Caption: "Palestinians carry the body of Msoud Suboh during his funeral in northern Gaza Strip May 2, 2007. A Palestinian man was shot dead in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what Palestinian emergency workers described as a brief Israeli raid near the border fence. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)

To their credit, it looks like Reuters eventually corrected the "mistake". Snapped Shot has the rest of the story.

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Once the U.S. leaves Iraq, everything will be hunky-dory alert. A line from the second page of this flyer for an Islamist protest organized by an al Qaeda linked front group in Britain.*

"They call it liberation and freedom, we call it oppression and domination....they have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and murdered hundreds of thousands of Muslims."

Nothing to fear here folks. Move along.... more...

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1 Straight from the practitioners of the 'ROP'

Posted by: mrclark at April 30, 2007 01:00 AM (2G5Vr)

2 Ha!  The last guy was a joke--Israel has handed terrorist-militants their arses day in day out; if only Ariel Sharon was running the show!

I'll gladly shake hands with a Jew, and hug them too   God bless the finest society in the Middle East.

Posted by: Richard Romano at April 30, 2007 01:50 AM (iD1fP)

3 I shake hands with Jews all the time. Jews are tremendous hand shakers. I actually took a piss next to Michael Dell once, excellent shaker. Sometimes, they try to hug and in Texas that's considered bad form. Arabs are huggers though. And not in the manly hug kind of way either. They tend to 'linger'. Creepy. And, Arabs are more likely to explode when you hug them than Jews are. Jews shake hands and scope out the buffet. Arabs hug too long and try to find the optimum blast radius. It's just a cultural thing.

Posted by: CozMark at April 30, 2007 05:06 AM (L9o51)

4 I actually took a piss next to Michael Dell once, excellent shaker.
Sometimes, they try to hug and in Texas that's considered bad form

Only if you try it in the bathroom man.

Posted by: Randman at April 30, 2007 05:15 AM (Sal3J)

5 Only if you try it in the bathroom man.
 
No, it's pretty much anywhere. Usually, just nodding your head in someone's general direction gets the point across.

Posted by: CozMark at April 30, 2007 05:23 AM (L9o51)

6 No wonder these people have got so many problems.

Posted by: Infidelsalwayswin at April 30, 2007 07:02 AM (8OiB3)

7 Oh, and of course I would [shake hands with a Jew]. But that just goes without saying since I'm a modern human being living in a secular democracy, and not some backward nutjob living in the worst place on Earth who's been indoctrinated with pure hate against a race of people because my weird hybrid religion portrays them as pigs. Indeed, if there was some way we could replace all of the Muslims here with Jews, I'd do it in the blink of an eye. No more terrorism, no more calles for genocide against us, 95% less hatred, and on top of that the economy would improve by something like 50%, not to mention the cultural benefits and so on.
We've got 1.6 million Muslims and around 300,000 Jews, so you can see wherein lies the problem.

Posted by: Infidelsalwayswin at April 30, 2007 07:15 AM (8OiB3)

8 Fire has destroyed steel on the San Franciso Bay bridge. He we go again. Dinbats come forward tell us it can't happen. John Ryan knows it can't happen.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 30, 2007 07:17 AM (sL7GA)

9 Considering some of the pix of seen of Israeli service women.. I would happily shake whatever they offered.

And yes.. I meant that.

Posted by: JeepThang at April 30, 2007 07:31 AM (yZQoS)

10 of = I've.. kinda early.

Posted by: JeepThang at April 30, 2007 07:31 AM (yZQoS)

11 Cozmark uses several different names--he's a grade A kook, with a hateful, bigoted heart.

You know where you can go, you sick ****!

Posted by: Richard Romano at April 30, 2007 10:11 AM (iD1fP)

12 Jews? Sure. I'd love to. Not so sure about Muslims though, because you know... eating with the right hand and then wiping their behind with the left hand... uh... thanks, but no thanks. Plus if they like Sheryl Crow, they may start only using one sheet of toilet paper and that can't be good. If you must though, shake the right hand. I guess my big question is, what if they happen to be a lefty... and how would you know?

Posted by: DrTheopolis at April 30, 2007 02:41 PM (9ZqGe)

13 DrTheopolis,
 

What I pray tell leads you to believe they use TP? You do realize that toilet paper is not a universally applied product right.........

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at April 30, 2007 03:20 PM (XvkRd)

14

Well, I hope they do, DG, otherwise... I've had some pretty questionable handshakes... yuck... cooties...

Posted by: DrTheopolis at April 30, 2007 03:28 PM (9ZqGe)

15 "Dick" Romano -
You can't prove anything that you wrote about me because none of it is true.
I rarely post at 2 other blogs and I always do so under CozMark.
I'm ignoring you....NOW!

Posted by: CozMark at April 30, 2007 05:52 PM (g6Au2)

16 Dr T. Not a lot of toilet paper out there in the desert. Do they make toilet paper in Iraq. I was told by some Marines the wogs crap standing up holding the silly dress things up with one hand. They then wipe if neccessary with their bare left fingers wiping them in return on the sand and the inside of their garments. A very progressive people.

