By Debbie Schlussel

The anti-Semitism of Iran (which is a proxy for the anti-Semitism of the entire Muslim world, be it Shi’ite, like Iran, or Sunni) is, yet again, on full display at the London Olympic Games, which debut on Friday and which–in appeasing the Muslim world–still will not have a memorial to the Israeli Olympic athletes who were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Munich. And aside from its anti-Semitism, the wimpitude of Iran and the Muslim world is also on display. Iran went to great lengths to make sure that its athletes will not have to face Israeli Jewish athletes (and the IOC is acquiescent in this, having Israel compete against European nations in regional preliminaries, etc.). Now, when that doesn’t appear to have worked, Iran has chosen to keep some athletes away from the Games, rather than have them compete against Israeli Jews . . . and suffer the shame of losing to those Israeli Jews. Conveniently, Iran’s one athlete who was certain to have to compete against Israel (snd would likely lose) suddenly has a “digestive infection” and conveniently missed the flight to London. Not that this is new. Iran–and other Muslim nations–have a history of doing this. They have such a lack of testicles that they cannot bear the thought that Jews might beat them (as they’ve beaten them in virtually every war, too, and in the war of ideas and inventions and patents, etc.). But, now, in a tiny pretense of doing the right thing–which he never ever actually does, Olympic chief Jacques Rogge said that countries that sit out events because of politics will be punished and penalized (though he hasn’t said what the penalty will be and there is a long, BS-endowed bureaucratic process to get there). So, Iran found a new way around it, with the “digestive infection” baloney.

Despite an Iranian assertion on Monday that its athletes would compete against Israeli Olympians at the 2012 Games, the Iranian team departed for London hours earlier, leaving behind the lone athlete who had the possibility of facing an Israeli opponent. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I don’t know much about Sherman Hemsley’s politics, but I will miss the real life actor behind George Jefferson of TV’s “The Jeffersons,” who died today at age 74. My dad introduced me to the show, and it was must viewing in our house when I was a kid in the mid-70s to early ’80s. George Jefferson was one of my favorite TV characters of all time. I loved Hemsley’s politically incorrect upscale Black businessman character on the show. As Mr. Jefferson, he was funny, he was strident, and he had strong views. I particularly enjoyed watching him fight with Florence, the maid (played by Marla Gibbs). And I liked that, despite the fact that he’d “moved on up to the East Side” of New York “to a deluxe apartment in the sky,” he wasn’t pretentious and mocked the BS of the trappings of the upper class. Even outside of his successful dry cleaning biz, he knew that there was an advantage in maintaining his streetwise ethos from the ghetto. And at the dawn of feminism, George Jefferson didn’t buy into that BS either.

Today, I was searching for a particular episode on YouTube, in which Louise Jefferson has amnesia. George says, “Oh my G-d, a lifetime with a woman who can’t remember and another one I’d like to forget [referencing the maid].” I couldn’t find it, but I found several videos, like the ones below (the best is the very last video from Archie Bunker with the Jeffersons), in which Hemsley regularly used the N-word as Mr. Jefferson (so did Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson) and referred to White people as “Honkies.” Today, that would never fly on regular broadcast TV. I also noted a lot of other things that would never fly, such as George Jefferson’s attacks on the interracial marriage of his neighbors, Tom and Helen Willis, and the impending marriage of his son Lionel to their mixed-race daughter, Jenny. He referred to them as “Zebras,” a term completely unacceptable today. While liberal creator Norman Lear meant to mock racism of all kinds (“The Jeffersons” was a spin-off show, as they were originally the neighbors of White racist Archie Bunker of “All in the Family”), “The Jeffersons” actually portrayed the real life racism we never talk about that is inherent in Black America–both against Whites and fellow Blacks. I doubt Lear would have the courage to make this film today, as his left-wing politics went further left along with the rest of Tinseltown.

