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		<title>WaPo: Believe Rape Accusations Even If They’re False</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t let facts get in the way of the agenda.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246933" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400-450x343.jpg" alt="uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400" width="367" height="280" /></a>As the shocking allegations of a fraternity party gang rape at the University of Virginia come unraveled, progressives whose cause is to condemn America for a so-called “rape culture” have chosen to double down in defense of the apparent falsehood. The <i>Washington Post</i> even ran an astoundingly un-American piece that suggests we should believe rape accusations, <i>regardless of whether they are true</i>.</p>
<p><i>Rolling Stone</i>, the music and politics magazine that can stay relevant only by sexualizing everyone (including terrorists – remember its <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/17/rolling-stone-features-boston-bombing-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-on-cover/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dreamy cover photo</span></a> of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?), broke the lurid story only to have it fall apart thanks to <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/05/rolling-stones-botched-account-of-a-uva"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unconscionably sloppy journalism</span></a>. But progressives cannot let the truth get in the way of the agenda, so Zerlina Maxwell rushed to fill the breach with the aforementioned <i>WaPo </i>piece initially entitled “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/no-matter-what-jackie-said-we-should-automatically-believe-rape-claims/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">No matter what Jackie said, we should automatically believe rape claims</span></a>” (“Jackie” is the victim’s pseudonym).</p>
<p>The thrust of Maxwell’s piece is that “the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist.” She begins by saying that many people</p>
<blockquote><p>will be tempted to see [the collapse of the UofV gang-rape allegation] as a reminder that officials, reporters and the general public should hear both sides of the story and collect all the evidence before coming to a conclusion in rape cases. This is what we mean in America when we say someone is “innocent until proven guilty.” After all, look what happened to the Duke lacrosse players.</p></blockquote>
<p><i>Exactly</i> – look at what happened to them. But then she goes on to reject that reasonable restraint: “In important ways,” she wrote, “<i>this is wrong</i>. We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says” [emphasis added] – after all, false accusations are “exceedingly rare,” she claims. But then she quotes an FBI statistic that 2-8% of allegations are false; that is not “exceedingly rare.”</p>
<p>In any case, it wouldn’t matter if the figure were only 1% &#8211; in this country we don’t suspend the presumption of innocence just “to offer our hand of support to survivors.” Maxwell disagrees: “The time we spend picking apart a traumatized survivor’s narration on the hunt for discrepancies is time that should be spent punishing serial rapists.”</p>
<p>It should go without saying, especially to someone with a law degree like Maxwell, that we shouldn’t be “punishing serial rapists” if they haven’t yet been proven to <i>be</i> serial rapists. She has created a false choice between believing and disbelieving the accused. It is not the job of law enforcement to believe or disbelieve a victim’s story; it is their job to determine if a crime has been committed, to investigate it, to examine the evidence, and then to act accordingly. Maxwell wants to reverse that process; too bad if the accusation falls apart under later scrutiny.</p>
<p>And what of the man she’s willing to falsely if temporarily accuse of the ugly crime of rape? Well, he would have “a rough period” for the duration of the investigation, Maxwell generously concedes. For example, he might lose some Facebook friends – yes, she actually wrote that. But when his name is cleared everything will return to normal. Certainly no one would suggest that a real rape victim’s trauma is not significant, but Maxwell is willfully ignoring the damage done to a man falsely smeared as a sexual predator.</p>
<p>Her op-ed was so stunningly and self-evidently wrong that it <a href="http://soopermexican.com/2014/12/06/why-wapo-changed-headline-to-zerlina-maxwells-insane-rape-allegation-opinion-article/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">incurred a wave of Twitter wrath</span></a> and negative comments, resulting in either Maxwell or the <i>WaPo</i> editors backing off and replacing “automatically” in the headline with “generally,” which is little improvement.</p>
<p>“Democratic strategist” Maxwell is of the school of thought, and I use that word loosely, that we live in a rape culture and if only we taught men not to rape, then women would be relieved of the burden of having to protect themselves from it (“strategist,” by the way, is the title given to someone has no official authority or function except to serve as a media mouthpiece for talking points).</p>
<p>Rape culture is the theory that sexual assault becomes normalized when a culture condones the objectification and trivialization of women. Radical feminists have managed to push the term to the forefront of our conversations about the sexes today, promoting the ugly notion that all men are literal or latent rapists who need to be deprogrammed out of their acculturated misogyny.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mark-tapson/miss-usas-self-defense-empowerment/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">I’ve written before for FrontPage</span></a>, America doesn’t have a rape culture any more than we have a murder culture. We have a culture that considers both to be heinous violent crimes. We have a culture so unforgiving of rape that even <i>false</i> accusations of it ruin men’s lives. We don’t “teach” men to rape, and the vast majority of American males would never even consider such a depraved act.</p>
<p>According to 2013 Bureau of Justice <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&amp;iid=4594"><span style="color: #0433ff;">statistics</span></a>, the estimated annual rate of female rape or sexual assault victimizations in this country declined 58% from 1995 to 2010. To cite this is absolutely not to trivialize the terrible violation that is rape; it is not to suggest that anything more than zero sexual assaults is acceptable; and it is not to encourage complacency. It is only to emphasize that not only are we not enmeshed in a rape culture, but things seem to be improving significantly.</p>
<p>However, there are violent deviants who will and do rape, and the world will never rid itself of that evil minority. That’s just reality, but it’s not the utopian reality that progressives insist upon. To believe that we can simply teach that rape is unconscionable – which we already do – and that the crime will then disappear is a childish and useless utopian fantasy.</p>
<p>When a pregnant teenager in the Sudan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/sudan-pregnant-alleged-rape-victim-charged-adultery"><span style="color: #0433ff;">faces death</span></a> by stoning for being gang-raped, <i>that</i> is a rape culture. But a privileged Western woman like Zerlina Maxwell is insanely focused on smearing innocent men in order to peddle the myth that American culture is little better.</p>
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		<title>Washington Post Hires Author of &#8220;Republican War on Science&#8221; its Own Book Reviewer Called a Conspiracy Theorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Ill-formulated, overwrought and surprisingly unconvincing"]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_242346" style="width: 410px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tmp.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-242346" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tmp.jpg" alt="He also took 4th place in the most punchable face in America contest" width="400" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">He also took 4th place in the most punchable face in America contest</p></div>
<p>Yes <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/10/03/washington-post-hires-chris-mooney-author-of-the-republican-war-on-science-to-cover-global-warming/">Chris Mooney is being slotted into Wonkblog</a>, but it&#8217;s one thing to have partisan voices and another thing to have a guy covering a supposedly apolitical topic whose big selling point is blaming everything in that topic on Republicans.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like bringing in Michael Moore to cover the automobile industry.</p>
<p>Chris Mooney is a Mother Jones hack who wrote &#8220;The Republican War on Science&#8221;. And yes it is exactly what it sounds like. His whole career thesis is that conservatives are anti-Science and liberals are pro-Science.</p>
<p>So the Washington Post decided to give him a forum for his conspiracy theories.</p>
<blockquote><p>Chris is one of the most distinctive, provocative voices writing about environmental issues today, arguing that people’s preconceptions — political, religious, cultural — color the way they view science.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s just a whole roster of empty noise.</p>
<p>Mooney&#8217;s writing is summed up by &#8220;Republicans bad&#8221;. So hiring him means a lot of clickbait involving Republicans and Global Warming and Imminent Destruction of the Planet.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what the new Bezos Washington Post seems to want. Now it&#8217;s what it has.</p>
<p>You can see the contrast from a decade ago in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091501881.html">Washington Post&#8217;s own review of Mooney&#8217;s hackery</a>. (This will be going down the rabbit hole, I&#8217;m sure)</p>
<blockquote><p>The resulting book is ill-formulated, overwrought and surprisingly unconvincing. (Trust me: As a resident of tree-hugging, gay-marrying, marijuana-scented, Bush-bashing San Francisco, I was prepared to be convinced.)&#8230;</p>
<p>I know that publishers must &#8220;move&#8221; books, but The Republican War on Science &#8212; really, now! Could Ann Coulter be any more glib? &#8230;</p>
<p>Judging by the book, Mooney isn&#8217;t interested in scientific research per se. He says almost nothing about the technical details of debates over computer models, observational anomalies, instrumental glitches, data-collection methodologies and the like&#8230;</p>
<p>By ignoring such philosophical complexities, Mooney has produced a book without much intellectual gravity. Instead, he offers a kind of conspiracy theory, which might be summarized thus: &#8220;If Republicans support a certain science policy, it&#8217;s bad. If they oppose it, it&#8217;s good.&#8221;&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>But now the hack is in at The Bezos Post.</p>
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		<title>Washington Post Editorial Board Promises to No Longer Mention Redskins in All the Editorials Attacking Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for the Redskins.]]></description>
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<p>Good news for the Redskins.</p>
<p>The Washington Post/Amazon will no longer mention the name of the team they&#8217;re attacking over its name in all the editorials attacking it.</p>
<p>Sound confusing? It should be even more fun.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;we have decided that, except when it is essential for clarity or effect, we will no longer use the slur ourselves.</p>
<p>What we are discussing here is a change only for editorials. Unlike our colleagues who cover sports and other news, we on the editorial board have the luxury of writing about the world as we would like it to be. Nor do we intend to impose our policy on our readers. If you write a letter about football and want to use the team name, we aren’t going to stop you.</p></blockquote>
<p>Considering the number of Washington Post editorials about the Redskins that don&#8217;t involve whining about its name comes down to around zero, this means that the paper of Jeff Bezos now has to keep churning out editorials attacking the Redskins for calling themselves the Redskins&#8230;  without using the name The Redskins.</p>
<p>Except in its opening paragraph, the Washington Post Editorial Board has also promised to use Redskins when they need to because otherwise all those editorials complaining about &#8220;the team with the offensive name that we can&#8217;t mention&#8221; become confusing.</p>
<p>So look for the Washington Post Editorial Board to keep writing editorials complaining about the Redskins and mentioning the name that they promised not to mention.</p>
<p>Which means this widely publicized announcement amounts to less than Amazon&#8217;s profits. And considering those are in the negative range, that&#8217;s not a whole lot.</p>
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		<title>Washington Post Muslim Reporter: Was Hamas Expected to Turn the Other Cheek?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Israel is an oppressive and occupying power; it can’t in good faith claim self-defense."]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/07/21/washpost-reporter-anti-israel-protests-moonlighting-fierce-palestinian-a">Britain Eakin</a> is a fanatical <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/special-reports/ramadan-2013/2013/07/27/For-U-S-Muslim-converts-Ramadan-a-trying-time-of-reflection-and-union.html">Muslim convert </a> who obsessively hates Israel. </p>
<p>Tim Graham of Newsbusters and others <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/07/21/washpost-reporter-anti-israel-protests-moonlighting-fierce-palestinian-a">helped get results when the Washington Post </a>sent out a militantly anti-Israel reporter to cover an anti-Israel rally&#8230; with the expected results.</p>