Posted by: greyrooster at May 01, 2007 06:25 AM (MPV+3)

17

Maybe we should drop TP all over the country... you think they'll get the hint?

Posted by: DrTheopolis at May 01, 2007 09:14 AM (9ZqGe)

18 Bomb them with 'handi-wipes'        Wipe'em out                       
                 USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at May 01, 2007 11:28 AM (2OHpj)

19 So silly, shake hands. What are they afraid of? Catching reality from the Jews. God forbid if you learn something.

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Doriangrey e-mailed saying I have to see this. That it would rock my world. It did. But isn't it sad that so few in Hollywood want America to win? Jon Voight isn't the only one, but the fact that its news says something profoundly disturbing.

Bryan, as always, has the video.

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The Western press was duped by Hezbollah, a new Harvard report suggests. In the "framing war", Hezbollah won and our media did their part to help. Charles Johnson gets a quick mention in it, and The Jawa Report a nod but without attribution. That's okay, I don't mind playing second-fiddle to Charles. He's the one that got me blogging in the first place.

The entire thing focuses on how the media framed the Hizbollah/Lebanon-Israeli war. And that framing, and the images that led to it, was one of Israeli aggression, the loss of innocent Lebanese lives, and the ultimate defeat of Israel. Hizbollah was rarely shown as aggressor and carefully staged media manipulation on Hizbollah's part was rarely references.

Here's the relevant part of the report dealing with Adnan Hajj:

There was also the case of two other photographs shot and later altered by freelancer Adnan Hajj, who covered the war for Reuters until August 7, when he was fired. To wash its hands of Hajj, Reuters then quickly removed all 920 of his photographs from its database.52 One of the two photographs showed a suburb of Beirut after an Israeli air attack. Dark smoke rose from a devastated building. It was an arresting photograph that caught the horror of war, and naturally it appeared in newspapers around the world. Were it not for an American blog site called Little Green Footballs, run by Charles Johnson, it might have won a prize for wartime photography. But with determination and ingenuity, Johnson found that the photograph had almost certainly been doctored. He compared it with others shot of the same building at the same time and discovered that in Hajj’s photograph the dark smoke was darker—and there was more of it.53 The other Hajj photograph of an Israeli jet streaking across southern Lebanon showed three flares being dropped from the plane. Upon later examination, it was learned that only one had been dropped.

Twice Hajj had altered photographs, not presumably to contrive events where none existed but rather to heighten the drama of real events (“to hype the story,” an old journalistic sin) and perhaps deliberately to worsen Israel’s image in the world and, by comparison, to soften Hezbollah’s image. Hajj denied that he had wittingly doctored the two photographs, saying he was simply trying to remove dust marks in poor lighting. We may never know the absolute truth, but Hajj’s photographs served to heighten doubts about journalistic credibility. “Fauxtography,” they were called. Johnson (and many others in the West) thought the incident proved that Hezbollah would exploit any advantage to win the war of images—in its strategy, as crucial an element as winning the war itself.

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1 So? Screw em. The answer? Pol Pot. Academia needs an enema.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 25, 2007 01:40 PM (NOVbS)

2 The MSM want to stop all American wars, since these would be victories for Republicans, not Socialism.

“Socialism (Websters): noun 1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state 3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.”

Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy, etc. constantly want expanding government controls, economic leveling, controls on capitalism and competition, and top-down political structures where citizens are not trusted to govern themselves.  The Democrat manifesto quietly chips away at the foundations of liberal democracy ‘progressively’, as socialists have been doing in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere for decades.

Socialism’s scope is global, they want global economic controls, global environmental controls, global government, and no wars between nations because they do not believe in nations.  They want to stop all American wars, since these would be victories for Republican liberal democracy, not socialism.  The Democrats support Islamists and apologize for them because both groups want to defeat Republican liberal democracy. An American defeat in Iraq would be a victory for socialism, just as Vietnam was.  To Democrats and their fellow-traveling main-stream media, anti-war posturing is not treasonous, because they are not loyal to America.  Like most socialists, they loathe modern liberal democracy, and especially George Bush’s use of it, because it is their main competitor.

Posted by: DemocracyRules at April 25, 2007 01:58 PM (L/SIz)

3 Before you guys whip it out, and start wanking yourselves silly, please note that:

"The views are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of the JFK School of Gov or Harvard University. Faculty Research Working Papers have NOT undergone formal review and approval."

I paraphrase, but that's written on the front page. This means the doc is not peer-reviewed, and at this point is little more than a matter of opinion.

Now don't get me wrong. The media pulled some dirty tricks here, but don't for a second think this doesn't go both ways.

Though who am I kidding... you guys are incapable of considering such an option.

Posted by: John at April 25, 2007 03:10 PM (S3Rzh)

4 The entire thing focuses on how the media framed the Hizbollah/Lebanon-Israeli war.

No surprise here.  Liberals (and by extension the MSM) are in the business of "framing" the issues.  Or rather, re-framing reality.  They did it with the Hesbollah war, and they're doing it with the Iraq war.  They were only "duped" to the extend they wanted to be duped.  Leftards are only as stupid as they want to be.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at April 25, 2007 03:31 PM (8e/V4)

5 "The first casualty of war is truth."

