We try not to get caught up knocking down every single doozie and bamboozlement that comes out of Fox News and associated outlets in the on-going story of persecuted Christians suffering in the face of the encroaching Muslim horde. But this one seemed like it was worth getting into. Have you heard the one about how New York City is rolling out the welcome mat for the Muslim Cordoba House project but still won’t allow a Greek Orthodox Church to be rebuilt on the edge of Ground Zero? Turns out it’s a wee bit more complicated than that.
Jon Stewart asks the only logical question: “Is Fox News a terrorist command center?” Watch.
No one gave Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) much of a chance of winning reelection this year, but I didn’t expect her to be getting blown out of the water this badly less than three months before the election: Read More
If you can’t count on the ADL to step up, maybe call the Fire Department. A Florida church’s plans to celebrate 9/11 with a mass Koran-burning have been negged by the local fire department.
Presidents who are hamstrung at home have often plunged into work overseas, where a president’s power is robust regardless of the situation in Congress. So the news today that Secretary Clinton has gotten the Israelis and Palestinians back to direct negotiations for the first time in almost two years makes me wonder whether this might be focus of renewed effort on President Obama’s part after what looks to be a pretty brutal mid-term election.
On the other hand, if Prime Minister Netanyahu remains in power, I would figure he’ll resist American pressure like crazy since he’ll be waiting and hoping that a new and more anti-Peace Process president succeeds Obama in 2013.
Few issues matter more to me than this one. And no matter what goes wrong — and something usually does — I’m never really able to give into the pessimism that many do since I think that both parties will always and inevitably (eventually) have to come to the same pretty straightforward and unavoidable solution. On the other hand, it’s getting pretty hard to have any confidence that any of these particular initiatives — will get us anywhere we haven’t been before.
Colbert, on the official “end” of the Iraq War: “Let’s give credit where credit is due — to George W. Bush. After all, if this man hadn’t led us into war, it certainly wouldn’t be over now!” Watch.
Sen. David Vitter is now threatening to sue over a radio ad his Republican primary challenger is running on Louisiana radio. The topic is Vitter’s history with women, which obviously covers some diverse and expanding territory (from his own use of prostitutes to his top aides knife assault of a former girlfriend). Vitter’s lawyer says the ad is “false, misleading and defamatory.”
Franklin Graham explains that President Obama was born a Muslim since he is from the “seed of Islam” despite having possibly now “renounced Muhammad.”
“The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother,” says Graham. This is sort of like the seed of being the self-appointed national preacher passes from father to son. The so-called “seed of Grahamism.”