<blockquote><p>The lead reporter on Monday&#8217;s Washington Post story on Palestinian protests is Britain Eakin, whose Twitter bio reads &#8220;Graduate Student Extraordinaire in Journalism and Middle East Studies at UA, Tucson.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eakin is in no way a neutral observer of the Israel-Palestine conflict. As she&#8217;s reporting &#8220;objectively&#8221; for the Post, she&#8217;s tweeting out an editorial she&#8217;d written defending the Palestinians against &#8220;Israel&#8217;s disproportionate war on Gaza&#8221;  for al-Jazeera America:</p></blockquote>
<p>Britain Eakin has also written for Counter Punch which <a href="http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2009/09/blood-libel-promoted-by-counterpunch.html">ran an actual blood libel </a>aimed at Jews.</p>
<p>The Washington Post, rather than taking down Eakin&#8217;s rant, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/wash-post-admits-error-sending-pro-hamas-reporter-to-cover-anti-israel-d-c-protest/">put up an apologetic note.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>EDITOR’S NOTE: The Post covered a protest outside the State Department on July 20 against U.S. policy in the Middle East and Israel’s actions in Gaza. One reporter sent to cover the protest, Britain Eakin, is an intern who has written opinion pieces elsewhere that sharply criticize Israel in the conflict. The Post should not have sent her to cover the protest and, had it known of her writings, would not have done so.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Post might have some basis for that.</p>
<p>Britain Eakin&#8217;s Facebook page looks clean and credible, while her Twitter account is a seething mass of hate. Fellow WaPoers who had friended her on Facebook might not have known exactly what she was.</p>
<p>But then again they might have known.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Career advice from my boss: continue your independent maverick ways. Do whatever the hell you want and don&#39;t let anyone tell you different.</p>
<p>&mdash; Britain Eakin (@BritainEakin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BritainEakin/statuses/486236644820148226">July 7, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Meanwhile Britain Eakin was tweeting stories with titles like &#8220;Was Hamas Expected to Turn the Other Cheek?&#8221;</p>
<p>This was clearly a point of view that she agreed with.</p>
<p>On the hate site Counterpunch, Britain Eakin wrote that, &#8220;Israel is an oppressive and occupying power; it can’t in good faith claim self-defense.&#8221;</p>
<p>This was her work at around the same time as she was supposed to be practicing journalism for the Washington Post.</p>
<p>And this was Eakin&#8217;s response to the death of Osama bin Laden</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Screaming cheering people on the news: STFU. You&#39;re making Americans look VERY bad. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OBL?src=hash">#OBL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Britain Eakin (@BritainEakin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BritainEakin/statuses/64927445811331072">May 2, 2011</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>We&#39;re trying ourselves to the worst regime in the region (Yemen), no wonder they try to send bombs back to us on airplanes <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nirrosen?src=hash">#nirrosen</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Britain Eakin (@BritainEakin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BritainEakin/statuses/1743272997294082">November 8, 2010</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Not only is Muslim terrorism against Israel, Israel&#8217;s fault. But Muslim terrorism against America is, America&#8217;s fault.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 13:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos is certainly not known as a nice guy. ]]></description>
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<p>The New York Times is getting a lot of flack for their coverage of the story of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/new-york-times-fires-female-editor-for-demanding-same-pay-as-male-predecessor/">the firing of their own executive editor</a> because she wanted the same salary as her male predecessor.</p>
<p>But the Washington Post, owned by Amazon overlord Jeff Bezos,<a href="http://www.mhpbooks.com/20-things-the-washington-post-has-covered-instead-of-the-amazonhachette-dispute/"> is no better when it comes to addressing the abuses</a> of <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/05/wapo-pressured-to-cover-amazonhachette-188519.html">their own boss</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Washington Post is drawing attention from media critics who question whether the paper&#8217;s new owner Jeff Bezos is influencing coverage of his company Amazon.</p>
<p>Nearly one week after The New York Times reported on a bitter dispute between Amazon and the book publisher Hachette, the Post has yet to cover the story. Amazon has been discouraging customers from buying Hachette books by delaying deliveries, according to the report.</p>
<p>No one has criticized the Post of foul play &#8211;  &#8220;I believe the omission is an innocent one,&#8221; Melville&#8217;s Alex Shephard writes &#8212; but they have noted that the Post covered Amazon’s 2010 dispute with Macmillan &#8220;at length.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s that innocent myself. I suspect there&#8217;s a good deal of uncertainty at WaPo at just what they can and can&#8217;t do when it comes to its new owner.</p>
<p>Jeff Bezos is <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-10/jeff-bezos-and-the-age-of-amazon-excerpt-from-the-everything-store-by-brad-stone?curator=MediaREDEF#r=rss">certainly not known as a nice guy.</a> He&#8217;s notorious as an abusive boss and <a href="http://money.msn.com/technology-investment/post--6-reasons-amazon-employees-burn-out-so-fast">Amazon employees have a track record of being unhappy</a>. WaPo&#8217;s people have to be wondering it means for them to get on his bad side.</p>
<p>Bezos bought the Washington Post for influence, so he doesn&#8217;t want to be seen as its content overlord, that would devalue the paper&#8217;s influence, but at the same time he&#8217;s an angry man who has a history of terrorizing employees.</p>
<p>(And yes, he&#8217;s a liberal. Obviously.)</p>
<p>As of now, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/14/just-like-big-cable-amazon-wants-to-charge-more-for-access-to-its-pipes/">there have been two mentions </a>on the Washington Post, both on blogs, about the case.</p>
<p>The story may not seem particularly important, but we are moving toward a new age of dot com structural monopolies by powerful liberal companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.</p>
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		<title>Leftist Press Frets: Jihad Truth-Tellers &#8216;Still Popular&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the best efforts of Religion News Service and the Washington Post.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Washington-Post.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221038" alt="Washington-Post" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Washington-Post-450x286.jpg" width="270" height="172" /></a>A smear campaign of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently failed to get former FBI agent John Guandolo’s training course for law enforcement officers canceled in Culpeper County, Virginia. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.religionnews.com/2014/03/12/anti-muslim-speakers-still-popular-law-enforcement-training/">Religion News Service ran an editorial masquerading as a news story</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/anti-muslim-speakers-still-popular-in-law-enforcement-training/2014/03/12/bc8d8e30-aa1c-11e3-8a7b-c1c684e2671f_story.html">Washington Post picked up</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, attempting to ensure that this effrontery would not be repeated.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_221042" style="width: 220px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Omar-Sacirbey_avatar.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221042" alt="Omar-Sacirbey_avatar" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Omar-Sacirbey_avatar-350x350.jpg" width="210" height="210" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Omar Sacirbey fiercely smiling.</p></div>
<p>The fiercely smiling author, Omar Sacirbey, has refused to retract demonstrable falsehoods he has published about me in the past. In his hit piece on Guandolo he is no less magnificently unimpressed with the truth, as he assembles an impressive tissue of smears, half-truths, innuendos and lies about various foes of jihad terror, and wraps them up nicely into a “news story” that the WaPo, eager as ever to run defamation in the service of Islamic supremacists and jihadists, then presents to its hapless readers.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Law enforcement officers in Virginia,” Sacirbey began, “will no longer receive credit for a counterterrorism course taught by a former FBI agent and anti-Muslim activist after the academy where the course was taught canceled its accreditation the day it was scheduled to begin.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sacirbey uses “anti-Muslim” throughout this piece for foes of jihad terror, which — as I have said before when pseudo-journalistic ideologues like Sacirbey have used this term in the past — is like calling foes of Nazism “anti-German.” It shows Sacirbey’s bias and sympathy for jihadists, and should never be acceptable practice in what are supposedly respectable journalistic outlets like RNS and the WaPo. But standards go out the window when it comes to journalists covering for jihad terrorism; they do it so unanimously, zealously and unflinchingly that they must either be true believers or paid off, or both.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But as far as Sacirbey was concerned, the only one paid off was Guandolo, whose seminar, “Understanding and Investigating Jihadi Networks in America,” he noted was “advertised as $225 per trainee.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This emphasis on the fee is straight out of the Leftist/Islamic supremacist playbook. Leftist allies of Islamic supremacism such as the Center for American Progress and the Southern Poverty Law Center have millions upon millions of dollars — far more than any counter-jihad organization or individual has ever had. But it is a staple of these smear pieces that the so-called “Islamophobia industry” is a well-heeled machine in which people are just in it for the money, as if getting regular death threats and constant vilification is worth any amount of money. Anyway, $225 is a perfectly reasonable charge for a seminar like this one — indeed, far lower than what other organizations charge for programs of similar duration.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But Sacirbey is following his marching orders: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Imply that it’s all about the money</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Thus he claims that after 9/11, “anti-Muslim speakers began offering their courses to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, which paid for them with taxpayer-funded government grants. Nearly 13 years later, these speakers continue to win lucrative fees to train law enforcement officers despite a history of rhetoric that seems to undermine their credibility.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I would have told Omar Sacirbey if he had asked me, but of course he didn’t, because he didn’t want the truth: when I was flying around the country in order to help give training seminars for the FBI, CIA, JTTF, and military groups, I didn’t get paid. Not a penny. Not even for expenses. I paid my own way, bought my own hotel rooms, etc. On a few occasions a Colonel who had me speak several times on military bases told me about a form I could fill out for reimbursement of my travel expenses. I never filled out the form. I did the training out of a sense of duty to my country, not for personal gain. If Omar Sacirbey were a journalist rather than a smear merchant, he might have asked me and some others what we were paid, whether we were paid, etc. But quite obviously he is not a journalist.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He goes on to applaud the smear campaigns of which this claim is a part, while bemoaning their occasional lack of success: “While Muslim-American activists and media reports have raised awareness about anti-Muslim trainers, occasionally resulting in curriculum reviews and canceled classes, many say the problem persists because there are too few police administrators to properly vet courses and instructors.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What Sacirbey means is: “</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The problem persists because there are too few Leftists and Islamic supremacists putting pressure on police administrators so that they don’t dare host a course that tells the truth about Islam and jihad</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But he claims that training such as Guandolo’s is actually dangerous: “The consequences, critics add, go beyond political incorrectness and include undermining public safety and obscuring real dangers as police officers chase bad leads based on profiling.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What’s behind this absolutely baseless charge (for which Sacirbey offers no evidence, because there is none) is the ongoing effort by Hamas-linked CAIR and other groups like it to end all surveillance of Muslim communities, including the NYPD’s program which just withstood a Leftist/Islamic supremacist challenge in court.