left has confused the overlay, its commentaries and memes, for reality. It has come to believe that The Daily Show is real news, that Obama is a real leader and that a Twitter hashtag is real power.</p>
<p>The Russian soldiers in Crimea are a reminder that, as Mao said, &#8220;Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.&#8221; The Western left has forgotten the simple truth that no Eastern leftist has ever become decadent enough to forget.</p>
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		<title>Socialist Dictatorship in Venezuela Blocks Twitter to Fight Protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 02:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is why government regulation of the internet is so dangerous.]]></description>
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<p>Considering how much Chavez/Maduro intimidated or co-opted the media, the<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/14/twitter-image-blocking-venezuela/5497219/"> next step is to fight student flash protests</a>. The plan didn&#8217;t work too well in Egypt and trying to selectively block Twitter images seems like a doomed strategy.</p>
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<p>Venezuela, like Turkey, is trying to target the internet because its protest energies are coming from students and younger people who are major social media users. (<a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/02/15/where-have-all-the-flower-children-gone-regarding-venezuela-crickets/">photos from Babalu Blog</a>)</p>
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<blockquote><p>Twitter said Friday that Venezuela had blocked images on its service following an anti-government protest that turned bloody, and it offered a workaround for users who want to get tweets via text message on their cellphones.</p>
<p>Hacktivists, meanwhile, defaced and knocked various government websites offline, organizing and choreographing online denial-of-service attacks that flood sites with traffic, making them temporarily unreachable.</p>
<p>Twitter spokesman Nu Wexler said Friday via email in response to an Associated Press query that &#8220;Twitter images are currently blocked in Venezuela.&#8221; He included the text of a tweet the company sent explaining the workaround, but did not respond to follow-up questions.</p>
<p>Users told the AP that it appeared the blockage had ended by Friday morning. They said it was most intense Thursday, the day after two students were killed by gunfire that appeared to come from government supporters.</p>
<p>Venezuela&#8217;s main telecommunications company, CANTV, is government-run and handles the overwhelming majority of Internet traffic. Video and still images that circulated via Twitter after the killings purported to show police and pro-government activists shooting at protesters. The images&#8217; authenticity could not be confirmed.</p>
<p>Media coverage of the protests was limited inside Venezuela, where the socialist government dominates the airwaves. Even international media faced harassment as police smashed and confiscated cameras.</p>
<p>Venezuela&#8217;s government also suspended broadcasting inside the country on Wednesday night of the regional news channel NTN24, claiming it was trying to incite citizens to overthrow the government.</p></blockquote>
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<p>This is why FCC overreach and government regulation of the internet can be so dangerous. It takes one foot in the door and then another and then there&#8217;s the emergency power to prevent violence by censoring &#8220;extremist&#8221; content.</p>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Islamic Religious Police Hunt Witches on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorcery is no joke in Saudi Arabia]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_218080" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Wicked_witch.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-218080" alt="I'll get you and your Twitter account too!" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Wicked_witch-450x345.jpg" width="450" height="345" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">I&#8217;ll get you and your Twitter account too!</p></div>
<p>Using technology that someone else developed is not a sign of modernity. Saudi Arabia is just another example of how it&#8217;s possible to have smartphones and skyscrapers a<a href="http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/saudi-religious-police-war-on-twitter-vice-accounts-2014-02-05-1.537251">nd still be barbarians</a>. (via <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">Religion of Peace</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police authority has decided to launch a war against what it described as vice and sorcery accounts on Twitter inside the conservative Gulf kingdom, saying it aims to destroy all those accounts.</p>
<p>The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said it had formed special teams to track those accounts and arrest those who are behind them.</p>
<p>“We will track down all those who are behind these accounts whether they are men or women…we are determined to eliminate these accounts before they become widespread and out of control,” he said.</p>
<p>He said a study conducted in Saudi Arabia showed four in every network users own a Twitter account and that the total internet subscribers in Saudi Arabia are estimated at around seven million, exceeding the combined population of Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.</p></blockquote>
<p>I wonder if Twitter will be cooperating with the Saudi Islamic witchhunters? Sorcery is no joke in Saudi Arabia <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/muslim-witch-hunts/">where the Islamic witchhunters have been</a> known to hand out death sentences.</p>
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		<title>Lying Liar Anthony Weiner&#8217;s Underage Girl Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could the disgraced congressman possibly be too sleazy for New York City?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/anthony-weiner-4_3_rx404_c534x401.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192427" alt="anthony-weiner-4_3_rx404_c534x401" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/anthony-weiner-4_3_rx404_c534x401-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>Touchy, touchy. Despite Team Anthony Weiner&#8217;s best efforts at political rehabilitation, there&#8217;s just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As the New York Post reported this week, Weiner had a bit of a snit fit when a local Democratic official boldly slammed his sexting habits with underage girls.</p>
