Posted by
Grampus on Friday, January 12, 2007 10:24:51 AM
Media Arrogance
The
New York Times chose "Public Interest" (read our numbers are dwindling
so we need to print government secrets to sell our rag) over America's
security, even when deplored not to do so by the President. Absolutely
reprehensible. Yet, the story reported that the program is legal,
effective and, as far as any Bush anti-terror initiative can be in the
current poisonous environment, uncontroversial. But they published it
anyway regardless of it's complete legality.
Rich
Lowry of NR says this: "By running the nation’s foremost newspaper,
Bill Keller gets to decide which secrets of the U.S. government are
maintained and which aren’t — and his default position is to expose
them all.
On the one hand, the implicit
contention of the Times is that the public almost never has an interest
in secrecy, in having classified matters kept that way. On the other,
it jealously guards the identity of its secret sources and wants its
ability to do so in defiance of governmental investigations written
into law. Here is the ultimate arrogation of public power — the Times
demanding legal protection for its own secrets so it can better expose
the government’s.” [Newswithviews]
The
liberal media in our country continuously drones on and on with its
double standard mentality … it is just the same old tune of the ‘hate
America’ first crowd.
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The Mouth
ABC's
The View cast was split over the President's surge speech. Elisabeth
Hasselbeck thought "this is the last shot...this better work." Barbara
Walters said she was torn, since ABC News employees "try hard not to
give our political opinions" [!], and that she wanted to give the new
strategy a chance, but wondered about why it mattered that Bush said he
took responsibility for the war's mistakes. Rosie O'Donnell and Joy
Behar were sharply opposed. Behar declared the troops were just "cannon
fodder." O'Donnell whacked at Bush-Cheney: "The armed forces, they are
the bravest and the boldest and they're much braver than the men who
sent them there to fight this war."
The
sharpest exchange came when O'Donnell complained that we lost our
popularity in the world after 9/11, and Hasselbeck wondered if our
"social standing" was so important. Rosie rebuffed: "So it's about that
we're a beacon of light. America, we are a beacon of light in this
world. We are supposed to be above this kind of behavior, of invading
and occupying." Behar seconded the emotion, and Hasselbeck slapped
back: "I don't really care about being liked. I care about being safe."
We can
always be assured that Rosie [O’Donkey] will never get any smarter and
continue to display her lunacy. Hey, it sells to a large part of the
American TV audience!
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Muslim European Strategy
"Revealed:
preachers' messages of hate: Muslim worshippers are being urged by
radical clerics to ignore British law," by Jamie Doward in The
Guardian, with thanks to all who sent this in:
An
undercover investigation has revealed disturbing evidence of Islamic
extremism at a number of Britain's leading mosques and Muslim
institutions, including an organization praised by the Prime Minister.
Muslim
preachers exhorting followers to prepare for jihad, to hit girls for
not wearing the hijab, and to create a 'state within a state'.
A
forthcoming Channel 4 Dispatches program paints an alarming picture of
how preachers in some of Britain's most moderate mosques are urging
followers to reject British laws in favor of those of Islam. Leaders of
the mosques have expressed concern at the preachers' activities, saying
they were unaware such views were being disseminated.
Yep,
I can understand bull$hit when I smell it and “hogwash” when I hear
it! It is simple…they are propagating the crap as outlined in the
Qur’an…using deceit when you don’t the power advantage.
At
the Sparkbrook mosque, run by UK Islamic Mission (UKIM), an
organization that maintains 45 mosques in Britain and which Tony Blair
has said 'is extremely valued by the government for its multi-faith and
multicultural activities', a preacher is captured on film praising the
Taliban. In response to the news that a British Muslim solider was
killed fighting the Taliban, the speaker declares: 'The hero of Islam
is the one who separated his head from his shoulders.'
I
cringe every time I hear multi-faith and multicultural activities.
This preacher and the Taliban as well as al-Quaida welcomes this type
of rhetoric when they hear it…viewing it as capitulation and weakness.
Another
speaker says Muslims cannot accept the rule of non-Muslims. 'You cannot
accept the rule of the kaffir [non-Muslim],' a preacher, Dr Ijaz Mian,
tells a meeting held within the mosque. 'We have to rule ourselves and
we have to rule the others.
Their goal is world
domination…will Western leaders ever realize that negotiation is not an
option with these dark ages fanatics? Eventually, we will surrender or
kill them. I choose kill them.Gramps