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s just the beginning of Sacirbey’s baseless charges and sly smears:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For example, Guandolo, who taught the Culpeper class, is seen saying in a YouTube video with anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer that CIA Director John Brennan converted to Islam. In another recording, he claims that Brennan is “unfit for duty,” because he has brought in leaders of Hamas to advise the government.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Note again the identifier intended to demean: I’m an “anti-Muslim blogger.” Not, say, “bestselling author and former FBI trainer.” Daniel Martin Varisco, another “Islamophobia” smear merchant, has a blog and was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/georgetown-u-seminar-fear-of-robert-spencer-fear-of-jihad-watch">recently whining about how it was less popular than Jihad Watch</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. But you can be sure that Sacirbey would never, ever refer to Varisco as a “blogger.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Anyway, Sacirbey presents Guandolo’s charge that Brennan is a Muslim as if it were self-evidently false. On what basis? Has Brennan ever denied this? No. Is it widely known that there is a top intelligence official in the Obama Administration’s CIA who has converted to Islam? Yes. It was reported in none other than </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/at-cia-a-convert-to">the Washington Post in 2012</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Why couldn’t it be Brennan? Did Sacirbey speak to Brennan? If he did, he doesn’t mention it in the article. What is much more likely is that Sacirbey didn’t speak to Brennan, and has no idea whether or not he is a Muslim, but since Brennan hasn’t said anything one way or the other about the charge, he uses it to portray Guandolo as crazy. (You can see the video of my interview with Guandolo </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRZcI_Dk0Mk">here</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And not just crazy, but depraved: “In addition, federal court papers claim that as an undercover FBI agent, Guandolo had a sexual affair with a witness that could have interfered with an investigation into corruption by former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, a Democrat from New Orleans.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Could have.” Anyway, what does this have to do with whether or not John Guandolo is qualified to speak about the jihad terror threat? Why, nothing. Nothing at all. But it’s a stick that Sacirbey can use to beat Guandolo, and that’s good enough for him.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As if all this weren’t enough, Sacirbey then turns to Hamas-linked CAIR for an expert opinion:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“His views on Islam are the equivalent of historical anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic falsehoods,” said Corey Saylor, national legislative director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, wrote in a letter to Jenkins. “Guandolo offers only his own prejudiced and inaccurate conspiratorial views, not solid counterterrorism training.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is no surprise at all that Sacirbey doesn’t bother to mention that CAIR is an </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016754.php">unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014963.php">refused</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016017.php">to</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014790.php">denounce</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2003/06/cairs-legal-tribulations.html">former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53303">Islamic supremacist statements</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Its </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/cairs-honest-ibe-hooper-admits-dont-talk-to-the-fbi-poster-crossed-a-line-but-those-who-noticed-that.html">California chapter distributed a poster</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented.</span></p>
<p>If one unsavory Leftist group is good, two is better: “The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Guandolo ‘a notorious Muslim-basher and conspiracy theorist.’”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is also no surprise that Sacirbey doesn’t bother to note that although the SPLC lists hundreds of groups as “hate groups,” they lump legitimate conservative groups in with neo-Nazis and racist groups, and include few, if any, Leftist and Muslim groups on the list. Nor does he mention that the SPLC’s “hate group” designation against the Family Research Council </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/20/splc-inspired-shooter-floyd-lee-corkins-sentenced-to-25-years/">led one of its followers to storm the FRC offices with a gun, determined to murder the chief of the FRC</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. This shows that these kinds of charges shouldn’t be thrown around frivolously, as tools to demonize and marginalize those whose politics the SPLC dislikes. But that is exactly what they do. Its hard-Left leanings are well known and well documented. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/king-fearmongers_714573.html">This Weekly Standard article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> sums up much of what is wrong with the SPLC.</span></p>
<p>Sacirbey breezes by the questionable aspects of these groups: “Guandolo did not agree to be interviewed but instead provided a reporter with a list of associations between founding members of CAIR and people alleged to be connected with Hamas.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Note that Sacirbey provides no examples, and implies that CAIR’s connection to Hamas is a matter of association, and that Guandolo or one of his fellow “Islamophobes” originated it, rather than noting that it comes from the Justice Department.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Other anti-Muslim activists who regularly teach police officers include Sam Kharoba, a Jordanian-born Christian who preaches that Islam is inherently violent and that a Muslim wearing a headband signifies he wants to be a martyr, and Walid Shoebat, a Christian convert who claims to be a former PLO terrorist. Shoebat believes terrorism and Islam are inseparable.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>“All Islamic organizations in America should be the No. 1 enemy. All of them,” he said.</p>
<p>I don’t know Kharoba, but I doubt he said that “a Muslim wearing a headband signifies he wants to be a martyr.” Sacirbey isn’t a trustworthy source. Meanwhile, by simply heaping scorn on the assertions that “Islam is inherently violent” and that “terrorism and Islam are inseparable,” Sacirbey hinders the public discussion that needs to be had about how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. Anyone who is honest and observant can see that there is a unique problem with Islam and violence; consigning the entire question to “anti-Muslim bigotry” only actually reinforces suspicion of Islam and Muslims that non-Muslims do have.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Spencer, founder of the JihadWatch.com blog and whose anti-Muslim writings were cited by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, has given seminars on Islam and jihad to the U.S. Central Command, Army Command, the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community, according to CAIR.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">You’d think Sacirbey would be ashamed to play the Breivik card after </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/murderer-breivik-opposed-spencer-and-other-counter-jihadists-identified-with-them-to-destroy-counter-jihad-movement">Breivik himself has publicly stated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that he associated himself with the counter-jihad movement in order to discredit that movement. Of course, maybe Breivik was a convinced counter-jihadist and then tried to throw people off the scent with his recent claim; even if that were true, Sacirbey is trying to associate me with Breivik’s murders while not bothering to mention that Breivik actually criticized me for not calling for violence, saying of me, Bat Ye’or and other critics of jihad terror: “If these authors are to [sic] scared to propagate a conservative revolution and armed resistance then other authors will have to.” (Breivik, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">2083: A European Declaration of Independence</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, p. 743) Breivik explains in his manifesto that he was “radicalized” by his experiences with Muslim immigrants in the early 1990s, before I had published anything about Islam (See Breivik, p. 1348). That Sacirbey omits all this is nothing short of libelous, and shows yet again his propagandistic agenda.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It’s funny also how Sacirbey attributes those items from my resume to CAIR, as if they investigated me and ferreted all that out. Actually they only had to search as far as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/about-robert">my bio on this site</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. If Sacirbey wants proof that I did this training, I have plenty, including certificates of appreciation from Central Command and the Asymmetric Warfare Group. But of course, he didn’t ask.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In July 2011, Gawker reported two of Spencer’s most criticized books, “The Truth about Muhammad” and “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam,” are recommended in FBI training materials.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Criticized by whom, exactly, and for what agenda? Sacirbey doesn’t say. What in either of them is factually inaccurate? Sacirbey doesn’t say, because he can’t, because the books are accurate.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Critics of these speakers have in some cases succeeded in getting their courses canceled. In Illinois, three sessions of a course taught by Kharoba were canceled last year; the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it would no longer use Kharoba. In 2011, the FBI did a review of its materials and trainers after news reports that their materials contained anti-Islamic instruction.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Actually they did it after 57 Muslim groups, including many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote to John Brennan demanding that I be removed as an FBI trainer and that counter-terror materials be scrubbed of references to Islam and jihad. Brennan immediately agreed, without any apparent thought to the associations and allegiances of the groups that were making their demand, or to their goal in all this.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Prior to Guandolo’s course, Jenkins agreed to let local Muslims and Saylor deliver a presentation to officers where they described the history and beliefs of Islam, and warned about stereotypes and misperceptions about Muslims.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is how those Islamic supremacist liars and smear artists at Hamas-linked CAIR get a foot in the door. Jenkins, had he been informed enough, would have done better to tell Saylor that no group with ties to Hamas was going to make any presentation.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“I think they looked at his resume, former FBI and former Marine, and did not look much further,” said Saylor. “A quick Internet search reveals his professional and bias issues.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is how groups like Hamas-linked CAIR and their “journalist” allies like Sacirbey operate: they pile up false charges and half-truths, creating the appearance of “professional and bias issues,” so that officials who are busy and harried and careless (i.e., most officials) simply don’t want the controversy, and shy away from the speakers CAIR targets. It’s insidious and dishonest, but all too often it works. The possibility that a group with associations and positions like CAIR’s might want to silence foes of jihad terror simply because they are foes of jihad terror doesn’t enter into the mind of too many people.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Steve Emmons, executive director of Oklahoma’s Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, said his agency doesn’t have enough personnel to vet the 3,000 course requests the council gets annually….</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It wouldn’t take much to avoid future controversies like this, Emmons said.</span></p>
<p>“If we even had two or three people who did nothing else but look at the paperwork that comes in with the course materials and lesson plans and that kind of thing, yeah, we’d be able to review those things.”</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">They should also look long and hard at who is doing the complaining, and ponder what their agenda might be. And what Omar Sacirbey’s is, quite obviously.</span></p>
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<p>That assessment comes from the mindless Dana Milbank who dedicates the bulk of his column to taking cheap shots at Republican tweets because apparently the Washington Post now doubles as Twitchy. Few people can invest gravitas into a tweet. And they rarely bother.</p>
<p>Dana Milbank doesn&#8217;t particularly bother defending the Iran sellout because it&#8217;s easier to mock Tweets than to defend letting a terrorist state go nuclear.</p>
<blockquote><p>Somewhere near the end he writes, &#8220;In the eyes of Republicans, the agreement with Iran has a fatal flaw: It was negotiated by the Obama administration. This president could negotiate a treaty promoting baseball, motherhood and apple pie, and Republicans would brand it the next Munich.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And Churchill only opposed Munich because of his political ambitions. Not because of the whole &#8220;Giving in to Hitler&#8221; thing. Political cynicism of that kind is easy and cheap. And no doubt politicians have their own career angles. But it doesn&#8217;t make a bad decision any less bad.</p>