<p>Chris Owens, the Dems&#8217; state committee member in northwest Brooklyn, called out the skeezy ex-congressman at a mayoral candidate forum. &#8220;I am outraged and disgusted by you,&#8221; Owens told Weiner. &#8220;Both by what you did and by the fact that you have the arrogance to run for mayor. I want to understand how you explain to us how you used a public facility to tweet offensive material to &#8230; minors you did not know, you then lied about it &#8230; and now you come back.&#8221;</p>
<p>The hubristic horn-dog bared his teeth, got &#8220;snippy&#8221; and responded by snarling defensively that he&#8217;s &#8220;going to win this election and I&#8217;m going to govern this city really well.&#8221;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get ahead of yourself there, Tweety Boy. If more rank-and-file Democrats join Owens in focusing like a laser on Weiner&#8217;s underage-girl problem instead of soft-pedaling his &#8220;past issues&#8221; as &#8220;consensual&#8221; &#8220;online dalliances,&#8221; Icky-rus will fall again.</p>
<p>Weiner&#8217;s puff-piece enablers at The New York Times have done their best to downplay the scandal&#8217;s sordid pedo angle. He&#8217;s just a luvin&#8217; hubby and conscientious dad who came clean about a momentary lapse in social media judgment. And he accepts responsibility, dontcha know? No crime, no foul, right?</p>
<p>Not quite. All the celebutante fashion photo shoots with wife Huma Abedin can&#8217;t insulate Weiner from the truly trashy truth. Remember: Democratic women on Capitol Hill stood by Weiner and his Twitter tawdriness until a critical moment almost exactly two years ago this week: It was the moment news broke that among the bevy of online groupies he hit on, Weiner had communicated with at least one teenage high school student in Delaware.</p>
<p>Weiner had flirted with the underage girl through Twitter direct messages using a macho line about donning &#8220;cape and tights&#8221; — a quip he had also used with an adult woman with whom he had exchanged raunchier sexually explicit messages. Conservative blogger Patrick Frey (patterico.com) first uncovered the evidence.</p>
<p>Fox News then broke the news in the mainstream press that Delaware police had visited the girl&#8217;s home and questioned her about her online communications with Weiner. The 17-year-old said she had met Weiner on a school trip to Washington.</p>
<p>At his watershed press conference circus on June 6, 2011, Weiner claimed he &#8220;never had an intention of having a relationship with underage women&#8221; and blustered that the girls he communicated with &#8220;weren&#8217;t young, per se.&#8221; Per se? Just a few days later, Weiner was forced to admit that he had exchanged &#8220;at least five private messages on Twitter&#8221; with the Delaware girl, not two messages as initially reported. He also denied that any messages to the teen were &#8220;explicit&#8221; or &#8220;indecent.&#8221;</p>
<p>But can the serial liar be believed? Over the past several weeks as he has attempted to &#8220;move past&#8221; the past, Weiner has admitted that more creepoid photos or messages may surface. He told WNYC: &#8220;People may decide they want to come forward and say, here&#8217;s another email that I got or another photo. I&#8217;m certainly not going to do that. So people may hear things that are true, they may hear things that are not true, but I&#8217;m going to try to keep being focused on issues that are important to New York City.&#8221;</p>
<p>Silly me, but perhaps the predatory perv behavior of one of the Big Apple&#8217;s leading mayoral candidates should be an issue of concern. As I pointed out when the late, great Andrew Breitbart broke Weinergate wide open two years ago, stories about Weiner&#8217;s hot pursuits of young Capitol Hill interns date back to 2001. At least one young woman told liberal Vanity Fair magazine that Weiner hunted down her email address, bragged about riding on Air Force One and extended an invitation to visit his office in person.</p>
<p>Trolling habits die hard. And all the sex therapy in the world can&#8217;t cure pathological skeeviness. The man who wants to be New York&#8217;s mayor was willing to blame truth-seeker Breitbart for &#8220;hacking&#8221; into his rancid social media accounts. He was willing to mislead his lifelong Democratic pals and enlist them in his phony smear conspiracy to cover his lurid macking tracks.</p>
<p>This is not merely a &#8220;private matter.&#8221; It&#8217;s about public fitness for office. Anthony Weiner thinks he should be put back in political power because he effectively champions &#8220;middle-class&#8221; values. Middle-class New Yorkers who value decency, honesty and safe work and online environments for your young daughters, speak now or forever hold your peace.</p>
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		<title>The Most Powerful Names in Arab Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sphere of influence that will only continue to grow. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/the-most-powerful-names-in-arab-media/prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-185777"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-185777" title="Prince-Alwaleed-Bin-Talal" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Prince-Alwaleed-Bin-Talal1-450x309.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="185" /></a>Quite interesting to read the annual ArabianBusiness.com list of the <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/power500">500 most powerful Arabs in the</a> world – and it is truly amazing how many on the list have an impact on the media world and public perception. There are believed to be over 300 million Arabs worldwide – and their influence naturally spreads quite far.</p>
<p>While Arab wealth is well-renowned due to oil and many other resources, media isn’t an area which has traditionally received much attention as a sphere of Arab influence. Reviewing the Arabian business list, while social media has been credited with helping to spark the Arab spring, influential Arabs have a major impact on traditional media – and it’s going to grow and not go away.</p>
