By Debbie Schlussel

There is one new movie in theaters, this weekend, that’s really great . . . until the ending has a horrible moral message. The other new movies stink. I am not allowed to post my review of “The Bachelorette” until it opens in the Detroit market.

* “The Words“: This was such a well-done, well-told, well-made story of a movie. Entertaining, masterful, a tight script that pulls you in. Just terrific. That is, until the ending endorses plagiarism. Plagiarism pays. You can get away with it. And, sadly, that is true in today’s world. People, like CNN contributor and TIME/Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria, can flat out steal whole paragraphs from columns, and their employers instantly forgive this as a “mistake.” I, myself, have been the victim of 14 years of Michelle Malkin stealing my ideas, my columns, my scoops that I broke, and even the nicknames I create for people in the news. Fraudkin’s got a record of stealing from others and plagiarizing even ABC News, nearly word for word. And, yet, she’s Exhibit A of the fake it ’til ya make it/plagiarism pays culture in America. I’ve seen World Net Daily and its Aaron Klein repeatedly steal my and others’ work, and they are rewarded. Laura Ingraham and her radio show producer/sidekick read a column from my website, word for word on the air, presenting it as their own, never mentioning me. (I don’t listen to her utra-crappy show, but astute readers heard the rip off and alerted me.) When I called their radio syndicator, suddenly the producer called and begged me not to write about it because it would cause Media Matters to write against her, he said. The next day, to make up for getting caught, Ingraham and the guy went overboard to credit me. But only because I called them out. Sean Hannity did the same–reading at least four of my columns on the air as his own research and knowledge, never giving me credit. And I’m not the only one. All of these people steal endlessly. Intellectual property theft is okay in America, sadly. And that’s the message of this movie in spades.

What I liked about this movie beyond its moral dilemma story, was that it was essentially three stories–three movies–in one. There is the story taking place in the here and now as Quaid reads his book, there is the story he’s reading which is supposed to be make believe, and then there is an old man and his story during World War II France. And the movie has great actors, not least of which is the fantastic Jeremy Irons. Dennis Quaid is always great, and he’s no exception here. The movie begins with Quaid as a famous author who is reading part of his latest book release at a book reading. The book, “The Words,” is about a young wannabe author (Bradley Cooper) and his wife, Zoe Saldana. Cooper so badly wants to be a published author, but he gets nothing but rejections and has settled into a job as a mail clerk at an agency representing authors in the publishing industry. On their honeymoon to Paris, his wife buys him an old leather briefcase, and one night he finds an old typed manuscript inside the case. He begins reading it and is drawn into the novel, realizing that he could never write something so great. Soon, he is typing up the manuscript onto his laptop, and not long afterward, he is presenting the book as his own. The book becomes a big hit, but then his plagiarism is found out. Or is it? Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Jennifer Granholm, the special brand of crazy that graced last night’s Democratic National Convention, isn’t exactly news to those of us in Michigan forced to live under her for eight years of misery. She was the worst Governor in contemporary Michigan history, overseeing record numbers of lost jobs, closed factories, and people moving out of Michigan in droves. It’s a microcosm of what Barack Obama did to America. We’re used to her hyena-esque rants. She repeatedly pulled that crap at Detroit Red Wing and Pistons victory parades . . . and was booed and laughed off the stage. She was also laughed out of Michigan, after she told us, “in five years, you’ll be blown away!” But the only thing blown away was any hope Michigan had of an economic recovery.

Here’s the Jenny From the Block Granholm we suffered in Michigan:

When Jennifer Granholm ran for Governor in 2002, she ran comical commercials about being an immigrant who worked her way through school. Nope, she wasn’t a Vietnamese boat person struggling to survive and then make ends meet in America. She was the Canadian-born daughter of a wealthy bank president. And her reign over Michigan’s destruction was just as dishonest and fraudulent. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Barack Obama has come full circle in sympathizing with his Maoist comrades on the left and enabling them to power and beyond. While Maoist rebels now ruling Nepal murdered more than 13,000 Nepalese people in their quest to control the country, Obama just removed them from the State Department terrorist list and will now recognize and deal with them. On the other hand, if we can enable Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and HAMAS to power in Libya, Egypt, and, soon, Syria, it’s only fair that we not discriminate against their fellow murderers in Nepal, right? Oh, and don’t hold your breath for a President Romney to reverse course. He won’t.

