The Attempted Terrorist Attack by the Face of Peaceful Islam, and the Problems it Presents for Media and Muslims Alike (Updated)

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 1st at 11:00 AM  | 

Note: This is an updated version of my original post on Naser Abdo and the Fort Hood terrorist plot which was prevented last week. The updates have been made in-text due to an increase in the amount of information available on the case. A second terrorist attack on soldiers stationed at Fort Hood, Texas in under two years was discovered last week, and its plotter, | Read More »

The Attempted Terrorist Attack by the Face of Peaceful Islam, and the Problems it Presents for Media and Muslims Alike

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 29th at 03:00 PM  | 

The headline of the day is that a second terrorist attack on Fort Hood, Texas in under two years was discovered this week, and its plotter, Private First Class Nasser Jason Abdo, arrested before the attack could be carried out.  The latter fact, of course, differentiates this plot from the successful attack carried out by Major Nidal Hasan in November 2009, when the Army officer | Read More »

Remember November II: The RGA is out with another great video

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  May 4th at 12:40 PM  | 

This one’s on the media coverage of the first. Interesting, isn’t it, how the MSM seem to parrot the same lines across the board? Interesting, isn’t it, how the MSM seem to have long since forgotten that journalists’ job is to report the stories and ask the questions, rather than to collude to make up storylines, and to become the story themselves? Great video — | Read More »

The Lost Heroes of the War on Terror: Gallant Deeds and Untold Tales

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  May 25th at 01:30 PM  | 

Despite taking place in the Information Age, very few of the heroic exploits of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines since September 11, 2001, have made their way into the living rooms of ordinary Americans — at least in any lasting way. Whether this is the result of changing values among the American people, the general population’s perpetually dwindling attention span, or because there are | Read More »

Objective CNN Reporter to Chicago Tea Party Attendee: ‘Why Are You Complaining? Don’t You Know Obama Gave Your State Billions in the Stimulus!?”

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 15th at 06:21 PM  | 

From the department of pathetic ignorance or willfully not getting it (not sure which to file this one in yet) comes this clip of a CNN reporter shouting down a Chicago Tea Party attendee for not displaying the appropriate appreciation and gratitude to President Obama for his gift to the state of Illinois of billions in borrowed money and trillions in new debt. These people | Read More »

“Cam Sham”: Obama’s Photo Op with Cheering, Camera Wielding Troops 100% Staged

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 12th at 05:06 PM  | 

Isn’t it just a pain in the neck when there’s an alternative media that prevents strict message control by a staged-photo-op of an administration and its willing mouthpieces in the MSM? It’s painless for us, of course; rather, that pain is being felt in the necks of those who want to insist that a bow to a Saudi king isn’t a bow, that an omnibus | Read More »

Pelosi: ‘I never demanded a bigger plane’; Evidence: ‘Yes, she did’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 11th at 02:19 PM  | 

Below is a video we’ve all seen: Speaker Pelosi, in February 2007, denying that she or anybody in her office demanded the DOD provide her with a larger plane than the ones already provided to meet her personal-use demands. “I have never asked for any larger plane….We’ve never asked for a larger plane, this is a myth that they are talking about on the floor,” | Read More »

Would $850,000,000.00 per job rescued make the “stimulus” worth it?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 11th at 01:29 PM  | 

Given his penchant for “misremembering” conversations (and for apparently misreading people entirely despite years of close contact — see Exhibit A, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for an example), we can’t be sure that President Obama is even accurately recounting what Caterpillar CEO James Owens said to him in their conversation. However, here‘s what he seems to think went on: President Barack Obama says Caterpillar’s chief executive | Read More »

On Path to Irrelevance, MSM Continues Trading Objectivity for Activism

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 20th at 07:00 AM  | 

We’ve seen the evidence mounting over the last several years of professional journalism’s slide from respectable fourth estate to irrelevant outlet for liberal activism. We’ve seen Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” forged-document-based assassination attempt on George W. Bush, and Chris Matthews’s tingly-legged assertion that his job as an objective journalist, while formerly being centered on bringing down the Bush administration, is now to ensure that | Read More »

Did Barack Obama promise Mexico’s president he would open the borders?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 14th at 03:23 PM  | 

On Monday, Mexican President Felipe Calderón met with President-elect Barack Obama. What was said, while not a matter of controversy, is being reported differently by papers on either side of America’s southern border. Here are the headlines:

Destination: Baghdad

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  December 12th at 06:39 PM  | 

Sources close to Barack Obama have said the President-elect plans to make a speech from an Islamic capital somewhere in the world within 100 days of his inauguration. This announcement prompted a flurry of speculation amongst reporters, pundits, and bloggers about which capital the Democrat would choose. Names like Riyadh, Kuwait City, Tehran, Damascus, Amman, and Ankara were thrown out by media, and discarded for | Read More »

Do not endorse Obama, do not keep your seat on the Obama Express

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  October 31st at 10:12 AM  | 

The Obama campaign has bumped representatives from three major newspapers that endorsed John McCain for president over Obama off of its campaign plane for the final days of the race. The Dallas Morning News, Washington Times, and New York Post “have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs — and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two | Read More »