<p>Some choice powerful Arabs from the list:</p>
<p>• Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia ranked #1 on the list for the 9<sup>th</sup> year in the row – and the billionaire is the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corp. and a major owner of Twitter. <em>(And the biggest growth market in the world for Twitter is Saudi Arabia.) </em>Prince Alwaleedalso owns the Rotana Group, the largest entertainment company in the Arab world, 90% of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (the 1<sup>st</sup> private television station in Lebanon) and much more.</p>
<p>• The 5<sup>th</sup> most powerful Arab in the world is Twitter’s head of operations, a Jordanian named Mazen Rawashdeh.  Digital media is clearly rapidly growing and not vanishing – and with a Saudi owner and Jordanian running the company, clearly Arab influence matters at Twitter and in the digital arena.</p>
<p>• Emad Burnat (#15) is a Palestinian Arab whose film <em>Five Broken Cameras was </em>nominated this year for the Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards, and won multiple awards at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The movie has done wonders for the Palestinian issue and caused tremendous damage to Israel as a strong piece of propaganda.</p>
<p>• Rounding out the top 25 is Elie Khouri (#23), CEO of MENA Omnicom, one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing conglomerates.  Khouri is involved with launching IKEA in Egypt, and many other brands, and is involved with a Dubai art non-profit and UAE entrepreneur programs. Also in the top 25 is Joseph Ghossoub, chairman and chief executive officer of MENA Communications Group (MENACOM), parent company of legendary worldwide advertising agency Young &amp; Rubicam. Ghossoub is a director of Dubai Media Incorporated and has been described by Bloomberg News as “One of the Middle East communications industry’s most prominent spokespersons.”</p>
<p>• Owning a major <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/about5wpr/index.cfm">PR firm</a>, I assumed I was aware of many of the most influential people on social media – but admittedly had never before heard of the man named as the 35<sup>th</sup> most influential Arab in the world, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, who is a major commentator on the Arab world.  His twitter feed (SultanAlQassemi) was named by Time Magazine as one of the &#8220;140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011,&#8221; and his reach is indeed quite far.</p>
<p>• Pierre Choueiri (#42) and Mohammed Al Mulla (#45) respectively own major media empires.  They reach many millions worldwide – and have the power to influence policy, opinion and actions worldwide.</p>
<p>The editor of Arabian Business said: “Once again we have produced what we believe to be the most comprehensive guide ever to Arab influence. This list is a celebration of the great work and contribution of Arabs all over the globe.” Others in the top 500 world of interest to those in the world of media and communications include Daoud Kuttab, Hala Gorani (CNN anchor), Mona Al Marri of the Dubai Government Media Office, who has been described as a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/news/index.cfm">Public Relations</a> guru, and Egypt’s Bassem Youssef, who recently attracted worldwide media attention when he was arrested.</p>
<p>As the description noted, the “magazine defines power as <em>influence</em>.” Clearly, the Arab world understands the power and importance of communications and media – and it’s something to be aware of and knowledgeable about.</p>
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		<title>Political Careers That Live By Sick Words Die By Sick Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comparing Ron Paul's reactions to the killings of Osama bin Laden and American hero Chris Kyle. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/17/ron-paul-denies-saying-that-he-would-not-have-ordered-bin-ladens-killing/">Ron Paul’s reaction to the killing of mass murderer Osama bin Laden</a> and then <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/ron-paul-on-murder-of-hero-navy-seal-he-who-lives-by-the-sword-dies-by-the-sword/">his reaction to the murder of heroic Navy Seal Chris Kyle</a> to understand the extent of his animus towards America. I can’t believe I’m about to write this, but Ron Paul, <em>at times</em>, makes even Obama appear presidential.</p>
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		<title>The Blood-Lusting Hate Speech of the Anti-Gun Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unhinged threats of murder and violence flood social media. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/michellemalkin/the-blood-lusting-hate-speech-of-the-anti-gun-left/121218_nra_protest_lg/" rel="attachment wp-att-170126"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-170126" title="121218_nra_protest_lg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121218_nra_protest_lg-450x328.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="197" /></a>In the aftermath of the horrific Newtown, Conn., school massacre, Americans from all parts of the political spectrum agree that we need to pay more attention to mental health issues. Public death threats and incitements to violence must be taken seriously. The incendiary witch hunt against law-abiding, peaceful gun owners is neither noble nor effective. It&#8217;s just plain insane.</p>
<p>Over the past week, I&#8217;ve witnessed a disturbing outbreak of off-the-rails hatred toward gun owners and Second Amendment groups. Whatever your views on guns, we can all agree: The Newtown gunman was a monster who slaughtered his own mother, five heroic educators and 20 angel-faced schoolchildren. He ignored laws against murder. He bypassed Connecticut&#8217;s strict gun control regulations, and he circumvented the Sandy Hook Elementary School&#8217;s security measures. Every decent American is horrified and heartsick by this outbreak of pure evil.</p>
<p>But tens of millions of law-abiding men and women own and use guns responsibly in this country. The cynical campaign to demonize all armed men and women as monsters must not go unanswered. What&#8217;s most disturbing is that the incitements are coming from purportedly respectable, prominent and influential public figures.</p>
