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This is one of my favorite songs (by one of my favorite singers), even if I don’t agree with the message. I like the musical and vocal arrangements on the studio version. Hard to believe I was only like two years old when this came out.
Who knew that multi-talented Todd Rundgren was the original Marilyn Manson–but with talent? Though I like the original studio version best, I really like the excellent remix of this song with Todd Rundgren’s original vocals which appears on the cool 2004 Warner Brothers ’70s & ’80s remix compilation album, “What is Hip? Remix Project, Vol. 1” (which I highly recommend–not all the remixes work, but the ones that do are really good). Listen to the Remix Here.

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Boy, the fourth-rated NBC must really be desperate to draw viewers back. It’s whoring itself out–literally–to do so.
It sounds like an April Fools joke, but unfortunately isn’t. Variety reports that NBC will produce the English version of the Colombian hit Spanish telenovela “Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso”–“Without Breasts, There is No Paradise”–about a 17-year-old

determined to get bigger breasts in order to escape poverty. She ends up working as a prostitute, getting involved with drug dealer in the process.

Ben Silverman: NBC Programming “Genius”
Scoured Earth for Teen Breast Implant Prostitute Drama
And who says NBC is not about promoting achievement for young girls?
NBC Entertainment Chairman Ben Silverman is responsible for this highly respectable step in street-life programming. And he pats himself on the back for it. Silverman says his pick of “Sin Tetas” represents

a giant leap forward for the networks of NBC Universal. I scour the world for the best ideas and for the game-changing hit shows and “Sin Tetas” is one of those shows. We have a tremendous opportunity.

If that is the best idea Sewer Silverman could find when he “scoured the world,” imagine what the worst ones were.
And you wonder why America is going down the toilet.

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Awwww. How touching. The murderous Islamic terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay have a new book of poetry out.
You see, they aren’t really bad people, after all. Because they write about serenity, hearts, dreams, loneliness, and love. And real terrorists would nevah evah do that. Right?
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that “Poems From Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak”–an 84-page anthology of terrorist poetry–will be published in August by the University of Iowa Press. OH. Now I get why the same University–University of Iowa–spent all last week, using your tax dollars to attack me, lie, and . This is part of a whole campaign.

According to the Journal, the University is publishing the book to

give readers an unusual glimpse into the emotional lives of the largely nameless and faceless prisoners there.

Adolf Eichmann is bummed out, looking up from his perch in hell. Damn. If only he’d thought of this, he might have died in peace instead of being executed for crimes against humanity.
What’s next–“Gitmo Terrorists Do James Taylor and John Denver Covers”? I think that should be in the revised Al-Qaeda training manual under “What to do When You Get Caught.”
So, who was the far-left terrorist butt-kisser that thought of this great flowers-and-mirth terrorists-are-sensitive-girlie-men-who-wouldn’t-hurt-a-fly-but-love-butterflies campaign?

The collection, translated from Arabic, was compiled by Marc Falkoff, a defense lawyer with a literary bent. Mr. Falkoff, who got a Ph.D. in English before he went to law school, represents 17 Yemeni prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and he dedicated the book to his clients, describing them in the inscription as “my friends inside the wire.”

“My friends inside the wire”? Puh-leeze. Let’s send them and him on a camping trip on a deserted island . . . and see if they’re still his friends (and if Falkoff is still alive) after they’re done with him.

In the summer of 2005, he received a poem with a religious theme from one of his clients, Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman al-Hela. A few weeks later, a second client, Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, sent him a poem called “The Shout of Death.” Both men are accused of belonging to al Qaeda.

Yes, we’ve already heard “The Shout of Death.” It’s actually a gurgle–you know, the gurgle we heard from Nick Berg as he was being sliced to death; the same gurgle we’ve heard from so many others so brutally murdered by these new Al-Qaeda poets’ comrades.

The two had included the poems in their regular letters to Mr. Falkoff, which are by military regulation first sent to a government facility near Washington to be reviewed by security officials. The two poems remain classified.
Intrigued, Mr. Falkoff emailed other Guantanamo Bay lawyers to ask whether any of them had clients who wrote poems. They did. Mr. Falkoff began putting together his collection.

Commander J.D. Gordon, a Defense Department spokesman has it right about this new-found Jim-Croce-style terrorist propaganda:

While a few detainees at Guantanamo Bay have made efforts to author what they claim to be poetry, given the nature of their writings they have seemingly not done so for the sake of art. They have attempted to use this medium as merely another tool in their battle of ideas against Western democracies.