Oh. That's right.  We're not at war.

Go back to your lives, citizens.

Posted by: locomotivebreath1901 at April 25, 2007 03:36 PM (Cy7OH)

6 John, you ignorant slut. Exactly how did the Fauxtography scandal "go both ways?"

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at April 25, 2007 03:58 PM (p52Ne)

7 There is not terrorist that John won't defend. Why don't you go join them you traitorous fuck.

Posted by: Randman at April 25, 2007 04:07 PM (Sal3J)

8 Well, for example, mediamatters.org has a full time job documenting the errors, ommisions, and outright lies of the msm, which clearly favours a rightwing perspective.

But specifically, lets take a look at the  recent case of Michael Ware, who was "mistakely" said to have laughed during McCain's laughable speech. This site was one of dozens, which took part in spreading the lie, and only weeks after actual video was released printed a snotty retraction.

This was a pathetic attempt to smear a man who puts his life on the line every single day to get the story. It served your purposes to spread the lie that he's nothing more than an activist, so voila!

Posted by: John at April 25, 2007 04:17 PM (S3Rzh)

9 John, you incredibly ignorant slut, how did the Fauxtography scandal "go both ways?"
 
FYI: Media Matters is a Soros-financed leftist propaganda site posing as a media watchdog for the purposes of preserving the Leftist stranglehold on the Legacy Media. Only an incredibly ignorant slut, such as yourself, would be fooled by them.

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at April 25, 2007 05:10 PM (p52Ne)

10 I'm talking about inaccuracy in the media in general. Not one specific event such as the "Fauxtography" incident.

Another good example of inaccuracy in the "media" is you calling Media Matters a Soros-financed site. Either you are stupid, or a liar, though I'd bet on both:

Media Matters denies this charge outright:

"In fact,
Soros has never given money to Media Matters,
either directly or through another organization."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704240003

Posted by: John at April 25, 2007 05:51 PM (S3Rzh)

11 John, you astoundingly ignorant slut. Soros begat the Center for American Progress. The Center for American Progress begat Media Matters for America. Media Matters for America begat MediaMatters.org.

It's small wonder that a liar, such as yourself, would cite other liars, such as the weasels at MediaMatters.org.

 Here's your quote in reference to the Fauxtography scandal that makes you a lying weasel, "The media pulled some dirty tricks here, but don't for a second think this doesn't go both ways." - so, for the third time, you slimy, effeminate disgrace to the Canadian nation, how did the Fauxtography scandal "go both ways?"

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at April 25, 2007 06:28 PM (p52Ne)

12 Interesting. I'm more willing to believe stuff I read on Media Matters than rightwing crackpots who smear war vetrans.  A visit to Wikipedia turns up the fact that Center for American Progress which help start Media Matters (but does not continue to support) "allegedly" receives money from Soros, so that's a fairly indirect connection at best.

But lets say for a second this is true? Who the fuck cares? Rich rightwing assholes fund all sorts of think tanks, why shouldn't rich lefting assholes?

More importantly, can you disprove anything Media Matters accuses the Right of? All they do is document the retardation that comes out of your mouths. They don't make that shit up... they pull whole quotes in context of how they're said.

And I repeat... I'm talking about general misinformation put out by media outlets... much like this one, not just the "Fauxtography" issue.

You guys "own" misinformation, but that is slowly coming to an end as people open their eyes. That, or your civilization goes down the toilet... I'm easy either way.

Posted by: John at April 25, 2007 06:58 PM (S3Rzh)

13 "for example, mediamatters.org"   Happily stamping out any embers of truth that don't meet with the aproval of thier chosen narrative.  I bet John is one of thier pooches!        USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 25, 2007 07:08 PM (2OHpj)

14 "can you disprove anything Media Matters accuses the Right of"  Thats the beauty of cherry picking quotes, and sound bites. You can make anyone say anything, in thier own words, but it can still be made into a lie. It is actually easier to prove they are spindoctors for Soros, and the left, than to try and dsipute the tape, or print they chose to repeat out of context.  I can make Pelosi accept Islam if I pick her words carefully enough (probably already has ... idiot!)  When your funding a giant cherry picking operation to discredite the factual positions, and motives of honest Americans, your lying! That is what Media Maters does. I despise them for it.
                                   
                                      
                              USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 25, 2007 07:16 PM (2OHpj)

15 "But lets say for a second this is true? Who the fuck cares? Rich rightwing assholes fund all sorts of think tanks, why shouldn't rich lefting assholes?"    People who want the truth instead of Soros' carefully purchased distortions would care! People who see the deep anti-Americanism of what Soros wants, are the kind who would care! Those who see Media Matters as the virtual 'Ministry of Propaganda' for the new Socialist elite, would care! Anyone who wants to stop this continued assault on honest Americans who aren't Marxists, would care!  I care!              
                          
                                    
                      USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 25, 2007 07:22 PM (2OHpj)

16 John,
 

 Caught red-handed repeating known documented lies and all you can say is............

 

But lets say for a second this is true? Who the fuck cares?

 

Well dickhead this is why everyone keeps calling you a fucking liar, because you know you are lying and don’t give a fuck. Just like Dan "I'm a god damn liar" Rather, you know that you are lying but the lie supports your position so you dont give a fuck....