<p>Consider the rhetoric of University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis. He teaches &#8220;U.S. environmental history, the Civil War, late 19th and early 20th century America, labor history, and the American West&#8221; in the university&#8217;s history department. Online, however, Loomis is a militantly unhinged foe of all things conservative.</p>
<p>This week, the nutty professor took to Twitter to rail against law-abiding gun owners and the National Rifle Association. &#8220;Looks like the National Rifle Association has murdered some more children,&#8221; Loomis fumed. &#8220;Now I want Wayne LaPierre&#8217;s head on a stick,&#8221; he added. (LaPierre is executive vice president and CEO of the NRA.) Loomis was just warming up.</p>
<p>&#8220;F**k the National Rifle Association and its policies to put crazy guns in everyone&#8217;s hands,&#8221; Loomis tweeted. &#8220;You are g*dd*mn right we should politicize this tragedy. F**k the NRA. Wayne LaPierre should be in prison,&#8221; he spewed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Can we define NRA membership dues as contributing to a terrorist organization?&#8221;</p>
<p>If all that wasn&#8217;t clear enough, Loomis also re-tweeted the following message from a fellow left-winger: &#8220;First f**ker to say the solution is for elementary school teachers to carry guns needs to get beaten to death.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the conservative group Campus Reform called attention to the craziness, Loomis whined about a &#8220;right-wing intimidation campaign.&#8221; Sane university professors shook their heads. University of Tennessee law professor and blogger Glenn Reynolds explained the anti-NRA syllogism at work:</p>
<p>&#8220;(1) Something bad happened; (2) I hate you; so (3) it&#8217;s your fault. This sort of reasoning has played out in all sorts of places over the past century, with poor results. One would expect a history professor to know better.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Loomis is not alone. Famed author Joyce Carol Oates also took to Twitter to blame the entire membership of the NRA for one evil-doer&#8217;s massacre. &#8220;Another NRA-sponsored massacre for Christmas 2012,&#8221; Oates wrote. She then accused any politicians who supported the NRA of &#8220;felony homicide.&#8221; And then she mused hopefully for mass shootings against the NRA: &#8220;If sizable numbers of NRA members become gun-victims themselves, maybe hope for legislation of firearms?&#8221; Shockingly, actress Marg Helgenberger of the TV show &#8220;CSI&#8221; cheered her on: &#8220;One can only hope, but sadly I don&#8217;t think anything would change.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Texas, state Democratic Party official John Cobarruvias threw fuel on the fire. Cobarruvias is the Democratic Party precinct chair in Houston, Texas, and holds a seat on the Texas State Democratic Party&#8217;s executive committee. On his Twitter feed, Cobarruvias labeled the NRA a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization&#8221; and called for the assassination of NRA leaders and supporters: &#8220;Can we now shoot the #NRA and everyone who defends them?&#8221;</p>
<p>So, it&#8217;s come to this: Advocating beheadings, beatings and the mass murder of peaceful Americans to pay for the sins of a soulless madman. But because the advocates of violence fashion themselves champions of non-violence and because they inhabit the hallowed worlds of Hollywood, academia and the Democratic Party, it&#8217;s acceptable?</p>
<p>Blood-lusting hate speech must not get a pass just because it comes out of the mouths of the protected anti-gun class.</p>
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		<title>Why Allow Terrorists to Use Social Media?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are American companies complicit in jihadist PR? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/why-allow-terrorists-to-use-social-media/hamas-twitter-161112/" rel="attachment wp-att-165655"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-165655" title="hamas-twitter-161112" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/hamas-twitter-161112-450x300.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="210" /></a>Anwar al-Awlaki, known as the &#8220;Bin Laden of the Internet,&#8221; recruited radicals online – until he was killed by an American drone. &#8220;Jihad Jane&#8221; sits in an American federal prison – she plotted to kill a Swedish cartoonist after viewing and commenting on YouTube videos. British authorities say rioters used social networks to coordinate mass civil disobedience last year, and prosecutors in Mexico have accused people of terrorism and sabotage by claiming that their Twitter posts helped spread false rumors about a school attack, leading to real-life violence.</p>
<p>Social media has real life consequences and is big-time communications in 2012. With all of the discussion this week about social media usage of the Israel Defense Forces, where are the authorities who should be concerned with Hamas, a worldwide terrorist organization freely tweeting? Hamas is an illegal organization in America and worldwide &#8212; yet freely uses twitter via multiple accounts – including @hamasinfo, @AlqassamBrigade and others.  Despite calls by U.S. Congressman Ted Poe in September that the Twitter accounts of terrorist organizations like Hamas, as well as el Sahbaba and Hizbollah, be shut down, it continues.</p>
<p>While today Hamas is in the headlines for attacking Israel, Hamas is on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and as the Department of Justice has stated, Hamas has threatened the U.S. on American soil.  The head of Hamas condemned the killing of Osama bin Laden, whom he praised as a &#8220;martyr&#8221; and an &#8220;Arab holy warrior&#8221;</p>