The United States on Thursday removed Nepal’s ruling Maoist party, which after a bloody, decade-long insurgency now heads a caretaker government, from its blacklist of terrorist organizations.

After almost a decade as a designated global terrorist body, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), or CPN(M), which laid down its arms in 2006 to enter politics, was struck off the list, the State Department said.

An estimated 16,000 people died in a brutal 1996-2006 “people’s war” fought by the Maoists against the centuries-old and once absolute monarchy before the rebels turned to politics and swept to power in elections two years later. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I don’t know about you, but I was bored to death by Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at last night’s Democratic National Convention. He was awful. He needed to hit a homerun, and he bunted without taking even a single base. It was the same old liberal-left empty sloganeering and synthetic jingoism. It sounded desperate. And he sounded almost robotic belting it out with ill-timed loud intonations–not as bad as the crazed ill-timed shrill shouting of ex-Michigan Governor and former “The Dating Game” contestant Jennifer Granholm (more about that later). But bad enough. You cannot win the White House by pretending you are auditioning for a show on Current TV, Channel 582 (or whatever the number is). Nobody watches that except the extreme Occupy Wall Street losers and their rich one percenter Hollywood left patrons, and that ain’t enough to win an election.

It says a lot when Joe Biden’s speech is better than Obama’s . . . (or anyone else’s, for that matter). If attacking the “cold war mentality” but then relying on the Bin Laden kill to revive your Presidency is the best you can do, you’ve already lost. To repeat the 1992 James Carville, it’s the economy, stupid. If you aren’t running on that, you’re not running at all.

I had to laugh when Obama attacked Mitt Romney for “offending” Great Britain over the Olympics. Um, that’s nothing, compared to dispatching the bust of Winston Churchill from the White House back to the Brits. Now, that’s an insult. And it’s just intellectually dishonest for Obama to pretend that he’s the better man in this category, when he clearly ain’t. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I don’t get what everyone’s raving about with regard to Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, last night. It was long, boring, and a waste of an hour of my life I’ll never get back. And, um, isn’t this guy an accused rapist who was impeached? Just sayin’. They needed a more interesting backdrop to keep me attuned while I listened to the Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Tropic Bikini Contest Court drone on and on and on as if he were still Prez, as he fantasizes he still is. My choice of backdrop, which I kept envisioning as he spoke: Slick Willie posing with the three porn stars in Europe. Or a photo of a blue Gap dress, stain et al hanging on a door. Hey, Bill, you know you’re a redneck when . . . .

Anyway, here are my tweets that I posted on Twitter (follow me on Twitter), as I listened to Monica’s ex-boytoy go on and on and on and on:

More Tweets . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

If you ever wonder why a spoiled American kid becomes an Islamic terrorist, you need only look to “parents” like Frank Lindh, dad to convicted Taliban terrorist John Walker Lindh. He’s applauding his son’s ridiculous lawsuit (filed by the terrorists’ and criminals’ lobby, the ACLU) against the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Lindh filed the suit because he isn’t allowed to engage in Islamic prayer with a group of other Islamic prisoners on a regular basis and must pray alone most of the time.

But Islamic law doesn’t require group prayer, as an imam already testified to. And, frankly, none of the prisoners should be allowed to pray together. There is an entire wing of hardened convicted Islamic terrorists in the Terre Haute, Indiana federal prison where John Walker Lindh is housed, including Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, a convicted HAMAS terrorist who plotted to blow up the New York subway so he could kill as many Jews as possible. He nearly succeeded, but for his roommate telling the cops just an hour or so before he carried out the attack. These prisoners want to pray in a group so that they can plot attacks on guards, prison breaks, and terrorist attacks. It’s not rocket science stuff to know this. And John Walker Lindh is clearly still a Muslim and still a Muslim terrorist who doesn’t renounce his Taliban activities targeting American soldiers for death. There’s a reason he’s being held in the “Communications Management Unit.” We want to strictly “manage” his communications with fellow terrorists. It’s obvious Lindh couldn’t care less about praying with other Muslims. He wants to discuss and plan terrorism with other Muslims.

