It's Hard Out There: The Radical Assault on American Power

Man, when you're subjected to a leftist death-wish campaign of this magnitude, you know you're really over the target!

So, yeah, you know it's hard out there in the 'hood sometimes. But when you be hangin' low you toughen up, mofo! You take the blows and move on. Basically, if you can't put up then shut up. Know what I'm saying, yo!?

So, no, I'm not complaining. Just thought I'd lay some of this down for my homies. My post on the New York leftists on 9/11 really kicked off a stream of hate and invective all across the leftosphere. It all started when JBW picked up on the gaffe I made last week on Sasquatch. My bad. I know. I copped to it and told my idiot detractors to fuck off. Win a few lose a few, and all that. Still, JBW, who's been jonesin' to come up with some kind --- any kind --- of intellectual hole in one, went for the easy pickin's. Cool. The post was mostly straight reporting, but there's an interesting slur in the comments, from B to the D:

Does having a dicky-do (look it up Donny) impair cognitive capacity? Or does being a douche bag just make you say douche baggy things?

I looked it up, since I'm not that hip to the latest in weightist hate speech (see Urban Dictionary: "hey man, how am i supposed to suck yo dick, when you got a dicky do? I aint bouts ta hold all dat jelly up!").

No thanks, actually. But as I was saying ... It turns out that JBW's entry picked up a little viral action, and the Sasquatch thing became the rage at Sadly No!, Lawyers, Gays and Marriage, and TBogg's. I'm always game for a bit of back and forth across the 'sphere, and as noted, I promptly told Tintin at Sadly No! to go ream himself. That was followed by a few Twitter exchanges, including this announcement:

That tweet links to a second post --- that's right, a second entry in two days at the hate site Sadly No! --- a sure sign that I've got my target coordinates nailed down. Although I'm not so sure what this photoshop is supposed to mean? It's not like a middle-aged man shopping at Kohl's will occasion a visit from the boys in blue, or khaki, be that as it may. And frankly, it's none of my business which dudes Tintin prefers when blowin' his rocks off. To each his own, mofo --- NTTAWWT!!

And if you check the links, there's over a thousand comments at Sadly No! hatin' on AmPow! Like I said, yo, over the target mofo!!

I love this one:

Does Donalde have any idea how ugly his Twitter page is?

My Twitter page features a full-size background of the Statue of Liberty. I can't imagine anyone slamming that as "ugly" --- these fuckers hate America, so it's no surprise.

Another comment, not likin' on me so much:

Douglas has already proven that he’s immune to feeling foolish. He is metafoolish; He is such an utter buffoon he is incapable of realizing that he is a complete and utter fool.

And some folks over there are obviously new to the American Power Vortex (been there done that with epic losers E.D. Kain and (O)CT(O)PUS). Lots of comments from these dolts on how they might get me fired, like this one:

This guy Don…we don’t really have anything actionable against him. He’s a moron, but I’m sure his CV makes that clear to his Dean already. He’s a prick, but that’s not a firing offense at any university I’ve ever heard of. He probably used university resources to post SASQUATCH ISRAEL. Maybe we can get him for that.

Some time back, SEK at LGM was agitating along these lines (in alleging that I engage in sexual harassment by babe blogging --- an offense which only an effete academic leftist could possibly imagine). That said, SEK joined the assault on American Power as well (in an afterthought to a post attacking right-wing commentator Jack Cashill):

Like the Donalde, Cashill’s acquired the reputation of a man who will do anything to acquire a reputation. Admittedly, he hasn’t demonstrated the “tactical elan” of an “unmatched competitor” by closing down the comments on posts where he might be challenged to back up his fightin’ words with their arguin’ kin—but remember that the Donalde is a special sort of stupid, the likes of which we almost don’t deserve.

All of these assailants, JBW at Brain Rage, the airhead commentariat at Sadly No!, and the freaks at LGM, are really unhappy that I've disabled comments to my responses at the blog. I guess this is especially maddening, since I state at my Blogger profile: "I welcome comments and debate, and I'll defend my positions vigorously." That's all true, of course. What leftists really don't like is that I'm in control. They hate the fact that they're unable to flood my comment sections with the most vile half-witted screeds on the web. For example, I opened comments on my post last night, "The Radical Assault on America's Future." And I found this in the moderation queue this morning:

Anonymous said...

Good grief...you're an asshole. David Horowitz? Really? It must really suck to wake up every morning feeling like the whole world is against you and knowing that all you've ever believed in is based on a foundation of lies and corruption. Here's a clue...get over yourself douchebag, you're nothing but a bag of meat and your thoughts and desires are meaningless and you are a worthless piece of poo.

September 18, 2010 5:28 AM

I guess there's something about the moral clarity of David Horowitz that drives these freaks batshit insane:

Behind the facade of liberalism, the Left has continued to advance its socialist schemes: to redistribute resources according to race, gender, and class and to turn Big Government into Big Brother.

So, yeah, it's hard out there for a neocon mofo!

It might be new to you, but it's been like this for years ... It's blood sweat and tears when it come down to this shit ...

But when the going gets hard, I play baseball, if ya'll know what I'm saying, yo!

The Radical Assault on America's Future

I visited the David Horowitz Freedom Center yesterday. David Swindle, Managing Editor at NewsReal Blog, set me up with some reading material, in including The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America's Future.

Behind the facade of liberalism, the Left has continued to advance its socialist schemes: to redistribute resources according to race, gender, and class and to turn Big Government into Big Brother.

