This ad from the Republican Trust PAC – over 100,000 views on YouTube – has been rejected by NBC and CBS for airing. Note the, um, not especially subtle symbolism used in the “starter” image: Though NBC spokesperson Jennifer Riley…
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Who “they” is
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, National Republican Trust PAC, Terror
All the little Tea Party Americans in the world
How odd and telling that in a Facebook post responding to an NAACP resolution on supposed Tea Party racism, Sarah Palin would create a new victimary group: “Tea Party Americans.” Palin uses this phrase five times in the post, even…
Fred Davis – Auteur of Admen – vs. the “Mom in Tennis Shoes”
h/t Ben Smith’s Blog
Flamesem & Japesem (while Laughing at the Ground)
There is no outcry because our popular culture is thoroughly rotten. There reaches a point where you have to say it: I believe in evil. Satan is laughing. * * * I, too, believe in evil… (Don’t say that three…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Islam, Islamophobia, Olde Contentions, Satan, Steven Den Beste, Tea Party
Real and Unreal Threats from Iran
Yesterday’s headline topics included unusually “blunt” remarks by U.S. Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba of the United Arab Emirates on U.S. intervention against Iran’s nuclear program: I think it’s a cost-benefit analysis. I think despite the large amount of trade we do with…
From Somalia without love
[amazon-product]1439157316[/amazon-product]In the middle of a mostly sympathetic review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Nomad, Nicholas Kristof wondered parenthetically if the author’s family is dysfunctional “simply because its members never learned to bite their tongues and just say to one another: ‘I…
Posted in Books, International Relations, Religion Tagged with: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Islamophobia
Reasons too obvious for reasoning
Here’s how Allahpundit sums up recent opinion polling among New York City residents on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” project showing among other things that respondents claim a more positive opinion of Muslims than they do of the project: It’s…
Flamesem & Japesem (All-Contentions Edition)
[T]he leaking of this memo and the notion that it represents the opinions of many in the Pentagon ought to scare Israelis and leave them less willing than ever to make the sorts of concessions Washington believes can strengthen the…
Posted in Miscellany Tagged with: Afghanistan, Israel, Jonathan Tobin, Noah Pollak, Petraeus, Zionism