On the heels of the mass murder and shooting at a Tucson “Congress on Your Corner” event with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which left 6 dead and twelve injured, Democrat Sheriff of Pima County, AZ, Clarence Dupnik blames Jared Loughner’s mass slaughter on “vitriolic rhetoric” coming from talk radio. He says that we must all remember that psychos like Loughner are more susceptible to this vitriol coming from the “radio business” and the “TV business,” and its message about “tearing down the government.” (Read = Tea Party, Talk Radio, and Fox News)
Huh?
He also says that all members of Congress, and really all elected officials, face a threat at some point or the other in their careers due to the contentious nature of the laws and bills passed, legislative decisions made, and that unfortunately, Arizona has become the “mecca for prejudice and bigotry” since S.B. 1070 passed. Since when is it the Pima County Sheriff’s countenance to deem what is socially right or wrong, especially when it’s spoken in ignorance of the law? And Sheriff Dupnik might want to reserve his judgment until all is discovered about this case, considering some of Jared’s favorite reads include “Mein Kampf” and “The Communist Manifesto.” Yeah… a real right-wing extremist, for sure.
The only video he has listed as a “favorite” on his YouTube channel is called “America: Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!” which features someone in disguise, burning an American flag, all to the tune of “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” by Drowning Pool. In this video, there’s also an inserted comment that calls local police “cult leaders.” Yeah, real big Tea Party ideology going on there. /sarc
Methinks clearer heads need to prevail, and NOBODY needs to be calling up the political meme about this horrible tragedy. Now is not the time to be left or right, Democrat or Republican – but just plain ol’ American. I’m up for that…if only we can convince the left to play along, as well.
Man, oh, man. This man is really starting to scare the crap out of me with this appeasement horse squeeze.
And on top of that, he never even answered the girl’s question. Believe me, Indians know EXACTLY what Jihad is, as its definition has been written in the streets…in blood…for decades. If anyone knows what Jihad is, it’s certainly the Indians. Unfortunately, our Commander in Chief can’t bring himself to admit it himself.
From a partial transcript, h/t Mediaite (I don’t know who did this transcript, but I tried to fix it as much as possible for spelling and punctuation errors.):
Barbara Walters: It’s why I sometimes have trouble here and don’t give my opinion because I’m also with ABC news. If you are a commentator and you’re giving opinions, you’re in one category.
Sherri Sheppard: Is that a pundit?
Walters: You can call it a pundit. If you are giving the news straight, you’re not supposed to give your opinions. Now, that’s changed so much. We’re in a whole other time now. Everybody has an opinion. If you don’t make more noise or scream louder or so on, you don’t get the ratings. So it is a funny blurred line. They said he’s a journalist, he’s a correspondent, and he’s not supposed to give opinions. But when he goes on another cable show like Fox and does it — so it’s a very blurry line. In the meantime, we hope he’ll come on with us and, if nothing else, give Joy and Whoopi 10%.
Sherri Sheppard: Bring your checkbook with you.
Joy Behar: I don’t need the money. But the thing of it is that NPR has been vetted by objective Media Matter type people and they have found that –
Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Media Matters?
Behar: I don’t know if it’s Media Matters. Maybe someone could find this out for me. They have found NPR is very balanced, unlike Fox, which is not balanced. Fox has now become the arm of the Republican Party.
Hasselbeck: That’s such a talking point, joy. It’s not true.
Behar: It is true.
Hasselbeck: It is not true.
Behar: People who are running for office are commentators on Fox.
Walters: Fox says their news is fair but they are a very conservative cable [station] with a particular point of view. I would like to ask our friend Bill O’Reilly, who is still with (sic) the subject every night on his program, I think we should get 10% of his salary.
You’re welcome, Joy. Chris “tingles” Matthews clip courtesy of me, you hypocrite buffoon.
You simply have to hear it from his own mouth to believe he actually said it. Here it is, h/t Breitbart TV:
Uh-huh…whatever you say, Dingy Harry. Do you see unicorns in your dreams, as well? Are they sprinkling pixie dust around the rainbow-hued meadows? Someone needs to do a UA on Harry Reid. STAT!
Last Sunday on “This Week with Christianne Amanpour,” the title of the show was called “Should the West Fear Islam?” Now, she could have just stopped it at that and spared the audience from a one-hour show of America-bashing Islamopologies. The obvious answer to the show’s questions is a simple “yes,” but there was one nugget in the show that really explained the truth.