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at April 25, 2007 07:26 PM (XvkRd)

17

"You guys "own" misinformation, but that is slowly coming to an end as people open their eyes. That, or your civilization goes down the toilet... I'm easy either way."

   John, Your so "easy" you do the enemies work cause it gives you an unhealthy little orgasm, regardless of the damage it does to decent institutions, and western civilization. Your like a crack whore for the left, working for the next fix. Your disgusting in a way that is especially revolting.

 I don't know what "civilization" you claim to come from, but you clearly offer no allegience to ours! Maybe you don't have a civilization? You probably just 'sleep' with whatever cause will join you on that unwashed bedding in your needy little mind!

  The label 'slut' fits your inner workings quite well. I think the readers need shots just from being exposed to your deseased world view.  Have a great life getting pumped by Soros and his media sex machine! Just don't reproduce!

USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 25, 2007 07:38 PM (2OHpj)

18

Thank you John. My work here is done. Beauty, eh?

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at April 25, 2007 07:42 PM (p52Ne)

19 First of all, go watch this. This is what talking to you guys is like:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YkEIx0vwHZ8

Now here's the deal. Yes... "cherry-picking" does suck, but that's NOT what they do at Media Matters. They provide the transcript from which the comments are pulled so that readers can see what they assholes have said.

Cherrypicking is when you do what dinks like DorianGrey do. For example, he totally ignores the fact that I said; "I'm more willing to believe stuff I read on Media Matters than rightwing crackpots who smear war vetrans" in order to focus on the bit where I said "But lets say for a second this is true? Who the fuck cares?", which was only to point out that rich rightwingers also support think-tanks.

Sorry 'tards, but your little world gets smaller every single day. As a parting shot, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0MLl-fxuo

I'm outta here.

Posted by: John at April 25, 2007 08:14 PM (S3Rzh)

20 John,
 
So caught red-handed lying and this is all you got...........
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at April 25, 2007 08:47 PM (XvkRd)

21 I'm outta here.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass you pwnned bitch.

Posted by: Randman at April 25, 2007 08:49 PM (Sal3J)

22 OOOOH! I get it! This       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0MLl-fxuo        is the kind of hard hitting honesty we get everday from Media Matters ... DID I WIN A PRIZE?!   I was expecting something awesome, and all I got was the typical weak leftist joke.  Ah! If only that WAS your parting shot ...  See you tomorrow 'John'                           USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 25, 2007 09:03 PM (2OHpj)

23

And on second glance, this is a perfect metaphor for the dominance of liberal thought in the media.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YkEIx0vwHZ8

When you consider the sheer weight of  numbers that liberal commentators bring to the media, and compare it to the lonely, rational voice of conservatism, you begin to see how the wrong headed leftist thinking eventually saturates an entire culture.

Like a room full of idiots, trying to explain why the conservative is wrong for just wanting to stick with the basics that work.  They want something fancy and new age-ee, while the conservative voice extols the virtue of simple, honest, clean, water! 

He repeats himself, but the fools keep feeding on thier own misguided and faulty 'feelings', which don't even need a reason.  Meanwhile, nobody is fetching the water, and the tree of liberty is dying of thirst! 

Wow, John sure showed me something there all righty!

USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 25, 2007 09:48 PM (2OHpj)

24 John: You ignorant slut. Like being called that. Don't you?

Posted by: greyrooster at April 25, 2007 10:25 PM (yp+ZO)

25 "You ignorant slut. Like being called that. Don't you?"

You kiss your son with that mouth?

Posted by: John at April 26, 2007 12:51 AM (S3Rzh)

26 Nope! Just my grandson and daughters. My son's shake hands. I know you diddle your sons dicks but for each his own.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 26, 2007 08:44 AM (jmD0W)

27 John,
 
Back to spew more of your lies and bullshit eh............... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thats right bitch who owned your pathetic ass...who proved what a god damn lying sack of shit you are....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at April 26, 2007 09:36 AM (XvkRd)

28 Seriously guys... stop talking about my ass all the time. It makes me feel weird, and by weird I don't mean aroused, so don't go getting any ideas in your perverted little heads.

Looks like Media Matters still denies the Soros link. Maybe you should take it up with them, and while your at it... why not show how they're spreading lies about conservative commentators? Looks to me like they're simply handing them the rope to hang themselves.

Like all conservatives... what you hate is any kind of record of your actions or comments.

Posted by: John at April 26, 2007 02:57 PM (qiTAx)

29 Well, seeing as how CSN and the parent organization are both Conservative sites, I'm going to call shenanigans. Basically IF the Soros charge is true, these guys are guilty of doing the same thing.

The difference is the Media Matters simply documents what conservatives say.

But I keep coming back to my original point. They say that Soros gives them no money, and my research says that the only remote link is that the organization that gave them a start may have itself received some seed money from Soros, but even that is just an allegation.

So question is... why is it okay for rich rightwingers to fund sites like the one you have attacked Media Matters with, but leftwing sites aren't allowed to receive funding in this way?

Hmmm?

