December 21, 2008 • 9:16 pm 0
Weekly Standard: Guess Who Doesn’t Like the Press And the feeling may be mutual by Stephen F. Hayes
[A]fter riding a wave of media adulation unseen in recent times, [Obama] now less than a month from becoming our 44th president. And he still doesn’t like the press.
Filed under: Isn't It Ironic?
December 17, 2008 • 9:21 pm 0
Recall John Walker Lindh, the young man caught by the U.S. military and currently serving a short prison sentence (20 years) for his support of the Taliban. Lindh left California (where else?) to study Islam and somehow ended up being the useful idiot that he is. Lindh plead guilty to aiding terrorists.
Lindh’s parents, who strike me as the kind of people who would have protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s and cursed President BusHitler’s name since 2000, are appealing to that same President to commute Lindh’s sentence. Isn’t it ironic?
At a news conference, Lindh’s mother, Mary Walker, atleast attempted a rational argument for commuting the sentence of her son:
“John thought he was going to Afghanistan to defend civilians against attacks by warlords who were being supported by Russia and Iran. Although this was a mistake on John’s part, it is not something that warrants his continued imprisonment…”
“A mistake on John’s part”? “A mistake”? Thinking that John McCain respects conservatives is “a mistake.” But Lindh?
Oh, on the other hand, who are we to judge? Who among us has not (1) left their home and family, (2) traveled half-way across the world, (3) converted to Islam, and (4) joined a group of fundamentalist and anti-American terrorists (5) in armed battle?
As for Frank Lindh, the father of the traitor, he couldn’t be bothered to outline, you know, legal reasons why Lindh should be released. The good liberal he is, Frank Lindh appealed to the warmonger Bush’s emotions while exhibiting some good ass kissery for good measure. Quoth Lindh, Sr.:
“None of us has ever given up hope that President Bush would show it in his heart to release John from prison. Back at the time when John was picked up, President Bush was the only public official in the US who spoke in a sympathetic way about John. There was something about John’s situation . . . that really did touch the President. There’s been an awful lot on the President’s plate since 2002. This is the time when the President will revisit those original feelings that he had, and find it in his heart to release John from prison . . .”
Where were these two opportunists when Bush needed support for, say, the invasion of Iraq, or the War on Terror generally? Or support for anything else?
I understand the desire of any parent to have his child out of prison. I suspect, however, that in their conversion-by-convenience, these oblivious parents still do not comprehend the gravity of what their son did.
John Lindh’s behavior revealed a grave lack of judgment at best. I wish no ill will on him nor on his family, but commuting his sentence reduces treason to a common crime. I remind the Lindh family, and John himself, that treason was once punished by execution. In many parts of the world, it still is. Perhaps the Lindh family would do well to be grateful and cease reminding patriotic Americans of their existence.
Update: In Michelle Malkin’s December 19th column, she recounts bits and pieces of the real John Lindh, who is not the angel his parents would like us to believe:
[Lindh] told the feds he trained with al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks and he fought alongside them after Osama bin Laden’s henchmen murdered 3,000 of Lindh’s fellow citizens on American soil. He wrote a letter to his mother expressing support for the U.S.S. Cole bombing that took 17 sailors’ lives and, despite an emphatic denial by Lindh’s father that Jihad Johnny took up arms against his country, he recounted how his rifle malfunctioned on the front lines in Takar.
Finally, on Nov. 25, 2001, upon being captured and taken to the Qala I Jangi fortress outside Mazar E Shiref for interrogation, Suleyman al-Faris/Abdul Hamid/John Walker Lindh sat silent — and deliberately and defiantly chose not to tell American CIA officer and former Marine Corps artillery specialist Mike Spann about a planned Taliban prison revolt. Spann was killed in the riot.
Asked by journalist Robert Pelton at the prison if “this the right cause or the right place,” Lindh replied unequivocally: “It is exactly what I thought it would be.”
Would you pardon this ruthless bastard? Hopefully President Bush will focus his energies on pardoning those who fight for America and not against America: Agents Compean and Ramos.
