By Debbie Schlussel
Right now, I’m watching “This TV,” the digital TV channel, which airs in most cities (and you don’t need cable to watch it). Tonight’s prime time movie is the 1986 TV flick, “Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story,” starring Farrah Fawcett. It’s based on the book of the same name by Frederic Hunter.
Amidst all the Michael Jackson death hype and the “Charlie’s Angels”-focused coverage of Fawcett’s death, I’d forgotten this role–Farrah’s best–in which the late star played the brave daughter of a Wehrmacht officer who demands justice against Nazi war criminals, on behalf of Holocaust survivors.

While Farrah’s European accent isn’t the greatest, she plays the role quite well, and it’s pretty good . . . especially for a TV movie. Actor Tom Conti plays husband Serge Klarsfeld, a Holocaust survivor and her partner in Nazi hunting. I recall that, at the time the movie aired on TV (I was a freshman in college), Fawcett wasn’t taken seriously and came under attack as “too glamorous” and “beautiful” to play Klarsfeld. This was an utter insult to Klarsfeld, one of history’s great women. She may not have posed in a red bathing suit poster, but hunting down Nazis is very sexy. And frankly, watching it now, I think Farrah handled the role masterfully.
For those not in the know, Beate Klarsfeld dedicated her life to tracking down and demanding trial and punishment for Nazis, including Klaus Barbie. She travelled from Germany to France to Bolivia to do so. She suffered numerous arrests, jailings, beatings and torture, and death and bomb threats.
I can’t find it on DVD, but if you ever get a chance to see it on TV, it’s entertaining and worthwhile.
And, like I said, it’s the late Farrah Fawcett’s best work . . . and sadly most unsung and forgotten.
The death of Farrah Fawcett is a stark reminder of another death: the death of great made-for-TV movies on important subjects worth reliving on the small screen. I’d take Farrah as Beate Klarsfeld any day–especially over reality TV and “The Bachelorette.”

By Debbie Schlussel
Last week, I told you about the guilty plea of Monica Conyers–now ex-Detroit City Councilwoman and wife of far-left Democrat Congressman John Conyers. In Federal Court, Conyers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, and yesterday, she resigned from the Detroit City Council.
But in the last couple of days, details are coming out regarding many deals in which she secretly had a hand. And at least one of those deals involves her husband, Congressman Conyers. Conyers sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of a company owned by a man from whom she furtively obtained $10,000 cash for no work. Previously, Conyers had opposed the same project when a different company wanted the contract. But suddenly, he did a 180.

John & Monica Conyers
Now Conyers’ staff claims he didn’t know of his wife’s secret cash receipt from the man involved. But if he didn’t know, then why did he suddenly change his position on the matter and write a letter supporting it to the EPA?
I think he knew far more than he admits. It’s against the rules governing U.S. Congressmen for them to get involved in matters in which they or a close relative have an interest.
So, what did John Conyers know, and when did he know it? And why did he do a 180 on the matter, once his wife got a little cha-ching action for her secret involvement in it?
I’m sure we’ll be hearing far more in the days ahead. But for now, it’s important to note that for a guy who claims he’s so in the know, his sudden “I didn’t know” isn’t very credible.

By Debbie Schlussel
I told you how, recently, how Oprah Winfrey brought a ten-year-old girl on her daytime talk show to give her a very graphic discussion of sex and sexual positions and urge her mother to buy her a vibrator (and all mothers to buy vibrators for their young daughters). I also told you how Oprah rewarded the girl for being subjected to this, by making her a “co-host” of an Oprah episode on kids with talent and giving her a gig as a “correspondent” covering her favorite pop music star.
But it gets worse. Now Oprah is exporting her own special brand of “Kinky for Kids” to South Africa, specifically to her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.

Elizabeth Berkley (Far Right) w/Oprah and S. African Students
No worries that there have already been molestation and sexual assault cases at Oprah’s eponymous school. Now, she’s imported a woman most famous for stripping, “dancing” completely naked, performing lapdances, and pole-dancing in soft-core porn.
Yup, that’s Elizabeth Berkley–star of “Showgirls” (NC-17 on DVD) and not much else of note–in the picture below (from the July 6th issue of People) with girls who are students at the school which Oprah claims is training South Africa’s future leaders, er . . . future “exotic dancers.” The movie for which she’s most famous contains several scenes of rape, glorified simulated rape, and lesbianism, including this (NOT SAFE FOR WORK). Oprah brought her, along with actress Thandie Newton, to South Africa to “teach” the girls.
Wonder if she’s teaching ’em this (the only videos from the movie that are slightly safe enough to post on this site):

