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Romney tells truth, media horrified

Posted on September 20, 2012 | Comments Off on Romney tells truth, media horrified

The Palestinians have “no interest whatsoever in establishing peace…[and Obama’s] idea of pushing on the Israelis to give something up to get the Palestinians to act is the worst idea in the world.”

Any attentive child knows that if the Pallys wanted peace they could have had it yesterday. How odd that most politicians and bureaucrats never tell this truth. How refreshing that one finally had the guts to do it.

UPDATE: Romney has and will tell many more inconvenient truths between now and election day and Obama’s aghast media choir will punish him for it, telling us again and again that he is losing because he can’t restrain himself.

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Time for the Democrat media’s knives

Posted on September 18, 2012 | Comments Off on Time for the Democrat media’s knives

The Democrats have unleashed Maureen Dowd, the NYTimes hatchet-girl who starts slicing long about mid-September when a Republican is running for the White House.

This time she’s welcoming Rosh Hashanah with anti-Semitic tropes against Romney’s Jewish advisor Dan Senor:

“…depictions of Jews as snakes or puppeteers are classical anti-Semitic images, right up there with blood-sucking. The snake image has roots in the Christian Bible; the puppet-master goes back at least to Nazi Germany, and when Glenn Beck used it to talk about George Soros, who, unlike Dan Senor, has actually been hostile to Israel, the left was all over him for it.”

Soros always gets a free pass. Senor, rarely. Romney also is being attacked for an innocuous (and wholly accurate) talk to donors back in May some media stooge recorded for a September “secret video” surprise.

Look for the sly editorializing in the stories about it. Romney responded “somewhat awkwardly,” the NYTime opines. And their headline: “Romney faults those dependent on government” is a lie discoverable by anyone who has time to read the piece.

Anyone not busy working to pay the taxes to support the, ahem, increasing millions the Democrats are signing up for government welfare.

Don’t you just love living in a country where most of the news media backs one political party? Me neither. It’s uncomfortably like the old Soviet Union.

Indeed, everything is fake now: “As we watch the news covering a story, what we are actually watching is the media making up a story and then telling that story incessantly and embedding it in every nook and cranny of their coverage.”

Or do you think it’s an accident that you have to listen to CNN at airports?

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Those three loud votes no

Posted on September 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Those three loud votes no

It fit with the longtime anti-Christian and anti-Israel narrative of their Hollywood and news media pals when a sizable number of Dems tried three times last week to shout down restoration of the words god and Jerusalem to their party platform. But it still shocked me. Why had they been deleted in the first place?

David Goldman, a recently-returned modern Orthodox Jew (a minority within a minority), wasn’t surprised:

“The cultural divide in the United States is now almost absolute; Democratic Party liberalism, which once embraced devout Catholics and observant Jews, cannot conceal its contempt for religion.”

But the no votes also concerned recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, something some Arab-American Democrats (and surely many non-Arab American delegates, judging from the volume) vigorously opposed. Which bothered PJMedia’s Roger L. Simon more than a little:

“A sizable and serious claque on the Democratic National Convention floor was shouting and applauding against the Jews.”

If Goldman saw it that way, he didn’t mention it. But the video, whose maker focused on two Arab-American delegates, could be so interpreted.

So the line between the two political parties has been drawn sharper than ever. No longer just over abortion or gay marriage or more welfare and higher taxes vs social conservatism, free enterprise and individualism.

But now over Israel and religion. And we’ll see if the Democrats have correctly interpreted the American mood or put their heads in a noose.

And, oh, by the way, if you think the post-convention polls showing Obozo ahead by 2-3-4 percentage points are accurate, remember they similarly showed Carter ahead in September-October 1980—until Reagan trounced him by winning 44 states.

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How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

Posted on September 13, 2012 | Comments Off on How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

Everybody who thinks they know what Israel will do or when they will do it always seems to think (and talk and write) in terms of jet fighter-bombers dropping bunker busters on laboratories deep within mountains. Or else launching missiles from their tiny fleet of Dolphin submarines.

Certainly the submarine option would be preferable to risking the lives of young pilots and weapons officers (the guy in the back seat) flying so far away and over so much hostile territory. But there are other options few talk (or think or write) about.

Except PJMedia’s Dr. Michael Ledeen in his good series “The Iranian Time Bomb.” My favorite of his suppositions as to how it could be done is to think about an inside job. Not just by commandoes, though there are bound to be a more than a few of them already inside Iran.

But, even more likely, are some of the estimated quarter million Iranian Jews who already live there, all speaking Farsi and all passing effectively (because they are Iranians in a country where many, many people hate the regime) with plenty of means, motive and opportunity. Think about it.

(If you can’t get to the series at the link above without paying for a subscription, give one a trial. It’s not expensive and so much of PJMedia is so good and so very different from the Democrat news media’s familiar Obozo-lovin’ and Obozo-excusin’ narrative.)

UPDATE:  A quarter million Iranian Jews still in Iran? Says Dr. Ledeen. Could be far fewer, according to Point of No Return, the Jewish Refugees blog. About 100,000 were there before the 1979 Muslim revolution. Not many have left since and the ones who stayed try to keep out of the public eye since the regime is mortally hostile to them. Still, what better motive could you ask for if you wanted an inside job?

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Banning smoking in (wait for it) Lebanon

Posted on September 5, 2012 | Comments Off on Banning smoking in (wait for it) Lebanon

Whew. Glad these folks have got their priorities straight. For a moment I thought maybe they meant they were banning the smoking cities of Syria or the way Iran and their puppet Assad would like to export those smoking cities elsewhere.

But that would be revolutionary.  No, turns out the Hezbollah-backed government of Lebanon is referring to cigarettes and banning them in public places. California exports! Coercive politics, anyhow. What will the terrorists think of next? Banning free speech? Naw. They already do that.

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The Munich Eleven

Posted on August 19, 2012 | Comments Off on The Munich Eleven

Members of the Israeli Olympic team (five competitors, four coaches, a referee and a judge) who were slain in Munich by Palestinian terrorists in 1972. Whom the London Olympics chose not to recall even for a minute on this year’s 40th anniversary of their murders. But for whom American Gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman dedicated her performance. Click on the picture to enlarge for easier reading.

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Romney assaults cultural relativism

Posted on August 2, 2012 | Comments Off on Romney assaults cultural relativism

Mittens is a pretty boring public speaker and writer. Particularly a boring writer. The man doesn’t believe in contractions, which everyone uses every day in their speech. And most good writers try to imitate speech. The no-contractions result, as an editor once told me, is a page full of “Amish-straight.”

Maybe the Amish and the Mormons have something in common?

It’s refreshing, however, to see/hear Romney assault “cultural relativism.” You know, the academic nonsense of the last twenty years or so that all cultures are equally valid? That American culture is not superior to, say, Afghani culture. Or, in Romney’s recent Jerusalem riff, Israeli culture and its dynamic economy is not superior to the we’re-all-on-UN-welfare culture of the Israel-hating, bomb belt-wearing Palestinians.

But of course there’s a difference. Any fool can see it. But so far Romney is the only presidential candidate daring to be that fool out loud. So, while the GOP nominee certainly doesn’t have a sparkling personality, he’s already making more sense to the average American than Obozo and his tedious PC-speak. That’s refreshing! Go get ’em Mittens. You can beat this guy.

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