<p>Considering the lack of appetite for conflict and the unfolding ObamaCare disaster, Republicans would have found it easier to say nothing and let Obama own the disaster.</p>
<p>In his sole paragraph addressing the actual merits of the deal, Milbank writes; &#8220;The opposition in this case is particularly mindless. Certainly there are reasons to be skeptical that Iran will act in good faith. But the deal is temporary — six months — and easily reversible. In the (likely) event that Iran doesn’t agree to a permanent accord to end its nuclear program, the tougher sanctions contemplated in Congress could be applied. Would it be better to go to war now without exhausting diplomatic options? We’ve been there and done that — when Ari Fleischer stood on the White House podium.&#8221;</p>
<p>Iran&#8217;s nuclear development over six months is easily reversible? Remember Milbank is one of those smart liberals. Not one of those dumb Republican tweeters. So when he says that a nuclear program&#8217;s development over six months is easily reversible, it must be true.</p>
<p>Just like North Korea&#8217;s program was easily reversible when it turned out that Clinton&#8217;s agreement with North Korea was worthless.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t worry. If Iran gets the bomb, there will be tougher sanctions. Those worked on North Korea. Right?</p>
<p>We haven&#8217;t exhausted all our diplomatic options yet. Not in Iran. Or in North Korea. Or in Sudan. Why rush into a war now when we can fight a war against a nuclear armed terrorist state. Only mindless Republicans would turn down that deal.</p>
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		<title>WaPo Pundit Who Falsely Accused Tea Party of Racism, is Falsely Accused of Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I was not expressing my own views but those of extreme right-wing Republican tea party people."]]></description>
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<p>Poor Richard Cohen. He was just trying to accuse the Tea Party of being a bunch of racists <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/controversy-over-richard-cohens-comments-on-the-de-blasio-family/2013/11/12/3c37f900-4bda-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html">when he ended up being accused of racism</a>.</p>
<p>Writing about &#8220;Christie&#8217;s Tea Party Problem&#8221;, another one of those boring &#8220;Christie would be a great candidate but the radical right wing won&#8217;t let him&#8221; that once he becomes the candidate will transition predictably to &#8220;Christie used to be moderate, but he became a right-wing nut job to appeal to the Tea Party&#8221;, Richard threw in the usual stuff.</p>
<p>1. Palin is illiterate</p>
<p>2. Ted Cruz and his dad are bigots who hate gay people</p>
<p>3. The Tea Party are the new Dixiecrats</p>
<p>4. Republicans are old and out of touch and fear their way of life is vanishing</p>
<p>It was the last part that got him in trouble.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But while Richard Cohen was taking some safe phoned-in potshots at the Republican Party, the left, which constantly gins up its own RACISM outrages, decided to use him the way that he had used the Tea Party.</p>
<p>The false accuser became the falsely accused.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Huffington Post slapped a big photo of Cohen, 72, on its media page and roared, “Dear Washington Post: Please Fire This Man.”</p>
<p>There was more critical coverage, from, among others, the Atlantic, Salon, Gawker, Slate, MSNBC.com</p>
<p>Salon.com’s columnist, Alex Pareene, suggested that Cohen’s notion that “conventional” people “gag” at the sight of the de Blasios “reveal a man very much out of touch with this era and deeply discomfited by it. (They also reveal a man who is terrified of black people.)”</p></blockquote>
<p>Richard Cohen was confused because he was just trying to accuse Republicans of racism based on the flimsiest of premises. Why was he suddenly the one being accused of racism?</p>
<blockquote><p>“I don’t understand it,” said the columnist, who lives in New York City. “What I was doing was expressing not my own views but those of extreme right-wing Republican tea party people. I don’t have a problem with interracial marriage or same-sex marriage. In fact, I exult in them. It’s a slander” to suggest otherwise. “This is just below the belt. It’s a purposeful misreading of what I wrote.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Well of course it&#8217;s a purposeful misreading. That&#8217;s what 90 percent of mainstream racism accusations are.</p>
<p>The Huffington Post, Atlantic, Salon, Gawker, Slate, MSNBC, etc knew exactly what Richard Cohen meant, even if his writing was sloppy. They chose to misread it for the same reason that he chose to misread Republicans.</p>
<p>Liberalism&#8217;s main weapon now is its false accusations of racism. Richard Cohen is not as left as HuffPo, Gawker, Salon, etc think he should be. So they start chewing him up. It&#8217;s the old left-on-liberal bloodsport with the liberals usually too stupid to fight back; which is how we ended up with Obama in the White House.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have much sympathy for Cohen who ended up on the receiving end of the same dishonest treatment he was dishing out to others. Richard Cohen isn&#8217;t a racist. Neither is the Tea Party.</p>
<p>And once you start lazily using racism accusations as political ammo, the white privilege revolution ends up devouring its own children.</p>
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		<title>The Washington Post&#8217;s Racial Discrimination Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 04:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evan Gahr]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit that the rest of the media is curiously silent about. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wapo.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207009" alt="Earns Washington Post" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wapo-450x300.jpg" width="270" height="180" /></a>Some of the loudest opinion writers at the Washington Post—MSNBC fixtures who routinely accuse Republicans, conservatives and anyone else who does not adhere to their particular world view of low grade bigotry—are suddenly quieter than deaf mutes about a lawsuit alleging race discrimination at their own paper.</p>
<p>And the Post’s news pages, which are normally awash with stories about alleged discrimination, have published nary a word about the lawsuit. Nor will they.</p>
<p>Steven Mufson, who covers the Washington Post company for the paper, said today that the paper has decided not to cover the story.</p>
<p>Why? Who exactly decided that? “You know what? I’m not having this conversation. Goodbye.”</p>
<p>And this is the paper that said Dick Cheney was too secretive.</p>
<p>As this journalist first disclosed in a September 11 Daily Caller opinion piece, a longtime black Post advertisement department employee recently sued the Washington Post for race and age discrimination.</p>
<p>David DeJesus, who had worked at the Post for 18 years, was fired just days after his white boss allegedly shrieked at him out of the blue about supposed insubordination.</p>
<p>In legal papers, the Post contends DeJesus was fired for legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons.</p>
<p>“The Washington Post may be the victim of a lawsuit that has no merit,” says Marc Stern, an expert on employment law at the American Jewish Committee. “He [DeJesus] may or may not have been the victim of discrimination. I have no way of knowing.”</p>
<p>Nevertheless, suppose the Republican National Committee was sued by a longtime black employee for discrimination.</p>
<p>How much time do you think opinion writer Jonathan Capehart, and Washington Post columnists Eugene Robinson Dana Milbank, would be spending on MSNBC castigating Republicans?</p>
<p>And it is a safe bet the Post would splash any such lawsuit against the RNC all over its front page.</p>
<p>In fact, race discrimination lawsuits against just about any prominent business or organization are normally big news for the Washington Post.</p>
<p>To cite just one example: In June, the paper did a front-page story about a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC against two companies that allegedly fired or denied blacks jobs because they failed criminal background checks.</p>
<p>It is well to note that this was only a disparate impact case: the EEOC said the use of criminal background checks for employment decisions was discriminatory because more blacks than whites have criminal records.</p>
<p>Unlike the lawsuit against the Washington Post there was no allegation of adverse employment action against someone because of his race alone.</p>
<p>So what do Washington Post opinion writers have to say about accusations of racial bias by their own employer?</p>
<p>Zippo.</p>
<p>Jonathan Capehart, who accused the entire United States of America of racism solely because a neighborhood watch volunteer, who was not even white, shot an unarmed black teenager, did not return repeated phone calls.</p>
<p>Washington Post columnist Robinson also ignored requests for comment. Was he too busy on MSNBC deciphering supposed GOP racist dog whistles for Chris Matthews?</p>
<p>Contrary to the on-air bravado of Robinson and Capehart it does not take a whole lot of courage to go on MSNBC when you work for the Washington Post and spew accusations of racism against Republicans. But it would take real bravery for them to break their newspaper’s code of silence about this lawsuit.</p>
<p>Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, another MSNBC go-to man when they need to play the race card with the GOP, also did not respond to requests for comment.</p>
<p>Washington Post editorial writer Chuck Lane, scourge of conservatives and former editor of The New Republic, a liberal mainstay, ignored emails.</p>
<p>Ditto for Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt.</p>
<p>So that’s the opinion side. What about the Post’s ferocious reporters?</p>
<p>Washington Post managing editor Kevin Merida said two days after the Daily Caller piece that he was unaware of the lawsuit and would look into it right away.</p>
<p>But as of October 9 the Post has yet to report anything. And Merida has not even told the relevant reporters about the lawsuit.</p>
<p>Merida, who has written oodles of words about racism, particularly the struggles of black men, declined comment on the allegations in the lawsuit. In addition to DeJesus, the lawsuit alleges that the Post fired 18 older blacks and one older white in a two-year period.</p>
<p>How about Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple? Surely, this was a great item for him.</p>
<p>This reporter spoke at length with Wemple on September 13 about the lawsuit and sent him the legal papers both sides filed.</p>
<p>Wemple did not even bother to read them, he later conceded, and wrote nothing about the lawsuit. But a few hours later he penned a lengthy critique of a conversation between Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera. It was basically a regurgitation of a recent Media Matters post.</p>
<p>In a follow-up conversation Wemple was asked why he had not done an item on the story. He had, after all, written about lawsuits against Fox News Channel and the right-leaning New York Post.</p>
<p>Why would he keep readers ignorant about this lawsuit?</p>
<p>Wemple said that he would not “aggregate” the Daily Caller article on the lawsuit because he preferred to do original reporting. That sounds plausible until you consider that his recent original reporting included an item on a Fox News Channel press release.</p>
<p>Pressed further, Wemple hung up the phone.</p>
<p>Paul Farhi, the Washington Post media reporter, said on September 19 he would investigate the lawsuit but wrote nothing.</p>
<p>He did, however, write a lengthy October 4 piece suggesting Saturday Night Live is a bastion of bigotry because of insufficient “diversity” among cast members.</p>
<p>And there you have it.</p>
<p>Washington Post editors, reporters and opinion writers want to pretend that a lawsuit by a longtime black employee, David DeJesus, does not exist.</p>
<p>If a black man fired by any other prominent institution or business sued for alleged discrimination the Post would probably turn him into a symbol of all that is wrong with society.</p>
<p>But since nobody at the Post can use this lawsuit to indict conservatives, Republicans or corporate America the paper has opted for a very telling silence.</p>
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		<title>Washington Post Baffled to Find that Most Egyptians Support Overthrow of Morsi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 01:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy has come to mean getting rid of unpopular leaders, with or without elections. ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s almost amusing to see the mainstream media <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egyptian-authorities-finalizing-hosni-mubaraks-release/2013/08/22/fb850a88-0b29-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story.html">baffled by the failure of their paradigm</a> in Egypt.</p>
<blockquote><p>How can a country that revolted against an autocratic regime less than three years ago now embrace strong-armed military rule?</p>