Would this show stand the test of time? To me, the answer is yes and no. I would rather watch a “The Jeffersons” rerun marathon than any of the crap that’s on TV, today. But could it be shown on TV today? Aside from the fact that comedies like this with laugh tracks are long past on the way out, the liberals who made them back then are conservative compared to the liberals who run Hollywood and television today, even with the ever-expanding TV choices. They would never show an N-word show like this, unless it was on BET. And they certainly wouldn’t show us the sub rosa racism in Black America, even in the middle and upper middle classes, as the Jeffersons were. It’s simply too far from the Treyvon Martin narrative they’ve been cowed into. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

As I told you before, the International Olympic Committee–which still will not remember the murdered Munich Israeli athletes with a legitimate moment of silence and/or a memorial–announced a policy, earlier this year, dropping the requirement that women beach volleyball players wear a two-piece athletic bikini. The IOC specifically noted that dropping the bikini requirement was done to please, appease, and pander to Muslim countries, which would be offended by the display and wouldn’t allow its women to participate in the two-piece suits. Now, the IOC has announced that women will probably have to cover up and wear long sleeves over their bikinis, using the excuse that it’s “cold” in London. Don’t believe it. This move is, yet again, to appease Muslims.

Say Good-bye to This & Hello to Burqa-Ball . . .

It’s 86 degrees Fahrenheit in London, today. Tomorrow, it will be a high of 82 degrees Fahrenheit. The forecast for the next two weeks in London includes highs in the high 70s and low-to-mid 80s. Suddenly, that’s “too cold” for beach volleyball bikinis, and they need to wear long sleeves? Riiiight. And the beach volleyball venues are right near London, so it’s not like they are traveling somewhere far northward to the chilly tundra. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Yesterday (Monday) Morning, I appeared on San Antonio ABC Radio’s “Jack Riccardi Show,” and Jack asked me where I think the Aurora, Colorado Batman shooter James Holmes got the money to buy thousands of dollars in guns, bullets, and tactical gear. I told him I’d bet he got it from student loans and/or federal aid to students. And I was right. On Monday Afternoon, University of Colorado officials announced that Holmes was paid $26,000 per year for his studies. (The money was apparently a grant from the government’s National Institutes of Health to study neuroscience.) Although the money was not a loan, it was, indeed, federal aid.

As I told Riccardi, a secular Muslim client of mine once told me that University of Phoenix and Davenport University–two national chains of for-profit colleges (I call them “McUniversities”)–have a lot of students who simply live off of thousands of dollars in federal aid and go to school forever. The client told me that University of Phoenix began to crack down on this, but that Davenport did not. He also told me that many Muslim students engage in this as a sort of “halal” money (permissible money) because it’s the money of the infidels and seen as an easy scam. And there’s very little oversight. Since 9/11, I know that federal agents briefly looked into foreign students doing this and using it to live while they either didn’t attend class or had someone take their tests for them, as has happened in several student visa fraud rings. But the feds did little about this–students collecting loans and other federal aid while they were not legitimately in school, even though some of the students collecting the money had apparent terrorist ties. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

The mainstream news media and many Americans are remembering Sally Ride, who died today at age 61, as though she were some sort of American hero for being the first female astronaut. She was not. Not even close. Instead, she was the beneficiary of militant feminism, in whose ranks she was proudly present, along with blatant gender-based affirmative action. Many male astronauts and astronauts-in-waiting were far more qualified, had more experience, and had been waiting much longer for a ticket to ride on the space shuttle. But they were passed over because NASA had just instituted affirmative action and wanted to please feminists. This isn’t just me guessing about this or my opinion. It’s fact, and it’s well known and NASA bragged about it, passing over a Black astronaut, Lt. Col. Guion Bluford, who was far more qualified and had trained as an astronaut long before her. Bluford eventually went to space on the next ride, but many others never got to go because they were displaced by Ride and other women who filled the affirmative action quota seat on each major space flight thereafter.