The Journal adds that Gordon and the military are “absolutely” concerned that the poetry can be used to pass coded messages to other terrorists. So why the heck are they allowing this? If they really want to express their feminine sides through art, tell them to remake Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin’ You is Easy ‘Cuz Your Beautiful.” La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la . . . . Now that would be appropriate.
Oh, and by the way, one of the terrorist poets laureate at Gitmo is Sami al Haj, an Al-Jazeera cameraman has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 on suspicion of aiding Al-Qaeda terrorists. His “poetry”:

When I heard pigeons cooing in the trees/Hot tears covered my face; When the lark chirped, my thoughts composed/A message for my son.

Aw. A lot of people wish they could send messages to their son’s. but they can’t because Mr. Al-Haj’s terrorist buddies murdered their sons.
The Journal reports that most of the poems are political messages against the Bush Administration, including more from Al-Haj:

America, you ride on backs of orphans/and terrorize them daily; I am a captive, but the crimes are my captors’.

I think I like Minnie Riperton better.

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Early last year, I told you about a series of incidents–TWENTY-SIX of them!–in which from Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In addition, the laser pointers can also measure distances to the planes for, say, SAMs (Surface to Air Missiles). More about the .
In the Detroit area, the 26 laser incidents were all traced to areas in Muslim-dominated Dearbornistan and Dearbornistan Heights. There were later rumors that arrests had been made. But we never heard about it again.
In the last few months, though, there have been laser pointer incidents involving pilots and planes in various locations from Hawaii and the Atlanta area–in that case, a police helicopter was targeted.

Now, one of the laser pointing perpetrators has been caught. Guess the religion.:

A Decatur man pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to federal agents about shining a laser at a police helicopter.
Mohammed Haghighi, 24, was stopped by DeKalb police after pilots of a DeKalb police helicopter said they saw him pointing a green laser which disoriented them near the Wesley Club Apartments on Feb. 4. He allegedly admitted using the laser to police who questioned him, but he denied it when he was questioned later by the FBI.
“Too many people think it is just a harmless prank when someone shines a laser device at a passing aircraft,” said United States Attorney David E. Nahmias. “This is a dangerous misconception – pilots can be temporarily blinded and tragic accidents can occur.”

Um, I somehow doubt Mohammed Haghighi was thinking this was a harmless joke. I think it’s quite apparent there were more nefarious purposes.

Haghighi could be sentenced to probation or up to five years in prison. He is to be sentenced Aug. 22 by U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans.

Let’s hope they throw the book at this guy.
So who was arrested in the Detroit area laser pointer incidents? And why do I think there’s a Mohammed in the mix? And why–really–are they pointing lasers at our planes?
I mean, they are members of the “Religion of Peace,” right?
More:

ATLANTA, GA – MOHAMMED HAGHIGHI, 24, of Decatur, Georgia, has been arrested on charges of lying to federal agents about targeting a DeKalb County Police Helicopter with a laser device. HAGHIGHI made his initial appearance in federal court in Atlanta this afternoon, where he was released on bond. . . .
According to the indictment, which was unsealed today: On February 4, 2007, a DeKalb County Police helicopter responded to a night-time call near the Wesley Club Apartments in Decatur. The pilots of the police helicopter were wearing night vision goggles. As the pilots sought out the crime scene, their helicopter was repeatedly targeted by a green laser beam emanating from somewhere in the Wesley Club apartment complex. When the laser beam struck the cockpit, it illuminated the entire cockpit glass and temporarily disoriented the pilots. The pilots eventually spotted an individual standing near a breezeway of the apartment complex. The green laser beam was emanating from something this individual was holding. While the pilots attempted to maintain visual contact with the individual with the laser, the individual continued targeting the helicopter.
The pilots called in DeKalb County Police ground units, who eventually located defendant MOHAMMED HAGHIGHI. These officers also found discarded in a nearby stairwell a hand-held laser with a green laser element. When confronted with this evidence by the DeKalb County Police, defendant HAGHIGHI allegedly claimed ownership of the laser and admitted to having targeted the police helicopter. However, on February 15, 2007, when federal agents from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed defendant HAGHIGHI about the helicopter laser incident, HAGHIGHI allegedly denied any role in the matter. After being informed that it is a federal crime to lie to federal agents, HAGHIGHI again denied any role in the matter.
The charges brought by the federal grand jury against HAGHIGHI carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison. . . .
This case was investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, with assistance from the DeKalb County Police Department.

