Cage Fight! Mark Levin v. Gloria (her face is) Allred

MarkLevinShow has the clip.

Warning: Do not eat or drink while listening.

This was such a hoot! “Train wreck” is what TheRightScoop called it. “Shredded” was what several tweeps said. It was a grand time being there online while this was going on.

Q: Why can’t Squeaky All-dead-head answer yes or no?

A: Because the fallacy of her construct of “reality” would be shown for all to see. As it is, however, her obfuscatory dance of the seven veils is on display. Hard to say which is worse.

The Most Mysterious Liberal in the World

Well done. Heh.

LiberalBillWhite | September 30, 2010
Visit http://www.LiberalBill.com to learn more.

Life in hell 3.6

Ramirez Editorial Cartoons

Campbell Challenges Doggett to Public Debate

Dr. Donna Campbell is seeking to publicly debate Lloyd Doggett.

“People want to hear how we each stand on the issues facing Central Texans and the nation—and, just as importantly, what we’d do to turn things around,” Dr. Campbell said.

Debate time, place and date details would evolve when/if Mr. Doggett accepts Dr. Campbell’s request.

Her staff yesterday (9/28) called for Mr. Doggett’s campaign manager to convey the prospect of a debate. The call had not been returned as of this writing.

Donna Campbell is the Republican candidate for Texas Congressional District 25, a seat currently held by Mr. Doggett.

The tangled web of voter fraud

Massive Houston Voter Registration Scandal Linked to Barack Obama & His Che-Loving Office Manager

Posted by Jim Hoft | Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 3:14 PM | Gateway Pundit

Earlier this week Houston authorities reported on a massive voter registration scandal involving more than 23,000 bogus registrations.

FOX News reported:

Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state’s office and the Harris County district attorney.

Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.

The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures. . . .

“The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes.”

Now we find out the group Houston Votes is linked directly to the Barack Obama website.

Wizbang reported…

Read it all. Hat tip Poor Richard.

Worst of the Week

MEDIA OFFER AID TO DEMOCRATS, SLAM ‘BIZARRE’ GOP ‘FRINGE’

Media Research Center News| September 30, 2010

There’s little pretense of media fairness as the 2010 elections approach. Last Thursday, ABC’s World News ran as “news” a video produced by the Obama White House. Diane Sawyer excitedly touted how “we got to listen in on a phone call today,” as viewers saw a brief clip of President Obama talking to a cancer patient who thanked him for the government takeover of health care. (Watch the video)

Then on Monday, NBC Universal donated a 30-minute commercial-free interview to Obama, shown not just on NBC’s Today, but on the corporation’s other networks (including USA, SyFy and Bravo). Matt Lauer informed the President how other Democrats (including Bill Clinton) don’t think he’s been “rigorous enough in pushing back against some of the Republican attacks.” Lauer implored: “Do you intend to change your tone or your emotion in terms of your pushing back?” (Watch the video)

Over on ABC, This Week host Christiane Amanpour took a brief respite from slamming America’s Islamophobia to commiserate with White House advisor David Axelrod about how “people don’t appreciate some of the amazing legislative agenda that he’s accomplished.” Turning to Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, Amanpour slashed the “bizarre statements” of the GOP’s Tea Party candidates, suggesting “their sort of fringe quality might actually turn people off.”

Amanpour was echoing MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who failed to get a “thrill” from House Republicans’ Pledge to America. On Hardball, Matthews railed that the document “could be the biggest cover-up since Watergate” because it failed to expose the “radical ideas” and “wild stuff” from “the fringe on the right.”

Newsweek’s Lisa Miller appeared on CNN’s American Morning on Monday to promote her magazine’s nasty cover story attacking Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies.” Miller suggested genuinely good mothers would favor ObamaCare and other big federal health bureaucracies: “It seems like a funny way to say that you’re for kids, and be against all of these programs.” (Watch the video)

Yet the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found a majority (54%) want ObamaCare repealed, and by a 42% to 18% margin see the Tea Party as “a good thing.” Amazingly, 59% of those polled say they get most of their news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or MSNBC.

It seems viewers aren’t buying what the old MSM is selling this year.