The feminist movement pushed for a chick in the space shuttle and, with Ride, they got it. It’s simply not usual for someone to join NASA and five years later be on the way to outer space . . unless that someone has a vagina. That’s why, at age 32, she was the youngest astronaut at that time ever to go to space–not because she was any sort of wunderkind, but because she was a woman. And she was a pioneer . . . for politically correct incompetence. Since NASA began its affirmative action program for females and put Ride into space in 1983, there has usually been at least one female on the flight crew on every single major NASA mission (which is how she went into space twice, when more qualified men never even got to go once). And in every single case, the woman has less experience and fewer qualifications than any one of the men on board. While America recently scrapped the space program, and no one will be going into space under the auspices of the U.S. government anytime soon, it’s important to recognize this and to note that Sally Ride made no history because she never went into space in her own right and without a gender-based advantage. The feminists turned her into a faux-hero and her mission into faux-history. But there was nothing historic about it. It was a concession to NOW and the other hags of feminism, who knew a woman could not beat most of the men who’d been waiting for years to go to space, many of whom never got the chance. Thousands wanted to go to space, few were chosen. It was an elite crew, except if you were the chick (or the Saudi prince who paid his way on board, courtesy of Ronald Reagan, who was also big behind the Sally Ride/woman in space push and also picked uber-liberal disaster Sandra Day O’Connor for the Supreme Court–he was into disastrous PC “firsts”). Those were always the “gimmes” to political correctness.

Valerie Neal, the Shuttle-era human spaceflight curator in the National Air and Space Museum’s Space History Division, wrote about Ride and other female astronauts who were aggressively recruited because of their gender:

They came of age as the civil rights, equal rights, and women’s movements stimulated changes in American society and opened new career possibilities. They were poised to step through the door opened by NASA’s affirmative action policy and its aggressive recruitment of women and minorities for the astronaut corps.

In one biography of Ride, it gushes that she was the first female astronaut to use the robotic arm to retrieve a satellite. Big whoop (or as I was thinking, B-F-D, “Big F Deal”). A man did it first, so it’s not history. It was done. She was also the first woman to go to the bathroom on a space shuttle. Again, a dude did it first. And he was still more qualified and earned his trip. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

*** UPDATE: Marco Rubio joins the chorus of Islamo-pandering Republi-dhimmis attacking Michele Bachmann (maybe Muslims helped him avoid criminal charges for illegally charging tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses to his Florida GOP credit card)***

Readers have been clamoring for me to write about John McCain’s attack–and that of other prominent Republicans–on Michele Bachmann for over a week. But I had other things going on, and plenty of also-rans wrote about it. However, since you’ve repeatedly asked for it, since I have information on this no one else has, and since I was asked for my comments on it, this morning on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s “The Pat Campbell Show,” here is my take. It shouldn’t be a surprise or shock to any regular reader of this site that McCain attacked Bachmann for asking the government to investigate top government officials with direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. As I’ve detailed on this site for a year-and-a-half, McCain supports the Muslim Brotherhood and even met with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt long ago, encouraging them to field a candidate in the Presidential elections. And he’s supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, much as he did the Al-Qaeda operatives in Libya. Nor should the fact be surprising that other Republicans stepped up to the plate to beat Bachmann with their PC, Islamo-pandering baseball bats. As I’ve noted on this site for more than ten years, this is not just the future of the Republican Party. It’s the present.

John Boehner’s joining of the McCain attack on Michele isn’t a surprise, either. He’s a liberal Republican. There’s nothing conservative about him. His own recent Republican Party Chairman of Ohio, a descendant of President Taft, pandered to HAMAS CAIR Muslims, co-conspirators in HAMAS terrorism.

