Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confirmed the Obama Administration will resume contact with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Clinton, who is
Obama is committed to partnering with other countries rather than going it alone as did his predecessor George W. Bush, which both broadens and complicates the decision-making process. – Inner Party Truth-Organ, Reuters. (HT:New York Times) Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic read this purgative and quickly needed a lavatory in which to up-chuck. His nausea is understandable. His restraint in castigating such rampant dishonesty in the service of such a small and petty POTUS, was not as commendable as he thinks. This fraudulent garbage deserved a stronger, more virile rebuke. Goldberg offered the following “suggestion” to the proud media organ of The Democratic National Committee known as Reuters. This, of course, is wildly inaccurate and misleading. Say what you will about the second Iraq war, but George W. Bush made partnerships with many nations in advance of the invasion, including and especially America’s most valuable ally, Great Britain, as well as Australia, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, South Korea, the Czech Republic, and a couple of dozen others. Reuters should correct this inaccurate statement. (HT: The Atlantic) No, Mr. Goldberg, Reuters did not just make an inaccurate statement. They deliberately and mendaciously lied! The nameless coward who authored this piece of “analysis” should apologize. Reuters should furthermore acknowledge their longstanding loyalty and advocacy on behalf of the Democratic Party. The Democratic National Committee should be properly billed for such media contributions-in-kind in accordance with whatever Dog’s Breakfast of campaign finance legislation applies to these cheap propaganda stunts. Out of pure blogging sadism, I elected to document the extent of the dishonesty that Reuters just attempted to pass of as news “analysis”. The Wikipedia page on the Multi-National Force – Iraq , lists 40 distinct nations that at least contributed a small force. American military personnel have constituted roughly 75% of the manpower used in Iraq from 2003 to the present date. We lead and bore the heaviest load. But then again, it was pretty much our idea, prior to being codified into 17 separate UN resolutions. The US mission in Libya has halting rhetorical support from The Arab League and may be palmed off onto NATO. How many countries are contributing? This is hard to determine, but certainly not forty. France, Spain, and Italy desperately need Libyan oil. Great Britain is involved on behalf of French President, Nicholas Sarkozy. Qatar sent four fighter jets. They perhaps want to be seen as good-guys, so that any possible Qatari no-fly zone will tilt towards the rulers, not the insurgents. Reuters could eschew its partisan affiliation and honestly report the following. Obama is committed to keeping Libyan oil flowing and arranging Kaddafi’s Big Hook-Up In The Sky with the 72 virgins of recent Islamo-fascist yore. He won’t admit this is the case and hasn’t even informed the US Congress why in the heck the US military is involved in this Charlie Fox-Trot. The decision-making process will remain quite broad and complicated until the French President Sarkozy grows exasperated with this piddle-(redact) and assumes proper adult responsibility for the current Kinetic-Military-Desert-Camporee. -My totally fictional account of what DNC Reuters should have actually said.
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This is from OpenEurope’s daily briefing: The Telegraph reports that Hungary is due to reintroduce state censorship for all media on 1 January, the same day it takes up the EU’s rotating Presidency. A leader in Die Welt argues, “Fascist tendencies in Hungary are obvious. Should the country be able to take up the EU Presidency in January?” DPA DPA 2 Welt: leader WSJ Telegraph
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There’s a special place in hell for George Soros… (Ezra Levant) – George Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 — not the luckiest time and place to be born a Jew. George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing their name to something less Jewish-sounding. It didn’t help. And soon war came. When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps. To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis. First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours. Theodore hatched a better plan for his son. He bribed a non-Jewish official at the agriculture ministry to let George live with him. George helped the official confiscate property from Jews. By collaborating with the Nazis, George survived the Holocaust. He turned on other Jews to spare himself. George moved to London after the war and then to New York, where he became a stockbroker. He’s rich now. Forbes magazine says he’s the 35th richest man in the world. Maybe you’ve heard of him. He goes by the name his father invented: George Soros. How does Soros feel about what he did as a teenager? Has it kept him up at night? Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked him that. Was it difficult? “Not at all,” Soros answered. “No feeling of guilt?” asked Kroft. “No,” said Soros. “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.” A Nazi would steal the Jews’ property anyways. So why not him?
