By Debbie Schlussel

So much for the alleged and over-hyped “fearlessness” of Sacha Baron Cohen.  There’s nothing fearless about attacking America on behalf of Muslims and staying away from the slightest papercut to the Mohammedan crowd.

Cohen’s “The Dictator“–in theaters today–carefully avoids insulting Islam or Muslims.  In fact, neither word is ever mentioned in the 83-minute movie, even though the movie is clearly about a North African dictator who is–what else?–an Arab Muslim.  Arabs aren’t mentioned, either.  On the other hand, Jews and Blacks are repeatedly attacked.  Most disgusting:  Cohen uses the veneer of his “dictator” character to mock the massacre of Israeli athletes by Islamic terrorists at the Munich Olympics, in a very vivid video game he plays, trying to kill them, as the athletes famously try to keep the door to their dormitory closed.  This is funny?  Also, not funny:  the dictator–obviously modeled on late Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi–puts his hand up a woman’s vagina and drops his cellphone in it.  Haha, funny.

Even less funny:  when Sacha Baron Cohen he delivers a monologue that liberals will love.  In Occupy Wall Street style, Cohen lectures us that America is far worse than (Islamic – don’t mention that word!) dictators and even mentions the 99% and the 1%.  America is far worse than, say, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?  That’s the message of this movie, as Cohen’s dictator tells foreign leaders that if he were really a dictator, one family would control the media (an obvious reference to the Rupert Murdoch family), he’d prevent people from getting affordable healthcare and education, he’d use government to listen in on people (he phrases it as an obvious criticism of the Patriot Act), and 99% of the wealth would be owned by the wealthiest 1%.  Thanks, Sacha.  Funny, though, I don’t see you running to abandon your Los Angeles mansion or to give your gazillions away to the “99%,” schmuck. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Al-Dubya-mockracy (emphasis on the “mock” part) is a deadly failure. But its brainless creator still doesn’t get it–that he did the jihadists’ work for them.

I would say the moron of the day award goes to George W. Bush for praising the Arab Spring bloodbath that ushered in Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Egypt, and so on and so forth. But, actually, in this case, he’s the moron of the decade, since he preached Islamic democracy ever since 9/11 and even before that. He’s the father of the Arab Spring, NOT Obama. I warned against this back in 2006, and predicted back then that the Muslim Brotherhood would take over Egypt. And I noted again and again that democracy ain’t for Muslims–savages and barbarians who need an authoritarian dictator to keep them in line. It is only for civilizations, something Bush just doesn’t get.

George W. Bush drove out the only Sunni obstacle to the Middle East’s Shi’ite Crescent and Shi’ite Revolution, sending American boys to die in the name of Islamic “democracy” in Iraq that put in place Hezbollah-supporting, Iran-backed Shi’ites and drove the Christians and many Sunnis out. He’s the father of the Arab Spring because he insisted on free elections in Gaza, then–after spending gazillions in your tax money to campaign for Fatah/PLO terrorists, he and Condi Clueless were shocked–shocked!–when HAMAS was elected. He also pushed Hezbollah into power in Lebanon, insisting on more liberalized elections there, too.

So, the “Arab Spring” now is his doing, something I warned against during his administration, but no one listened. And now we have the fruits of his idiocy. And, yet, despite all evidence to the contrary, Bush insists his Islamic democracy experiment worked . . . the claim only a moron or a liar–or both–could make. Funny, though, that Bush doesn’t insist on democracy and free elections in Saudi Arabia or any of the Gulf States. But, then, if his Sheikh and Royal friends were driven out of these places, who would pay for his–and Bill Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s–Presidential Library or many hundred-thousand dollar speeches? Interesting how that push for democracy in the Muslim world works, isn’t it?

