THE DAILY BLADE: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Calls Lou Dobbs’ Comments Slamming Illegal Immigrants “Hate Speech Propaganda”
On his show last week, Lou Dobbs accused advocates for illegal immigrants of using Nazi propaganda techniques:
"They might as well work for Herman Göring. I mean, they're running so much propaganda, trying to confuse the debate, the national dialogue, by talking about immigrants rather than illegal aliens and legal immigrants. It's mindless beyond belief."
The New York Sun reports that Gideon Aronoff, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, responded with a statement calling for the CNN anchor to be fired:
"Comparisons to Nazis - especially in this day and age - are abhorrent. Mr. Dobbs has crossed the line between responsible television commentary and hate-speech propaganda of his own. Keeping him on the air is essentially sanctioning by CNN - which is why we're asking CNN to remove Dobbs from his very public platform."
In an unrelated development England’s Prince Charles, err to the throne, compared the challenge of global warming "to the Allies' struggle in World War II" during a speech representatives from Barclays Bank, British Airways, Rolls-Royce and other firms. According to AFP, the prince said: "We can do it, just think what they did in the last war. Things that seemed impossible were achieved almost overnight."
As global warming hardly compares to a crime against humanity and efforts to reverse it are in no way analogous to the Allies’ war to stop the spread of Nazism, Aronoff should demand that Prince Charles be fired, too. Oh wait, Chuck has his job for life and can keep making such abhorrent comparisons with impunity.
The Wall Street Journal Shills For Turkey – Yet Again
The lede in this Wall Street Journal editorial about Turkey’s tumultuous elections – and the threat of yet another military coup (1960, 1971, 1980, 1997) – absurdly describes the EU-wanna be this way: "The Muslim world's liveliest democracy has long been a work in progress, but the stakes just got a lot higher … Turkey's future as a pluralistic, free society is on the line."
Since Turkey is as democratic, pluralistic and free as any Muslim country can ever be (which is to say, not very) let’s deconstruct this nonsense:
† Democracy: Democracies do not have to worry about military coups. 'Nuff said.
† Pluralistic: Turkey is 99.8 percent Muslim; Turks who convert to Christianity are routinely prosecuted and jailed for "insulting Islam" (Turks are apparently so insecure they get insulted at the drop of a fez). ... Three Christian employees of a bible publishing company (two of them converts from Islam) were savagely murdered by a group of Islamist students in April (according to one as yet uncorroborated report The Stiletto has seen, they were disemboweled, castrated and beheaded). ... Since January, three Catholic priests have been murdered.
† Free society: The Turkish parliament is moving to block Web sites that insult Kemal Ataturk (for instance, by suggesting he is homosexual). ... More than 60 fiction and nonfiction writers have been prosecuted for "insulting Turkishness" (typically by acknowledging the Armenian Genocide as settled history) under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. ... Just as in any totalitarian regime, all Turkish schoolchildren – including those of Armenian descent whose ancestors were murdered by Ottoman Turks – are required to recite "The Turkish Oath" in school swearing allegiance to the cult of Ataturk, and proclaiming their happiness at being Turks. ... Nationalists have infiltrated all levels of government – the police, the judiciary, municipal governments – and enabled the high-profile assassination of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink (second item, The Daily Blade, February 5, 2007). ... Turkish operatives have carried out an international campaign of intimidation and harassment against a Turkish historian who has written several books about the Armenian Genocide (third item, The Daily Blade, March 7, 2007).
Turkey’s tiny Christian population is not living in a democratic, pluralistic and free society. These Turkish citizens are living in fear of their lives. But don’t expect to read about any of this in The Wall Street Journal, which must use Armenian Genocide denial as a litmus test when hiring editorial and opinion writers (third item, The Daily Blade, March 2, 2007).
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May 8, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
Compounding the horror of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Federal government discovered that the whereabouts of 314,000 immigrants who had been ordered deported were unknown, including 5,046 from countries where al-Qaeda was ensconced. How could this happen? Without enough detention space to hold illegal aliens caught by border control agents until their court dates, non-Mexicans were routinely released on their own recognizance. Not surprisingly, almost all were no-shows so judges ordered their deportation in absentia. Since 9/11, a lack of manpower to find "fugitive aliens" or "alien absconders" doubled their numbers to 636,000. Immigration and Customs ... -
June 7, 2007
Het Up about Movie wrote:
Armenian Genocide (TV)
At least the Journal is better than the New York Slimes...
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ohh mighty prejudice, i bow before you. anyway i come across your blog by chance and i must say that if you're writing to vilify a country, at least get your facts right.
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Kemal Ataturk changed the government, but he did not change the souls of the Turks. They will always be the savage, muderous barbarians people that they have been throughout history. The Stiletto has at least 1.5 million irrefutable facts proving this. You take issue with this post, so what have you got?
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