Here is a re-enactment of some of the “Showgirls” lines she can teach the girls at the Oprah school (NOT SAFE FOR WORK).
And the movie has a great message for young girls: Sleep your way to the top to become a successful stripper. When that fails, push your competition down the stairway.
I wonder what the mothers of these poor, impoverished girls would think about this . . . if they only knew. But Oprah’s rules at the almost all-Black school (there is one White student paraded around for pictures with Oprah) are strict: parents aren’t allowed to have contact with the girls for most of the school year.
Instead, their contact is “carefully” regulated to a higher class of humans–ones like Elizabeth Berkley who take it all off and writhe on men’s laps for the cameras.
The Oprah Stripper Academy for Girls.
Full disclosure: when I was a kid, Elizabeth Berkley and I both took tap and jazz dancing lessons at Miss Barbara’s Dance Center, in the Detroit area, from where she hails. While our teach, Barbara Fink, publicly praised Berkley to People Magazine when the movie came out, privately she was embarrassed that this exhibitionist bimbo became her most famous student. But as I previously wrote about Berkley, that’s where the similarities end:

Her entire family moved to Los Angeles so this spoiled princess could live out her dream as an actress. And here’s something sicker than her horrid flick: her brother, who attended college in Michigan and is now a doctor, took his frat brothers to see his sister take it all off on the big screen.

Since Oprah’s new friend, Ms. Berkley is teaching the kids at her school, perhaps she can instruct them on the best inflection for these lines she famously uttered:

Hi, I’m Heather. Would you like to have a “private dance” with me?

And

I like having nice t-ts.

And Oprah has the nerve to criticize Springer. PUH-LEEZE.
When Oprah announced plans to build her school in South Africa, many American parties expressed dismay that she didn’t build it here.
They should thank their lucky stars that we were so fortunate she went elsewhere.
Meet the Newest Instructor @ Oprah’s Leadership Academy for Girls . . .

By Debbie Schlussel
The pettiness and low-class behavior of the current Commander-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, apparently knows no bounds and no nadirs too low to which to aspire.
That’s displayed by the Obama administration’s paint-over of the name of former President George W. Bush on an airplane he flew as a pilot in the United States Air Force.
As readers know, I was not a fan of Bush, due to his endless pandering to Islam, push for illegal alien amnesty, and spending like a non-drunken Democrat. But this is an outrage, as sent to me by a good friend, last week:

When George W. Bush was in the Texas Air National Guard, he was stationed at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.
At Ellington Field there are several retired aircraft on display. It has been reported that the F-102 on display at Ellington Field was the one then Lt Bush trained on when he was with the 147th Fighter Wing at Ellington Field.

“LT G W BUSH” Removed From Bush USAF Plane

For many years, the name “LT G W BUSH” was stenciled on the aircraft just below the cockpit, and I’ve seen it. However, after January 20, 2009, I noticed that “LT G W BUSH” had been painted over. I asked one of the senior officers of the 147th if Bush’s name had been deliberately removed. I was told that it was removed temporarily while the aircraft was being repainted. I accepted that explanation.
Today I was back on Ellington Field, and I noticed that “LT G W BUSH” had not been restenciled onto the aircraft. I asked a member of the 147th why and their response was a laugh and a “What do you think?”
So, it seems that now that Obama is President, the 147th has become politically correct and removed indicators that President Bush had served with them. This could be because now there is talk that the 147th at Ellington Field should be shut down.
So much for loyality among airmen.

Sickening. Say what you want about Bush’s service in the Air Force. That was his plane, and to paint over it and cover up his name is just disgusting.
At least President Bush served, unlike a certain guy whose only Selective Service registration on file is a fraudulent, fabricated one from 2008.
And please don’t tell me that there’s no evidence Obama knew about this or ordered it. He’s the Commander-in-Chief. The fish rots from the head down. He was the one responsible for the plane flyover debacle in Manhattan.
And he’s responsible for this deliberate act of the uber-petty.
American soldiers are still being killed every week in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our country has a lot of problems domestically.
But we have to worry about the priorities: painting over a former President’s name and erasing all acknowledgement of his past military service.