The United States must stand by reformists in the Middle East and North Africa as the euphoria of revolution gives way to the tough work of building democratic societies, former U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Well,  TIME Magazine got what it wanted–temporarily.  The magazine was at death’s door (and still is), but for the first time in ages, it got attention because it put a topless chick, Jamie Lynne Grumet, getting her breast (if you can call that a breast) sucked by a far-too-old boy.  At this rate, TIME is going to have to put a man (or woman) getting oral sex on the cover, or it’s still gonna die an ever-impending death. Check out the insane, New Age gobbledygook video, below, about Grumet, who was nursed by her mother through age SIX!  Notice what’s missing anywhere in the video:  a man.  I thought she was another one of those single moms.  But I was wrong.  She has a wimpy beta-male as an accessory and a Mr. Mom.  Brian Grumet–that guy’s testicles were checked at the door years ago.  It’s obvious.

But, to me, the cover isn’t just about attachment parenting–that weird lifestyle being pimped by bizarros, like actress Mayim Bialik. Per this weird lifestyle, she sleeps with her six-year-old kids in the same bed, while she’s having sex with her husband (called, “co-sleeping” – new lesson: in general, whenever a normal word has “co-” incongruously slapped onto it, the perpetrators are usually liberal nutjobs who need to take their meds because they are co-insane, co-crazy, co-trashy, and just plain co-annoying). They also don’t put their babies in diapers, allowing them to pee wherever and whenever.  Her ancestor, the great Israeli writer, Chaim Nahman Bialik is turning over in his grave.

The cover is about the militant feminists who insist that we see them whipping out their breasts at whim and feeding their kids (at whatever age) in public, and that if we object to this, we are somehow backward or warring on women.  If you want to nurse your kids, do it in private.  Don’t insist on subjecting me to it.  That’s selfish.  And, attention Michelle Malkin, it’s NOT conservative.  It’s liberal, feminist, self-absorbed (all the things she is).  That Fraudkin and Grumet–both of whom are obvious egomaniacs and assume the alpha male role in their marriages–think we must see their breasts (or, in both of their cases, lack thereof) because they are too lazy and inconsiderate to go into a bathroom, is ridiculous. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

It is always gratifying when left-wing Jews in Hollywood awaken from their pan-Islamic slumber.  And I think that may have occurred with actor/director Peter Berg (who, actually, isn’t Jewish, as only his father is a Jew, but he’s frequently identified himself as Jewish to the world). He told off an Israeli television reporter and draft dodger and advocated attacking Iran, in an interview he did promoting his new movie, “Battleship,” which debuts in theaters later this week.  See the video below.  But I’m not sure that Berg has connected the dots between Israel’s survival and the growing Islamic threat all over the world, including his friends in Saudi Arabia. As longtime readers may remember, I’ve documented some of the stupid, pro-Muslim things Berg has said and done. 

Peter Berg on Iran, Israel & the IDF (Not Safe for Work – 2 F-Words) . . .

Berg’s past Islamo-pandering is substantial. He directed the propagandistic “The Kingdom” (read my review), which morally equated American FBI counterterrorism agents with Islamic terrorists who kill Americans.  As I exclusively reported, he used a paid Saudi government advisor to “massage” the movie’s content, attacked American patriotism, and told the press that he wanted to send a message sympathetic to Muslims.  At the time, he said he was upset when American audiences applauded his movie and thought it was patriotic.  He assured them it was not:

When a test screening in Sacramento erupted in cheers during a battle scene (he was hoping for a more somber reaction), he told Universal Studios executives he wanted a screening for a largely Muslim audience.

“I didn’t want this to be an ‘America kicks (butt)’ movie,” he says. I wanted action but not jingoistic action.” . . . [DS: As I've written many times, "jingoistic" is the word the left--especially in Hollywood--uses to deride American patriotism.] Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Remember the old TV commercials for Hebrew National hot dogs–”We answer to a higher authority”? [FYI, kosher Jews, like me, won't eat Hebrew National, but that's a story for another post.] Well, replace the word “higher” with “Muslim” and you have the new slogan for New York City.

For all the attacks the NYPD has endured for daring to investigate Islamic supporters of terrorism (and prevent terrorist attacks against New York citizens), it’s pretty clear that the Muslims are still wagging the city’s tail, and the NYPD has little power, even to remember slain cops. Now, the Islamic community has final say on the names of roads in the United States of America.