And, yet, Frank Lindh is proud of his son for fighting for the right to convene with other Islamic terrorists to plot and scheme. Sadly, Papa Lindh is free in America. But he is clearly no different than his son in terms of his sympathies. They aren’t with America. And that’s why his son turned out the way he is. Real American parents would be ashamed of–no, horrified by–their son. The Lindhs remain ever proud and ever despicable. While not all parents are responsible for the behavior of their children, some clearly are, as in this case. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Last night, when I watched Fauxcahontas a/k/a Elizabeth Warren introducing Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention, I was reminded of my University of Wisconsin Law School classmate, Vonda Fritz from Texas. The University of Wisconsin Law School gives a free ride to “Native Americans.” If you claim you are an Indian, you can get a full scholarship and other privileges, such as attendance at minority-only sessions for law school exams, in which professors more than hint what will be on the exam. When I attended law school, I met Vonda, who told me she had one of those scholarships. I said, “Wow, you’re an American Indian. Very cool.” My father had several Indian patients whom he respected a great deal, and he taught us to respect them as a special part of America (though at least one Indian Tribe worked with Hezbollah in cigarette smuggling scams). But Vonda said, “Oh, I’m barely Indian, only 1/32nd (or maybe she said 1/64th–I can’t remember the fraction for sure, but it was very little). I’m really German. But I get a free ride out of it.” And, so it goes, with the barely-Indian Elizabeth Warren, who got affirmative action every single step of the way, when she probably wasn’t an Indian at all, despite claiming her high cheekbones as “evidence.” She apparently even plagiarized an Indian recipe (“Powwow Chow”) for an Indian recipe book. As I’ve noted, she’s not the first Democratic candidate this year to claim phony minority status for personal and political benefit. But, amazingly, after being exposed as a fake, the Dems still have the chutzpah to give this chick a prime speaking slot and she has the uber-chutzpah to take it.

Oh, and not only is she a phony Indian, she’s also a phony anti-capitalist, who got rich by taking advantage of the poor . . . you know, the stuff they accuse Romney of doing. Last night she said the “system is rigged,” but she’s one of the riggers and one of the beneficiaries of the rigging.

So, last night, as I listened to her very boring, annoying, typical liberal drivel of a speech, I send out these tweets. My Bill Clinton tweets are funnier, and I’ll post those later. For now, enjoy. Follow me on Twitter.

More Elizabeth Warren tweets: Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Watch this hilarious video of what took place less than an hour ago on the floor of the Democratic convention, as delegates loudly booed and voted against the reinstatement of language recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the Democratic Convention Chairman, er . . . “Chair” (even emptier than Clint Eastwood’s chair) has to ask delegates to vote not once, not twice, but THREE times to try to get a majority of them to vote to reinstate the language into the Democratic Party platform, after it was deliberately removed. And, yet, even on the third vote, despite his declaring otherwise, the majority of the delegates are loudly AGAINST reinstating the language. It is fun to watch the silly “Yalla Vote”-t-shirt wearing Arab and his property, er . . woman looking all upset. And they should be. Their party is clearly anti-Israel. But for election and PR purposes, Villaraigosa keeps lying about the delegates’ vote, which is clearly and loudly anti-Israel. Someone clearly has a hearing–or more like a lying–problem. This group is a festival of clowns. Reader “Worry01”: “Boss Tweed would have been proud.” Yup.