Loss of a True Texas Treasure‏

by Dean Wright | September 29, 2010 | TX-25th-CD-Conservatives-announce@meetup.com

Ginger Woodcock, a member of this group (Ginger), died yesterday after a short but painful battle with cancer. She was a true Texas treasure with great conservative insights and communication skills. Although she did not live in the 25th district, I asked her to join because I knew the membership would enjoy conversing with her. And I know you all did.

She was a woman of great faith and is resting in a much better place now. God bless her family and friends as they work through this painful loss.

Clayton Thompson Funeral Home
5200 39th St
Groves, TX 77619
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Funeral is Saturday 2:00 p.m.

“Always working for the betterment of the great state of Texas and our great country. God Bless Texas and God Bless the United States of America!” – Ginger Woodcock

On behalf of the entire team of ResistNet and Grassfire Nation

Today We Mourn a Patriot and Friend, Ginger Woodcock, ResistNet Moderator.  Ginger passed away yesterday from cancer. We will miss her and we send our deepest condolences to her family and friends.

If you would like to post a message of sympathy on her wall you can click here.

Ginger was a full time caregiver to her autistic grandson. To make a donation to the Autism Society or send flowers to the funeral home Click Here for information.

Ginger was a moderator, a patriot, and a loving Grandmother. We truly appreciate all the time she dedicated to the Conservative Cause of preserving Liberty and Freedom in America.

Ginger Woodcock will be missed and we shall carry on the cause she lived for.

The ResistNet and Grassfire Nation Team

Ginger’s Ramparts360 posts:

Always Darkest Before the Dawn

An Angry Texan

May God bless and keep our sister. ~ Sibyl West

The Daily Dose… of his own medicine!

Great work by Townhall.com editors! The rules have changed. Non-Ds’ hands are untied and are striking back. No more Ruling Class exemption.

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TRAVIS COUNTY EVENT UPDATE

We get regular updates from Rosemary Edwards, Travis Country Republican Party Chair. She is an intelligent, devoted, persistent, irrate and untiring American patriot. I caught her on film at the recent Enough is Enough Rally with Donna Campbell, whom you will note on stage standing nearby in the doctor’s scrubs. Here’s the clip. LATEST Newsletter follows below – mark your calendar and join in.

SibylDisobedience | September 29, 2010
Rosemary Edwards, Chair of the Travis County Republican Party, speaking at the September 18, 2010 rally in Austin, Texas. Dr. Donna Campbell is seen here standing together with others on the south steps of the Capitol.

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VISIT OUR WEBSITE CALENDAR AT WWW.TCRP.ORG FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON EACH EVENT

Donna Campbell Meet-and-Greet
Wednesday, September 29, 6pm – 8pm
Westlake Medical Center & Hospital, Westlake, TX

Eastern Travis County Republicans
Wednesday, September 29, 6:30pm – 8pm
Goodluck Grill, 14605 FM 973 North Manor, TX 78653

Get Out the Vote Rally
Friday, October 1, 6:30pm – 8pm
TX State Capitol – South Steps

Block Walks and Meet & Greets for Travis County Candidates
Saturday and Sunday, October 2nd – 3rd
Check Candidate or TCRP website for times and locations

Donna Campbell Meet-and-Greet, Speaker Jerry Patterson
Sunday, October 3, 6pm – 8pm
Grey Rock Golf Club, 7401 Hwy 45 Austin, TX 78739

Lake Travis 15th Annual GOP Scramble
Monday, October 4, 8:30 – 4pm
The Hills Country Club

ELECTIONS INFORMATION
MON., OCTOBER 4TH IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE

REPUBLICAN PARTY NEWS

Did you see the NEWS feature with our Party Chairman,Dr. Rosemary Edwards ?????
Check it out at www.tcrp.org

Watch for your BALLOT BOOK in the MAIL soon,
Learn about the voting information book at www.tcrp.org

Fort Hood: Four soldiers apparently killed themselves

Army’s largest base reeling from four apparent suicides in one weekend

By Larry Shaughnessy | September 29, 2010 | CNN

(CNN) — Four soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas died over the week. In all four cases, it appears the soldiers, all decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, took their own lives, according to Christopher Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman.