This is the book to read if you're worried about the freakish nihilism of the radical left, or if you've been fooled by the MEDIA-INDUSTRIAL-ISLAMIST-COMPLEX's neo-communist disinformation campaign. A complete masterpiece.

Hate Mail

From Erik Delicath:

Mr. Douglas,

re: the butt-freaks

I'm glad I'm not the only one that when I think of homosexuals and their campaign for equal rights under the constitution I immediately conjure up visions of male on male anal sex. It's quite natural, obviously.

That's why they're so insidious. They know us manly heterosexuals can't help but think of their hard throbbing members penetrating our hairy man-holes. Sometimes I spend hours scouring gay porn websites just to get a better sense of what we're up against. I'm sure you do the same. What better way to steel ourselves against their and the Demoncrats desire to shove things down our throats. Know thy enemy, right?

Unfortunately I've been unable to comment on your blog due to the fact that you've disabled comments. I hope that it's because you're exhausted from defending this great nation of ours from the myriad threats that come from people that don't agree with our( you know, REAL americans) idea of the freedoms we see fit to defend. I certainly hope it's not because you're a fucking coward, unable to defend his bigoted and child-like view of the world.

E

edella@comcast.net

p.s. Don't be surprised if you see some Sasquatch Israel shirts being worn by your/some students. You fucking dolt.

Wide G.O.P. Field Tests the Waters for 2012 Contest

At New York Times:

The Republican presidential field for 2012 is beginning to take shape in a period of intensive upheaval set off by the rise of the Tea Party movement, expanding the roster of potential candidates but presenting a more complicated road to the nomination.

The opportunities and pitfalls were on full display Friday — in some ways a kickoff to the Republican contest — as no fewer than six possible contenders made appearances in Washington and, in one especially closely watched case, here in Iowa, the first stop on the path to the White House. At least as many more Republicans already are taking steps to test candidacies of their own.

At a gathering of conservative activists in the capital, Mitt Romney hewed closely to the issues of small government and low taxes that have driven Tea Party activists this year, suggesting the Obama administration’s economic policies are “one reason they will serve only one term.” Mr. Romney, who has assiduously courted conservative support since his unsuccessful campaign in 2008, mocked those who once declared Republicans an “endangered species.”

But the political spotlight on Friday truly belonged to former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, whose keynote speech at the party’s annual Ronald Reagan dinner here set off a new round of “will-she-won’t-she” speculation that has made it hard for other potential candidates to find their place in the growing field.

She was coy about her intentions, jokingly recalling that her husband, Todd, urged her to skip an afternoon jog to avoid headlines like, “Palin in Iowa, decides to run.” She did not mention her political future, but delivered a sharp critique of party leaders who have been skeptical of some winning Tea Party candidates.

“We can’t blow it, G.O.P., but we won’t wait for that political playbook to be handed to us from on high from the political elites. We won’t do that,” Ms. Palin said, speaking over applause. She added, “It may take some renegades to get us there. It may take folks shaping things up to get us there.”

Watch Palin's speech, c/o Right Scoop:

RELATED: At Big Government, "Dem Congresswoman’s Supporters Participate in ‘Palin-As-Hitler’ Rally" (via Memeorandum).

Cool Jerk

From The Go-Go's:

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Back online later tonight.

Why Commie-Dems Can't Win on Taxes

Taxes confiscate personal property. That's the bottom line. But my BFF's at Sadly No! not only want more taxes, they are attacking "the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy" and they want to punish "the most privileged amongst us." Here! here! for the neo-communist agit-prop. Now for the facts: (1) Americans in the highest income brackets pay the highest proportion of income taxes, and (2) the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 cut marginal income tax rates at every income level, so the left's push to raise taxes won't just fall on the "wealthiest of the wealthy." Taxes redistribute resources away from the producers of wealth. The revenues fund the expansion of state, which is why leftists always want more. Taxes crush initiative and kill opportunity, two goals central to radical ideology. The American people know this and the Demo-Socialists in Congress are having a hard reckoning with it. Kim Strassel has more:

There comes a point in Washington debates when the losing side has little left but bluff, and here's a good example. What Democrats know, but won't say, is that the party has walked itself into a lose-lose-lose tax fight. Their choices now range from bad to worse to problematic.

Joe Biden Going Down With Sinking Ship

Via HotAirPundit, "Joe Biden: 'We Are Gonna Retain Control of the House, We Are Gonna Retain Control of the Senate'"

Revving Up Weekend Rule 5 — Rachel Maddow Masturbation Edition!

You think the butch MSNBC host might get off on this? From Theo's:

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BONUS: Don't forget Instapundit. And Linkmaster Smith!

And drop your link in the comments to be added to the weekly roundups!

Oh, and since I missed Rule 5 last weekend, be sure to check out the entry at American Perspective: "Vote: Who do you like for Transformers, Megan Fox or the New Victoria's Secret Model."

Karl Rove Hedges on Christine O'Donnell

Dan Riehl and his stable (harem) of bloggers have been on fire. See, "Karl Rove in the doghouse? You betcha."

And in addition to Karl Rove, the guys at Power Line are hedge, "Thinking about the Buckley rule." I link to Patterico, but the production is dead over there.

Anyway, more campaign stuff at Memeorandum. See also The Caucus, "Palin Steers O'Donnell to Fox News."

Sadly No! Tailpipe Porn

Conservative dudes like to post hotties and link around to friends. Left wing extremists like to masturbate to photoshops of despised right-wing bloggers, like Don Surber. Pretty disgusting, I know, but these people are f**ked up: "Can't Possibly Argue With That."