<p>A broad swath of Egyptians has supported the July 3 ouster of Morsi and the military crackdown on his allied Muslim Brotherhood movement, which sparked clashes that have killed about 1,000 civilians in 10 days. Much of the public staunchly defends the military’s actions, including a brutal dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins and the sweeping arrests of Brotherhood leaders, including four more Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8230;the public’s rejection of Morsi is rooted in the wildly high hopes that ordinary Egyptians had for the Arab Spring — and their bitterness at how democracy failed to deliver jobs or social justice.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s true enough. But here&#8217;s the important point that the Washington Post is missing. The ordinary Egyptian, like most people around the world, consider mass protests as legitimate a tool of regime change as elections.</p>
<p>They are not invested in the political infrastructure of democracy. Elections are just another populist vehicle of change. So are mass protests. And protests are harder to rig than elections.</p>
<blockquote><p> Democracy has come to mean getting rid of unpopular leaders, with or without elections.</p></blockquote>
<p>That kind of democracy might not be such a bad thing.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Islam is the solution” was the Muslim Brotherhood’s pledge. Working-class Egyptians such as Mohammed Abdul Qadir, 43, took that to heart.</p>
<p>“I only wanted one thing: to be ruled under sharia,” or Islamic law, the cabdriver said. “But this didn’t happen. There was only more injustice.” By “sharia,” Abdul Qadir didn’t mean a ban on alcohol or a requirement that women wear veils. He meant the creation of a broadly just society, the kind promoted in Islamic teachings.</p>
<p>When Abdul Qadir became ill, he found that he couldn’t afford the cost of hospital treatment. “I used to take the bus for one [Egyptian] pound; now it’s three pounds” – or about 42 cents, he said.</p>
<p>“What we have seen in the past year has made me long for Mubarak’s rule,” Abdul Qadir said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Islamic Socialists, like National Socialists, aren&#8217;t actually capable of delivering on their promises.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Obama Rodeo Clown Incident Illustrates Nation’s Continued Racial Divide&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn't a racial divide. It's a power divide. It's about who has it and who doesn't. The rodeo clowns don't. Obama, the Kansas City Star and the Washington Post do.]]></description>
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<p>That&#8217;s not an Onion headline. That&#8217;s a Washington Amazon Post headline. It doesn&#8217;t even appear to be an op-ed. The liberal media cannot be parodied, because like the USSR&#8217;s Pravda, it overshoots all parody with unintentional self-parody.</p>
<p>A WaPo ex-ombudsman wrote that the only problem with the Bezos Washington Post is Jennifer Rubin. Sure, get rid of Rubin to make more room for quality journalism like this piece by WaPo clown Philip Rucker about the nation&#8217;s racial rodeo clown divide.</p>
<blockquote><p>As some people at the Missouri State Fair see it, the rodeo incident last weekend in which a ringleader taunted a clown wearing a mask of President Obama and played with his lips as a bull charged after him was neither racist nor disrespectful.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Washington Post however sees it as racial. Their only basis for that claim is the clown supposedly playing with the lips of his mask. Of course playing with your lips is also a classic comedy gag.</p>
<p>But at this point racism is a tautology. The answer is always racism. And the proof can always be found somehow, somewhere.</p>
<blockquote><p>A three-minute amateur video of the rodeo act was picked up by news outlets worldwide. Democratic and Republican elected officials in Missouri quickly condemned the incident, saying it was offensive and inappropriate at a taxpayer-funded event with children in attendance. Asked about it Wednesday, a White House spokesman said that it was not one of Missouri’s “finer moments.”</p></blockquote>
<p>A liberalism that plans sex ed for elementary schoolers thinks a clown in an Obama mask is somehow inappropriate for children. Maybe if he gay-married the bull, they could have gotten behind it.</p>
<p>Remember when a Bush spokesman said something negative about Bill Maher&#8217;s praise for terrorists and the media melted down in shrill hysterics about freedom of speech?</p>
<p>Nope. Gone now.</p>
<blockquote><p>There is a long history of mocking politicians at rodeos, and clowns have donned masks of other presidents as part of their acts. But James Staab, a political science professor at the University of Central Missouri, said last week’s incident “goes beyond the pale — they’re talking about physical injury and racial stereotypes.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Ah. Beyond the pale.</p>
<p>Except<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2534201?slideout=1"> that  &#8220;physical injury&#8221;  was on</a> there before. So James Staab is a shameless liar. But then he&#8217;s a liberal PoliScy professor, so I repeat myself.</p>
<blockquote><p>T.J. Hawkins rolled out the big inner tube, and the bull lowered his head, shot forward and launched into the tube, sending it bounding down the center of the arena. The crowd cheered. Then the bull saw the George Bush dummy. He tore into it, sending the rubber mask flying halfway across the sand as he turned toward the fence, sending cowboys scrambling up the fence rails, hooking one with his horn and tossing him off the fence.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yael T Abouhalkah, the Kansas City Star&#8217;s clown who helped kickstart the rodeo clown Jihad, repeated the same lie in his column that there was no violent implication.</p>
<p>There was more of a violent implication in 1994. If a dummy in Obama mask had been set on by a bull, every liberal from here to Kansas City would be screaming in an uninterrupted hysterical fit about racism.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Wednesday crowd at the fair, which lasts 11 days in remote Sedalia, was overwhelmingly white,&#8221; Philip Rucker writes, scrambling for racism material.</p>
<p>Missouri is 84 percent white. Sedalia is 5 percent African-American. How could the crowd not be &#8220;overwhelmingly white&#8221;?</p>
<blockquote><p>The Wednesday crowd at the fair, which lasts 11 days in remote Sedalia, was overwhelmingly white. Some vendors played right-wing talk radio from boom boxes at their tents. One vendor sold “rebel pride” hats emblazoned with Confederate flags for $8 each.</p></blockquote>
<p>And that&#8217;s Philip Rucker&#8217;s climactic piece of evidence in this clown show. A guy selling confederate flag hats. Clearly the entire fair is racist. But wait&#8230; there&#8217;s still more proof.</p>
<blockquote><p>To Beam, the racist element of the rodeo act was obvious. “If you’re a white man in a black mask in a former slaveholding state with a broom lodged in your rectum and you’re playing with your lips, you will be confused with a racist,” Beam said. “Had I been black, I would’ve been scared for my life.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Beam could be confused with an idiot. But that&#8217;s it folks. If you make fun of a black politician in a state, then you are a racist and about to lead a lynch mob.</p>
<p>In the 1800&#8242;s, Pettis County, in which Sedalia is located, had less than 2,000 slaves. So now its rodeo clown shows need a federal monitor appointed by Obama to make sure no rodeo clowns make fun of him.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a racial divide. It&#8217;s a power divide. It&#8217;s about who has it and who doesn&#8217;t. The rodeo clowns don&#8217;t. Obama, Philip Rucker, Yael T Abouhalkah, the Kansas City Star and the Washington Post do.</p>
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		<title>Amazon CEO Overpaid 5 Times the Price for Washington Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the the first six months of the year, its newspaper division saw an operating loss of $49 million. ]]></description>
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<p>Next time you think you see a bargain at Amazon.com, remember it may just be because the site isn&#8217;t very good at figuring out that whole money thing.</p>
<p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/07/25/amazon-reports-small-loss-on-revenues-of-15-7-billion/">Amazon posted a loss of </a>7 million last quarter and its <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/bezos-overpaid-for-wp-value-fell-87-in-10-yrs#.UgQrV2125rM">CEO Jeff Bezos paid 200 million dollars</a> too much for the Washington Post. But look at it from another angle, for the first time people are saying, &#8220;Oh Jeff Bezos&#8221; instead of &#8220;Who is that Jeff Bezos?&#8221;</p>
<p>Like Amazon&#8217;s losses, the Washington Post is a deeper long term investment. It buys Bezos a golden ticket into influencing national politics.</p>
<blockquote><p>The founder of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) plunked down $250 million for the Post newspaper division, about 17 times adjusted profit, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.</p>
<p>“Bezos paid a friendship premium of $200 million here,” Ken Doctor [sic], a media analyst at Burlingame, California-based Outsell, said in a phone interview. “There are a handful of news brands in the world that will merit some kind of premium over the usual multiple, but the multiple over the multiple here seems really high.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Not when the multiple is the US government. Bezos just bought himself a superlobby.</p>
<blockquote><p>Last week, the Washington Post Co.—which owns Slate, which is not being sold as part of this deal—reported that in the the first six months of the year, its newspaper division saw an operating loss of $49 million. That was partly a result of increased severance expenses, but the newspaper division has been losing gobs of money for years: $54 million in 2012, $21 million in 2011, $10 million in 2010.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ah but lobbying will have hidden profits.</p>
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		<title>After Obama Appears at Amazon, Amazon CEO Buys Washington Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deal was conducted in such secrecy that even the Post's own stable of investigative reporters were taken by surprise ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s an interesting purchase since the Washington Post isn&#8217;t good for much except political influence. Buy buying it, another digital noveau riche is leveraging himself forcefully into a position of serious political influence.</p>
<p>Questions have already been raised about collusion between Amazon Inc and Obama Inc after the anti-trust attack against Apple by the DOJ and Obama&#8217;s recent Amazon speech. This will only increase them.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with the secrecy&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The deal was conducted in such secrecy that even the Post&#8217;s own stable of investigative reporters were taken by surprise when the paper published on its website a story about the transfer.</p></blockquote>
<p>And then on to the new financials. Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, is paying 250 mil for the Washington Post.</p>
<p>The Washington Post Company was worth 9.5 billion in 2004. It hasn&#8217;t been worth a fraction of that in a while. Bezos is buying the loss leader newspapers, while the WaPo company gets to keep the more profitable Kaplan line and the digitally oriented Slate. Normally you would expect it to be the other way around.</p>
<p>Instead Bezos gets the paper and a bunch of suburban area newspapers and El Tiempo Latino. It&#8217;s not a great business move, but Bezos has enough money to look at the larger influence picture.</p>
<p>Amazon is a success on paper, but has its problems. Winning the big fights will take political influence in a political environment dominated by crony capitalism.</p>
<p>By buying the Post, Bezos has picked up a nuclear weapon in a crony capitalist arsenal.</p>
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		<title>Sheldon Adelson Isn’t to Blame for Failing Leftist Newspapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/05-Sheldon-Adelson.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-147313" title="05-Sheldon-Adelson" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/05-Sheldon-Adelson.gif" alt="" width="375" height="259" /></a>Maariv</em>, one of Israel&#8217;s leading newspapers, is on the verge of closing, and <em>Ha’aretz</em>, a far left-wing newspaper, is also under threat of closure – and that’s life in the big leagues. Israel is a small country which has a relatively large number of media outlets, so it’s not a surprise that media will have a shake-out.  One wonders why newspapers being closed in a small market like Israel is worthy of international media headlines, including in <em>The New York Times, The Guardian</em> and other major outlets.</p>
<p>The answer is clear – just as Al Gore invented the Internet, if you read media reports one may believe that one of the richest Jews in the world, conservative <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/team-obama-should-apologize-for-libeling-adelson/">Sheldon Adelson</a>, is responsible for the fact that amongst other reasons, digital media is hurting print newspapers worldwide. All over the world, newspapers are seeing layoffs and feeling the effects of the economic malaise – why should anyone be surprised that it affects Israeli media?</p>
<p>Sheldon Adelson believes in free-enterprise and founded a free newspaper five years ago, <em>Israel Hayom</em>, which today has the largest weekday distribution of any Hebrew paper. Fair and square, <em>Israel Hayom</em> has defeated other ideological papers &#8212; including <em>Ha’aretz</em> (which the Prime Minister of Israel deemed an enemy of Israel and is owned by ideological far-leftists). Just as <em>Ha’aretz</em> invested millions in pursuit of its ideology and business to express its freedom (and money), so too did Adelson.</p>