Some of you seem to have forgotten that George W. Bush sought the Muslim endorsement against Al Gore, and he was such an Islamo-panderer that he got the endorsement. The Bush Campaign sent representatives to CAIR events in 2004, seeking the Muslim vote again. I attended one of those events, and the porcine Paul Welday, a perpetual losing candidate and flamboyant lobbyist, represented the Bush White House at the Michigan HAMAS CAIR event, praising Yasser Arafat. The Republican Party of neighboring Michigan reaches out regularly to the most extremist Muslims, including HAMAS CAIR. A recent Republican Party of Michigan chairman, Saul Anuzis, recruited Nasser Beydoun, a Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah supporter (who led Hezbollah rallies,) to run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Hezbollah’s not the Muslim Brotherhood, but it’s the Shi’ite counterpart and just as bad (and it worked with Muslim Brotherhood spawn, Al-Qaeda, to attack Americans in several operations, including the bombing of the Khobar Towers and US soldiers throughout Iraq). When I confronted Anuzis on this, he said he would actively recruit the votes of Shi’ite Hezbollah supporters in Dearbornistan and do what it takes to get them. That’s what these attacks on Michele Bachmann are all about: Muslim votes, in addition to political correctness. And that’s stupid because, at least for now, Muslim votes are small and irrelevant . . . unless you are running for Judge in Dearbornistan or Dearbornistan Heights. As I reported on this site, Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder hosted a Michigan Muslim Capitol Day event sponsored by HAMAS CAIR and he and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette appeared at campaign events sponsored, hosted, and populated by open Hezbollah and Muslim Brotherhood supporters. And they knew with whom they were meeting, as they refused to respond to inquiries about it.

And that’s the problem Michele Bachmann won’t call out. She has never had the courage to ask why Republicans pander to jihadists. She was in Congress during part of the Bush Administration. And yet, she never sent such a letter when President Bush was regularly appointing Muslim Brotherhood supporters to top positions in Homeland Security and even a man, Suhail Khan, whose father raised money for Al-Qaeda and brought Ayman Al-Zawahiri into the U.S., to jobs in the White House and at a Department of Transportation job which oversaw transports of nuclear weapons and biohazards on U.S. highways. Because I exposed that on this site and in a National Review Online article, I was banned by National Review, at the request of the Bush White House and with the acquiescence by National Review Editor Rich Lowry. Lowry admitted to me that, even though he acknowledged that my article was 100% accurate, he was banning me at the request of Al-Qaeda progeny Suhail Khan. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

My heart goes out not only to the victims of the Aurora, Colorado shooting, but also to the parents of the shooter, James Egan Holmes. I doubt they could possibly have known their son would do this (although his mother did tell reporters and authorities, “you have the right person . . . I need to call the police,” which indicates they knew something was wrong with their son before the tragedy he perpetrated) and I can’t imagine what it must be like to be in their position. That said, they are lying to the public about their level of cooperation with police. And that’s to be condemned.

Over the weekend, the Holmes family released this statement:

Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the family and friends of those involved. We ask that the media respect our privacy during this difficult time. Our family is cooperating with authorities in San Diego, California, and Aurora, Colorado. We are still trying to process this information and we appreciate that people will respect our privacy.

Note the part about “cooperating.” But, if several mainstream media outlets’ reports are to be believed, the Holmes parents are not cooperating with authorities. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

During this morning’s coverage of the arraignment of Aurora, Colorado Batman shooter James Holmes, there was a lot of the usual idiocy by the national news anchors. George Stephanopoulos gave legal analysis because he has a law degree from the University of Cover Bill Clinton’s Bimbo-Chasing Ass. But Diane Sawyer, a big-time liberal who strongly supports gun control (and did an hour-long “news special,” lecturing us that if we had guns, we would not be able to defend ourselves from the likes of Holmes), really outdid herself. As you may know, Holmes seemed out of it and looked like he was about to fall asleep several times during the hearing. He also sported his bright orange/red hair, which he dyed to look like the joker. But Diane Sawyer thought that was strange. She said something like this:

Hmmm . . . he’s still sporting that red hair. I wonder why they let him come out still wearing that red hair. Why didn’t he change it back?