'ABOVE: Why there are no little Surbers running around Poca, W. Va.'

And as I've already pointed out, these demonic porno-pricks get off on bashing Jews. Giving a pass to eliminationist anti-Semitism is the Sadly No! bonus prize.

The Political Success of Tea Party Express

At WSJ, "The Tea Party Express has proved especially skilled at winning elections":

The Tea Party Express played a central role upending Republican primaries in Nevada, Alaska and, this week, Delaware, raising millions of dollars to help topple candidates favored by GOP bosses.

Most groups in the populist tea-party movement channel their energies through grass-roots organizing and social networking. The Tea Party Express, by contrast, is driven by a Republican consultant with a more conventional approach.

Sal Russo, 63 years old, a longtime California GOP operative and former aide to Ronald Reagan, runs Tea Party Express out of his Sacramento, Calif., consulting firm.

As chief strategist, he sends out solicitation emails to the group's list of 400,000 addresses—carrying subject lines such as "Harry Reid Doesn't Want You to See This"—and crafts the messages carried in TV and radio ads and in mailings.

"The establishment in the Washington beltway gets it wrong all the time," Mr. Russo said. Republican Party leaders too often recruit candidates who fit the ideological profiles of their states and districts, he argued, rather than seeking out dynamic, new voices.

"The answer is having bold colors, not pale pastels, to create a clear contrast with the opposition," he said.

That, he added, was what the Tea Party Express did best. It also picks its shots in small states, where limited spending can turn the tide.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska sees it differently. She called the Express "an outside extremist group" that "hijacked" the state GOP. The Express spent $590,000 in support of her opponent, Joe Miller, in Alaska's Aug. 24 primary for the Republican Senate nomination. Mr. Miller won.

In Delaware, antipathy toward the group went farther. The Delaware Republican Party was backing Rep. Mike Castle in this week's GOP Senate primary. The Express supported Christine O'Donnell, the eventual winner. The state Republican party has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission alleging illegal coordination between Ms. O'Donnell and the group—a charge denied by both.

GOP officials are hoping the Express will be as committed to defeating Democrats in the general election as it was to beating up Republicans in the primaries.

"Ultimately, for those who care about limited government and lower spending, winning back a Republican majority in the Senate should be a shared priority," said Brian Walsh, spokesman for the Republicans' Senate campaign committee.

RELATED: At The Other McCain, "Why Christine O’Donnell Is Surging: Three Ads From Tea Party Express."

DNC Unveils New Logo — More Better Fail

At The Other McCain, "The New Democrat Party Logo Revealed" (c/o No Sheeples Here!):

And from the Dept. of You Can't Make This Stuff Up: "Democrats Spend on Anti-Health-Reform Advertisements." (Via Doug Powers and Memeorandum.)

'Tactical Elan ... Unmatched Competitor ...'

That's the header to an e-mail in my in-box right now, from Carl Symons:

sadly, no!

I'd say that you were seriously overmatched.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/33231.html

"So, a hearty F*** You to the lot of you, assholes." Now, that's Machiavellian!

sasquatchisreal. what a dubmass.

cgsymons@gmail.com

That would be "outmatched" and "dumbass," but who's counting poor wording and misspellings? Besides, now Carl gets his e-mail published on the Intertubes! All c/o the towering intellectual demonologists of Sadly No! — who're apparently getting a lot of mileage off the episode:

So, yeah, F*** You, buttfreaks.

Make my day.

Christine O'Donnell

An interview, c/o R.S. McCain:

Additional commentary at Legal Insurrection, "Christine O'Donnell's HISTORIC Nomination."

Have You Read it? The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Don't neglect your history.

I recommend, especially in these troubled times, Saul Friedlander's, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Vol 2).

I wrote previously about the book here.

The Tsunami Heads to Shore

At WSJ, "The GOP casualties are over. Now the voter uprising is aiming right at the Democrats":

The pros tell us that 2010 will be a "wave" election, and if that's true then think of Republicans as passengers on a ship who have just watched the tsunami roll over them. A few were washed overboard on the port side, but the GOP is likely to suffer no more losses. Now the huge wave is roaring toward shore, heading directly for the Democrats who are running American government.

Democrats and their media retinue are pointing to the tea party upset in Delaware as a sign of GOP "civil war" that will cost them at least a Senate seat. And so it probably will. Christine O'Donnell is the weakest of the successful tea party primary challengers this year, with little career achievement and a history of suing her friends. She is already a two-time loser in the state that President Obama carried with 62% of the vote.

Yet the mere fact of her improbable primary victory speaks to the depth of the public uprising against the ruling political class. The upset owed less to Ms. O'Donnell's virtues than to Mike Castle's 18-year voting record in a primary season when Republican voters want candidates who will clean out the Augean stables, not find a corner to lie in. Until the very end, Mr. Castle's TV commercials were aimed at general election voters, bragging about the pork he had brought home. This is not a pork-selling year, and after 44 years in public life Mr. Castle had lost touch with his small state's primary voters.

The challenge now for Sarah Palin, South Carolina GOP Senator Jim DeMint and the tea partiers who endorsed Ms. O'Donnell is to show they can deliver seats in the Senate rather than merely conduct an intra-party cleansing. If they really want to change Washington with a revived GOP, they will have to deliver Senate victories in November in most of the states where their candidates prevailed—Kentucky, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska and Delaware. Otherwise their insurrection will merely have helped Democrats retain their majority.