Gee, I wonder why the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was involved. I mean, these laser pointers are just an innocent joke committed by men named Mohammed. Right?
Thanks to reader Duane for the tip.

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All last week, your federal and–if you live in Iowa–state taxes went to fund a week-long sensitivity training program for public school teachers in Iowa. And a certain someone–me–was used as the bete noir in the advertising.
University of Iowa professor Corey Creekmur spent last week teaching Iowa’s public school teachers not to believe what they see in the media about terrorists or the war on terror. Terrorists are really very nice people, you see. And we are wrong to call Muslims who blow people up in the name of their religion as terrorists.
And you helped pay for the over $25,000 cost of this school to train 18-20 Iowa public school teachers in Emily Post’s Rules for Making Nice to Terrorists. A lot of psychobabble about understanding these nice people who blow up 3,000 Americans here and countless others elsewhere.

Iowa Hawkeyes Respect Their Terrorists
Creekmur and the University of Iowa News Service sent out this press release, lying about my work, in order to get teachers interested:

June 4, 2007
Summer Institute For Teachers Examines Terrorism And The Media June 11-15
In August 2006, conservative political commentator Debbie Schlussel suggesting that its largely Arab American student population might be viewed as terrorists because of their ethnic affiliation with the Lebanese political party then exchanging missiles with the Israeli army.
Schlussel’s remarks were only one minor media event in a series of discussions and conflicts about the legitimate or responsible use of the word “terrorist” in recent history. However, her comments and the ensuing media coverage emphasized the need for teachers to confront the discourse surrounding the U.S. government’s declared “war on terrorism.”

Reality check, Professor Creekmur, since you didn’t bother to actually read on which you write: The Principal of Fordson High a/k/a “Hezbollah High,” Imad Fadlallah, is a cousin of Hezbollah Spiritual Leader Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. He’s the one who issued the fatwah that it was okay to blow up our Marines in the baracks, our embassy workers in the Beirut embassy, the Jews and gentiles in the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as the Israeli Embassy their.
Principal Fadlallah gave students the day off and extra credit to campaign against Christian candidates running for the Dearborn City Council. He also fired a wrestling coach for being a Christian minister and replaced him with a Muslim. He’s allegedly altered grades for Muslim students. The majority of the student body support Hezbollah and HAMAS and has cheered it on, appearing at rallies for the groups, with Fadlallah’s support. Students from the school were caught lying to police about bulk TracFone purchases, when we know those phones detonate IEDs in Iraq. Fadlallah sanctions unConstitutional Muslim prayers on the football field before games at this public school.
THAT–not their ethnic affiliation, Professor Creekmur, is why I call Fordson High School by the appropriate name, “Hezbollah High.” Get a fricking clue.

This year’s University of Iowa International Programs’ Summer Institute for Teachers is a workshop for middle and high school educators with an overview of issues related to terrorism and mass media. During the workshop, which takes place Monday, June 11 through Friday, June 15, teachers will examine representations of terrorism in a broad range of media including broadcast journalism, popular cinema, literature, video games, Internet sites and comics. UI International Programs and the Center for Credit Programs support the course. . . .
“The subject matter will be difficult, and some of it will be painful to talk about, but it is now necessary to consider how terrorism has invaded every level of our lives, including the popular media that we, and especially our students, consume even when we are seeking escape from the depressing daily news,” said Corey Creekmur, 2007 summer institute instructor. “For most of us terrorism is always mediated, only experienced through the TV, newspaper or Internet. The real focus of the workshop is not on terrorism, but on that work of mediation. That’s why we’re talking to newspaper and television reporters. We’re not asking them what they think about terrorism, but instead we’re seeking to understand what gets labeled and reported to us as terrorism, and who gets identified as a terrorist.”
Creekmur is an associate professor in the departments of English and cinema and comparative literature, as well as director of the Institute for Cinema and Culture in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Creekmur’s research and teaching interests include American literature and film, and he has specific interests in 20th century literature, crime and detective fiction, African American popular culture, film genres and popular music. He is also interested in Indian, especially Hindi, cinema.
“This is a way for us to share our expertise with educators in the state of Iowa and provide a venue for them to discuss current and contemporary issues related to international education and curriculum,” said Buffy Quintero, International Programs outreach coordinator.