A New York police officer seeking to rename a Harlem street for a cop gunned down inside a Manhattan mosque 40 years ago was told by local leaders to seek the blessing of area Muslims. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Why is Barack Obama’s immigration chief skipping the funeral of his recently murdered agent, in order to hobnob at the dinner of a mysterious foundation? That’s a question you’ll have to ask John “Moron” Morton, the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Aside from constantly seeking new luxury cars (more on that in a future post) and agents to chauffeur him and his girlfriend and posse around, Morton does little else, these days, but search for a post-Obama job . . . on your dime.

Obama’s ICE Chief Cares Only About What Govt Car is Driving Him & Schmoozing for Future Jobs; Dead Agents, Like Myron Chism, Not So Much

Tonight, instead of attending the funeral of Myron Chisem–the Black ICE agent who was shot and killed by his 14-year-old son–DebbieSchlussel.com has learned that Morton will instead be attending the ICE Foundation dinner, where he’ll be seeking jobs from the many corporations that fund the foundation and have undue influence on Morton and his agency. Yup, the Obamaniks place an over-exuberant emphasis on minorities when it comes to going after private companies and employers, yet Morton doesn’t care about his dead agents, even if they are Black. But, hey, Morton needs a job, and I hear he plans to hit up the various vice presidents and general counsels of big companies, who will be attending tonight’s dinner, for his future employment. I’ve already told you how Morton has been using ICE travel, bodyguards, etc. for himself and his entire entourage, while he interviews for jobs at media giants, Viacom and NBC Universal, (and attends the Oscars and other Hollywood events trolling for jobs) on your tab.

What exactly is the ICE Foundation? That’s what many ICE agents would like to know, since many of the career ICE agents I talked to never heard of the organization, until now . . . because their boss is skipping the funeral of one of their own to attend its annual banquet. The ICE foundation has a fancy website and claims to help ICE agents and promote their work, but its tax forms are unavailable for public inspection and you cannot find them on Guidestar, the website best known for having all of the non-profits’ tax returns available for viewing. No one knows exactly where the money goes, to whom, or anything else about it, despite the foundation website’s lofty-sounding, but nebulous, BS-filled mission statement about helping ICE agents and promoting their work. If the foundation truly did that, ICE agents would’ve heard of it. What we do know, however, is disturbing. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

America is finally waking up to Islamic charter schools, an issue I’ve been complaining about for at least two decades. It’s a problem created not by liberals, but by conservative Republicans.

I’ve long marched to a different beat than the blind-faith conservatives who sing the siren song of charter schools.  When I was in grad school in Wisconsin in the early to mid-1990s, I watched as the primary driver behind that state’s charter schools was a female Black Muslim legislator, hailed by the conservative masses without any critical thinking skills.  And soon after her work was passed, Milwaukee had Nation of Islam charter schools.  And so did Detroit, after Michigan passed its law.  And Arab Muslims took advantage, too, in Michigan and Minnesota and many other places.  But, whenever I’d raise the questions about these schools to conservatives, they didn’t want to hear it.  They insisted there was oversight, but in fact there isn’t.  In Michigan, for example, most of these schools are “supervised” by small state colleges hundreds of miles away, with those colleges rubber-stamping the charter schools’ qualifications and collecting oversight fees. In recent years, conservative state legislators from various states have contacted me to consult on how to regulate and prevent these Muslim charter schools. My answer: get rid of charter schools. There is no other way. And the Gulen Islamic charter schools, which often go by the name “Harmony Schools” or “Horizon Schools,” are Exhibit A of my argument. The Islamic charter schools are the fault and creation ENTIRELY of the right and conservative Republican legislators around the country. Remember, liberal Democrats opposed charter schools. And even though it was for the wrong reasons, they were right.