Posted by: John at April 26, 2007 09:05 PM (S3Rzh)

30 Soros shouldn't be allowed to fund anything to do with US politics. His goals, if carried to thier logical conclusion, would destroy the USA. For that reason alone, any US patriot should oppose and undermine Soros at every opportunity. I stand by that opinion. Soros' use of wealth to promote his goals against the USA, are a form of warfare, and as far as I'm concerned, deserve to be treated as such.                                   USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 27, 2007 06:01 AM (2OHpj)

31 If Soros was a wealthy Democrat c1859, and was pushing for succession to make the most of his investment in slave labor, it would be no less unpatriotic than his current goals are.  Go to his feakin website. He is a scumbag.  Thats all you get from me here, and you can have the last word!           USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 27, 2007 06:04 AM (2OHpj)

32 John,
 
So question is
 

Should anyone listen to a media watchdog that lies about where its funding comes from...The Answer is obviously NO............It's a creditability issue, something a worthless lying sack of shit commie/liberal like you will never understand. If you cant be trusted to tell the truth about who funds you then you cant be trusted to tell the truth about anything.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

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Over at Strategy Page they claim the AP pulled the pic as soon as they noticed the "trigger finger". I don't know if it's true, but it sure is funny.

Hat tip: Skip

Update: Kamchatka Bear directs our attention to Black Five's take on it. He says he knows the soldier and the photog and that it was probably more personal smart-assery than a general statement about the media.

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The following excerpts from Fight Club seem somehow appropriate in the wake of the recent British Navy surrender:

Tyler Durden: Do you know what a duvet is?

Jack the Narrator: It's a comforter.

Tyler: It's a blanket. It's a fucking blanket. Now, why do guys like you and me know what a "duvet" is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?

Jack: Consumers...

Tyler: We are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Jack: Martha Stewart...

Tyler: Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha's polishing the brass on the titanic. It's all going down man! So fuck off with your sofa units, and string green stripe patterns.

Tyler: You ever been in a fight?

Jack: No, but that's a good thing.

Tyler: No, it isn't. How much can you possibly know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die without any scars.

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The pro-terrorism aljazeerah website isn't quite back up to full strengh, but it seems that Hassan El-Najjar just can't keep his yap shut to save himself. He has a rather lengthy explanation of why his "peace" website was shut down by "anti-peace" forces--that means us.

But most interesting in his diatribe is why the U.S. really invaded Iraq:

Then, why did the US invade Iraq. [sic] Three beneficiaries stand to be scrutinized here, the military industry, the oil industry, and supporters of the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories

Just a reminder, I did not target al Jazeerah because it does not support Israel, as El Najjar blatantly lies about in his diatribe.

They label Palestinians as terrorists for resisting the Israeli occupation. They also label those who publish news about the Israeli occupation brutality as supporters of terrorists.

See how that works? It's not complicated.

It's also hypocritical that El Najjar, an Arab who immigrated to America, goes off on a racist diatribe against European Jews immigrating to Israel. I'm not sure if its just irony or if it's, as our Hebrew friends would call it, sheer chutzpah. Maybe both.

But what really pisses me off, is not that El Najjar supports Palestinian terrorists. No, that just pisses me off a little. Most Arabs, like El Najjar, have the "Jew" exception for terrorists (ie, not a "terrorist" if the target is a Jew).

No, what really pisses me off is that El Najjar also supports the Iraqi "resistance". You know, the people in Iraq who are killing the men and women of America's armed forces. And then he passes on conspiracy theories blaming Coalition forces for horrific acts of terror, such as car bombing civilians!

I believe supporting the enemy is called treason. So please spare us your lecture on the First Amendment when you piss on the lives of the very people who are dying to protect it!

Filthy enemy supporting rat bastards like yourself should thank God every day that you weren't pulling the same seditious stunts back in WWII when the U.S. government wasn't afraid of putting you and your ilk in prison.

Since we know El Najjar supports terrorist organizations it might not hurt for somebody in the Justice Department to look into whether or not he lied on various immigration statements.

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Laura Mansfield sent me this video earlier today of the al Qaeda front group, The Islamic State in Iraq, claiming to have named "shadow ministers". For those not familiar with the parliamentary system, it's a kind of way to let your voters know who would rule should your party take over government. Of course, al Qaeda and the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq have no voters, but the priniciple is the same. U.S. forces leave, and these are the guys you can expect to run Sunni provinces--or so they promise.

Nevermind that if and when the U.S. finally does leave the Islamofascists Salafis of the Islamic State of Iraq are going to have to start dealing with the racist Baathists and the various tribal leaders who may not be so keen on letting the Iraqi version of the Taliban take over. But in the fantasy world of al Qaeda none of this seems to matter much.

The video is laughable, but isn't that why we show this kind of propaganda? Al Qaeda is so "confident" about "ruling" Anbar, Babel, and other Sunni provinces and having the "support of the people" that the propaganda video hides the face of the man announcing the formation of the shadow government. Even bin Laden and Zawahiri don't have to hide their identities.

The "cabinet" has at least one prominent name you might recognize. The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, as "Minister of War". All the ten "ministers" are said to be under the command of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the former "emir of the Mujahidin Shura Council". more...