<p>Terrorists have always understood that propaganda matters – and social media makes it easier for them to communicate, hence it’s a natural component of terror. Jerrold Post of the Political Psychology Program at George Washington University has said that terrorist groups give out handbooks dealing with how to attract maximum media attention. Al Qaeda recently started using the name “Ansar al-Sharia” because of the concern about negative baggage associated with the Al Qaeda name. <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">Public Relations firms</a> have been hired to represent Qaddafi, Assad, and last year Qatar hired a leading U.S. <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR firm</a> to lobby for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Even the Taliban understands the importance of <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">Public Relations</a>.  In a scene which seems like a Saturday Night Live skit, this week a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email, but rather than using BCC (which keeps email addresses private), the spokesperson cc’ed everyone on his mailing list. Hundreds of email addresses, including legislators, academics and terrorists, were exposed in the email. Journalist Mustafa Kazemi tweeted: &#8220;Taliban have included all 4 of my email addresses on the leaked distribution list,&#8221; and then: &#8220;Quite reassuring to my safety.&#8221;</p>
<p>As PR matters so much to terrorist organizations, why allow them to use social media owned by American companies? It just doesn’t add up.</p>
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		<title>Obama Campaign Co-Chair Eva Longoria Gets Schooled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The era of one-way political monologues from Tinsel Town hypocrites is over.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/michellemalkin/obama-campaign-co-chair-eva-longoria-gets-schooled/ap_eva_longoria_forbes_120906_wg-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-149058"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-149058" title="ap_eva_longoria_forbes_120906_wg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ap_eva_longoria_forbes_120906_wg1.gif" alt="" width="315" height="221" /></a>Liberal celebrities want all of the adoration that social media engagement has to offer — but none of the accountability that actual engagement requires. For the Hollywood elite, it&#8217;s &#8220;do as they say, not as they tweet.&#8221; But actress and outspoken Obama campaign co-chair Eva Longoria learned a hard lesson this week on Twitter:</p>
<p>Conservatives online are mad as hell and aren&#8217;t taking it anymore.</p>
<p>On Tuesday night after the second presidential debate, Longoria shared a &#8220;retweet&#8221; from one of her 4.4-plus million followers on the micro-blogging network. &#8220;I have no idea why any woman/minority can vote for Romney,&#8221; the message read. &#8220;You have to be stupid to vote for such a racist/misogynistic tw*t.&#8221; (I&#8217;m editing the vulgarity for family newspapers, but the tweet&#8217;s foul reference to a woman&#8217;s reproductive organs was neither censored nor disavowed by Longoria on her Twitter timeline.)</p>
<p>On Wednesday morning, the editors at Twitchy.com, my Twitter curation/aggregation site, captured and saved Longoria&#8217;s retweet for posterity. Conservative minorities and women raised their voices. A representative sample:</p>
<p>Wrote Diana Yellow (@navajochic): &#8220;I don&#8217;t appreciate u call&#8217;n me stupid. Ur ignorant, selfish and stupid urself! I&#8217;m a Romney/Ryan voter, I&#8217;m female and a minority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Becky Gonzalez (@nanabec2) tweeted: &#8220;You can vote with your lady parts — I&#8217;ll vote with my lady smarts. VOTE ROMNEY!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Melissa (@melissaDiva) responded: &#8220;So @EvaLongoria b/c I am a woman and support @MittRomney I am stupid? Your comment is disgusting and disrespectful to women. Shame on you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mayelin de Villegas (@mayelinddv) informed the starlet: &#8220;I am Hispanic. I am very informed on all issues. Will be voting for Romney and proud to say it.&#8221;</p>
<p>After Twitchy.com called attention to the Obama campaign co-chair and &#8220;War on Women&#8221; propagandist&#8217;s backhanded swipe, she tried to cover her tracks by deleting the message. But Twitter and Twitchy are forever. On Thursday morning, the panicked actress launched into damage-control mode — and made matters even worse.</p>
<p>First, she claimed that &#8220;twitter (was) bugging out&#8221; and asserted that &#8220;there are things in my timeline I didn&#8217;t retweet today.&#8221; Longoria then absurdly assured followers that she was under the social media hood searching for an imaginary glitch: &#8220;Standby trying to fix!&#8221; The naked attempt to channel disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, who shamelessly blamed a nonexistent hacker for posting lewd photos of himself on Twitter, flopped among tech-savvy Twitter users.</p>
<p>&#8220;Blame it on A) The altitude B) The &#8216;video&#8217; C) Hillary!&#8221; joked one reader.</p>
<p>&#8220;She inherited all her re-tweets from the previous twitter user,&#8221; jibed another.</p>
<p>&#8220;She has binders full of excuses,&#8221; chimed another.</p>
<p>Writer Derek Hunter mused: &#8220;(Y)ou&#8217;ve got to find it amusing how @evalongoria is &#8216;trying to fix&#8217; her twitter like she&#8217;s writing code or something.&#8221;</p>
<p>Faced with an avalanche of mockery and disbelief, Longoria finally tossed aside her make-believe monkey wrench and &#8216;fessed up. Well, kinda sorta, in that classic crapweasel politican&#8217;s way. She tweeted that she was &#8220;(s)orry if people were offended by retweet&#8221; and that &#8220;I respect all Americans.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Sorry if.&#8221; Give her the award for Worst Performance by a Self-Destructing Celeb on Social Media. Longoria topped off her faux-pology by explaining that she was merely trying to create &#8220;dialogue&#8221; and then pivoted faster than an Olympic speed skater by protesting that we should all be talking about &#8220;real issues&#8221; such as &#8220;equal pay, the economy and our health care choices&#8221; instead of &#8220;tweets.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not so fast there, missy. You should know that Longoria is guilty of retweeting at least one other crude message bashing Republicans. Twitchy.com staff noted that on October 11, the night of the vice presidential debate, Longoria retweeted this appalling observation from soap opera star Nancy Lee Grahn: &#8220;Biden is making Paul Ryan his prison b****!&#8221; Longoria retweeted the offensive prison rape analogy without any censorship or disapproval whatsoever. And on the campaign trail, Longoria has expressed similar views disparaging conservative women. In Colorado this July, she asserted that &#8220;there is no way you can vote Republican&#8221; if you&#8217;re a woman.</p>