The challenge for the GOP establishment, meanwhile, is to focus on feeding the tsunami rather than engage in recriminations over who lost Delaware. The peevish leaks to the media on Election Night that the party apparatus won't support Ms. O'Donnell in November (since repudiated) will only alienate tea party and independent voters who mistrust Republicans as much as they do Democrats.

Even if it does cost the GOP a Senate seat, Mr. Castle's defeat will nonetheless be highly educational for Republicans who have dodged or survived the wave. For the most part in the primaries, the voter revolt against Washington ousted those Republicans who were the least Republican. Don't expect many GOP votes next year for cap and tax or another round of spending stimulus.

More at the link.

WSJ likes the tidal wave metaphor. I like bloodbath. Either way, many, many Dems will be wiped out in November. A few Republicans too, but RINOs aren't getting very far in politics these days, thank Goodness.

RELATED: Also at WSJ, "Primaries Stoke Turmoil: 31 Democrats Rebel on Taxes as Tea-Party Gains Pose Dilemma for GOP Leaders."

Animation of the New World Trade Center

I recall seeing this video previously, although I'm just coming across it again after visiting JBW's crib. Note how an atheist remembers the fallen: "I won't pray for those lost in the attacks on 9/11 but my heart does go out to their families and loved ones." Actually, I doubt those folks want your prayers, JBW. People like this love America and have a deep, abiding faith in God — the fact that you don't is irrelevant to respecting the memory of the dead. Just bid your well wishes without the digs at religion. Sick bastard.

'Everybody Draw Mohammed' Cartoonist Goes Into Hiding

That's Molly Norris of Seattle.

The story's at WaPo, "'Draw Muhammad' Cartoonist Changes Name, Goes Into Hiding at FBI's Insistence." Also, at Seattle Weekly, "On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View."

Morris was placed on an "execution hit list" by fanatical Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki. I understand her fears. But I'm sick to my stomach (and my heart) that it's come to this. Anyone speaking out is subject to a fatwa. (I'm sure a lot of my leftist enemies would cheer that.)

Ann Althouse is sympathetic, if not a bit amused by Morris' plight. But she adds:

There's a big Metafilter thread about it, which I'm reading after writing that. A surprising number of people are blaming Norris for bringing the death threats on herself.

The Leftist Feminist Death Spiral

William Jacobson has a canny ability to really dig down to the heart of an issue. And this essay is gold, "Rachel Maddow Sexualizes Christine O'Donnell."

An almost 15-year old video was all the excuse Maddow needed to take the story national. Because the fate of the nation turns on whether O'Donnell masturbates, at least to Maddow.

One can understand why Alan Colmes would get all excited about the subject, but why the person who runs the liberal feminist blog Feministe?

Because liberal feminism is dead, and has been for years.

Liberal feminism began its death spiral no later than when Democratic Party loyalists defended serial abuser Bill Clinton and demonized his victims (right around the time of O'Donnell's interview, as coincidence would have it).

The liberal feminist death march has continued through the sexualized attacks on Sarah Palin and other conservative women in more recent times.

But, it's not like I didn't see this coming.

Via Memeorandum.

'Don Douglas Hearts Juses'

So "SASQUATCH ISRAEL" is really truly "SASQUATCH IS REAL." And there's even a website for that, on Facebook.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm dumb.

I stand by what I wrote, either way.

That said, the towering intellects at Sadly No! are all too ready to point out any discrepancies, throwing in a little snide dig at the "Juses" for good measure: "Don Douglas Hearts Juses."

Yes, I do.

But that begs the question: The brilliant leading lights at Sadly No! don't?

Actually, I'm not surprised.

Leftists hate moral clarity. And they hate Israel. We don't need a Sasquatch myth to figure that out. So, a hearty F*** You to the lot of you, assholes.

NRSC Backs O'Donnell — AmPow Get Results!

I tweeted NRSC Chairman last night to see if he was gonna get with the program, and boy, American Power sure gets result!

At The Hill, "NRSC Backs O'Donnell, Donates $42,000" (via Memeorandum):

The NRSC backed Rep. Mike Castle and opposed Christine O'Donnell in the lead-up to Delaware's GOP primary.

The Senate Republican campaign arm on Wednesday pledged to support Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party favorite who shocked the political establishment Tuesday by winning Delaware's GOP primary.

Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, spoke to O'Donnell Wednesday and told her she would have the NRSC's backing like any other Republican Senate candidate.

"Let there be no mistake: The National Republican Senatorial Committee — and I personally as the committee’s chairman — strongly stand by all of our Republican nominees, including Christine O’Donnell in Delaware," Cornyn said in a statement.

That support includes a $42,000 check, the maximum allowable direct donation to a campaign, Cornyn said.

Nothing Lasts Forever But the Earth and Sky...

Kansas, "Dust in the Wind." Listened to it yesterday, during my afternoon drive time, on The Sound L.A.

I think we're more than dust actually. We're spirit as well, and that spirit endures. It's the physical presence that can be swept away in a moment, like on 9/11. I shared my New York trip with my students so I'm still thinking deeply about human meaning after the experiences of the weekend. More formalized thoughts on this later.

About the White 'Racist' Tea Party: Bob Parks at the 9/12 March on Washington

Via Glenn Reynolds:

NewsBusted — Remembering 9/11

Via Theo Spark:

Christine O'Donnell's Victory Speech

Via Right Scoop:

And Robert Stacy McCain, who I think is at the stage taking pics at the video, reports: "PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS HQ UPDATE: O’DONNELL WINS!"