I called Ms. Quintero and offered to give the other point of view, and while she feigned interest, they really didn’t want the truth about terrorists and their supporters on our soil to get in the way of their tax-funded propaganda session, which she said cost about $25,000 in public funds to pay for.
Your tax dollars at work.
Is Iowa really still the Hawkeye State? More like the Dhimmi State.

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Leave it to the vapid People Magazine to provide us endless entertainment in the absurd. And, no, I’m not referring to the Paris Hilton Chronicles.
In the June 11, 2007 issue of People–the same one that –we learn that Aemricans are not just prejudiced against Black people. We are also “racist” against black dogs. Here’s the headline:

Dog Discrimination?: When It Comes to Finding Owners, Big Black Pooches Often Face a Tougher Time Than Canines of Other Colors.

Black Lab: Preferred Dog of
But animal rights activist Tamara Delany tells People she hopes to change our “racism” toward adopting Black orphans . . . of the canine variety. She’s even coined a phrase: BBD–“Big Black Dog.” BBDs, she claims, are in danger of being euthanized. Hmmm . . . euthanizing America’s Black dogs. Sounds like genocide to me.
Jacque Lynn Schultz says that Black dogs have “two strikes” against them. The Director of the ASPCA’s shelter outreach program said that Black dogs are more complicated to keep and “they look menacing–people can’t read their facial expressions easily.” Yup, dog owners are racists.
I’m sure Oprah is all over it. Oh, wait. Her magazine cover showed her with her dogs . . . and they are all WHITE. Uh-oh. Oprah is a dog racist. I guess it makes sense–she’s repeatedly bragged that she And now she has some good White dogs, too.

Oprah: Racist Against Black Dogs (& White “Folks”)
For the record, even though I am not a pet owner, if I had a dog, I’d get a German Shepherd, Alaskan Husky, or Black Labrador Retriever. See, I am not a racist. Oprah is, though.

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You may remember the Kuwaitis as the people who welcomed America to their defense in the first Gulf War. But as I’ve repeatedly written, that was then. , Islamist, anti-American, and extremely anti-Israel. Even Mike Wallace, no friend of America or Israel, did a piece exposing how the Kuwait of today hates America. And, as I’ve written, Kuwait abides by the Arab Boycott of Israel. Its travel apartheid policy prohibits Israeli Jews or those with Israel stamped on their passports to enter the country.

Now, Kuwait has provided us with yet another reason not to eat those fattening baked goods at Krispy Kreme. A Securities and Exchange Commission filing announces that Kuwait’s Mohamed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi & Sons now owns 11.3%–or 7.3 million shares–of the Winston-Salem, NC doughnut retailer, making the Kharafi Family the company’s largest shareholder. Expect Halal doughnuts and food soon, if not already.
As you may have guessed, the Kharafi Family, which controls Krispy Kreme’s Middle East franchisee abides by the Arab boycott of Israel, pursuant to Kuwaiti law. Don’t eat there.
Like I remarked in a : Remember the good old days . . . when the Japanese owned everything in America.
Oh, and guess what?: There are no Krispy Kreme locations–kosher or not–in Israel. Gee, I wonder why.

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**** UPDATE: People Magazine’s Islamist Kids Book features on the cover. ****
Just in time for summer, People Magazine has its own recommended reading list. And it’s of the sharia-compliant variety.
Not that anyone considers the celebrity magazine the authority on literary pursuits, but it’s disturbing what People is recommending that your kids read, this summer, in its June 11, 2007 issue.
For “Young Adult” kids, People recommends “Does My Head Look Big in This?” by Randa Abdel-Fattah. It’s a book that glamorizes young girls wearing the hijab (Muslim head scarf). Here’s People’s description:

What happens when an Australian-Palestinian teen tries wearing her Muslim head scarf or hijab, full-time. Read Abdel-Fattah’s witty, sensitive debut and find out.