If confirmed as suicides, it would be on top of 14 other suicides on the base this year. Base officials called a news conference for Wednesday afternoon to discuss the problem of suicides at the huge base in central Texas.

“Every one of these is tragic,” said Maj. Gen. William Grimsley, the post commander. “It’s personally and professionally frustrating as a leader.”

Grimsley did not announce any major action or response during the news conference. “I don’t think there is a simple answer,” he said.

More at CNN.com

Who is Behind Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter?

by Donna Garner | September 28, 2010 |

Lately readers all over America have been seeing Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter in their local newspapers. The icon is positioned after political candidates’ statements and makes the reader think that the ratings done by the Truth-o-Meter are the absolute authority.

However, just as I suspected: The Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter is a farce!  This organization of journalists at the St. Petersburg Times in St. Petersburg, Florida, that partners with other newspapers around the country (undoubtedly left-leaning) is supposed to present non-partisan analyses of statements made by political candidates.

What Truth-o-Meter actually does is to nitpick at various statements made by candidates in an attempt to discredit them while at the same time Politifact.com pretends to be a non-prejudicial referee upon whose statements voters can lean.

If I am going to lean upon their analyses of candidates, I need substance — not nitpicking.

Bill Flores v. Chet Edwards

Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter just did a hit piece on Bill Flores (R – TX),  who is running against incumbent Congressman Chet Edwards (D-TX).  Flores is a successful businessman whose recent TV ad states, “Bill Flores.  He’s a businessman, not a politician. Bill helped build successful energy companies and created over 500 American jobs. Now Bill Flores is running for Congress.”

Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter rated this statement “Barely True.”  How did they make this determination? They decided that Bill Flores had not personally created these jobs himself even though he was the chief financial officer (CFO).

Now come on, Politifact.com.  How nitpicky can you get?  Everyone knows that a CFO runs a company and even though he may not have gone out on the street, grabbed someone up, brought him back to the company, and put him to work, the CFO is still considered the employer.

A CFO is similar to a head football coach.  Even though there are assistant football coaches who do a large amount of the work, it is the head football coach who gets the credit or the blame for a team’s record.  It is the head football coach whose record is publicized in the media:  “Coach Groundhog now has a record of 1,579 wins and 2 losses!”   In a similar way, it is the CFO who is credited with creating the jobs for the company he runs.

Sen. Cornyn v. Abortions in Military Hospitals

Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter has done another similar nitpicky job on whether the defense authorization bill (9.21.10) contained language that would have required taxpayers’ funds to pay for abortions in military hospitals, domestic and abroad.

Sen. John Cornyn and all of the other Republicans (along with two Democrats) voted against the defense authorization bill because of the three tacked-on amendments (i.e., taxpayer funding of abortions in military hospitals, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and a provision to give young illegal immigrants amnesty).

On the taxpayer funding of abortions in military hospitals here and abroad, Sen. Cornyn said he objected to the amendment because it “includes language that would require military hospitals to provide abortions on demand.”

Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter immediately rated Cornyn’s statement as “False.”  Why?  Senator Roland Burris (D-Ill) is the one who scripted the original abortion amendment, and he admitted that it would repeal the restrictions on privately funded abortions performed in Department of Defense facilities on women in the military and even on their family members.

However, Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter then nitpicked Sen. Cornyn’s statement by saying that just because the abortions would be “permitted” does not mean “required.”  Truth-o-Meter concluded:

The defense bill stalled before the Senate includes language allowing military hospitals to provide abortions in cases beyond the existing permissible instances of rape, incest or when the mother’s life is endangered. But allowing is not the same as requiring. Contrary to Cornyn’s claim, we see no mandate in the proposed change.

Then Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter listed Sen. Cornyn’s statement as “False.”

I may not be brilliant, but I think even I can conclude that if a military hospital were to be “allowed” to give a woman a free abortion, most of the military facilities probably would; and our taxpayers’ dollars would indeed have ended up paying for abortions in military hospitals, domestic and abroad.  Further, the abortions would have been given “on demand” meaning women would not have had to prove rape or incest.