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Dear Rhode Island U. moonbat student senate -

We are sorry to inform you that you are part of a public university drawing public money. As such, you have no right to tell people or student groups what they must or must not say under the auspices of that University.

Hope you enjoyed it, RIU moonbat senate. Now get ready for your impending lawsuit, and welcome to the real world.

Consider this post an update to this Jawa post from April 13.

ht: Glennstapundit

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From the FIRE, we get the latest round of leftwingers subverting free speech - (surprise!) against the College Republicans.

After hosting a $100 "white, heterosexual American males scholarship" to protest race-based scholarships, the student Senate tried to make the CR's apologize against their will in their student paper and threatened not to disburse their money::

FIRE wrote to the Student Senate to explain that the First Amendment prohibits any organization that derives its authority from a public university from compelling students to make statements against their will. When the Student Senate ignored its constitutional obligations, FIRE urged President Carothers to intervene. In a recent memo, President Carothers boldly told the Senate that its demand for an apology “does not meet constitutional standards as laid forth in the First Amendment,” and directed that “you may not impose any sanctions on the College Republicans, or any other student group, that requires them to make public statements which are not their own.” We now wait while the Senate decides whether to heed the president’s directive.

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KT Cat is having a video contest, the results of which will help the good people at CENTCOM figure out how to make more effective PR videos. Go watch the two brief videos and then vote for the one you liked the best.

Personally, I think the most important message to get out to the American public is that we are winning, not that we are nice.

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Marvellous. Let's hope this is old footage, given a new spin. As-Sahab has been known to recycle bin Laden's speeches in the past, edited and translated by our own American traitor Adam Gadahn.

But if bin Laden's speech does include the recent Arab summit and talks about Hamas's new found role in the PA government, as the announcement claims, then this is bad news. Why? Because it means bin Laden is alive.

Needless to say we will bring you the full unedited video when it is finally released. There is also a distinct possibility that we will have the video before it is released to the public. Let's just say we know top people.

On 4 April, a jihadist website carried the following posting:

"After a long absence by the shaykh of mujahidin, whom we have missed as well as his speeches, some news is being leaked indicating that Shaykh [Shiekh] Usama Bin Ladin [Osama bin Laden], God protect and preserve him and make him a thorn in the throat of the enemies, will make an appearance. The news indicates that Al-Sahab [as-Sahab] Media Establishment, which specializes in publishing Al-Qa'ida leaders' speeches, has recently finished producing a video featuring Bin Ladin's speech to the entire Islamic nation. "

Furthermore, the poster of this note maintains that the speech includes several messages to the "mujahidin" in Iraq, the Palestinian People on " the capitulation choice which HAMAS gave in to," the Riyadh Arab summit, the "fears" of America and its allies of the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate state in Iraq, and the "good tidings of victory in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Source: CENTCOM

UPDATE: Laura Mansfield tells me that the original post was at muslm.net, which isn't the usual place where as-Sahab makes their announcements. Could this really be a Zawahiri tape coming out?

UPDATE II: Allahpundit got wind of this too and speculates that bin Laden is trying to boost morale since al Qaeda is losing on so many fronts.

Me? I just hope that the announcement turns out to be bogus. Bin Laden is not a strategic threat to us, but any sign of life will definitely help boost the morale of his troops and of the America haters around the world.

UPDATE III: False alarm? Laura Mansfield now saying that the original posting that CENTCOM was referring to actually was about some old bin Laden speeches, released in January.

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1 It's also notable that the 1920s Brigades have recently changed their name to "Hamas al-Iraq" (Iraqi Hamas) and vow to fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Posted by: Kafir at April 05, 2007 10:49 AM (HsmTD)

2 Kafir,

Not quite true.  The group split, and only one of the branches adopted the name.

Posted by: Rusty at April 05, 2007 11:10 AM (JQjhA)

3 I stand corrected.

Posted by: Kafir at April 05, 2007 11:48 AM (HsmTD)

4 There is one silver lining to a new video.  If he is alive, we still get to kill him, painfully. 

Posted by: Cruiser at April 05, 2007 11:57 AM (7PR+I)

5 With each new message, there is also a new trail leading back to him.

Posted by: Kafir at April 05, 2007 12:05 PM (HsmTD)

6 True, which is why al Qaeda claims he doesn't do them anymore.  But that certainly hasn't stopped Zawahiri or, more recently, al Libi....and they seem to be holed up fine somewhere.

Posted by: Rusty at April 05, 2007 12:32 PM (JQjhA)

7 I think bin Laden and Zawahiri are actually living at Neverland Ranch in Dubai.
That's why Jacko decided to build a mosque... to keep everything 'in house'.

Posted by: Kafir at April 05, 2007 01:03 PM (HsmTD)

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Porn star Mary Carey claims she rebuffed advances from Keith Olbermann. Olby' camp claims it was he who shot down Mary Carey. Finally, a celebrity gossip battle I'm interested in! A porn star vs. a liberal talking head blowhard.

[Right: Olby sandwiched between porn stars Mary Cary and Tawney Roberts]

So, who do I believe? Come on Olby, you're telling me you shot down a chance to go out with a porn star? Just look at yourself, Olby. In the mirror.

