AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine contributed to this report.
Wow. That’s ten “AP writers” plus Calvin Woodward, the AP writer whose twinkling pen honed the above contributions into the turgid sludge of the actual report. That’s 11 writers for a 695-word report. What on? Obamacare? The Iranian nuke program? The upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
No, the Associated Press assigned 11 writers to “fact-check” Sarah Palin’s new book, and in return the 11 fact-checkers triumphantly unearthed six errors. That’s 1.8333333 writers for each error. What earth-shattering misstatements did they uncover for this impressive investment? Stand well back:
I'm sorry but this woman is a complete idiot and a publicity hound. Those conservatives who signed her on as some kind of spokeswoman were duped (not this site thankfully). Here she is lecturing Larry King about being "inappropriate". I hope her raunchy sex video is posted on YouTube (apparently there are 17 of them). How is that for "inappropriate"?
Via the always titillating Sondra Kay: The lefty-gay Hillbuzz blog is coming clean on Bush. Finally acknowledging that although imperfect like all of us, he is a good and decent man. The trigger was George and Laura's quiet visit to Fort Hood immediately following the terrorist attack, but the reversal is sweeping:
You may be as surprised by this as we are ourselves, but from this day forward George W. and Laura Bush are now on the same list for us as the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the other political figures we keep in our hearts and never allow anyone to badmouth.Read the entire thing. Read the comments. I was absolutely floored and moved. These guys clearly have integrity.
Criticize their policies academically and intelligently and discuss the Bush presidency in historical and political terms…but you mess with the Bushes personally and, from this day forward, you’ll answer to us.
We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
I hate to say this, but Americans are collectively proving to be about as dumb as dumb gets. David Horowitz explains:
A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West. He was under investigation for six months because of his anti-American, jihadist rantings. He did not want to be deployed. He wanted to be discharged.
But despite his identification with America’s enemies, the army kept him in its officer corps. How in God’s name was this possible? But it was. And so, after calling America the “aggressor” in Afghanistan and Iraq this Muslim jihadist traitor army officer picks up his semi-automatic weapons and heads for the center at Ft. Hood where soldiers are being deployed to fight the jihadists in Afghanistan to conduct his massacre. Yet this morning the Fox News Channel chiron says “Investigators search for a motive in the Ft. Hood killings.” Is everybody out of their mind?
The President of the United States no less, declares that we "should avoid jumping to conclusions" about a man shouting Allahu Akbar while massacring US soldiers. That we should all keep an open mind about a Jihadist who worshipped at the same mosque as three of the 9/11 hijackers. Lets remember that even during WWII, US soldiers were never massacred in the United States. It was the worst terror attack in America since 9/11, yet the media have taken to pretending that they have no idea what may have motivated the Muslim fanatic to kill US soldiers. Even worse, they broadcast excuses for his actions. Laughably, they refrain from even suggesting what is obvious to any person with any degree of intelligence. 
You can call him "French youth", or a Swedish grandmother, or someone suffering from "PRE" traumatic-stress disorder. He is certainly the victim because somebody may have called him a bad name at some point in his life. The President of the United States even says that we should "not jump to conclusions" about a man shouting "allahu akbar" and murdering everyone in site. We should all keep an open mind about that. Of course, any reference to the 'religion of peace' would be discrimination... and God forbid that we should discriminate between good and evil.
Wouldn't be great if everyone could afford to ride out the Obama administration like this. It's the kind of bailout I could go for:
You probably don't remember the name Eric Hoffer. He was a longshoreman who turned into a philosopher, wrote columns for newspapers and some books. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher. He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic.
Here is one of his columns from 1968 -- 41 years ago! Some things never change.
ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITION...by Eric Hoffer - LA Times 5/26/68
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.
Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees.
Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed.
Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him. The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world.
If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. and Jewish resources. Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us.
And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.
H/T: Arnold Steinberg
Purge of Jews from Arab countries continues as the US State Department evacuates Jews from Yemen today. Few people know that over a million Jews have either fled or were expelled from Arab countries since 1948. Along with their descendants, they outnumber all Palestinian refugees. But nobody calls them "refugees" because they are Jews. There are no UN resolutions, no "Naqkba Day", and liberals are literally to stupid or anti-Semitic to even be aware of this silent ethnic cleansing that has been going on for decades. History will record that 2,500 years of Jewish life in Yemen is now over, without a peep from a single liberal.
Well, this is good news. it's a small indication that the hatred is not so ingrained as to erase peoples basic humanity. I realize that it's not some earth shattering revelation, but I'll take any good news I can get.
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