<p>The real issue with &#8220;dialogue&#8221;-seeking Longoria, who refused to answer any of my questions on Twitter, is that she is a phony spokeswoman for American women outside the Hollywood-D.C.-Manhattan bubble. She has unmistakable contempt for women who reject the Obama campaign&#8217;s radical &#8220;lady parts&#8221; identity politics.</p>
<p>It is not a waste of time to respond to Hollywood hatred of conservative women and minorities. It is a waste of the First Amendment to be silent. Longoria, after all, is one of Obama&#8217;s highest-profile campaign co-chairs spearheading femme fear-mongering. She and a bevy of other like-minded lib Hollywood actresses (including Kate Walsh, Scarlett Johansson and Kerry Washington) are flooding swing states to woo independent/undecided women who could determine this election. Silence is complicity.</p>
<p>For decades, conservative women and minorities had limited public opportunities to tell the Beautiful People that they didn&#8217;t speak for us. The game has changed. The walls have crumbled. The era of one-way political monologues from Tinsel Town hypocrites is over. To borrow language they understand: That&#8217;s a wrap. You&#8217;ve been schooled.</p>
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		<title>How the Left Keeps Blacks in Line: The Stacey Dash Chapter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Obama-supporting actress throws her support behind Mitt Romney -- and suffers the consequences.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-tapson/how-the-left-keeps-blacks-in-line-the-stacey-dash-chapter/stacey-dash_01/" rel="attachment wp-att-147680"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-147680" title="stacey-dash_01" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/stacey-dash_01.gif" alt="" width="315" height="244" /></a>Last weekend black actress Stacey Dash ignited a firestorm of racist hate from supporters of President Obama when she dared to step off the Hollywood plantation and endorse a Republican presidential candidate. She posted a picture of herself on Twitter with an American flag and the accompanying tweet, “Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future.” The Twitter response was swift and ugly.</p>
<p>Ms. Dash is best-known for her supporting role in the 1995 movie <em>Clueless</em> and more recently a leading role on VH1’s <em>Single Ladies</em>. In the last election she voted for Obama, but “it’s different this time,” she tweeted. Kudos to her for having her own mind and for being willing to rethink her political stance, rather than falling for Obama’s laughable excuse that he needs another four years to clean up the mess he “inherited” from George W. Bush. Kudos to her also because she works in Hollywood, where anything short of open contempt for conservatives, much less open support for one, can get you disinvited from all the right parties and even hinder you from getting further work.</p>
<p>The totalitarian left demands absolute fealty from their black constituency, and ruthlessly punishes independent thought. So after the former Obama voter’s pro-Romney tweet, some twitterers cut right to the chase and <a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/10/07/civility-alert-obama-supporters-urge-stacey-dash-to-kill-herself/">urged Dash to kill herself</a>. The next time progressives demonize the right as the “American Taliban,” perhaps we should remind them that it is the intolerant <em>left</em> who wishes death upon those who dare question the orthodoxy.</p>
<p>Others on Twitter <a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/10/08/vile-racist-obama-supporters-call-stacey-dash-house-negro-uncle-tom-oreo/">railed</a> at her for being a “house Negro,” “Uncle Tom,” “race traitor” and “Oreo” (black on the outside, white on the inside). Remember that these racist epithets are <em>from other blacks</em>. WARNING: The following examples are almost incoherently ungrammatical, which speaks volumes about the left’s self-proclaimed intellectual superiority; but in addition, some of them are shockingly vile – and I didn’t even include the most disgusting ones.</p>
<p>Twitterer <a href="https://twitter.com/UMDftplayersUck">Blackbuda2K12</a> wrote, “Stacy Dash is an oreo, white man dik hopping uncle tom ghetto gagger may she get cancer twice and die once.” Another, who goes by <a href="https://twitter.com/JPvanity">JPVanity</a> tweeted to Dash that Romney “don&#8217;t give a sh*t about you or ANY of us colords.” Dash replied, “That’s ignorant. So you’re voting for [Obama] ‘cause he’s black? Real smart.” The moronic JPVanity went on to warn other blacks that Romney “finna put ALL Y&#8217;ALL in concentration camps.” To another conservative on Twitter he threatened, “Shut up u republican piece of sh*t ill shoot ur kids in the face.” He should be jailed just for grammatical felonies, but at the very least, law enforcement should look into his violent threats.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/YALEPERKINS">Yale Perkins</a>, who fancies himself an “up and coming music producer,” told Dash, “hoe kill yourself!!!! UNCLE TOM&#8230;HOUSE NIGGA.” Then he posted a picture of the beautiful, smiling actress and wrote, “this bitch @REALStaceyDash face look like a 82 year old white lady name ms mammie. No wonder she voting for mitt bitch.” He went on to attack Dash with further tweets full of unprintable obscenities and hate.</p>
<p>“Weak ass no acting ass @REALStaceyDash. U can&#8217;t never come back over here! You&#8217;s a house nigga now,” <a href="https://twitter.com/_Brat_">#1Brat</a> eloquently put it. “You ready to head back to the fields, jiggaboo?” queried <a href="https://twitter.com/simplyshers">Sherrick W</a>. “YOU MAKE ME SICK U A NIGGA IN A COWBOY HAT DON&#8217;T SEEM LIKE YOU CARE ABOUT BLACKS EITHER. G*DD*MN TRAITOR,” shouted <a href="https://twitter.com/ASvpFeefa">FeefaGaga</a>.</p>
<p>Some blacks on Twitter did come to Dash’s defense, <a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/10/07/citizens-speak-out-in-support-of-actress-stacey-dash/">tweeting support</a> for her choice or at the very least, her <em>right</em> to choose. “#ISupportStaceyDash because I believe in liberty, freedom of speech and the right for one to express their opinion openly,” wrote <a href="https://twitter.com/dminor85">Demetrius Minor</a>. “Standing w @REALStaceyDash 4 voting brain instead of skin color!” wrote <a href="https://twitter.com/theblazedone">Anthony</a>, who added,“#ISupportStaceyDash bc supporting 13% Black Unemp. is the REAL sellout!” <a href="https://twitter.com/thesavvy">Savannah</a> wrote, “#ISupportStaceyDash because she put character before color.” <a href="https://twitter.com/skeeter10">Tyler Hale</a> said, “#ISupportStaceyDash for making her own choices and decisions!”</p>
