Remember that widely circulated YouTube video of those two Black Panther buffoons in black berets, black combat boots, and black jackets intimidating voters at a polling station in Philadelphia with racial insults, slurs, and a nightstick? You may or may not have heard that Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, decided to dismiss the case... »
Archive for September 9th, 2009
Dead Palestinians Only Matter If Killed By Israel
I recently posted about an incident in Gaza where Palestinians clashed with one another, resulting in 28 Palestinians killed and more than 120 wounded. Tim Marshall, the foreign affairs editor at Sky News, took an obvious, but always interesting, perspective on this story when he recently blogged about the double standard that exists in which dead... »
Apartheid Expert Fires Back At Israel-Bashers
Benjamin Pogrund, born in South Africa and former deputy editor of the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, now lives in Jerusalem and is founder/director of Yakar’s Center for Social Concern. He has written three books: about Robert Sobukwe, Nelson Mandela, and the press under apartheid, and is co-editor of Shared Histories: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue,... »
Obama Has Health Care “Under Control”; Doesn’t Need Republicans
The Hill is reporting that : The ball is in President Obama’s court to reach out to Republicans if he wants a bipartisan bill on healthcare reform, House GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio) said Monday morning. Boehner told reporters that the president has not invited House GOP leaders to the White House for... »
Who Needs a Palestinian State?
I recently came across a blog post by Sultan Knish entitled “Who Needs A Palestinian State?” which I found to be a great talking points piece on the issue of Israel and the Palestinians. It also has links at the end to some of Sultan Knish’s other posts, also with some great talking points... »
Second Rate Has-Been Danny Glover, Hanoi Jane, and Friends Protest Against Israel
The New York Post is reporting that in an online letter to event chiefs of the Toronto International Film Festival and in other public statements, traitor Hanoi Jane Fonda, self-hating Jew Naomi Klein, second-rate has-been bit actor Danny Glover, musical has-been David Byrne, vagina-obsessed Eve Ensler, and several others looking for that long-lost spotlight have protested... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]