Insurgent Republican Wins in Delaware

That was the headline at New York Times earlier. After I got home, my kid had on Disney Channel, so no cable news. Then we started homework. Checking NYT's homepage, I was able to tweet the news right as the election was called:

The Tea Party movement scored another victory on Tuesday, helping to propel a dissident Republican, Christine O’Donnell, to a stunning upset win over Representative Michael N. Castle in the race for the United States Senate nomination in Delaware.

Mr. Castle, a moderate Republican who served two terms as governor and has been reliably winning elections for the last four decades, became the latest establishment Republican casualty of the primary election season. Republican leaders said the victory by Ms. O’Donnell complicated the party’s chances of winning control of the Senate.

Also at WaPo, "Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary":

Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary tonight, handing the tea party movement a major victory and giving Democrats an unexpected chance to hold the First State seat.

O'Donnell, who is making her third run for the Senate in as many elections, relied heavily on national surrogates -- from the Tea Party Express to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- to fuel a shoestring campaign against the iconic Castle who had held elected office in the state for more than four decades.

"The people of Delaware have spoken," said O'Donnell in her victory speech. "No more politics as usual."

The O'Donnell victory, which was considered a political impossibility as recently as a month ago, is a major boost for Democratic hopes of holding the seat once held by Vice President Joe Biden. New Castle County Executive Chris Coons was unchallenged for the Democratic Senate nomination.

"I'm sad to say the Delaware primary results tonight are straight out of Harry Reid's dream journal," said prominent Republican strategist Mike Murphy of the O'Donnell win.

While the Delaware race was the marquee contest of the night, it was far from the only one on the ledger as seven states and the District of Columbia voted in the final major primaries of the 2010 election.

More at the link.

As noted yesterday, I rarely tuned into this race, although I found Dan Riehl's blogging to be way ahead just about everyone else. So hats off to the dude on that. Definitely made all the naysayers eat shit, especially Patterico.

William Jacobson's also been doing yoeman's work on this, and this video of Mike Castle would have been all I needed to make a decision earlier. Cut-and-run Republicans are just do lame:

William's got additional comments: "Unite for November."

Socialists Say Yes to Ground Zero Mega Mosque

That shot, via The People's Cube, really cuts to the heart of a lot of this: If you hate America, if you're allied with the growing Islamist revolutionary movement, the Socialist Party USA's got your back:

The Left Hates the Right More Than It Hates Bigotry

Yep.

From Dennis Prager, "Islam and Moral Nuance":

This past Sunday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof offered another example of the Left’s nuance-free attacks on Americans who have any moral reservations about the world of Islam today.

Kristof began his column with an attack on the “venomous and debased discourse about Islam” in America.

He gave one example: New Republic publisher Martin Peretz, a rather thoughtful lifelong liberal, who actually had the temerity to raise moral concerns about Islam in a recent article. Peretz asked, for example, “Is not western society, imperfect as it may be . . . immensely more liberal than the domains of Islam?”

He added: “This intense epidemic of [Islamic] slaughter has been going on for nearly a decade and a half . . . without protest, without anything. And it has been going for decades and centuries before that.”

Kristof ignored every issue raised by Peretz and quoted one sentence to cite Peretz’s article as an example of the “venomous and debased the discourse about Islam” permeating America. To the New York Times and the rest of the Left, the question here is not whether what Peretz wrote is true — because when it comes to the Right, the Left is concerned with finding bigotry, not truth.

“Nativists are back on the warpath,” Kristof went on to write.

Question: Can Kristof name any opponent of the Cordoba Center — or anyone else — who vocalizes any questions about the moral state of the contemporary Muslim world, whom he does not consider a nativist or bigot?

Kristof: “In America, bigoted comments about Islam often seem to come from people who have never visited a mosque and know few if any Muslims.”

Question: Would Kristof agree that those on the left who declare that “Islam is a religion of peace” and who claim to see no moral differences between the contemporary Muslim world and the contemporary Christian and Jewish and Buddhist worlds, also have “never visited a mosque and know few if any Muslims?”

Kristof: “In their ignorance, they mirror the anti-Semitism that I hear in Muslim countries from people who have never met a Jew.”

That is about as non-nuanced and unsophisticated a statement as one can make on this is or any issue. In many Muslim countries, the media are saturated with Protocols of the Elders of Zion–type Jew hatred, with popular TV shows depicting Jews as killing Muslim children for their blood, and calls for extermination of the Jewish state. Nowhere in America is there anything regarding Muslims remotely analogous to the anti-Semitism in the Muslim world.

Kristof: “One American university professor wrote to me that ‘every Muslim in the world’ believes that the proposed Manhattan Islamic center would symbolize triumph over America. That reminded me of Pakistanis who used to tell me that ‘every Jew’ knew of 9/11 in advance, so that none died in the World Trade Center.”

Here is the (nuanced) truth: Vast numbers of Muslims believe that Jews stayed away from the World Trade Center on 9/11. That is a lie — not one Jew on earth knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. But it is not a lie that there are millions of Muslims who believe that a giant Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero would be a sign of Muslim victory.

The same day that Nicholas Kristof’s simplistic view of the mosque issue was published, AOL News reported on a demonstration against the mosque. It quoted a man named Ron Silverados, identified as “a 57-year-old road striper from Long Island”: “I’m tired of saying this but this isn’t a religious issue. . . . It is a moral issue.”