People Recommends Sharia to Your Kids
Or actually don’t. And don’t let your “young adult” read this propaganda closeted as a kids book, either.
I remember spending a good part of my summers as a kid, reading books. There are plenty of fascinating, exciting, adventurous, and magical books for kids.
A “witty, sensitive” book with an extremist religious agenda isn’t one of them.
I doubt People would recommend a book recommending becoming a nun or a priest or engaging in Catholic rites for young adults. And those, at least, are respectable religious pursuits which don’t symbolize extremism and the degradation and often violent persecution of women.
Ironically, this issue is the one with the messed-up Lindsay Lohan on the cover. America has its problems with glamorized, troubled young starlets.
But wearing the hijab and being subject to Islam’s subjugation of women is hardly the answer to the Lindsay Lohans of America. Get a clue, People Magazine.
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Among its other choices, People recommends “Camp Creepy Time,” by actress Gina Gershon and her brother Dann, for kids age 10 and up. Yup, just what your 10-year-old needs: a book written by the woman who played a topless stripper in “Showgirls.”

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Well, don’t say I didn’t .
I told you about a month ago that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt’s new movie, “,” is a whitewash of Islam’s role in the live dissection murder of Daniel Pearl.
Now, there’s confirmation in the form of the Council on American Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) sponsorship of a special showing of the movie in Hollywood. CAIR wouldn’t touch this movie with a ten-foot pole, unless it was anything other than a glowing portrayal of Islam and whitewash of Islamists, which it definitely is. Ditto for Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), another pan-terrorist, extremist co-sponsor of the event.

Pan-Terrorist Group CAIR Loves “A Mighty Heart” Flick
Even Martin Peretz, Editor/Owner of the liberal The New Republic, notes the CAIR sponsorship on his blog. He also cites my , though he says it seems “hysterical.” Yet he hasn’t seen the movie and his post on the movie matches the sentiments in my review, so who knows:

Angelina is one of those frothy Hollywood humanitarians who, trying to look evil in the eye, decides to find the best in everyone. I suppose it was not she who decided to have “an exclusive screening” of the movie, immediately followed by a panel discussion, “Building Unity and Understanding in Today’s World.” Still, it probably pleased her to have Paramount Vantage organize this Hollywood event, which is being co-sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a seedy outfit . . . . Its ties to certified terror organizations and its hate-Israel agenda make it a strange partner to this “progressive” venture.
Which, by the way, is supported by Cafe Intifada, a venue where presumably left-wing Jews meet their Arab counterparts, drinking dark coffee and conjuring up the dark plots the Jewish state is planning against the innocent Palestinian population. The basic strategy of the intifada, first and second, was terror. . . .
I’ve just read a . It strikes me as being more than a bit hysterical. But maybe I don’t understand how ingratiating and insipid the makers of this film–Jolie, Pitt and Michael Winterbottom–wanted to be so they could purport to be “Building Unity and Understanding in Today’s World.” Even the words are bullshit. And the thought is worse.

Uh, Marty, wait until you see the movie. My review is very calm and reasoned–and understated–if anything.
FYI, I was an intern at The New Republic, one summer, when I interned for then-TNR Senior Editors Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, now of FOX’s “Beltway Boys.

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**** Correction, 06/19/07: Yesterday, I wrote in this entry that Daniel Pipes had been paid for appearing on Al-Jazeera, as the network informed me that they pay all commentators they bring on. Daniel Pipes wrote me to dispute that and says he has not been paid by Al-Jazeera, so I have corrected this entry. ****
Quick Quiz:
Question: What do you do if you the are the Marines’ worst recruit ever, are now an employee of the Terrorist News Network, and want your silly book to get noticed?
Answer: You attack (or baselessly attempt to attack) your biggest critic–the one who has given you the most attention of anyone, far more than you deserve–with a dumb criticism hoping she’ll fire back and give you more street cred.