<p>This is free-market economics, like it or not, and Adelson has no monopoly. Mainstream media ignore the fact that George Soros, a far-leftist who recently said, “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States,” is the one who has financial affiliations with more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>Washington Post</em>, and ABC. Prominent journalists like Jill Abramson, executive editor of<em> The New York Times </em>and the vice president of the <em>Washington Post</em>, and others<em> </em>serve on boards of organizations that take millions from Soros.</p>
<p>In 2007, conservative billionaire Rupert Murdoch paid $5 billion for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>—and now, the value is less, and some economists have said the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> was a bad financial investment. Should Murdoch blame liberals? A recent documentary by filmmaker <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbirnbaum">Mark Birnbaum</a>, &#8220;Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril,” showed the rash of closed American papers – and in Israel it’s no different.</p>
<p>Despite the whining of the liberal elite, “mainstream” media worldwide is indeed biased and left-wing – and Adelson has said, “We are too fair. We intended to make it fair and balanced because the other newspapers are so far to the left. The problem in education and in the press is that everybody is to the left.” And he has further added, “What political involvement? I am not involved politically in Israel. Period.” Everything Adelson has done is fair – he is simply a principled, driven man who believes it is his right to influence people.</p>
<p>Sheldon Adelson has said: “I suppose you could say that I live on Vince Lombardi’s belief: ‘Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.’ So, I do whatever it takes, as long as it’s moral, ethical, principled, legal.” That’s the way of the world and business, and it works that way even when the liberals don’t win.</p>
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		<title>The Real Bully Running for President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 04:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intimidating private citizens is only the beginning of Obama's strong-arming tactics. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Obama-Finger-Pointing.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131865" title="Obama-Finger-Pointing" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Obama-Finger-Pointing.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a>Last week <em>Washington Post </em>ran a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html">story</a> attempting to portray presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a homophobic bully. Despite every effort to contain it, the story imploded, as <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/10/Washington-Post-Hit-Piece-Implodes">factual inaccuracies</a> came to light. Furthermore, the victim&#8217;s own sisters (he died of liver cancer in 2004) <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/sister-of-alleged-romney-target-has-no-knowledge-of-any-bullying-incident/">claimed</a> to have no knowledge of incident, with one of them telling ABC News, “If he were still alive today, he would be furious.” Yet as is often the case with highly publicized news stories, other mainstream media outlets attempted to keep the thematic aspect of the piece alive, irrespective of the facts. Thus, when former Newt Gingrich campaign manager Rick Tyler showed up for an MSNBC <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/05/11/former-gingrich-adviser-schools-martin-bashir-romneys-not-bully-obama">interview</a> with Martin Bashir, Bashir attempted to do exactly that. Tyler was having none of it. &#8220;I would consider things like Barack Obama bullying the Supreme Court, bullying the EPA, bullying hundreds of property owners and business owners, bullying donors to the Romney campaign. That’s what bullying is when they have an effect on private citizens not people running against them but people who disagree with them politically,&#8221; said Tyler. &#8220;That’s bullying!&#8221;</p>
<p>Tyler&#8217;s assessment of the current president is spot on. Moreover, one need not go back almost five decades to underscore that reality. As recently as April 26th, the <em>Wall Street Journal&#8217;</em>s Kimberly Strassel <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html">revealed</a> that one of the Obama re-election campaign websites, <a href="http://www.keepinggophonest.com/behind-the-curtain-a-brief-history-of-romneys-donors">&#8220;The Truth Team,&#8221;</a> published &#8220;Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney&#8217;s donors.&#8221; It was an ugly attempt to slur and intimidate donors to Mitt Romney&#8217;s election campaign. Eight private citizens were described as having &#8220;less-than-reputable records,&#8221; being &#8220;on the wrong side of the law&#8221; and making themselves successful at &#8220;the expense of so many Americans.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having &#8216;outsourced&#8217; jobs,&#8221; writes Strassel. &#8220;T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a &#8216;lobbyist&#8217;) and Thomas O&#8217;Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a &#8216;bitter foe of the gay rights movement.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>One of those men, Frank VanderSloot, did an <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/romney-donor-on-obamas-enemies-list-theyre-stalking-my-kids-video/">interview</a> with <em>Fox News&#8217;</em> Greta Van Susteren, expressing what it was like to be on a presidential &#8220;enemies list.&#8221; &#8220;Sure enough then the attacks started coming I really thought I&#8217;d made a mistake,&#8221; he told Susteren. &#8220;As I thought about it, I thought, &#8216;this is America and we can&#8217;t let these tactics intimidate us,&#8217; and so I remain undeterred.&#8221; Yet VanderSloot also noted that the media &#8220;have lodged all kinds of innuendo in my direction, accused me of all kinds of bad things. People have called my children. They’ve been surfing their LinkedIn sites. They’ve been asking interviews of my kids.&#8221; VanderSloot also revealed that a &#8220;former U.S. Senate investigator&#8221; and &#8220;member of the sub-committee on Homeland Security&#8221; is doing an investigation of him and his family, which &#8220;worried him a lot.&#8221;</p>
<p>Strassel <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070304577396412560038208.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet">confirmed</a> that outrage, noting that &#8220;a man named Michael Wolf contacted the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls in search of court records regarding Mr. VanderSloot. Specifically, Mr. Wolf wanted all the documents dealing with Mr. VanderSloot&#8217;s divorces, as well as a case involving a dispute with a former Melaleuca employee.&#8221; She further revealed that &#8220;Mr. Wolf was, until a few months ago, a law clerk on the Democratic side of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The mainstream media is beginning to call out the radical left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) and its blog <em>ThinkProgress</em> for their anti-Semitic rhetoric, particularly in their over-the-top attacks on defenders of Israel and critics of Islamist ideology.</p>
<p>For example, Ben Smith of <em>Politico</em> highlighted the following example of extreme anti-Israel rhetoric from a <em>ThinkProgress</em> posting by Matt Duss, a CAP policy analyst and the director of Middle East Progress. Duss wrote his piece last year, following an Israeli raid on a flotilla challenging the blockade of Gaza which resulted in the deaths of nine militants:</p>
<blockquote><p>Like segregation in the American South, the siege of Gaza (and the entire Israeli occupation, for that matter) is a moral abomination that should be intolerable to anyone claiming progressive values.</p></blockquote>
<p>Comparing Israeli efforts to defend its citizens against repeated jihadist terror attacks to &#8220;segregation in the American South&#8221; or apartheid in South Africa is a favorite line of anti-Semitic attack by Islamists in their campaign to de-legitimize the Jewish state. Duss is serving as the Islamists&#8217; useful idiot in repeating the outlandish charge.</p>
<p>Ben Smith also pointed to a recent article by Eric Alterman, a writer for CAP, accusing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of campaigning for war in Iran. In another example of AIPAC bashing cited by Smith, the <em>ThinkProgress</em> National Security reporter Eli Clifton claimed last August that “It would appear that AIPAC is now using the same escalating measures against Iran that were used before the invasion of Iraq.”</p>
<p>Even some progressives are pushing back against such irresponsible conspiracy theorist rhetoric. “There’s two explanations here – either the inmates are running the asylum or the Center for American Progress has made a decision to be anti-Israel,” said Josh Block, who is a fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. “Either they can allow people to say borderline anti-Semitic stuff and to say things that are antithetical to the fundamental values of the Democratic party, or they can fire them and stop it.”</p>
<p>While CAP’s top officials did not respond directly to <em>Politico</em> regarding these charges, pro-Palestinian activists have approvingly noted CAP&#8217;s anti-Israel stand.  “What is actually happening is that the discourse that lot of people in the Palestine solidarity community and activists have been engaging in is starting to break down the walls of the Washington bubble,” said Ali Abunimah, a longtime activist and the co-founder of the site Electronic Intifada.</p>
<p>Josh Block elaborated on his charge of CAP&#8217;s &#8220;borderline&#8221; anti-Semitism in an e-mail quoted in the left-leaning<em> Salon</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>This kind of anti-Israel sentiment is so fringe it’s support by CAP is outrageous, but at least it is out in the open now — as is their goal – clearly applauded by revolting allies like the pro-HAMAS and anti-Zionist/One State Solution advocate Ali Abunumiah and those who accuse pro-Israel Americans of having &#8220;dual loyalties&#8221; or being &#8220;Israel-Firsters&#8221; – to shape the minds of future generations of Democrats. These are the words of anti-Semites, not Democratic political players.</p></blockquote>
<p>Block is a progressive himself. However, his staunch defense of Israel, including a prior stint at AIPAC and his willingness to call out the extreme rhetoric against defenders of Israel appearing regularly in <em>ThinkProgress</em>, has earned him the enmity of other anti-Israel progressives. Free speech that departs from progressive-left orthodoxy is not tolerated in such circles, especially when Block decided to share his extensive documentation of  <em>ThinkProgress</em> writers&#8217; extreme anti-Israel bias with the &#8220;dark&#8221; side &#8211; conservative journalists. That&#8217;s an act of apostasy worthy of banishment from the progressive echo chamber. As left-of-center commentator Greg Sargent noted in his blog post appearing on the <em>Washington Post </em>website, progressive organizations such as the Progressive Policy Institute, with which Block is now affiliated, are discussing severing all ties with the apostate.</p>
<p>To charge, as Block did, that CAP&#8217;s anti-Semitic rhetoric is &#8220;borderline&#8221; is really too kind to CAP. Its blogging arm <em>ThinkProgress</em> has gone much deeper into anti-Semitic and anti-Christian territory in its unrelenting campaign to paint all critics of Islamic ideology and sharia law as bigoted, hate-mongering &#8220;Islamophobes.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAP recently issued a report titled “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” which is nothing more than a 132-page diatribe whose stated objective is to “expose—and marginalize—the influence of the individuals and groups” that CAP claims are a part of an “Islamophobia network in America.”</p>
<p><em>ThinkProgress</em> subsequently ran a series of self-righteous postings defending the Fear, Inc. report against all critics. Typical of the hard left, <em>ThinkProgress</em>&#8216; bloggers believe that anyone who does not see the world as they do is either stupid or bigoted.</p>
<p>The Fear, Inc. report drew an imaginary portrait of a multi-tentacle far-right &#8220;Islamophobic network&#8221; conspiracy of funders (some identified in the CAP report as donors to Jewish causes), &#8220;misinformation experts,&#8221; including the Hasidic Jew David Yerushalmi, and media outlets identified as pro-Israel or associated with Israel including this publication (which, CAP said, &#8220;gives an amplified voice to a cadre of fellow anti-Muslim bigots&#8221;) and the Middle East Media and Research Institute (whose &#8220;selective translations of Arab media,&#8221; CAP charged, &#8220;fan the flames of Islamophobia.&#8221;)</p>
<p>CAP threw into its fabricated conspiracy web &#8220;hate radio&#8221; shows, <em>Fox News</em>, and the Christian Broadcasting Network as examples of other Islamophobia enabling media outlets.</p>
<p>CAP&#8217;s Fear, Inc. report also went after what it called &#8220;validators&#8221; of Islamophobia such as former Muslim Nonie Darwish, who has dared to discuss openly her personal experience as a woman living under the yoke of misogynist sharia-based laws in Egypt for years before coming to the United States. Likewise, it condemned Zuhdi Jasser, a practicing Muslim and physician, whom the CAP report smeared as a &#8220;Muslim validator for Islamophobia propaganda.&#8221; The truth is that this courageous Muslim doctor has spoken out about the need for the Muslim community to look inward and reject the loud voices of the Islamist ideologues who would impose their rigid beliefs against freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and human dignity.</p>