There was more moral nuance in the road striper’s comment than in all the liberal columns and editorials of the New York Times.

If the Left were primarily concerned with bigotry, it would be preoccupied with the most bigoted places on earth — many Islamic nations. But in general, the Left hates the Right more than it hates bigotry. And that leads to a world devoid of moral nuance.

RTWT.

Imam Rauf at Council on Foreign Relations

Richard Haass, President of Council on Foreign Relations, asks Imam Rauf, "why don't you undo" the damage you've done with your plans to build the victory mosque? Watch the Imam evade and prevaricate. He doesn't even entertain the notion of relocating the mosque, and thus shows once more that he has no interest in bridge-building. It's all a scam in the name of jihad (full video at the link):

O'Reilly picks it up from there:

Also, great discussion from this morning's Fox & Friends:

More at NYT (FWIW), "‘Everything Is on the Table,’ Imam Says of Plans." Turns out the Imam has conceded the possibility of a move, but of course this is in the context of once again attacking critics of the mosque as "radicals." Also at New York Post, "Ground Zero mosque imam 'saddened to the core'."

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Spitting on the Lessons of 9/11

From Rich Trzupek, at FrontPage Mag:

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, practically every American understood and agreed with a powerful two-word sentiment that summed up the nation’s attitude during those traumatic days: “never forget.” Nine years later, it’s clear that great swathes of the populace have indeed forgotten and the leftist media’s coverage of the anniversary this weekend was symptomatic of the Left’s selective memory when it comes to Islamic terrorism. Oh sure, they remembered the victims of al-Qaeda’s barbarous attacks who fell in New York, Washington and Shanksville, but that’s the easy part. There’s nothing controversial or dangerous about mourning the murdered. It’s quite another thing to point out that the murderous ideology that put thousands of Americans in their graves nine years ago is as potent, as dangerous and as evil a force today as it was on that fateful fall morning in 2001. Yet, from the mainstream media’s coverage through President Obama’s remarks, leftists used the 9th anniversary of the attacks as another excuse to try to conceal Islam’s sharp talons beneath cloaks of respectability and even impotence.

Speaking at the Pentagon on Saturday, the president called the Muslim fundamentalists who carried out the attacks nine years ago “a sorry band of men” who had perverted their religion. “We will not give in to their hatred,” Obama said. “As Americans, we will not or ever be at war with Islam.” He called for tolerance of Muslims, seemingly alluding in part to the controversies surrounding the proposed Ground Zero mosque and Florida pastor Terry Jones’ aborted plans to burn copies of the Qur’an. He said that only through tolerance can we keep alive the legacy of the men and women who fell on 9/11.

The speech thus essentially became another other opportunity for Obama to soothe Muslim leaders across the globe, although why any Muslim should need reassurances about this administration’s conciliatory attitude towards the “religion of peace” is anyone’s guess. Citizens of this county, on the other hand, could be forgiven for taking another sort of message away after listening to the president’s remarks. The Obama administration will bend itself into rhetorical knots in order to separate the violent actions of individual Muslims from the political/religious ideology that motivates them. Yet Americans are supposed to assume responsibility for the actions of any fellow citizen that might somehow offend Muslims. In other words, according to the leader of the free world, acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam are mere anomalies that should in no way reflect upon Islam, but it’s our responsibility if hyper-sensitive Muslims are whipped into a frenzy by the mere prospect of an obscure preacher in Florida burning a few books.

More at the link.

Desperate Dems — Do it for Bieber?

Do it for Bieber? Seriously.

Like I said earlier, it's gonna be a bloodbath.

BlogCon

Boy, this last weekend was a busy one for conservatives.

Away from New York, lots of conservatives got together for political conventions and tea parties. Nice Deb has a roundup of event on Freedom Works BlogCon event. R.S. McCain was there, and he's got photos to prove it: "BlogCon: Paparazzi!" And John Hawkins gave a whopper of a speech, "My BlogCon Speech: What It Takes To Make It As a Blogger."

Now, since I am here in front of a whole roomful of bloggers, I thought I would talk about some of the things I get asked privately -- questions like, do you have advice for me about building up my traffic? What's it's like being a professional blogger? And are Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin as hot in person as they are on TV? The answer to that last question is "yes" and "yes," my friends.

Now, way back when I got started -- and this should encourage you -- I had no contacts in D.C., no contacts in the blogging world, and no special skills that gave me an edge. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a professor. I'm not a reporter. I did technical support for a living. In other words, when your grandma's dog peed on her hard drive, then she put it in the dishwasher to get it clean, took it out and wondered why it didn't work, I was the person she called -- and, yes, that did really happen.

Back then, I would get up, go to work, come home, work until the wee hours of the morning pumping out 4 solid blog posts a day; then I'd get 4-6 hours of sleep and do it again. After doing that for a year, I had 1000 people a day reading me. After two years of that, I was at 3000 a day. After four years, I had 8000 people a day reading me and went full time.

Now, I'm at around 14k people a day on Right Wing News, 14k on Linkiest, and another 5k or so on Viral Footage. On RWN, there are roughly 14-18 posts a day, M-F, another 8-10 per day on the week-ends, and I have something like 30 bloggers writing for me at least semi-regularly.

One of those 30 bloggers would be me!

Anyway, lots more awesome comments and reflections at the link. Plus, All American Blogger's got even more pictures! The schedule of events and speakers is at Freedom Works. Looks like an awesome gig!