HUH????? Is there a beauty shop in the county lockup? Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Amidst all the sadness, I found something positive from “The Dark Knight Rises.” I think. Before this morning’s shooting at the Aurora Batman movie screening, the movie was shown with a couple of trailers for other upcoming Warner Brothers movies. One was for “Gangster Squad,” a movie about mobsters in the ’40s and ’50s who try to take over Los Angeles from their East Coast perch and the LAPD’s efforts to stop them. That trailer has since been removed, in light of the violence in Aurora, Colorado at late night screenings (which is odd because “The Dark Knight Rises,” itself, is far more violent than the trailer for “Gangster Squad,” but everybody’s gotta look like they are responding in some solemn way to the James Holmes massacre). But the other trailer remains, and even though it’s by far-left actor/director Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt a/k/a Ben Affleck, whom I loathe, I actually think I’m gonna like that movie–“Argo.” And it comes at an important time, given that it marks the beginning of the brutality and America-hatred of those running Iran (and running Hezbollah from Iran), today.

“Argo” is based on the true story of a CIA operative’s efforts to get Americans out of Iran during Ayatollah Khomeini’s Shi’ite revolution. Six Americans escaped the U.S. Embassy, where everyone else was kidnapped and held hostage for 444 days by Shi’ite Muslims, the ones still in power and madly running the place today. The six escaped to the Canadian Ambassador’s house, where they hid. “Argo” is about that and how the CIA rescue team pretended to be a film crew shooting a bizarre science fiction movie, in order to try to extract the Americans from possible death at the hands of Shi’ite Muslims. Affleck plays Antonio “Tony” Mendez, the real-life CIA agent and head of disguises, who plotted and led the mission. The trailer looks good, like it’s my kinda movie. And maybe Ben Affleck did the right thing here. You know the thing about a broken clock. Twice a day. But I’ve learned that I usually come to regret promoting movies after the actual product vastly betrays the trailer. Still, it will be hard to make this politically correct (though I wouldn’t put anything past him–he is a student and fan of the late America-hater Howard Zinn). The trailer makes clear what happened in Iran and that these mobs were Muslims. And it’s about a time that too many Americans have forgotten or never lived through–the hostage crisis in Iran. Thus, by bringing this time to the forefront, Affleck performs a service. We shall see in mid-October, when the movie debuts in theaters, if it lives up to the trailer, posted below. For now I’m looking forward to this. What do you think? Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve repeated the trite, old joke on this site a million times. G-d tells the world’s leaders he will destroy the world in two days. The next day, all of the liberal newspapers have headlines like, “World to End Tomorrow. Women, Children, and Minorities Hardest Hit.” Sadly, the joke isn’t really a joke. Some newspapers actually custom-fit their reporting to accommodate the “Muslims Hardest Hit” BS. And so it goes with the Wall Street Journal and the price of sugar.

Sugar prices are going up. And while the whole world uses sugar, the Wall Street Journal reports that it affects Muslims and only Muslims. We are supposed to shed a tear for them because they eat sweet things to break their fasts during Ramadan. Uh, since when are Muslims the only sugar consumers in the world? Since the Wall Street Journal–owned in significant part by Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal decided that fact and his Islamo-pandering “reporters” massaged the story to make Muslims the victims, yet again. On Tuesday, this was the paper’s headline:

Things Get Sticky Before Ramadan: Price of Sugar, in Demand for Holiday Treats, Soars as Rains Damage Brazil’s Cane-Crop Output

What?–Christians and Jews and Hindus and Wiccans and Zoroastrians and Buddhists and Daoists don’t use sugar??? They aren’t affected by rising sugar prices? Not, apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal and reporter Leslie Josephs. It’s like saying, “Toilet Paper Prices Up. Muslims Victimized! Everyone Else Can Use Scratchy Leaves & Poison Ivy.” And the article reads the same absurd way. Read the rest of this entry »