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12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - New Benghazi Informati... · 1 reply · +13 points

Politifact non-partisan??? Thank you for the bellylaugh!

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Turkey Undercuts Anti-... · 0 replies · +3 points

Slight re-write:

While Erdoğan Obama excuses and actually encourages terrorism, he is acerbic toward free speech. He has identified “Western Islamophobia”—in which he includes criticism not only of Islam but also its more extremist manifestations—as well as Christians, Republicans, conservatives, in fact, anyone who disagrees with him, a greater threat than terrorism.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Ron Paul: His Son’s ... · 2 replies · +2 points

"If Rand doesn’t back away from his father he will soon find that a media that will be out to get him...."

By phrasing in the conditional, Jonathan maintains the fiction that the major media cartel will give any candidate without a (D) an impartial hearing. Reporters will ignore at their peril the warning shots lobbed at Attkisson for her Fast and Furious reportage. Even liberal icon Bob Woodward faced withering fire from leftmedia kommissars for daring to wander slightly off the liberal sheep-path. The media's favorite Republican maverick, McCain, was savaged once he was a candidate and not a useful tool to be wielded against conservatives...though no doubt he believed his own press clippings from the NYT and thought he would be immune to 'Progressive' group-think.

Any Republican will be running against not only the (D) on the ballot, but also against the media, aided and abetted by the Hollywood/academia/union complex, and any pretense otherwise is not only not helpful, but as the famous quote has it, gives them the "sanction of the victim." It's well past the time that that sanction be withdrawn, that we not, for example, agree to ideological enemies moderating our political debates, or pretend that 'Progressives' have America's best interests at heart. They do not - and it's high time we are honest about that.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Re: American Jewry’s... · 2 replies · +4 points

Can any sane person seriously doubt that Isaac Zablocki meant precisely what he originally wrote in plainly supporting the use of boycotts as a tool to pressure Israel? Is Rabbi Joy Levitt a fool, a liar, or does she assume that we are stupid enough to believe that Zablocki really is anti-BDS, against the clear context of his entire article, which was nothing but special pleading to the BDSers to spare the arts, particularly films, from boycott? This episode is especially egregious in view of the fact that the JCC 'partners' with such groups as B’Tselem and The New Israel Fund, and recently extended 'welcoming arms' to such lunatic BDSers as Alice Walker and Roger Waters. Sorry, JCC, your credibility account is severely overdrawn.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Naïveté of a Bis... · 0 replies · +1 points

Did no-one seek to enlighten the good Rt. Reverend about a funny little Shia doctrine called taquiyya? Can he be completely unaware that it is sound Islamic religious doctrine that Muslims be permitted, even encouraged, to lie to kuffar, infidels (yes, that would include even Episcopalian bishops, Reverend Chane) to protect or advance Islamic interests? Or is discussing such inconvenient truths about Islam considered something nice people just don't do in the cloistered precincts of Chautauqua?

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Caring for Pigs More T... · 1 reply · +4 points

The`real problem is that the Scandahoovians always, always occupy the progressive moral high ground, and so are uniquely qualified to be the moral arbiters of the world. Any different views are outside the scope of the moral universe, rendering the heretics others, outsiders, less than human.

Muslims and Jews are the ultimate outsiders; Muslims, though, are entitled to special victim status, mandating a gracious tolerance of the culture of violence and rape that just seems to follow their travels. Jews, then, are the real outsiders, warranting no compassion, no understanding. How dare those Jews claim any equivalence between Breivik and Palestinian murderers - after all, Breivik murdered people, while Palestinians kill not innocent human victims, but enemies of the moral universe. Can anyone doubt that a lonely swine occupies a higher social plane than Jews, and are entitled to rights and sympathy, the concern of all right-thinking people and positive action by the state?

Next up: "We cannot be anti-Semites...the Palestinians are Semites, and we love them!"

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Obama Derangement Synd... · 1 reply · -18 points

It is Peter who suffers from ODS - Ostrich Derangement Syndrome, burying his head deep in the sand to pretend that reasonable questions did not and do not exist, and have not been seriously propounded, let alone definitively answered. That man of mystery occupying the White House has chosen to shuffle his way through the minefield of the circumstances of his birth, upbringing, nationality, education...well, just about any and everything of significance in his personal history. Was it just recently that we learned that many of the people and events in his 'autobiographies' were false, cobbled composites if not made of whole cloth? For the OstriPeters, questioning the Fearless Leader is completely infra dig; after all, acknowledging that virtually nothing is known of said FL's life might get Peter barred from Beltway cocktail parties, or worse, subjected to knowing looks and head-shaking. Verbum sap. to Peter: Mental and moral cowards have no business pretending to lecture their betters.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Thanks to Syria, Timin... · 0 replies · +1 points

Perhaps Ms. Gordon's editor might want to inform her that "fortuitous" means by chance, accidental, or random; her use of fortuitous, when it appears that she means fortunate or propitious, makes a more complete hash of her article than it already is. Or does she mean for us to take her seriously when she proposes that a radical Islamist regime in Damascus, which would surely result were America to throw its support to soi-disant rebels, is a GOOD thing? And, precisely, to which of America's Arab allies (if any such are still to be found in the Age of Obama) would such a move be "immensely popular?"

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - ADL Agrees: BDS Equals... · 0 replies · +3 points

Wrongful discrimination against peaceful attendees, enforced by college hirelings under the eyes of a high-ranking official, is clearly actionable. Sue the bastids. From all reports, the pro-Israeli students were not disrupting, not shouting down speakers, not assaulting BDSers - i.e., they were eschewing the normal Brown Shirt tactics of the left. Brooklyn College should not be allowed the usual smoke and mirrors of an "internal investigation;" BC and the (ir)responsible individuals need to be haled into court, along with the SJP, and made to pay heavily.

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Farewell, But Not Goodbye · 0 replies · +3 points

My favorite writer leaving? Say it isn't so! Reporting for the Beacon is great, but we'll miss your incisive opinions. G-d bless in your new gig.

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