'Bridge Building' and the WTC Mosque

From William McGurn, at WSJ:

No one walks the streets of Manhattan fearing a Methodist may blow up his office, hijack his flight, or kill his son fighting in Afghanistan. Unless you are Angelina Jolie or the dean of Yale Law School, this is not only true but obvious.

RTWT.

Koran Burning

I missed the guy who burned the Koran at Ground Zero, but Stogie's got the video. He torched one himself as well:

But Uh-Oh, Honey, Lay Off of Them Shoes...

I used to listen to all the great original rockabilly artists. Carl Perkins made the first recording of "Blue Suede Shoes," which was later covered by Elvis Presley. Here's Perkins on Perry Como's in 1956. Another era, for sure. Go, cat, Go:

Andy Stepanian, Convicted Animal Rights Terrorist, Attacks Concerned Mosque Opponents as 'Handful of Fear Mongering Bigots'

It's Andy Stepanian, a convicted terrorist from the notorious SHAC 7. The New York Times reported on the group in 2006: "Six Animal Rights Advocates Are Convicted of Terrorism." Wikipedia has the full background on the organization, "Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty." The group advocates direct action, political violence, and attacks on "secondary and tertiary targets," including children's nursery schools. SHAC is an operation arm of the Animal Liberation Front.

Stepanian's essay is at Huffington Post, naturally (via Memeorandum and Weasel Zippers):

"Any educated individual understands that the Park 51 Islamic Interfaith Center is not a Mosque, nor is it an exclusively Muslim space..."

And:

"This perverse narrative and it's uneducated sloganeering needs to be countered with equally simplistic and strong speech, stating that we, as New Yorkers & Americans, embrace the religious freedoms of all groups; no matter how large or small their constituency is. We support their freedom to assemble and worship when they choose and wherever they choose to do so."

And:

We won't back down when a handful of fear mongering bigots try to tell us that Park 51 should not be built. We will not turn our backs on our Muslim neighbors. The Park 51 Center is about unity, reconciliation and peaceful coexistence ... the cornerstone of the spirit of New York.

Right.

Seriously. When you have to spice your argument with gratuitous ad hominems you've already lost the debate.

Besides, this is straight out of the left-wing terrorist handbook. So enlightened. Anyone who might deign to entertain a different opinion is "uneducated." So let's blow them up and kill their children.

I think folks on the ground have already got this all figured out:

Geert Wilders' Security Cordon at Ground Zero Rally

There was obviously so much more about it. Still, I noticed this, all through his speech. Geert Wilders had ultra-tight security. And this is above and beyond the massive NYPD presence for the event. El Marco has a new report, "Geert Wilders Warns America at 9/11 Remembrance Rally." And he writes of the photo below:

Mr. Wilders was surrounded by Dutch government security men due to Islamist and leftist threats against his life. The agent in the foreground holds a bullet proof shield with both hands, ready to open it quickly to defend against an assassin's attack. The stage area was completely surrounded by security agents.

Mr. Wilders is outspoken in opposing the islamization of the Netherlands and the West. He produced a short film called Fitna which features violent Koranic quotes juxtaposed with images of terrorist attacks. Theo van Gogh was stabbed to death in Amsterdam for making a similar film called Submission. Van Gogh’s partner in making the film, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, M.P., was advised by the Dutch government, that she would be safer living elsewhere. She moved to the relative safety of America, where she lives under 24 hour tight security. Pamela Geller is also under constant death threat, as is Robert Spencer, both of whom can be seen in the photo ...

The conditions under which these human rights activists live show clearly that islam is a violent totalitarian ideology which is destroying free speech in Europe. It takes left-wing political correctness (speech control) one step further by threatening the lives of those who speak out.

The text of the entire speech is at the link. Another brilliant passage:

A tolerant society is not a suicidal society. It must defend itself against the powers of darkness, the force of hatred and the blight of ignorance. It cannot tolerate the intolerant – and survive. This means that we must not give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us. An overwhelming majority of Americans is opposed to building this mosque.

GOP Set to Kick Butt November 2nd

Gallup's findings are generally pretty conservative, but this is good nevertheless: "Generic Ballot Splits 48% for GOP, 43% for Dems." (Via Memeorandum.) Of course, Rasmussen's continuing survey's are finding Republicans with double-digit advantages in the generic ballot. I'm getting extremely excited for election day. It's going to be a bloodbath.

Conservatives and the Delaware Primary

Mark Levin linked to one of my old posts on Patrick Frey (Patterico), at Facebook and Twitter:

There's an intra-conservative battle raging over the Delaware primary. I've been too busy to write about it, doing my work on the Ground Zero Mosque. But this is important. John Fund has a breaking update on the race: "Down to the Wire in Delaware":

The Internet was all "atwitter" last night with word that a new survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning firm, finds conservative Christine O'Donnell surging into a lead over moderate Mike Castle in tomorrow's GOP primary for Senate in Delaware.

The PPI poll shows Ms. O'Donnell with 47% of the vote compared to 44% for Mr. Castle, who has been the state's lone U.S. House member since 1992. Mr. Castle has been particularly hurt by Ms. O'Donnell's attacks on his pro-choice views on abortion and his House vote for cap-and-trade ....

A PPP analysis find that Mr. Castle's approval rating "has taken a sharp turn" from a month ago when he had 60% support in the GOP primary. His decline is "largely a product of 55% of voters in his party saying they think he's too liberal," says pollster Tom Jensen. Currently, Ms. O'Donnell gets 62% of likely conservative voters, who are expected to make up two-thirds of tomorrow's electorate. Ms. O'Donnell is being aided by a last-minute robocall to voters from Sarah Palin.