Check out the video . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Almost two weeks ago, I told you about “Baz,” the new Green Lantern superhero created by DC Comics exec/dhimmi Christian Arab Geoff Johns, which will debut at the anti-Israel Arab American National Museum, which is run by Hezbollah Shi’ite Muslims. At first Johns was keeping very quiet about the new character, which he originally said was just an Arab and not Muslim. But, now, he’s come out of the jihadist closet. In the comic book, which debuts today, Simon Baz is an unemployed Muslim Arab Dearbornistan autoworker “unfairly persecuted” and “wrongly accused of terrorism” after 9/11, and he is “forced” to steal the wrong car. Wow, talk about propaganda. And the character was designed with the help of employees of the tax-funded anti-Israel, pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS museum, including museum “researcher,” Matt Jaber Stiffler, so your taxes helped subsidize this crap, which gives new meaning to the phrase, “comic con.” Can’t wait until we read about how the Green Lantern was “forced” to beat up a Jewish kid because his relatives in the Middle East were allegedly harassed and persecuted by the “evil Zionist entity.” You know that’s coming, rather than an intellectually honest story about Johns’ Maronite Christian relatives who were persecuted by Muslims in Lebanon.

The olive-skinned, burly Baz hails from Dearborn, the hometown of Henry Ford and the capital of Arab America. His story begins at 10 years old, when he and the rest of his Muslim family watch their television in horror as airplanes fly into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Events unfold from there as U.S. Arabs and Muslims find themselves falling under intense suspicion and ostracism in the days, months and years following the attacks.

PUH-LEEZE. That tired, hackneyed narrative is belied by the fact that 9/11 was the best PR move ever for Muslims. Forty percent of Muslims now in the U.S. came here after 9/11, and they’ve gotten gazillions in government grants, and tons of political pandering, appeasement, and mainstream media sob stories over them despite their crocodile tears over 9/11 and their open support for Islamic terrorist groups that continue to murder Americans. 9/11 got America to bend over forward and backward for this religion of terrorism and open hatred of America, Christians, and Jews.

Johns said he took economic as well as ethnic cues for the character from his native Detroit area, with Baz resorting to stealing cars after being laid off from his automotive engineering job. He steals the wrong car, which inadvertently steers him into a terrorism probe and, eventually, an unexpected call to join the universe’s galactic police force.

Ah, now I get it. American auto industry in the dumps, Muslims hardest hit! Aren’t they the most afflicted and aggrieved from any troubles that hit America, while the rest of us are doing fine! Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Forty years ago today, Islamic terrorists kidnapped Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches in Munich, a siege which ultimately resulted in the slaughter of the Israelis. Upon their initial invasion of the Olympic dorms, the terrorists murdered two of the Israelis and ultimately they murdered the rest. Unfortunately, it’s a little remembered anniversary, while in the 40 years since, Islamic terrorists have been systematically and consistently rewarded for their brutal, animalistic behavior. The murderers were all freed, and the victims have yet to get a memorial in the opening ceremonies of an Olympic Games. One of those victims was David Berger, an American athlete from Cleveland.

If you’ve read any historical accounts of the Munich massacre or seen any of the terrific movies and documentaries, including and especially, “One Day in September” (which I highly recommend), you know that the kidnap and murder of the Israeli athletes happened only because Germany and the International Olympic Committee had poor security and refused to let the Israelis protect their own or even intervene once the athletes were taken hostage. You also know that the German police and “security” forces were idiots and Keystone Kops extraordinaire. Israeli government and Mossad officials watched in shock, disgust, and frustration, after each egregious blunder by the Germans resulted in more and more chances for the terrorists to murder the Israelis and get away with it, which was the ultimate result. Not only were all of the Israeli athletes and coaches who were taken hostage murdered, but their murderers ultimately got away. The Germans, not wanting to remember the horrible things they did to the Jews in the Holocaust, didn’t want to have Muslim murderers of Jews in their jails, so they worked out a ridiculous deal to free them. Not long after the Munich massacre, the Germans worked with the Palestinians to allow the Palestinians to stage a phony hijacking, and the few Munich massacre-ists who were behind German bars were freed in exchange for the passengers on the flight. Now, more and more records have come out to show that German authorities knew all along of the Palestinian plans for the Munich massacre, and simply ignored them, just like they were active and complicit in what was going on in the ovens and camps in the 1940s. Read the rest of this entry »