Panelists on the show included Rev. Franklin Graham, evangelical leader; Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch and co-founder of Stop the Islamization of America; Ground Zero Mosque co-founder Daisy Khan; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and other scholars and families of 9/11 victims. Rev. Graham and Spencer were both outspoken about the evils of Islam, as was former Muslim, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, reporting via satellite, probably for her safety’s sake. You see, the wonderful, peace-loving, serene religion of Islam has issued many Fatwas against her, for which she has 24-hour security protection. Remember the Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh? When he was killed by an Islamofascist, a knife was plunged into his chest, pinning to it a note to Ali saying she was next. Van Gogh produced a movie Ali starred in called “Submission” about the oppression of women under Islamic Sharia law.
One particularly enlightening exchange came from co-founder of an organization called Islam4UK, Anjem Choudary, who was speaking via satellite from London. It was Choudary who provided the clarity that answered the question en toto. Here are the three segments from the show interspersed in this partial transcript:
AMANPOUR: Let me just say stop you there for a second, because this side is obviously the side that says one shouldn’t fear and that there are moderates and the whole religion should not be painted with the same brush. I want to, though, now go to Anjem Choudary in London. You have said that you think there should be Islamic domination. Why shouldn’t people be afraid of that?
CHOUDARY: Well — well, let me just say that Islam has a solution for all of the problems that mankind faces. If you want to live at peace with Muslims, we are quite willing to live at peace with you. But let us remember that history did not begin on 9/11. Before 9/11, the Americans — the American government bombed Sudan and Afghanistan. They were supporting the pirate state of Israel. So 9/11 was a reaction. You know, I think that we need to get away from the stereotyping. And this idea that you have moderate Muslims and you have radical Muslims, you know, it’s complete nonsense. A Muslim is the one who submits to the command of the creator. If he submits, he is a practicing Muslim. If he is not, then he should be practicing.
DAISY KHAN: I have to disagree with him, because Islam is a religion of pluralism that embraces all religions and it also embraces different interpretations. This is why we have so many schools of thought. What Anjem is talking about is an exclusivist view of Islam, which is my way or the highway. And my interpretation is the only interpretation—
CHOUDARY: It’s very easy for people to justify the fact that they’re not practicing. I mean, this lady in your studio, she should be covering with the hijab. She’s obviously not practicing —
CHOUDARY: There are many people who are justifying — there are many people who are justifying the inability to practice the Sharia, to say, “Well, I have a different form of religion.” You know, people want to claim that they’re vegetarians and they’re eating big beef burgers. You can not be a non-practicing vegetarian. Therefore, similarly, if you’re a Muslim, you submit to the Sharia.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM:He’s telling the truth.
AMANPOUR: You see, Reverend Graham says you’re telling the truth. So, do you agree with Reverend Graham and our panelists on this side that Americans should fear Islam?
CHOUDARY: we do believe, as Muslims, the East and the West will one day be governed by the Sharia. Indeed, we believe that one day, the flag of Islam will fly over the White House. Indeed, there’s even an oration of the Prophet where he said, “The day of judgment will not come until a group of my oma… — ”
DONNA MARSH O’CONNOR: Can I just — ?
CHOUDARY: “Conquer the White House.”
Rev. Graham got it right – Choudary was telling the truth.
Questions: Why did Amanpour seem to recoil at that revelation? And why did she move along away from it without asking more probing followup questions? The answer is very simple, and obvious to those who are familiar with Amanpour’s work. Amanpour is pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, and is a known apologist for Islam and Jihad. I also think she only had Ali on as a token, because she sure didn’t give her much airtime.
Why this woman was given the “This Week” show is beyond me. I’ve read the ratings have plummeted since she started anchoring the Sunday show, so she probably did this particular one for ratings…and to have another opportunity to shill for Islam on TV. Honestly, they should have just left Jake Tapper in place because “This Week” was really a good show with him at the helm. I and many others have told him so via Twitter and email.
I also think Amanpour (and ABC, by default) missed the best opportunity of all time (or perhaps it was intentional) to have the pre-eminent scholar on Islam to be a guest on the show. Who is that? Nobody knows the history and absolute truths about Islam better than Steve Emerson. Amanapour probably knew better than to invite him because he would have wiped the floor with all of the Islam apologists on the set. Perhaps she invited him and he turned her down? We’ll never know, but it would have been a much more fair show in exposing the unvarnished truths about Islam, and to answer the question “should America fear Islam?” with an absolute, resounding “YES!”
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