Semper FOOLis: Former Marine Lt. Josh Rushing Now Al-Jazeera’s Bitch
That’s especially the case if the author is Former Marine Captain Josh Rushing and his critic is me, .
–whom I’ve called (and that includes the late Anna Nicole’s entire chest combined)–is the dumb Marine press person featured in the pro-Al-Jazeera, pan-terrorist movie, “Control Room.” His comments were so absurd and counter to our mission in Iraq that the Marines demoted him, shunting him off to Hollywood as a press liaison to fellow idiots there, and refused to allow him to do press interviews. Read all the details on the shameless, unpatriotic and .
As a reward for his idiocy and sympathy for terrorists (he made anti-American and anti-Israel comments in the movie, compared FOX News to Al-Jazeera, and was just completely stupid all around), Al-Jazeera hired him for its hardly watched English channel.
How the U.S. Marines ever made this idiot a press person–let alone allowed him to be in this horrid piece of propaganda, for which they’d need such a blank and empty individual as Rushing–is an enigma I’ll never decipher. But sometimes idiots go far. And this guy is the Paris Hilton of the U.S. military.
Now Rushing has a new book out, “Mission Al-Jazeera.” Yup, that’s his mission: to advance the Terrorist News Network–the only place that would employ him after he left the Marines under a cloud of selling out his country. On the cover, the ever vacant Rushing is posing in his frequent press photo, an Arab kefiyeh. That a Marine is proud to pose in the garb of terrorists who killed other Marines tells me that he never learned the phrase Semper Fidelis, unless he thought the “Fidelis” was to America’s enemies.
In order to get attention, Rushing’s publicists are touting his two big “scoops” in the book:
1) That he hates FOX News and that FOX didn’t follow directions. He cites the Geraldo example, which–hello!–isn’t news. We all know that this mustachioed jerk put our troops in danger. But it’s old news. Very old news.
2) That I was paid for an appearance on Al-Jazeera, his full-time employer.
Rushing claims I was paid $300 (not true) for an appearance, and as a result I’ve sullied my good name. Let’s get this straight: Of the three people he’s mentioned who were paid by Al-Jazeera, only one of them–JOSH RUSHING–is the one who sold his soul (but his name was never good) to the Qaeda News Network a/k/a Al Jazeera.
Vapid celebrity magazine, “Radar,” took Rushing’s bait and published this, today:

Right-wing pundits appear on Al Jazeera only because they’re paid to do it. When Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute showed up for an interview, she told Rushing, “You’re paying me. There is no way I would set foot here if you weren’t.” Blogger Debbie Schlussel is another pundit for hire. “So both Schlussel and Pletka believe Al Jazeera is a terrorist organization that should be treated as an enemy of the United States; they would never lower their good names by appearing on such a dangerous network, unless of course they were paid $300.”

If Rushing wants to be taken seriously–and there’s no reason he should be, based on past performance–then he should get his facts straight.
Reality Check: I . I was on to attack the pro-homicide-bomber terrorist movie “,” of which I’ve been a frequent critic. It’s high-quality HAMAS cinema.
I never knew they’d pay me, as I’ve appeared on hundreds of shows on dozens of networks, and I generally am not paid. I’ve never asked to be. Then, I received an e-mail from the Al-Jazeera producer asking for my address to send me the video of the appearance and to fill out a tax form for the $100 or $150 they were going to pay me for over 1/2 hour of work. It was not $300, Captain Rushing. And I didn’t realize I’d be paid or care whether I was. But better the money in my hands, than the Terrorist News Network’s. I make no apologies for that.
I completely forgot about this one-time fee, but frankly, I’d never sell my soul for $100 or $150. Or any price. And I’ve never demanded I be paid. I’ve appeared on the similarly Islamist/pan-Jihadist network and never received a dime. I go on these networks, when invited, because I want our side–the side of freedom-loving Westerners–to be heard.
I can’t vouch for what Danielle Pletka does or says, but it bears no relationship to me. I’d go on Al-Jazeera to defend the counter-terrorist position any day, pay or not. Other commentators, like Daniel Pipes and former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appear on Jazeera, too. Al-Jazeera informed me they pay all commentators, although Pipes informs me that he has never been paid by them. It doesn’t bear on their credibility or their principle one bit. Ditto for the many paid contributors to CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., etc., etc.
It’s basically a non-issue. But Josh Rushing wrote about it because he craves attention for his book. And he knows I’m happy to expose his idiocy and treasonous behavior. But I’m not giving him a link to his new book. You’ll have to find it on your own. FYI, There are far cheaper sources of kitty litter liner that you need not rip from a spine.
Like I said, I’ve given this guy far more attention than he deserves. Frankly, I agree with a friend of mine who said about Rushing:

This guy should appreciate the notoriety you are giving him. He should send YOU a check for the publicity! His 15 minutes were up 10 minutes ago.
How do people like this get into the Marines in the first place?

Good question. Now, he’s Al-Jazeera’s dupe.
So what is Josh Rushing’s excuse for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Al-Jazeera to attack America on the air, daily? And what is his excuse for doing it for free from Kuwait, while we are at war and while he was supposed to be defending America as a U.S. Marine?
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BTW, Jazeera’s Rushing says the only reporters he liked in Iraq are CNN’s Tom Mintier and AP’s Nicole Winfield. That’s a good hint that everything they report is likely BS.