<p>The kind of venom Stacey Dash received is what blacks face from black Democrats when they dare to deviate from the left’s victim-centered identity politics and vote Republican: the most vicious racism possible, and even physical threats. This is how the left polices itself and keeps blacks in line –with the threat of immediate and unforgiving excommunication from the black community.</p>
<p>The left’s degrading and dismissive barb that “you’re not <em>really</em> black” is the kind of racism that black Republican politicians/candidates like Condoleeza Rice, Allen West, Mia Love and Herman Cain face. The sad truth is that decades of progressive policies have left inner city black families and their communities all across America in shambles, results that Obama has exacerbated and will perpetuate in a second term. Those families’ best hope for change is to vote Republican, but anyone open-minded enough to even consider it knows that taking such a bold step would be at the risk of alienating many of their black friends and even family members, who would consider them race traitors. It takes an unusual degree of courage and conviction to willfully bring that upon yourself and your loved ones.</p>
<p>Black Democrats insist that, given the reins of power, Republicans will turn back the clock and throw blacks back into chains. Remember when 2008 candidate John McCain <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyQpmN-nH64">appeared on <em>The View</em></a>, and host Whoopi Goldberg actually asked him, “Should I be worried about being returned to slavery?” Manipulative, condescending, racist progressives have implanted too many American blacks with an irrational fear that a Republican presidency will mean the literal reinstatement of slavery; meanwhile those blacks live in thrall to the social and economic manacles forged by Democrats.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Hurricane of Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isaac brings out progressives' true colors.   ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/samuel-l-jackson-BROADWAY.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142155" title="samuel-l-jackson-BROADWAY" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/samuel-l-jackson-BROADWAY.gif" alt="" width="375" height="240" /></a>A hurricane coupled with a Republican convention is more than enough to elicit the latest spasms of hate emanating from the Left. Our list of oh-so-tolerant all-stars comes from the predictable precincts of Hollywood and the mainstream media. All of them seemingly embrace the Obama administration&#8217;s credo of never letting a crisis go to waste.</p>
<p>Former movie star Ellen Barkin apparently didn&#8217;t get the memo about toning down the violent rhetoric in the wake of the Gabby Giffords shooting. Last Sunday, Barkin <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/barkin-mad-actress-hopes-hurricane-kills-every-pro-life-sob-cher-hopes-akin">re-tweeted</a> a message from one of her followers that illuminated the rank hypocrisy of those who consider themselves paragons of tolerance. “C’mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean! #RNC,&#8221; the message read. Barkin defended herself by lashing out at Twitchy, the website that reported the tweet. &#8220;For better or worse, that was not my original tweet.A retweet.But Twitchy liked it better their way,&#8221; she wrote. Twitchy noted that a re-tweet is not necessarily an endorsement of the original message, but noted that &#8220;Barkin didn’t give any indication that she disagreed with the revolting sentiment when she retweeted it to her followers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barkin is no stranger to <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/actress-ellen-barkin-expresses-hatred-for-conservatives-profane-tweets">expressing</a> such &#8220;open-mindedness.&#8221; Back in July, she expressed her displeasure regarding the idea that some Americans aren&#8217;t thrilled with her upcoming television show, &#8220;The New Normal.&#8221; The NBC series is about a gay couple who want to use a surrogate mother to have a baby. &#8220;I love everybody,..except u right wing f**kin morons, (sic),&#8221; she tweeted at the time. Add her August take on voter ID, &#8220;bulls**t going on now will kill us all,&#8221; and her tweet to actor Jon Lovitz for criticizing the president, &#8220;John Lovitz maybe I met you a few times back in the day, but now you&#8217;re just an ignorant a**hole. Shut the f**k up,&#8221; and you have a woman oblivious to her own, foul-mouthed intolerance.</p>
<p>She is hardly alone. Samuel Jackson also took to Twitter to <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/28/republican-national-convention-diary-romney-ready-to-arrive-and-daayum-samuel-l-jackson-weighs-in-on-isaac/'">question</a> the wisdom of God Himself, and his divine decision to spare the city of Tampa, FL, site of the Republican convention. &#8220;Unfair S**t: GOP spared by Issac ! NOLA probably F**ked Again! Not understanding God&#8217;s plan!&#8221; wrote Jackson. A deluge of responses apparently caused Jackson to issue two other tweets characterized as &#8220;an apology&#8221; by <em>The National Post</em>:  &#8220;Daayum! Poked a Hornets nest, hunh? Apologies to God, Tampa, da GOP&amp; Isaac(sp)! Who played the Race card?!&#8221; Jackson wrote, followed up by &#8220;Whoooo! A lotta sh**t stirred into a Bulls**t tweet! Politics &amp; Religion get MUHFREPUBLICANS heated!&#8221; Such tweets are apparently as &#8220;apologetic&#8221; as Jackson gets.</p>
<p>As for Jackson&#8217;s inquiry about who played the race card, going right to the top of the list would be MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews. If one embraces Matthews&#8217; distorted worldview, <em>every</em> criticism aimed at Barack Obama constitutes racism. On a Monday segment of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Matthews <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80190.html">lashed</a> out at Republican National Committee Chairman (RNC) Reince Priebus. Mitt Romney’s birth certificate remark, a joke to anyone capable of rational thinking, was apparently the fuse. “That cheap shot about ‘I don’t have a problem with my birth certificate’ was awful,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;You are playing that little ethnic card there. You can play your games and giggle about it, but the fact is your side is playing that [race] card.”</p>