By Debbie Schlussel
When news of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair broke, last week, and he held his bizarre press conference about it, I couldn’t help but laugh at the Mike Cox for Governor ad that popped up on my computer screen as I read the Associate Press story online.
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, about whom I’ve written quite a bit on this site, is Michigan’s version of Sanford . . . only far worse. A serial philanderer, he’s a sleazy, Napoleonic Republican trying to become Michigan’s next Governor. But things turned out differently for him. Unlike the classy Jenny Sanford, Cox’s wife Laura is a lot like Hillary Clinton and she appeared, crying by his side, as he admitted just one of his many extramarital affairs . . . because hubby helps her advance her political career. And he got away with it. There are rumors that a courtroom videotape shows Cox having sex with yet another of his many paramours in an empty Wayne County courthouse, when he was a prosecutor.
So, it was a strange coincidence that the Islamo-pandering fraud, Cox, had his ads pop up, as generated by Google Ads, on the Yahoo page showing the AP story on Sanford. Let’s hope that Cox’s political career goes in the same direction. He’s far more sleazy than his South Carolina counterpart.

Thanks to David Lunde/Lundesigns for Image Extraction

Mike Cox Speaking @ Pro-HAMAS/Pro-Hezbollah ADC Banquet

Honoring Winners of Restrictive, Racist Essay Contest

By Debbie Schlussel
As I’ve noted, I loved the music of Michael Jackson, and it brings to mind great memories. But the hype and absurd mythology now being manufactured about the man is getting on my nerves.
Specifically, one of the echo chamber utterances we keep hearing from the mainstream media about Michael Jackson is the claim that “he united the world.” It’s complete fertilizer.
That’s why I wrote several years ago (and was roundly attacked for it) that the countries whose people love Michael Jackson (and soccer) most are usually the countries and people who hate us (and support terrorism) the most.

Just because others around the world like or do something we do in America, doesn’t mean it “unites” us. Osama Bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad eat and go to the bathroom, just like we do. Does that mean these things that we both have in common unite or unify us? Not really. Didn’t save the people on the planes.
I’ve made the same comments, for well over a decade, whenever I hear that Muslims (whether it’s in Riyadh or Tehran) somehow like America because they’re exposed to American pop culture. As I’ve always said, they may love to wear Levi’s and enjoy eating Baskin-Robbins ice cream. But they’d murder Levi Strauss, Burt Baskin, and Irvine Robbins–all of them were citizens of the “Great Satan” America and all were “evil Zionists”–in a heartbeat. And as we know, a number of Islamic terrorist groups use hip-hop to recruit terrorists. Is that really “unity”?
I don’t hold Michael Jackson responsible for that. It has nothing to do with him. And, in this column, I’m not referring to Jackson’s inexcusable and outrageous anti-Semitic lyrics (“Jew Me . . . Kike Me,” etc.) in a song and comments in a taped private phone conversation (“They suck . . . they’re like leeches.”). He apologized for those, and the lyrics were aimed, sadly, at the father of the kid he paid off. (Not that this is an excuse. It is not. And Jackson was immensely helped by many Jews, throughout his career and his life, including extending him gazillions in credit when no-one else would.)
I’m referring to Michael Jackson’s and–now, in his death–the Jackson family’s conscious decisions to surround themselves with America’s most divisive, most prominent ministers of hate.
Sorry, but hanging with and allying himself with Ministers of Hate, Inc. makes him anything but a “uniter” or “unifier.” It makes no difference that he penned and sang songs, like “Black or White.” He hung with those who made their livelihoods stressing the difference between the races.
Instead, I’m referring to Michael Jackson’s longtime alliance with Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson, Al “White Zionist Interlopers” Sharpton, and Louis “Judaism is a Gutter Religion” Farrakhan. Here’s a little tutorial on the statements of the Jackson and Sharpton. I’m sure your familiar with the many anti-Semitic, racist, bigoted words of Farrakhan, including those on which I’ve reported when I heard him in person at a Detroit Shi’ite mosque.
As we know, the first two–along with their Jewish counterpart in shameless self-promoting, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (who is friends with Sharpton and got Jews to pay for a post-9/11 trip for Sharpton to –ingratiated themselves with Jackson in life and now in death.
And the third, Farrakhan, supplied bodyguards to Jackson, who reportedly embraced Islam (as his brother Jermaine Jackson, indeed, has). Reports say that Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam handlers were the ones that forced Jackson to agree to the 50 concert dates in London that now won’t happen. And there’s even more:

Grace Rwaramba, the woman he employed to look after his children for more than a decade, is known to have ties to Louis Farrakhan, the charismatic leader of the group.
Speaking after Jackson’s death, she claimed that he had increasingly fallen under the influence of the Nation, which supplied his bodyguards.
Leonard Muhammad, Farrakhan’s son-in-law and chief of staff, was appointed to run the King of Pop’s business affairs despite a chequered CV including a spell selling unproven Aids treatments in deprived areas of Chicago.
Mrs Rwaramba also alleged that the sect charged Jackson more than 60,000 Pounds a month to rent the Bel Air property where he died, when similar houses were on the market for a quarter of the price.
The 42-year-old was sacked in December after falling out with Jackson. But she was replaced by another woman from the Nation employed by Jackson’s brother Jermaine, a Muslim convert.
Although there are no allegations that the Nation of Islam contributed to Jackson’s death, their involvement with the wealthy but vulnerable pop star has raised concerns that he could have been open to exploitation.

Hmmm . . . Michael Jackson, I think we know who the real leeches were in your life. Hint: Not the Jews.
If, as speculated, Jackson’s will provides Rwaramba custody, it would be interesting to see these completely White kids taught the Black supremacist racism and hate of the NoI. It has the potential to turn them into the reverse version of the blind Black Klansman in the famous Dave Chappelle comedy sketch.
Now, Jackson and Sharpton are advising the Jackson family on the funeral/memorial service for the late Jackson. And it figures to be a Who’s Who of Hate, Inc. spewing the usual “Blame it on the Crackers” routine, a la the Rosa Parks funeral, which I detailed on this site a few years ago. Except, this time, it’ll have a few White pop stars sprinkled in for sanction. I wouldn’t be surprised if–in addition to Action Jackson, Weird Al, and Louis X–the Rev. Jeremiah Wright makes a special appearance, as he did at the Rosa Parks funeral. Don’t bet against it.
It’s not like Michael Jackson’s association with any of these divisive figures was a secret. It was touted, and photographed, and reported on all over the mainstream media, while Michael Jackson was alive.
Why, then, does the mainstream media–aware of Michael Jackson’s fraternity of Ministers of Hate–continue to claim he “unified” anything?
Don’t answer. That was a rhetorical question.
Michael Jackson did not unite. And his circle of advisors are America’s chief merchants of division.
I’ll miss a lot of things about Michael Jackson. Unfortunately, the things I won’t miss about him are alive and well.

By Debbie Schlussel
A new Pew Research Center survey is disturbing and not for the reasons that it’s getting a lot of mainstream media attention.
The survey gauges views and opinions of several different age groups in America, and is being touted far and wide for showing that the older the age group, the older they consider the age at which “old age” begins. Well, that’s not surprising. And it’s not the important part of the survey.
This part, below, is the noteworthy part, and it shows we’ve lost the cultural war. Yes, I know, one survey–done by a left-skewing polling house–isn’t the end all, be all. But I think we all know that these results are accurate. The younger generations in America–our nation’s future–are liberal on most social issues. And it looks like Barack Hussein Obama is the godfather of it all (not that this is a surprise).

Even more scary, the poll found the biggest generation gap in these views since the Vietnam War.

Younger and older Americans see the world differently, creating the largest generation gap since the tumultuous years of the 1960s and the culture clashes over Vietnam, civil rights and women’s liberation.
A new study released Monday by the Pew Research Center found Americans of different ages increasingly at odds over a range of social and technological issues. It also highlights a widening age divide after last November’s election, when 18- to 29-year-olds voted for Democrat Barack Obama by a 2-to-1 ratio.
Almost eight in 10 people believe there is a major difference in the point of view of younger people and older people today, according to the independent public opinion research group. That is the highest spread since 1969, when about 74 percent reported major differences in an era of generational conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil and women’s rights. In contrast, just 60 percent in 1979 saw a generation gap.

One caveat: seeing a generation gap doesn’t mean there is one. But in this case, I think there is.

Asked to identify where older and younger people differ most, 47 percent said social values and morality. People age 18 to 29 were more likely to report disagreements over lifestyle, views on family, relationships and dating, while older people cited differences in a sense of entitlement. Those in the middle-age groups also often pointed to a difference in manners.

Those older people spot on.