<p>The report also castigated a Christian woman and founder of ACT! for America, Brigitte Gabriel. CAP&#8217;s hard left bomb-throwers accused Ms. Gabriel of engaging in &#8220;crude bigotry&#8221; and charged that she &#8220;validates the Islamophobia network’s manufactured fears and hate campaign directed against Muslims.&#8221;  The only fears and hate campaign being manufactured here are CAP&#8217;s own lies intended to vilify anyone who does not accept their dogma. The truth is that Ms. Gabriel experienced firsthand the Muslim persecution of the Christian minority in Lebanon where she grew up. She has called for &#8220;enlightened, educated and westernized Muslims in the community to begin a dialogue to discuss the possibility of reform in Islam just as Christianity and Judaism have been reformed.&#8221; CAP, on the other hand, denies that there is any such need for reform. It is guided by such Islamist organizations as the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American Islamic Relations, which the CAP report benignly described as a &#8220;civil rights group.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, the authors of CAP&#8217;s Fear, Inc. report did not seriously address the substance of the points raised by any of the critics of Islamism and sharia law, because the facts are not on CAP&#8217;s side. Instead, its authors packed the report with adjectives like “sinister,” “hateful,” “purposively deceptive,” “bigoted,” and “racist” to dismiss what the critics, relying on substantial research and evidence and, in some cases, their own personal experiences, have actually said in full context about the Islamist ideology and political-legal system.</p>
<p>After the Fear, Inc. report was issued, <em>ThinkProgress</em>&#8216; blogger pack circled like wolves to fend off legitimate criticisms of the report. They also carried on a vendetta against a broader circle of Jewish groups with which they disagreed, such as the non-partisan Simon Wiesenthal Center whose founder, Simon Wiesenthal, was a survivor of the Nazi death camps.</p>
<p>Jennifer Rubin, a right-of-center commentator who writes regularly for the <em>Washington Post</em>, posted a column December 11th on the <em>Washington Post</em>&#8216;s website entitled &#8220;Simon Wiesenthal Center: Time to clean up the discourse.&#8221; She discussed CAP&#8217;s vicious blog assault on the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which one of its <em>ThinkProgress</em> bloggers, Ben Armbruster, called a &#8220;far-right&#8221; organization that had &#8220;basically called Obama a Nazi.” This was an outright lie, of course, and is emblematic of the <em>ThinkProgress</em> bloggers&#8217; anti-Semitic, pro-Islamist mind-set, which its parent CAP sanctions.</p>
<p>Ironically, just two days before Rubin exposed Armbruster&#8217;s rant against the mainstream, non-partisan Simon Wiesenthal Center, an internationally recognized human rights organization devoted to advancing religious tolerance and combating anti-Semitism, Armbruster demanded that the <em>Washington Post</em>  retract an earlier post by Rubin, which Armbruster charged had &#8220;smeared CAP and its bloggers as &#8216;anti-Semitic&#8217; and &#8216;anti-Israel.&#8217;&#8221; Sorry, but the shoe fits.</p>
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<p>The Washington Post’s<em> </em><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/10/26/target_marco_rubio/page/full/">vendetta against</a> Cuban-American Marco Rubio continues with another hit-piece last week and with MSM soul mates CNN and The Los Angeles Times chiming in. But the WaPo’s rancor against the most lopsidedly Republican voters in America didn’t start with the Rubio hit-piece last month.</p>
<p>To wit: Imagine the uproar from the mainstream media/Democratic axis upon discovering a Tea Party placard that celebrates the mass expulsion of Hispanic U.S. <em>citizens</em> from U.S. shores. (Heck, one that celebrated the expulsion of <em>illegals </em>would detonate their hair-trigger charge of &#8220;racism&#8221;). Well, back in August 2007 a mass expulsion of U.S. citizens of Hispanic heritage was in fact celebrated with a cartoon by The Washington Post. This hyper-sensitive guardian of liberal sensibilities, this vigilante, prosecutor, and judge for anything printed, spoken, or whispered that could conceivably imply a derogatory quality to any conceivable ethnic group ran <a href="http://babalublog.com/2007/08/more-on-the-bigotry-of-pat-oliphant-updated/">this cartoon.</a> Please study it carefully.</p>
<p>Note that a smiling Uncle Sam insults an American ethnic group (Cuban-Americans) as “nuisances&#8221; while forcibly expelling them from the nation in a rickety boat titled &#8220;Cuban-Americans,&#8221; while these scowling, elderly and Mafiosi-clad people scream “we demand a chance to interfere with the &#8217;08 election!”</p>
<p>By “interfere” we have to assume the cartoonist refers to the right, privilege and duty bestowed upon U.S. citizens known as &#8220;voting.&#8221; It so happens that the cartoonist, Pat Oliphant, is himself an immigrant to this country. In an interview with Time magazine he admitted to “leaning Democratic” in his politics.</p>
<p>I now invite you to contemplate the reaction from the usual political-correctness police had any other U.S. ethnic group (except overwhelmingly Republican Cuban-Americans) inhabited that boat. Imagine the fire and brimstone (literal, perhaps) if instead of Fedoras (rarely worn by Cuban-Americans, by the way) the group had worn keffiyehs, burqas and chadors.</p>
<p>Imagine the clamor and attempted extortion followed by craven apologies and groveling if the boat&#8217;s passengers had been &#8220;nappy-headed&#8221; and headed for Africa. Imagine the rallies in Los Angeles and the indignant blustering by California politicians, The Hispanic Congressional Caucus and Nancy Pelosi if they&#8217;d worn sombreros.</p>
<p>Such cartoons are indeed imaginable with other ethnic groups — but surely with Uncle Sam cast as the villain, wearing a white hood, a swastika or an Ann Coulter mask. Maybe all three. In this one Uncle Sam smiles benevolently while handing the boat&#8217;s ethnic occupants their just desserts.</p>
<p>When authorities in Virginia&#8217;s Prince William County attempted to enforce U.S. laws against illegal immigration a few years ago The Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101042.html">denounced it</a> as “shameful,&#8221; &#8220;hypocritical&#8221; and &#8220;ugly.&#8221; &#8220;Hounding Immigrants&#8221; ran the editorial&#8217;s title. &#8220;By singling out <em>illegal</em> immigrants, local politicians are contributing to what is becoming a poisonous, increasingly nativist atmosphere that will infect relations with Hispanics generally.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Last July one of America’s biggest TV networks craved to interview Senator Marco Rubio. Univision is the biggest Spanish-language network in the U.S., reaching thirteen and a half million households (95 percent of the “Hispanic” total), making it 4th biggest in the U.S., just ahead of NBC.  Mexican-Americans make up most of its viewers so the network’s editorial tone essentially echoes that of the Democrat-controlled Hispanic Congressional Caucus.</p>
<p>Univision’s owner is actually an Egyptian-born Israeli-American named Haim Saban, who ranks among the Democratic Party’s most lavish benefactors. &#8220;I don&#8217;t say this lightly,&#8221; said Democratic National Committee head Terry McAuliffe back in 2007, &#8220;Haim Saban saved the Democratic Party.&#8221;</p>
<p>This summer Senator Rubio was asked to appear on the network’s top show, Al Punto, for an interview with Univision’s star anchorman, Jorge Ramos, hailed as “the Brian Williams of Hispanic TV” by AdAge. Ramos is a multi-Emmy winner and author of a bestseller titled “Open Borders,” which pretty much sums up his position. Marco Rubio opposes even the Dream Act. So the plan called for “Hispanic” Univision tinkling the tune and “Hispanic” Senator Marco Rubio either stepping and fetching, tap dancing or being outed in front of the vast majority of America’s “Hispanic” households as anything “but a credit to his race,” more like a traitor. Herman Cain knows something about this.</p>
<p>And like Herman Cain, Senator Rubio declined the role of Mr. Bojangles. So Univision cranked up the inducements. They had the goods on Rubio, they explained in a meeting with his staff.  Marco’s brother-in-law had been busted for drugs in 1987 and they planned a prime-time expose of the scandal. Marco’s cooperation with an interview <em>just might</em> prompt Univision to “soften” or even kill the program altogether.</p>
<p>Marco was 16-years-old at the time and this was his brother-in-law. If this strikes you as hardly scandalous for the freshman senator, such is the desperation among the “Hispanic” (i.e. Democratic) establishment to damage Marco Rubio that offering to silence this item struck them as an offer he couldn’t refuse. Then the Democratic-Hispanic establishment would tuck Rubio in their pocket as surely as the Corleones tucked Nevada Senator Geary in theirs.</p>
<p>When Marco’s sister refused Univision’s offer to  “contribute” to their report, the network parked a huge news truck from of her house to further harass her and apparently also to demonstrate their investigative prowess. &#8220;I always knew Univision to be a professional organization until this happened,&#8221; said Rubio <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/01/2434296/the-inside-story-univisions-war.html">of the blackmail attempt.</a></p>
<p>The “expose&#8221; on Rubio’s brother-in-law ran for two days last July and instantly fizzled, despite a publicity blizzard by Univision to their MSM soulmates. Apparently the tangent proved too embarrassingly tenuous even for most Rubio-bashers. Univision’s sleaze factor also nixed their planned Republican debate this January. “Even in this time of ever-changing media techniques, Univision’s unethical tactics stand out,” wrote Rick Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan to Univision’s CEO. “Therefore, Gov. Perry will not consider participating in the Jan. 29, 2012, Univision debate until your network addresses this ethical breach and takes action to correct it.” All candidates except Ron Paul are in lockstep with Gov. Perry on this issue.</p>
<p>Last week came time for &#8220;Target Rubio Plan B.&#8221;  A front-page story in the <em>Washington Post</em> by Manuel Franzi-Roig (a frequent visitor to Castro’s Cuba, which he gushes over as “intriguing and extraordinarily exotic”) accused Rubio of “embellishing” his family history.</p>
<p>The WaPo’s Rubio-gate boils down to this:  Documents they “uncovered” (in fact they’ve been prominently displayed on a Birther blog since May) reveal that Rubio’s parents came to the U.S. in 1956 rather than in 1959 as he has claimed in some interviews and on his Senate website.  Castro took over Cuba in January of 1959. So because his parents weren’t fleeing Castro’s rule at the instant of arrival in the U.S. Marco “embellished” his family’s Cinderella story. He’s technically not the son of glamorous “political exiles,” as his Senate bio claims, but of tacky “economic immigrants” &#8212; legal ones to boot, making them super-tacky in WaPo eyes.</p>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Lisa Daftari, a journalist specializing in Iranian affairs.  She is a guest contributor on Fox News and has been published in Frontpage Magazine, Washington Post, CBS.com, NBC, Voice of America, and PBS.  She communicates with individuals living in Iran and tells their stories.  In 2006, she was invited to show her documentary on bringing regime change to Iran to a subcommittee of Congress.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Lisa Daftari, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Tell us about your work in regards to Iran and what inspires you to engage in it.</p>
<p><strong>Daftari: </strong>As a journalist, I am drawn to human stories, particularly ones that demonstrate the effects that society and politics have on ordinary peoples’ lives. In the case of Iran, these stories are quite numerous and revealing. Whether it is a story about a young girl who was arrested for her voicing her political views or a father of two who is forced to work four jobs just to put food on the table, I think these stories are the best ways to understand the struggles of the Iran people right now.  It is a well-known fact that the Islamic Republic is a radical, fundamentalist and unjust government, but through talking to the Iranian people and understanding their lives can we better grasp how this regime plays a role in daily routine of the people.<strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>What has drawn you to Iran?</p>
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<p><strong>Daftari: </strong>Obviously my background, as an Iranian-American, has played a significant role in fostering my passion and interest in the area. Every time I had a research assignment or paper in school, I would find some way to do my project on Iran.  Growing up, I was incredibly cognizant of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, or the <em>Enghelab</em>, the word for revolution in Farsi. I knew that it had changed the fate of my family significantly and that is how we found ourselves living in this country.  My family, like many other Iranian families, shared these conversations and anecdotes at the dinner table. My siblings and I felt a deep nostalgia for a time period we did not live through and yearned to understand and experience that time for ourselves. Later when I became a journalist, I wanted to tell human stories in the backdrop of larger social, political and cultural issues. Clearly, starting with my own people felt most natural, particularly when the Iranian people experienced their most crucial historic moment only 30 years ago.<strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>Tell us a bit about the<strong> </strong>radical, fundamentalist and unjust government that rules over Iranians.</p>