I am very appreciative of all of the Senate Republicans (and the two Democrats) who voted against the defense authorization bill that contained the three nefarious amendments.

Can’t Count on Truth-o-Meter

In conclusion, I think it is obvious that we voters cannot count on Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter to produce any real, in-depth analyses; and I do not want to base my voting decisions on nitpicky statements.

Could it be that Politifact.com at the St. Petersburg Times (partnering with other financially desperate newspapers) has become an income producer during the elections to try to tide them over financially because of loss of readership?

Here’s a unique idea for these Truth-o-Meter journalists:  Why not let us in the public run a Truth-o-Meter on their newspaper articles.  For instance in newspapers throughout our country, the headline after the defeat of the defense bill read,  “Republicans Defeat Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

The public’s Truth-o-Meter rating:  FALSE

The Republicans do not have enough members in the Senate to defeat anything.  Remember:  It is the Democrats who have the majority in both the Senate and the House.  It took the two Democrats voting with the Republicans to defeat the bill. The newspapers should have read,  “Bi-Partisan Effort Defeats Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Source.

The Daily Dose

Ramirez Editorial Cartoons

NRA Expected to Endorse Soros Hack Perriello

Count it as yet another “they think we’re stupid” moment, and this coming after the NRA endorsed Harry Reid… before we jumped all over them and they changed their minds. (I actually sent my NRA bumper sticker back to them in the mail and told them why.)

You’ll remember the post Capital Rivals: Koch Brothers vs. George Soros from a couple of days ago, where we sited and linked to a RightSideNews.com article exposing that the Koch brothers are richer than Soros and are politically active – albeit inside the system. Soros prefers to funnel his spoils of capitalist conquest into 527 orgs because there is no oversight from the feds. The article mentions some of the candidates he likes.

George Soros’ favorite congressional members:

  • $6,500 – Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)
  • $6,200 – Jon Cranley (D-Ohio)
  • $6,000 – Ken Salazar (D-Colo.)
  • $6,000 – Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.)
  • $5,500 – Tom Perriello (D-Va.)

And now this. NRA expected to endorse Perriello.

The gun-rights organization has an incumbent-friendly policy, according to its website, and Hurt said that dictates its support for pro-gun incumbents.

Strike one. This election season is anything BUT incumbent friendly.

Perriello spokeswoman Jessica Barba said the endorsement was coming because “Tom has strongly defended Second Amendment rights in Congress and will continue to be a voice for Virginia’s hunters and sportsmen.”

As we have observed, the progressives run as conservatives before election and move back to the left after they are voted in.

Perriello opposed the Obama administration’s plan to reinstate the assault weapons ban, Barba said, citing a letter to the president that Perriello signed with seven other members of Congress.

The eight said a plan by Attorney General Eric Holder to renew the ban would violate the Second Amendment.

Perriello also defended the NRA against legislation that would have limited its political reach. “The NRA, with its four million dues-paying members, is the epitome of people-powered politics and they deserve to have their voices heard in elections,” Perriello said in a statement issued in June.

Hurt said the NRA has consistently given him “A” ratings, and the group endorsed him when he ran for the General Assembly in 2003, 2005 and 2007.

The NRA’s credibility going up in gun smoke, as it were, is one of the many crash and burns in which a good reputation and popular support that took decades to build was damaged by one mistake. Karl Rove, Paul McCartney, Charlie Crist come to mind. And now, again, the NRA is at best being co-opted without their knowledge by a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and at worst is complicit in stealth progressivism.

Another example of why the progressives want to control the Internet.

Related: Perriello defends health care vote

Post-Rahmbo, Obama Administration May Face Chaos

By David A. Patten | Tuesday, 28 Sep 2010 | NewsMax.com

President Barack Obama could face the biggest internal challenge of his presidency this week if White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel announces Friday, as expected, that he’s leaving the White House to run for Chicago mayor.

“Rahm is nearing a decision on whether to leave the White House and explore a run for mayor of Chicago,” a source described as “close to Emanuel” told Fox News Monday. “An announcement could come as early as Friday. Because of family considerations, no final decision has been made.”