Religion is a far bigger part of the lives of older adults. About two-thirds of people 65 and older said religion is very important to them, compared with just over half of those 30 to 49 and 44 percent of people 18 to 29.
In addition, among adults 65 and older, one-third said religion has grown more important to them over the course of their lives, while 4 percent said it has become less important and 60 percent said it has stayed the same.
“Around the notion of morality and work ethic, the differences in point of view are pretty much felt across the board,” said Paul Taylor, director of the Pew Social and Demographic Trends Project. He cited a greater tolerance among younger people on cultural issues such as gay marriage and interracial relationships.
Still, he noted that the generation gap in 2009 seems to be more tepid in nature than it was in the 1960s, when younger people built a defiant counterculture in opposing the Vietnam War and demanding equal rights for women and minorities.

Well, that’s a tiny silver lining in a huge, dark cloud. But it’s something.
“Today, it’s more of a general outlook, a different point of view, a general set of moral values,” Taylor said. . . .
Pew interviewed 2,969 adults by cell phone or landline from Feb. 23 to March 23. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. In cases where older persons were too ill or incapacitated, their adult children were interviewed. Pew also used surveys conducted by Gallup, CBS and The New York Times to identify trends since 1969.
So, we’re losing the cultural war, or have already lost it. The question is, can we reverse the loss, as the Reagan Revolution did post-Vietnam?
It’s possible. But the way we’re going, I’m not so sure. We’re fast becoming Europe, with European “values.”
When even conservatives pick a woman as their standard bearer who exemplifies some of these “values,” has her hubby serving as Mr. Mom/Grandmom, and openly promotes her daughter’s baby mama status, good luck.

By Debbie Schlussel
It’s time to end affirmative action quotas, programs, set-asides, etc. in America. Those are racist, sexist, and bigoted in that they prefer people, groups, and companies solely on those characteristics (which are a coincidence of birth, not an achievement), or those characteristics play a big part.
And the U.S. Supreme Court seems to agree, with its landmark ruling today in Ricci v. DeStefano (READ the Court’s decison), the case in which White New Haven, Connecticut firefighters were illegally denied promotions because of their race. It’s an incredible ruling (reversing Justice J-Lo/So-So a/k/a Sonia Sotomayor), but expect less and less of these once Barack Hussein Obama finishes packing the Supreme Court. The decision was a close 5-4 ruling.
More:

Graphic From Afro City Blog/Autographed Letter Signed

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.
The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was intentional.
“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the court. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

The case is sort of like a Bakke for the new millenium, since the Bakke case was the first to eat away–in a significant way–at racist affirmative action programs. In that case, the Court held that a public university could not use race as the sole or major factor in admissions to a graduate school program (Allan Bakke applied to medical school), and therefore, could not have quotas in admission. However, it did say that race could be a factor. Today’s decision is a marked improvement on Bakke. But probably a temporary one, given the precarious makeup of the Supreme Court.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out with So-So’s Supreme Court nomination. But, sadly, the hubbub over this will die out, and she’ll sail through, as will future Obama nominees, until there are more than enough to over turn this decision.

By Debbie Schlussel
Many times on this site, I’ve told you about many feminine fashion choices that the gay men and masculine women who run the fashion industry have been pimping on man.
And so it continues.
Recently, I told you about “Man-genta“–the new color name the fashion industry invented to get men to wear pink. But that’s nothin’ compared to the . . . “MAN CORSET.” John Paul Gaulthier presented it in his fashion collection at last week’s Paris Men’s Fashion Week runway show. And the New York Times just loves it. Figures. (Thanks to reader Rodrigo Veleda of Brazil for the tip.)

Bottom line: If you’re a man, dress like one. Wear men’s, not women’s, clothing.

By Debbie Schlussel
Yes, Michael Jackson was a great, talented, influential entertainer. But let’s get some perspective. It was a big story on Thursday and perhaps Friday. But it doesn’t deserve the endless hype it’s getting. This isn’t the same as 9/11, contrary to the boneheaded statement of NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson a/k/a Chad Ochocinco” (this dolt had his name legally changed to reflect his Cincinnati Bengals jersey number, 85). And someone needs to tell it to the All Michael Jackson Channel a/k/a FOX News.
Jimmy Kimmel does a good job of mocking it. This one isn’t nearly quite as good as the one I posted Friday, but it’s good enough. The Jackson parts go from the beginning of the video until 4:42. You gotta watch ’til the end to see the best joke, which is the absolutely hilarious “version of Thriller” from Washington, D.C. (After that, the rest of the monologue is stupid and tasteless, in my opinion.)