<p><strong>Daftari: </strong>The Iranian people see their government as an imported entity; a group of fundamentalists whose beliefs in radical Islam are stronger than their nationalistic ties to the country.  This clashes strongly against a large population of Iranians who consider themselves extremely patriotic. We also have to remember that Iran is made up of a rich cross section of various religions, cultures and dialects. Obviously there is no government that can represent them all, yet they share and celebrate the Iranian culture and old heritage they have in common.</p>
<p>Above all, this regime, cloaked in religious fundamentalism, angers the people with its hypocritical actions. They deny the people so many of their basic rights, yet we have extensive evidence of their own indulgent lifestyles. We know of their lavish vacations around the world, their lucrative real estate portfolios, their international bank accounts storing millions of dollars, and their access to some of the world’s best universities for their children.  The people of Iran are savvy and resent the double standards.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You have researched the Iranian American community and its evolvement over the last 30 years. Can you enlighten us a bit on your findings and observations?</p>
<p><strong>Daftari: </strong>The Iranian American community has developed an extremely unique dual identity. Over the last thirty years, many of these Iranians had lost hope in ever going back to their homeland, and likewise in ever seeing this government change. The result has been an Iranian American community that has emerged quite successfully. They are represented in all types of occupations and areas of business.  They have excelled in politics, music, film, fashion, real estate and technology.  They have raised their American born children to share an unwavering allegiance to the United States. In June however, it was remarkable to see how invested even American born Iranians were in the fate of their inherited homeland.  In large cities across the U.S., Iranians and Iranian Americans gathered by the thousands to stand in solidarity with the protestors in Iran.  They felt a real glimmer of hope with this political impetus that really moved the community.  They had been waiting for such a moment for a long time.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> We know of course that Iranians are still bravely protesting and being tortured every day. The fascists who rule the country are cracked down on the protests and continue to crack down viciously and sadistically. Your thoughts? What’s coming up?</p>
<p><strong>Daftari: </strong>Many describe the Iranian people at the time of the protests as a pot that boiled over. The impetus, or better yet, the excuse, was frustration over a fraudulent election, but the reality was that the Iranian people, both in Iran and abroad, had been waiting three decades for such a moment. With every breach of justice, with every hanging, with every whip that slashed down on an innocent woman’s arm, for every stone that was violently hurled at a young Iranian’s head, the grievances had amassed.</p>
<p>Since last June, Iranians came out in protest during holidays and other commemorative days, particularly those momentous to the regime. They came out on these days to show that their grievances are directly against the regime.  By protesting on Islamic holidays and on days special to the Islamic Republic, they made a stand against the government and what it stands for. The people of Iran are incredibly nationalistic. They are patriotic and their Iranian heritage runs deeper and stronger than anything else.</p>
<p>We are coming up on the one-year anniversary of those protests, and Iranians are organizing for smaller demonstrations.  We are seeing an evolving Iranian force, partly as a result of the threats that the regime has made against those who come out and partly because the Iranians realize that to be shot at, beaten and rounded up and taken to prison is not going to be the avenue to freedom. The main issue for the protestors is and has been a lack of leadership and strategy.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Why is it, in your perspective, important to talk about Iran in the context of its people and their experiences and disenchantment?</p>
<p><strong>Daftari: </strong>In the case of Iran, it is imperative to get to know the people, their struggles, their experiences and what they really want going forward. The Iranian people are multi-faceted. Iran is such a vast country that has varying religions, dialects and sub-cultures that create a rich cross-section of Iranian culture. In the past, many would erroneously group together the Iranian people together with their regime, but since the elections, I think it has become quite clear that that is not the case.  The people of Iran have a 30-year-old story to tell. Everyone in Iran is and has been dramatically affected by the political landscape in the country; just as the lives of Iranian Americans and Iranians living anywhere else in the world have been remarkably shaped by the political on-goings of the last three decades.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What are the chances that the Iranian people can overthrow the despots who have them imprisoned? How can we best help the Iranian people to do so?</p>
<p><strong>Daftari: </strong>If we were to look at the Iranian dilemma as a social one in addition to a political one, it has become obvious that the people of Iran have and will continue to further out-grow their government. Although this regime has only been around for 30 years, as a result of the Ayatollah Khomeini-backed baby boom following the Iran Iraq War, almost 70% of Iran’s population was born under this regime. That is a very significant statistic. It means that an overwhelming majority of the country is young, modern, and under the age of 30. Even though living under the confines of a theocracy is the only life they know, many of these young people are overtly disenchanted with their government.  Overthrowing, or maybe better stated, shaking this government is inevitable. Their grievances are specific and prevent them from living a normal life on a daily basis.  They just want to live normal lives and be free to blog, to sign onto Yahoo or Google, to walk down the street with their boyfriends and girlfriends, to go to college despite not having any connections to the clergy, etc.</p>
<p>There is a lot of pressure on the youth of Iran, and that is what is propelling them to go out to the streets in demonstration. They want better, and they know it is out there. The Iranian people are smart, savvy, intellectual people who refuse to be represented by fundamentalist, tyrannical leaders who are holding them back. Whether it is through demonstrations or any other way they can voice their frustrations, they will continue to do so until change is brought about.  There’s a lot of hopelessness, and that’s what this struggle is about. <strong> </strong></p>
<p>The question that is frequently asked of the Iranian people is: What can the rest of the world do to support them in this struggle? I think the answer has always been to unconditionally support them. It would mean to educate oneself about what is going on in the region, to ask for Iran stories when the subject suddenly escapes the media, to ask questions of elected government officials, and as taxpayers, to interrogate the United Nations on not taking a serious stance on Iran and its nuclear agenda.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Lisa Daftari, thank you for joining us.</p>
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		<title>The Lies of Duke</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arrest of Duke rape accuser Crystal Mangum exposes the Left’s race-baiting immorality play.]]></description>
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<p>“She was black, they were white, and race and sex were in the air.”  That’s how a <em>Washington Post</em> columnist described <a title="Lynne Duke on the Duke University case" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052302022.html">the atmosphere</a> that led to the brutal gang rape of Crystal Mangum by a group of <a title="Duke University" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6656">Duke University</a> lacrosse players in 2006.  You remember, right? That was the violent, racially motivated hate crime that <em>never happened</em>.</p>
<p>Mangum is in the news again, but this time she won’t find an army of race-obsessed charlatans, Marxist demagogues, and pandering politicians speeding to her defense.  The Left only rolls out that treatment for struggling black single mothers when their harrowing tales bolster an ideological agenda.  Pulling off the “virtuous victim of white privilege” shtick won’t be easy when Mangum faces charges of <a title="Crystal Mangum charged with first degree attempted murder, child abuse, and arson" href="http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7068705/">child abuse, arson, and attempted murder</a>.</p>
<p>Guilty or innocent, the stripper who cried wolf is on her own this time.  She was only worthy of the support of <a title="Jesse Jackson" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=687">Jesse Jackson</a>, <a title="NOW" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6186">NOW</a>, the <a title="The New Black Panther Party" href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=14294">New Black Panther Party</a>, and the Duke University “<a title="Duke University gang of 88" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/List%20of%20Gang%20of%2088%20Duke%20Professors3.html">gang of 88</a>” as long as she was able to help weave a compelling narrative of misogyny, class warfare, racial inequity, and systemic injustice.</p>
<p>Two weeks after Crystal Mangum falsely accused the Duke athletes of rape, English Professor Houston Baker publicly condemned the University’s “moral response to abhorrent sexual assault, verbal racial violence, and drunken white male privilege loosed amongst us.”  In <a title="Houston Baker's letter to the Duke University Provost" href="http://news.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/lange_baker.html">a letter to University Provost Peter Lange</a>, he wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>The lacrosse team – 15 of whom have faced misdemeanor charges for drunken misbehavior in the past three years – may well feel they can claim innocence and sport their disgraced jerseys on campus, safe under the cover of silent whiteness. But where is the black woman who their violence and raucous witness injured for life? Will she ever sleep well again?</p></blockquote>
<p>If Professor Baker and his Duke colleagues cared so much about Crystal Mangum getting a good night’s sleep, what did they do to prevent her from landing in prison on attempted murder and child abuse charges?  If her race and socioeconomic status were enough to merit destroying the lives of a “<a title="Baker called the Duke players a scummy bunch of white males" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E2D9103FF936A25757C0A9619C8B63&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=2">scummy bunch of white males</a>,” why did they abandon this underprivileged black woman without getting her the help she so obviously needed?</p>
<p>Mangum was a <a title="Crystal Mangum was deeply troubled" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265374,00.html">deeply troubled woman</a> long before she falsely accused the Duke University athletes of rape. Her history of mental illness and unsubstantiated rape and violence claims began in her teenage years, and alcohol abuse has been part of the picture as well.</p>
<p>But that didn’t matter to the <a title="the Duke University gang of 88" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/List%20of%20Gang%20of%2088%20Duke%20Professors3.html">Duke faculty members</a> who seized upon her false rape account to stir up racial animosity and resentment of “<a title="white, male, athletic privilege" href="http://news.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/lange_baker.html">white, male, athletic privilege</a>.”  She made a convenient weapon in the race, class, and gender warfare waged by academics and abetted by the media and the reprehensible former district attorney, Mike Nifong.</p>
<p><a title="New Black Panthers leader Malik Zulu Shabazz" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2044">Malik Zulu Shabazz</a>, national chairman of the New Black Panther Party <a href="http://news14.com/charlotte-news-104-content/top_stories/?ArID=83946">proclaimed</a>, “to us she is a righteous and divine woman by nature.” 88 Duke faculty members jumped to her defense (and all but convicted the athletes) in a <a title="Duke 88 ad" href="http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/pdf/socialdisasterad.pdf">full-page ad</a> that described a poisonous environment of racial hatred.  And of course, the Rev. Jesse Jackson showed up to highlight the plight of a black single mother terrorized by a culture of rampant racism and sexism.</p>
<p>Mangum’s affirmative action qualifications became less valuable when evidence clearing the lacrosse players forced her to turn in her righteous victimhood card.  To the Left, she was a cause, not a human being. When she couldn’t maintain the hoax, she wasn’t any less black or any less female. But she was no longer a <em>politically useful</em> black single mother, and thus, no longer of value to the race hustlers and class warmongers who rushed to her aid.</p>
<p>Once Crystal Mangum outlived her usefulness as the personification of social injustice in their heavy handed race baiting immorality play, the Left moved on without apology.  And Mangum returned to her troubled life as just another ex-poster child for the leftist agenda, a mentally unstable, alcohol soaked liar who was chewed up and spit out by people in a position to help stop her from ruining more lives, including those of her three young children.</p>
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