Emanuel’s departure comes at a critical juncture for the Obama presidency, with a potential GOP tsunami bearing down on the Democratic Party in November, an exodus of top staffers, and rising complaints from the president’s left wing about the ongoing war in Afghanistan and his failure to transform governance in Washington as promised.

The influence that Emanuel has had on Obama’s ability to execute his agenda could hardly be overstated. Some sources describe him as the second-most powerful man in Washington.

News that the chief of staff may leave Washington comes as the White House struggles to get back on message following author Bob Woodward’s revelations of intense Pentagon pushback against the president’s plan to commit fewer troops to Afghanistan than requested and to begin a troop drawdown to begin in July 2011.

Lots more juicy bits here.

Thibaut takes money from alleged voter fraud organizers

RPT Releases New Video Urging ACORN Lobbyist Kristi Thibaut to Return Campaign Contributions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 2010

AUSTIN – Today, the Republican Party of Texas announced the release of their newest video exploring the actions of Kristi Thibaut, the former ACORN lobbyist and current State Representative for House District 133. The video details Thibaut’s connections to the highly controversial “Houston Votes” project that has come under intense public scrutiny after submitting over 5,000 fraudulent voter registrations last month.

“The integrity of the voter roll of Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name ‘Houston Votes,’” explained Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez. “Houston Votes is the voter registration machine of the ‘Texans Together Education Fund.’ Houston Votes and Texans Together have effectively emerged as our area’s new ‘ACORN’ organization.”

RPT State Chairman Steve Munisteri stated, “with 35 days to go before the election, it is becoming increasingly likely that the voters of the State of Texas, including those in HD 133, will send a very clear message that politics as usual will not be acceptable and will reject the failed policies of Democratic legislators including Kristi Thibaut. The only thing at this point in time that could impede the will of the people, is if there is an organized and systematic effort to disenfranchise the voters by encouraging fraudulent voting activity. The Republican Party of Texas plans to continue speaking out against this type of activity to make the public aware that it exists.”

Last Monday, Thibaut’s Republican opponent Jim Murphy (R-Houston) called on the incumbent to return over $43,000 in campaign contributions from Texans Together, the Houston organization recently accused of widespread voter registration fraud.

“I am calling on Kristi Thibaut to resign her board position with Texans Together, publically denounce the fraudulent actions of the Houston Votes project, and return the $43,500 that she has taken for her campaign,” said Murphy. “Voters need to be assured that my opponent is not part of these actions, or beholden to their agenda.”

Murphy addressed the issue at a meeting of the King Street Patriots, the non-partisan political group that first brought the voter registration irregularities to the attention of Harris County officials.

“Our primary concern is that our democratic process be protected and the integrity of our ballots be maintained,” said Catherine Engelbrecht, President and Co-Founder of the King Street Patriots. “We feel confident that Rep. Thibaut will return the contributions her campaign has accepted from Texans Together, now that these fraudulent actions have come to light.”

Chairman Munisteri said, “I strongly support Jim Murphy in his efforts to have Rep. Thibaut do the right thing, return this money, and look after the best interests of her constituents, not the paid lobbyists that support her.”

Last month, the Republican Party of Texas launched the website, www.KristiWorksforACORN.com, which details Rep. Thibaut’s former career as an ACORN lobbyist, as well as her campaign contributions from numerous ultra-liberal special interests. This new video is the third in an ongoing series.

Jim Dunnam – the Nancy Pelosi of Texas?

Republican Party of Texas Details Jim Dunnam’s Liberal Voting Record on Website

Democratic Leader is Texas’ Version of Nancy Pelosi and Website Provides Voting Records as Proof

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 2010

AUSTIN – The Republican Party of Texas today continued their case against Rep. Jim Dunnam, deeming the Democratic Leader as Texas’ Version of Nancy Pelosi. The website DoneWithDunnam.com shows Texans his past voting record on past legislation in addition to highlighting a partisanship study performed by Rice University Political Science Chair Mark Jones where he is among the top 10 most liberal voters in the Texas House of Representatives.