O'Donnell supporters were quick to claim their candidate has the momentum to win tomorrow. But some skepticism is in order. Ms. O'Donnell has lacked the money for an effective absentee ballot program to lock in votes from her supporters. And Mr. Castle has avoided the mistake of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who narrowly lost a GOP primary last month in part because she didn't pursue absentee voters. Ms. O'Donnell also won't be helped by news yesterday that she once sued a conservative non-profit for nearly $7 million claiming "mental anguish" and gender discrimination after a demotion ....

Conservatives are clearly motivated in Delaware tomorrow and it's likely a majority will back Ms. O'Donnell. But polls like PPP's also signal to Mr. Castle's many supporters that their man is in trouble and they may have to take the unusual step of voting in a GOP primary to save his candidacy. I believe enough will turn out to give Mr. Castle a narrow victory. In the fall election, Mr. Castle has a clear lead over Democrat Chris Coons, while Ms. O'Donnell trails him in head-to-head matchups.

Fund also notes that Public Policy Polling is not very reliable (so perhaps discount the O'Donnell surge in the polls), and that the absentee ballots and election-day turnout will determine the winner (and those are largely unknown circumstances at the moment).

I have no clue on the outcome, frankly, having not followed the race other than to read Dan Riehl's blog on the intra-conservative contortions over Christine O'Donnell. And the contortions continue with Patterico's new post, "O’Donnell Leads Castle in Poll; UPDATE: Levin Calls Patterico an “Idiot”."

Anti-American, Anti-Israel: Scenes From Ground Zero, September 11, 2010 — UPDATE: ''Don Douglas Hearts Juses'

I've responded to the rocket scientists at Sadly No!: "'Don Douglas Hearts Juses'."

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I didn't travel to New York to cover the America-bashing, anti-Israel left. I didn't even Google around to see if there were big antiwar demonstrations planned. I just wasn't thinking about it. I was too excited to see New York, to be in the city in body and spirit with my fellow Americans and patriots. I did see the big group of 9/11 truthers, of course. They stayed out and about throughout the day, right at Ground Zero. Those people are shocking to me. I can't fathom the scale of conspiracies these people concoct. I deal with it by documenting their exploits. Evil fringe crowd, and demented.

It turns out there were some large leftist mobilizations on 9/11. The most prominent was sponsored by Ramsey Clark's International Action Center (IAC): "Emergency Mobilization Against Racism and Anti-Muslim Bigotry." According to Discover the Networks, the IAC "serves as an umbrella foundation for a host of anti-war radical groups, and is staffed by members of the Workers World Party (WWP), a Marxist-Leninist vanguard that idolizes the former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and regards Fidel Castro as a hero of the common man." Weasel Zippers has a report, "In Keeping With Solemn Mood of The 9/11 Occasion – Pro Mosque Crowd Ring Bells, Bang Drums and Chant." Also, Politico cites the crowd at 2,000 people: "At Ground Zero, Sept. 11 Gets Political."

I became a bit claustrophobic during the SIOA rally, and took off after Geert Wilders spoke. I wanted to say hello to Pamela Geller, of course, but the police had blocked entry to the sidewalks surrounding the speakers' stand, so I ended up just cruising around again. At one point, back over by the Information Booth on Vesey, I came across an abandoned sign from the IAC's morning protest:

Flipping over the sign:

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And here's a mosque protester I didn't see earlier in the day. she's observing the heated argument that just broke out on the corner. A policeman came over just after this to break up the crowd:

This is one block past Park Place, Murray Street, I think. I start walking down to West Broadway to try one more time at greeting Pamela. I came across this group of kids, with their signs attacking "racist fearmongering," sponsored by Stop Islamophobia.org, which is a front for the IAC neo-communist coalition:

Next I decided to walk up to this fellow below and I ask: "Hey, if I oppose the Ground Zero Mosque, are you going to call me a racist?" He says, "I don't even know you." And I say, "Right. And you don't know the other 82 percent of Americans who oppose the mosque, but you're calling them racists." He says, "No, no. We don't think everyone's racist." I begged to differ, and after making more lame excuses, he breaks out a protest flyer featuring pictures of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. He says, "This is who we're talking about. These people are racists." I tell him I know both Pamela and Robert, and they're not racists. He starts whining about alleged hate speech on their blogs, or something. By this time he's flustered, and another older guy with an Islamic skull cap comes over and picks up the debate, changing the subject to "U.S. imperialism," "war for oil," and all the tired old communist tropes. I told him I wasn't here to argue about it. I was simply challenging their claims of racism, and they ended up changing the subject when they realized they couldn't call me a racist to my face. That's how you handle these idiots. Call them out. Debunk their efforts to shut down debate. Throw it back in the faces and watch the mumbling begin:

By this time crowds from the SIOA rally start making their way up toward Church Street. I keep walking, but the cops wouldn't let me near the stage, and after taking a few more pics I started walking toward City Center to catch the subway back to my motel. I came across this guy over by City Hall, posing for pictures with the tourists. He's a black dude with an interesting New York accent. Pointing at left, he says, "That's Malcolm X's dawwtah," regaling me with his knowledge of American Muslim history. He was a friendly guy, but I didn't stick around long:

That was the last of these folks, but check out these videos c/o Ghost of a Flea. It's the same old same old, but each year these folks get even more brazen. Notice all the signage (not tea party-ish, at all). And of course the chants of "Allahu Akbar!":