In case you did not see CBS News’ “60 Minutes” last night, I recommend that you watch the video report below, which ran on yesterday’s show.  The report, about the Gulen charter schools, run by the Turkish imam, doesn’t really cover any new ground, since I’ve been hearing from concerned parents and citizens about these schools for years, and the story has been covered in places like the Wall Street Journal.  But, per usual and like most of the mainstream media reports, CBS News’ Leslie Stahl largely whitewashes the schools, which are basically Islamic charter schools funded by American taxpayer dollars.  And they are also mills for immigration fraud by Turkish Muslims and kickbacks to the Gulen Islamic machine.

(Read the transcript of the report here.)

Even though Stahl mostly gives the Gulen schools a pass, I have to say she points out more criticism of the schools than I’ve seen from the mainstream media so far.  The most marked point, aside from those I just mentioned, is that the schools get special talent visas for Muslim teachers teaching subjects for which there are many unemployed, qualified American teachers currently seeking work, including math and . . . ENGLISH!

Still, some of her statements are ridiculous.  Stahl says that she and CBS News confirmed that Islam is never taught in the schools because that would violate the law.  Um, how does she know this?  Has she simultaneously been in all of the dozens of Gulen schools in 22 states across the United States for every hour on ever day the schools are opened?  Nope, she spent a few hours at a few schools.  That’s it.  And they gave her their best show, just like the Nazis did with their few model concentration camps they showed the Red Cross.  I mean, this is supposed to be an “investigative” journalism news outfit.   And, yet–par for the course–she makes a blanket statement absolving the schools with absolutely no evidence to back that statement up. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

The new movie I liked best this weekend is the one that had the smallest budget, but a lot of class and charm, which I cannot say for any of the others.

*  “Dark Shadows“:  I didn’t hate this movie based on a late ’60s/early ’70s TV soap opera, as at least one commenter predicted I would.  But, while I looked forward to seeing it, it didn’t quite live up to my expectations.  On the other hand, it is chock full of camp, style, and kookiness, and parody.  Too chock full of those things. . . to the point that it feels like a stuffed turducken with too many other animals crammed in along with it.  The movie was waaaay tooo loooong, and it just became silly and boring at a point.  It seems that everything–including the kitchen sink–is thrown in, including an appearance and performances by Alice Cooper.  I like campy, unusual stuff, but I”m not sure I’d pay $10 to see it, as it’s neither a great nor tight movie.  And I’m not quite sure what the plot actually was.  It seemed like everything happened and yet nothing really happened to move things along.  And at times, it was a comedy, other times a thriller, and other times something else.  It’s sort of just weird.  It wasn’t horrible.  It was okay. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Can’t let the week go by without remembering Vidal Sassoon, * Zichrono LiVrachah [Blessed Be His Memory], who died on Wednesday at age 84. He was so much more than the famous, classy, chic hair stylist and the namesake of a famous haircare line of the ’70s and ’80s.

When I was a kid and saw ads on TV like the two videos below, my parents used to tell me that Vidal Sassoon was a Sephardic Jew who was pro-Israel. And we bought his shampoo and conditioner because, as he said in the ads, “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.” Not only was he proud to be Jewish and a supporter of Israel, but he fought in the Haganah in 1947 to help make Israel an independent state. The son of Sephardic Jews of Greek and Spanish descent, his family was poor, and he had to live in an orphanage after his father abandoned the family. He went on to fight anti-Semites in Britain in his youth and later to fund other fights against anti-Semitism. His was an interesting story.

Watch the trailer from “Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
“ . . .

In 1948, he traveled to Israel to fight in Israel’s war of independence. An ardent Zionist, he went on to endow the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

The only way this story would be better would be if he really was “raped” by the TSA. . . or the ghost of  his mancrush, Yasser Arafat.  Sadly, neither is actually the case. Remember that this schmuck was an apologist for Arafat and repeatedly referred to himself on PAWNN (the Prince Al-Waleed News Network a/k/a “FOX News”) as a “Palestinianist.” Oh, and don’t forget when he betrayed the troops in Iraq and was kicked out.

So sad, too bad. Crocodile tears from me. Oh, and by the way, Jerry Rivers–er, “Geraldo Rivera”–welcome to RealWorldVille. Try living in it like the rest of us little people, you spineless whining fraud.

File Under: Rhymes With Crasshole.