Plus, given Olby's record, I'll have to side with Mary Carey on this one.

As always, Olbermann Watch has the sordid details on Olby's sudden lapse of memory. Dare we call them Keith Olbermann's lies? Yes, we dare. more...

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1 Clean up on Aisle #1

Posted by: allahahachew at March 28, 2007 03:18 PM (BrndJ)

2 Deleted. Thanks.

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 03:31 PM (HsmTD)

3 In light of  recent youthful activity on French transportation one also recalls this  gem too -  http://web.archive.org/web/20040828155909/http://www.geocities.com/jean0989/

Posted by: whuptdue at March 28, 2007 03:41 PM (MAPKL)

4 #3 wooptidue, what is your point? Calling muslim  prayers on a loud speaker is not my cup of tea. You may be a regular here (I hope not but would need to know the story) your pix I don't like. If you are a muslim devoted to islam act like one for goodness sake.  Don't do a driveby post with link. Give your opinions and join in a informative discussion here on Jawa. Be warned, some maybe very intense as alot of people do not like islam. We in the US are free to practice as we please and unlike you are stuck with islam. So wooptidude give it your best shot......I am waiting.......

Posted by: allahahachew at March 28, 2007 04:15 PM (BrndJ)

5 I thought he was making a point about he Islamization of France.

Posted by: Randman at March 28, 2007 04:28 PM (Sal3J)

6 allahahachew - I suspect you may have misinterpreted his intent.
I believe he was attempting to highlight the lawlessness of the French Muslim rioters, who are constantly mis-characterized by the European media.

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 05:28 PM (HsmTD)

7 Then again, after watching most of that lame flash animation, perhaps he really is a douche.

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 05:31 PM (HsmTD)

8 Both things can be true.

Posted by: Randman at March 28, 2007 08:29 PM (Sal3J)

9 Kafir and Randman....I am waiting to see if  I am wrong.

Posted by: allahahachew at March 29, 2007 09:39 AM (BrndJ)

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So sayeth the crew at HotAir.

UPDATE by Rusty: Michelle Malkin's latest piece John Doe Manifesto at Townhall:

Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,

You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.

I am John Doe.

I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.

I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.

I am John Doe......

I will combat your violent propaganda on the Internet.

I am John Doe.

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1 I am John Doe!
And I broke the dam!
And we didn't listen!

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 11:05 AM (HsmTD)

2 The verbiage is wrong, you could just as easily have said "I am Kafir" and there would be no doubt as to your status to a Salafist.

Posted by: blackflag at March 28, 2007 11:51 AM (Mq5jS)

3 blackflag: But then I would have been deprived of an opportunity to make South Park references!

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 12:20 PM (HsmTD)

4 Heh, "your" should have been "they". I was browsing a Salafi forum last night and they were justifying their actions with "They are kafir and the enemy, all methods are justified."

Nice South Park reference though.

Posted by: blackflag at March 28, 2007 01:03 PM (Mq5jS)

5 They should have said "They are kuffar (or kuf'r) and the enemy, all methods are justified."

_{The English word infidel is the standard translation for the Arabic word kafir (Arabic pl. kuffar), which Hans Wehr, Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (Beirut: Librarie du Liban, 1974), p. 833, defines (among other things) as "unbeliever, infidel, atheist."}

Pretty fucked up that a barely literate infidel, a son of pigs and monkeys, has to correct their Arabic grammar.

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 01:38 PM (HsmTD)

6 er.... their Arabic to English grammar, that is.
Whatever... they are still a bunch of donkey raping shit eaters.

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 01:39 PM (HsmTD)

7 On a side note, I find this double-standard interesting:

"They are kafir and the enemy, all methods are justified."

So if this is the way they feel, why are they always whining about the 'atrocities' committed by Israel?
If 'all methods are justified' when dealing with an enemy, and the Palestinians have declared enmity towards Israel (all factions, repeatedly), then they should have no problem with Israel adopting the same standard. Right?

If you search through old forum posts at that site, I'll bet you will find at least one post where that same guy is whining about Israeli 'atrocities' committed against the Palestinians.
Unless, of course, he is new to that forum, in which case those complaints will be forthcoming in the very near future.

Posted by: Kafir at March 28, 2007 01:53 PM (HsmTD)

8 I am John Doe,Please Stand by for a public service announcement.
 
I promise that anyone who attempts to take over an aircraft I am on, won't make it to the cockpit door.
I promise that every passenger will get safely to the terminal after the flight except you, because I intend to choke the life out of anyone who attempts to hijack MY aircraft.
You won't have a chance to sue me,because you'll be dead.
 
I am John Doe and this has been a public service announcment.
 

Posted by: firefirefire at March 28, 2007 02:34 PM (pjXcC)

9 Kafir, when you quote South Park, you are speaking the truth. Time to get booted by Judge Odie again, that button should say, " Me so Howney". I know, pay the balif on the way out.   How about a button that says "72 V comin' right up!" Judge, I've already trademarked ' WB is an asshole' , so don't make me sue you.  fireX3, good announcement. Don't forget to add that you'll be pouring menstral pigs blood down his throat in his last gasp for air. I always keep a little vile handy, plan on telling grey rooster it's hot sauce when he finally shows up at the trailer for some grilled gull. PS: you have to put it in a ziplock bag to get it on the plane. You don't want to get in trouble while choking some asshole to death you know.