Filed under: Crazy liberals, Isn't It Ironic?, The War on Terror , appeal, connversion by convenience, Crazy liberals, hippies, John Lindh, John Walker Lindh, Mary Walker, pardon, President George W. Bush, San Francisco, War on Terror
December 5, 2008 • 9:11 pm 0
Oh. The. Irony. Oprah is upset because Governor Sarah Palin won’t appear on her overated talk show.
StopTheACLU: Oprah Whines that Sarah Hasn’t Come on Oprah Show by Warner Todd Huston
[B]ack in September, Drudge reported that Oprah had been heard to say that she would never interview Sarah Palin. Not long after the Drudge flash, Oprah issued a press release where she denied the reports of the mean things she said about Palin. Oprah made some vague claim that she had “decided” not to open her show for political candidates despite the fact that she was an open participant in Barack Obama’s campaign and had the now president elect and his wife on her show several times during the campaigns.
So, now Oprah is wide eyed with shock that Palin has snubbed her thus far?
Talk about clueless!
The Self-Anointed Patroness of Relativism DID invite Obama on her show merely TWICE. She openly kissed his ass campaigned for him. But when Palin was discussed, suddenly politics was rather dirty for Her Oprahness and, well, can Governor Palin come on the show AFTER the campaign is over?
Meanwhile, the rest of America is expected to believe that none of this support for The Messiah had anything to do with race. Oh no.
You know America is racist country when its top job is held by a man whose father was Kenyan and its biggest entertainer is a black female who is a billionaire. I wish the rest of the world was that racist.
Filed under: Democrats Behaving Badly, Isn't It Ironic? , Crazy liberals, fraud, hypocrisy, Oprah Winfrey, overrated talk shows, Sarah Palin
October 16, 2008 • 3:07 pm 0
The Sun: Graffiti wall is vandalised
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August 25, 2008 • 1:45 pm 0
Schadenfreude isn’t ALWAYS bad. 
Politico: Netroots push back against MSM ‘bias’ by Michael Calderone
If you asked a random sample of progressive Democrats and liberal bloggers to describe the current state of political media, from CNN to The New York Times, there’s one word that’s unlikely to come up: “liberal.”
Filed under: Isn't It Ironic?, What Liberal Media? , irony, Isn't It Ironic?, media bias, What Liberal Media?
August 10, 2008 • 11:12 pm 0
On the subject of illegal aliens, Mexico’s hypocrisy is so thick, a chainsaw couldn’t cut through it.
Mexico Border City Fines U.S. Drivers Seeking Cheap Diesel
A Mexican border city has begun fining U.S. drivers who cross the border to fill extra drums, tanks or barrels with government-subsidized Mexican fuel.
The city of Ciudad Acuna, across the border from Del Rio, Texas, said Friday that it fined four U.S. residents for carrying extra diesel and would impound their cars until they pay. The fines equal 70 percent of the value of the diesel confiscated.
U.S. drivers can fill up their own vehicles, but carrying extra fuel containers back across the border violates customs regulations and possibly safety rules, a report from the city said.
Mexico, one of the world’s top 10 oil producers, sells diesel fuel domestically at subsidized prices of about $2.25 per gallon, about half the U.S. price.
Mexican filling stations near the U.S. border have seen an increase in American drivers who cross over to fill up. Mexican truckers and drivers complain the run on fuel is causing temporary shortages and longer lines for them.
The nerve of those American drivers crossing into Mexico! Surely Mexicans would never do the same to the United States.
In other news, the pussified U.S. Congress continues to tolerate 10-15 illegal aliens, largely from Mexico. Fortunately, the Mexican government is cracking down on those greedy American truck drivers.
Filed under: Isn't It Ironic? , diesel, drivers, illegal aliens, immigration, irony, Mexico, Oil
March 25, 2008 • 6:12 pm 0
Guardian: An unlikely refuge — Hundreds of Muslims who have fled Darfur are rebuilding their lives in Israel
Filed under: Isn't It Ironic? , Darfur, Isn't It Ironic?, Israel, Muslims
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