<p>Matthews was even more incensed when Priebus called the president&#8217;s economic policies &#8220;European.&#8221; “What? Where do you get this from? That’s insane,” Matthews responded. “You mean the fact that every president we’ve had has tried to offset the economic cycle with stimulus going the other direction is somehow European?” As the exchange grew more heated, Priebus decided arguing was pointless. Matthews&#8217; &#8220;journalistic&#8221; response? “Because you’re losing, that’s why,” he groused.</p>
<p>Later that evening, Matthews <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/chris-matthews-defends-attack-on-priebus-says-republican-133422.html">defended</a> himself. &#8220;It is obvious that this is something I care passionately about: race was abused by white politicians in my lifetime, including Reagan,&#8221; he contended. &#8220;For someone to come on the program and deny that this is part of their process, I couldn&#8217;t take that. This is something I really, deeply believe in. We grew up in a country where appeals to race have been awful, terrible. This language&#8211;we are beyond this. It had to be called out.&#8221; He further noted that &#8220;race is the San Andreas Fault in this country, and this is dividing this country along racial lines.&#8221;</p>
<p>Again, it takes a monumental level of obliviousness for Matthews to inject race into the discussion wherever possible, even as he complains that racial issues&#8211;courtesy of Republicans only, it would seem&#8211;are dividing the country. Thus, it was completely unsurprising that Matthews <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/chris-matthews-racial-division-rnc_n_1837949.html">doubled-down</a> on Tuesday, when he warned his audience to &#8220;be on the alert for the tribal messages, the war drums of racial division&#8221; at the GOP convention. &#8220;Listen for the word &#8216;welfare&#8217;&#8230; the charge that&#8230; someone else is getting a free ride courtesy of President Obama,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Wait for warnings that your Medicare benefits are being siphoned off to pay for Obama&#8217;s health care recipients&#8211;another case where the good middle-class family is getting shorted so that poor minorities get something for nothing.&#8221; Matthews further claimed that voters would be treated to &#8220;a relentless dog whistle&#8221; that &#8220;treats black voters with disdain and treats white people like well, well-trained canines.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Left Can’t Bring Itself to Celebrate America</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/generic_american_flag_071112_20120711155048_640_480.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137642" title="generic_american_flag_071112_20120711155048_640_480" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/generic_american_flag_071112_20120711155048_640_480.gif" alt="" width="375" height="246" /></a>This past Independence Day, social media like Twitter were teeming with joyful appreciations of and gratitude for our freedom and America’s bounty, in spite of threats to both under the Obama administration. But there were also plenty of bitter, divisive messages from progressives, who can’t bring themselves to celebrate this country; instead, they spent the holiday ramping up their relentless racial grievance-mongering.</p>
<p>Leading the pack, predictably, was one of the Hollywood One-Percenters, who can always be counted on to pretend to side with the mythical 99%. Ostensibly an actor and comedian, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/07/12/rock-defends-obama-again">Obama apologist</a> Chris Rock has become rich and famous in the country that he routinely trashes as racist. Showing his solidarity with violent Occupy-types, in March <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2012/03/14/comedian-chris-rock-attacks-camera-after-being-asked-about-allege">Rock assaulted a camerawoman</a> with a journalist who asked about Rock’s slanderous comment that the Tea Party was “insane” and “racist.” His latest hateful jab came on Twitter in the form of this racist, historically ignorant, punctuation-deficient holiday <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/07/04/Chris-Rock-independence-Day">tweet</a>, which went viral:</p>
<blockquote><p>Chris Rock @chrisrock<br />
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren&#8217;t free but I&#8217;m sure they enjoyed fireworks</p></blockquote>
<p>It’s possible that Rock’s tweet was simply a publicity ploy calculated to stir up controversy and boost his flagging, uninteresting career. Of course, if he really wanted to boost his career and endear himself to millions of Americans, he could simply have tweeted happy birthday wishes to America and his gratitude for the freedoms he enjoys that countless Americans have died for and continue to die for. But leftist celebrities are actually contemptuous of the American public; they care only about their standing among each other. So in fact, Rock’s tweet was calculated not only to aggravate proud Americans but to earn him high-fives among fellow entertainers like black actor Don Cheadle, who approvingly “retweeted” Rock’s “joke.”</p>
<p>They weren’t the only ones. Zach Braff, another celeb with a stalled career, tweeted a similar sentiment (at least Braff understands the basics of capitalization and punctuation, unlike Rock):</p>
<blockquote><p>Zach Braff @zachbraff<br />
Slaves weren&#8217;t freed for another 90 years. So maybe just enjoy some of the fireworks&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>To get some perspective on the value of such celebrity opinion about history and politics, remember that these are people who in centuries past were court jesters. But thanks to the omnipresence of cinemas, television, the Internet, and tabloids which serve as megaphones to push their words and deeds into the forefront of public consciousness, the uninformed blather of celebrities is given disproportionate weight here and around the world.</p>
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