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Nothing is sadder and less surprising than the Washington Post giving William Arkin a paycheck for 'national security analysis'. His latest goes on to laud Zbigniew Brzezinski's lunacy and then he suggests a 'strategy' for winning against Islamic extremists:

I say it is through ending the war and returning to a far quieter process of intelligence vigilance and law enforcement.

No one should be yearning to "return" to the good old days of a 2001 counter-terror effort

Can someone tell the Washington Post that I will sell them equally pointless and inconsistent drivel for half the cost and with twice the international security credentials as Arkin?

PS: We last heard from this self-described 'international security expert' calling our troops 'mercinaries' and 'baby killers', not supporting our troops, and complaining that these 'arrogant and intolerant' troops live in circumstances of 'obscene amenities'.

Also, check out the conspiracy filled comments to Arkin's latest rant, the first of which identifies America as "the #1 terrorist nation in the world".

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I've been looking into the studio putting out Americanizing Shelley. It's called American Pride Films Group (APFG). From their website:

APFG is a Hollywood based independent entertainment studio committed to generating stories that boast a healthy, non-partisan view of the American spirit. APFG's global mission is to foster positive intercultural exchange and growth between the West and the East via the medium of films and entertainment.

We set out to make pro-America movies. We knew this was going to be a long, uphill battle. So encouraging to know it's not a going to be a lone battle.

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Michael Yon may be getting the boot from Iraq. The guy has class. He doesn't even mention it until halfway through the post. Are our leading military propagandists so stupid as to want to get rid of one of their most valuable assets? Apparently, yes.

Many of the idiots in the brass want the MSM to report the "good news" from Iraq. That, they think, will bolster morale. Bullshit. The American people don't give a rat's ass about how many schools have been built and how many lollipops have been handed out. Nice stuff. The kind of stuff you see in hometown papers which nobody buys because they're so boring and uninformative. Also, not "news" because we all understand just how decent our soldiers are. Save that stuff for the Arabs.

What do we really need to see? Pictures of our soldiers killing our enemies, rather than the images the MSM is so eager to provide of themkilling us . Images, in other words, of our guys winning.

The American people are not so naive to believe the purpose of our military is to pass out blankets. No, we know our military is there to break stuff and kill people. And that is what we want to see. We want to be reassured that our military in Iraq is doing just that. Winning.

A message to General Vincent K. Brooks: Go watch the opening monologue of Patton. You might learn something.

Confederate Yankee has the roundup on Yon.

Bonus video: George C. Scott as Patton below--> more...

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h/t : Michelle.

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A Sout al-Kuffar tribute to the Gathering of Eagles:

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A message to the peaceniks:

You will return when your children are slaughtered in their schools. You will return when one of our cities burns. You will return when your cities freeze in the winter, your drinks warm without ice in the summer, your iPods go flat as you walk streets with few lights, when your electricity is rationed, and the shelves of your store are bare. You will return when the crops fail and the trucks cannot run.

Look around you. Everything you have, everything, is there because of oil. The brute fact of the planet right now and into the next few decades is that without oil, the machine that enables you to be you runs on oil. If that oil runs out, your nation, any nation, will do all that it can to get it back. And you will be back not "with peace, but with a sword" of a terrible fire. In your name. In all our names. . . .

If we leave because of your pouting and pique, we will return because of your stupidity. There will be blood after and blood later and fire to follow. That war will not take four years. It will take an afternoon at best, but decades of digging out will follow. A million may die here but many millions will die there. What follows will make the Great Depression seem a mild recession. History will unfold in ways we cannot now fathom. The American experiment, still young, may falter. Other forces, not so easily congenial to freedom, may rise. The utopian world you seek will be set back a century at the least. We will all have to bear the brand of that fire, but on your foreheads the mark will be sharp and deep. And we will know you for what you are. Worse still, you will know.

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The Democrats don't have a monopoly on bad ideas, but they tend to plant more than their share. With minds fixed squarely in the economic thinking of the late nineteenth century, Democrats are always trotting out some "new and improved" "anti-poverty" program--which invariably involves overriding free market decisions in favor of some preferred, centrally-planned outcome. They trot out the same old socialist programs time and time again--despite the abysmal track record socialism has in practice.

If you're aware that a free market is the most effective anti-poverty program ever invented, you'd be considered a "radical" in many corners of the world. This is true despite the generally unimpressive, and often catastrophic, track record of socialism in practice. Unfortunately for the world's central planning and redistribution advocates, every year brings even more evidence that the free market beats the living crap out of socialism when it comes to actually improving real lives in the real world. The evidence has shown, time and time again, that the wealth of a nation is strongly correlated to the degree of economic freedom in that nation. This is a truth, but it doesn't sell itself. Luckily for the world, The Heritage Foundation has pulled a whole buttload of the recent evidence together in a nice, convenient package in the form of the 2007 Index of Economic Freedom. The money shot:

I'd encourage you to forward this chart to your favorite hippie.

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h/t : Allah.

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