RPT spokesman Chris Elam, continued to question Dunnam’s political motives by saying, “Jim Dunnam has consistently and systematically chosen partisanship over good policy and obstructionism over the best interests of Texas. His extremely liberal voting record clearly suggests a pattern of big government, wasteful spending and high taxes. Already, thousands of Disrict 57 residents have declared themselves “Done With Dunnam,” and rejected these liberal attitudes. We encourage more voters to educate themselves on these issues by visiting the site.”

In addition to outlining Dunnam’s liberal voting record, the DoneWithDunnam.com site continues to present the residency case against Dunnam. The site features a petition for voters to sign to let Dunnam know that they are done with his deceptions and his partisan agenda in the Legislature.

Dunnam admitted last month that he does not live in the House District he represents in the State Legislature, and as the facts presented on the website make clear, he has not lived in the district he represents since 2001.

The Mullahs’ Murder of Americans

by Jamie Glazov | September 29, 2010 | FrontPage Magazine

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and a Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is the author of The Iranian Time Bomb, Machiavelli on Modern Leadership and Tocqueville on American Character, and he is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal. His latest book is Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West.

FP: Michael A. Ledeen, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.

I would like to talk to you today about how Iran is killing our troops and why nobody is really doing anything about it. Share with us what is going on.

Ledeen: They have been killing Americans for 30 years. That’s what the chants of “Death to America!” are all about. From the Hezbollah suicide attacks on the US Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in the early 1980s, to the use of Iranian-made roadside bombs and mines in Iraq and Afghanistan by terrorists trained in Iran, to armed assaults against American troops by members of the Quds force, Iran is at war with us.

Every so often a military leader calls attention to this fact, but no publication, and no political leader, makes it a central theme of our national debate. Why? Because if you accept the fact that the Iranian regime is killing Americans almost every day, you are compelled to do something about it. And hardly anyone is willing to do anything effective. The only evil action by the mullahs that interests the West is the nuclear program, even though they have demonstrated very clearly that they don’t need nukes to murder and maim thousands of Americans.

FP: Why did Iran declare war on us? Why is it waging war on us? Is there anything we can do to get them to stop?
Ledeen: Declaring war on us is at the heart of the Iranian Revolution; war on the modern world was Khomeini’s dream. That’s why he called us The Great Satan. I don’t think we can talk them out of their core values. As Jonathan Swift said, you can’t reason a man out of something he didn’t reason himself into in the first place.

Ledeen: Declaring war on us is at the heart of the Iranian Revolution; war on the modern world was Khomeini’s dream. That’s why he called us The Great Satan. I don’t think we can talk them out of their core values. As Jonathan Swift said, you can’t reason a man out of something he didn’t reason himself into in the first place.

More…

Spencer: The “Islamophobia” Weapon

In Human Events this morning I discuss the OIC’s ongoing but newly energized campaign against the freedom of speech:

“The Muslim world is going through an unprecedented difficult and trying time,” said the Secretary General of the 56-state Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, on Friday.
One might reasonably have thought that he was referring to the recent increase in violent jihad incidents in the West, perpetrated by Muslims who explained and justified their actions by reference to Islamic texts and teachings. But no, Ihsanoglu was exercised about “Islamophobia,” the invented term Islamic supremacists use to try to stifle realistic analysis of the global jihad in all its manifestations.

“We are facing daunting challenges and severe hardships,” Ihsanoglu complained. “Islam and Muslims are under serious attack, and Islamophobia is growing and becoming more rampant and dangerous by the day.”

It is not at all established that “Islamophobia” really is growing. In fact, the FBI has recently released data establishing that hate crimes against Muslims are comparatively rare. But if there is any actual suspicion of or negative feelings toward Muslims in the United States, it is solely and wholly the responsibility of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood jihadist; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas underwear jihadist; Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who killed one soldier and murdered another in a jihad shooting outside a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark.; Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square jihadist; Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Osama bin Laden on 9/11; the London jihad bombers of July 7, 2005; and so many others.

Yet Ihsanoglu, with an evasion of responsibility that is characteristic of Islamic supremacists, pretends that non-Muslims are growing more suspicious of Muslims and Islam not because of this, but because of some gratuitous bigotry…

There’s more…