By Debbie Schlussel
A Reuters Headline from today:
“Israel Shows Moving Settlements is Not So Hard”
Can you imagine these headlines?:
La Prensa: “America Shows Moving California is Not So Hard (Especially Beverly Hills & Malibu–Silicone Floats Easily)”
Chicago Tribune: “America Shows Moving Cabrini Green Ghetto to Highland Park is Not So Hard”
Native American News: “White Man Shows Giving Manhattan Back in Exchange for $24 in Trinkets Not So Hard; Reconstructing Trump’s Saddam-Esque Abode Fairly Simple”

By Debbie Schlussel
Steven Vincent, an acclaimed American art critic, writer, and author who supported the war in Iraq, is dead because he became romantically linked to his Muslim translator in Iraq, Nur Veidi.

Steven Vincent, RIP: American Murdered for Dating a Muslim Woman
In an early August honor killing, Vincent and the woman were shot and left for dead. She barely survived. He did not. The acclaimed author of the book, “In the Red Zone” (about the war and its aftermath), was interesting in that he lived in the East Village, but wrote in places like Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, and FrontPageMag.com (where many of my columns are also posted).
Unfortunately, the media coverage of Vincent’s murder is bereft of any mention of the reason he was killed–bigotry over a non-Muslim’s relationship with a Muslim female. A search of Google News for “Steven Vincent” and “honor killing” yields zero results. The honor killing of Vincent is never even alluded to. But this eclectic man, who befriended many Iraqis and was there frequently, is Exhibit A that no matter how much you befriend and help the enemy, you will always be an Infidel, worthy of fatal punishment.
Male Infidels take note: Sleeping with the enemy could kill you.

By Debbie Schlussel
Why was far-left fatso, Michael Moore, hanging out and filming at Kfar Darom settlement in Gaza? When “Roger & Me” first came out, Moore promised his next fake-umentary would be about the Palestinians. But thankfully, he never delivered. Unfortunately, he may be reconsidering.

My favorite depiction of Michael Moore, complete with food stains and double-fisted hot-dogs (from “”)
Info about Moore’s smirking, smug appearance at Kfar Darom by Marlene Young at IsraPundit. Thanks to Tamar of IsraPundit for the tip.
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By Debbie Schlussel
While former Nebraska football coach and current Republican Congressman Tom Osborne runs for Nebraska governor, one of his many prized former football players, Lawrence Phillips, has, once again, proved the point–criminal multiple-offenders don’t change. And they don’t change when football coaches give them Ted-Kennedy-style multiple chances.
Driving a stolen car, Phillips struck three teenagers with whom he’d played a game of pick-up football. He was already wanted for twice assaulting his girlfriend, earlier this month, once choking her into unconsciousness. These are only the latest in Phillips’ lifelong string of violent assaults and other crimes.
Phillips, kicked off his NFL team for “insubordination,” helped lead the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes to the 2002 Grey Cup, but was released before the start of the 2003 season for not meeting the team’s “minimum behavioral standards.”
For Tom Osborne, there was no such problem, because the legendary football coach was also legendary for not having any minimum behavioral standards.
Unfortunately, Osborne has never been forced to answer for any of his molly-coddled criminal former players, a la Phillips, because Nebraska voters not only look the other way, they have practically sainted Osborne. He will soon be elected chief of Nebraska for his “efforts” in developing a cache of future such O.J.s who plague the country.

By Debbie Schlussel
Much is being made of National Geographic’s “Inside 9/11.” Still, you have to wonder about the split personality of an outfit that offers this, but also offers up annoying former “The View” know-it-all (really knows very little) Lisa Ling and her “sympathize with and understand the Islamic terrorists” tours of the world.
One interesting portion is that in which former CIA intelligence analyst, Bin Laden “expert,” and Israel hater Michael Scheuer recalls that when Bin Laden was in Sudan during the 1990s, Scheuer couldn’t figure out whether Bin Laden was a real threat or “just another Saudi spendthrift who was throwing money around to radicals.” This directly contradicts Scheuer’s statements in a “60 Minutes” re-run, last night, in which he claims that, from the beginning, he was practically yelling from the chandeliers that Bin Laden was a serious threat, but he wasn’t taken seriously and was removed from the Bin Laden desk as a result.
Clearly, Scheuer is a liar who talks out of both sides of his mouth. His writings and statements should be considered as containing equal veracity (ie., very little). Even Wall Street Journal TV critic Nancy deWolf Smith ridicules the self-important, incessantly self-promoting Scheuer, laying out all of Scheuer’s intelligence on Bin Laden, then asking, “[A]nd the CIA figured Mr. Moneybags [Bin Laden] might not be a threat?”
Finally, the documentary also lays out this scintilla of amazement (also cited by DeWolf Smith): That Mohammad Atta’s life-style was so ascetic and so deep into the abyss that he cooked a pot of potatoes and put the leftovers in the fridge with the fork still in them.
SO?! Leftover potatoes are “INSIDE” 9/11?

By Debbie Schlussel
Question: What do Lance Armstrong and have in common?
Answer: They have both spoken out against the War in Iraq, with Armstrong going even further, and denouncing the whole War on Terror, ludicrously .
That’s right. Bush’s week-end cycling buddy has more in common with Jihad Cindy #2 than with the President–and actually more in common with America-haters like Noam Chomsky.
But that didn’t stop Bush with a) biking with him; and b) reappointing him to the President’s Commission on Cancer. Nice way of rewarding a sports idiot who dishonors our troops and those who are fighting the War on Terror. (The commission reports to the President on issues surrounding cancer and cancer care, so instead of appointing an oncologist or other cancer expert, Bush appoints a celebrity biker. Smart.)
Then there’s the new anti-war Muhammad Ali’s selective memory. Armstrong used the biking session with the Prez to ask for more money for cancer research. “I’ve never asked someone for so much money before,” he told ABC’s “This Week,” Sunday.
I guess the yellow-shirted, yellow-bellied cyclist forgot about the gazillions in U.S. Postal Service sponsorships that paid his way to bike for years without a job. You know, the Postal Service that WE fund, the Postal Service that has a monopoly on First-Class Mail and should be using our money to sponsor cyclists and their teams.
Oh, yeah. Armstrong didn’t actually ASK for that money. He just took it, with the help of wasteful Postal Service execs who willingly handed him our money.
It must be nice to live on the dole of the U.S. taxpayers for a lifetime of bike-riding. No wonder Armstrong, a/k/a Mr. Sheryl “I Hate America” Crow, is so out of touch.
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By Debbie Schlussel
The GOP’s biggest buffoon, former Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson, says he is considering running for President. G-d save us from this blowhard.
Thompson believes he deserves to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because, he claims, nobody else has been “as vocal on [healthcare] as I have.” Thompson’s healthcare “legacy” was a cockamamie CIPRO (medicine for chemical weapon exposure) distribution scheme, multiple people dying of anthrax poisoning with the culprit never discovered, no vaccine for anthrax (except that being produced EXCLUSIVELY by ONE MUSLIM-OWNED company in the entire U.S.), flu vaccines running out everywhere, soaring healthcare and medicine prices, and not much else.
As you’ll recall, this genius, Thompson, announced in his resignation from HHS that he doesn’t understand why the terrorists haven’t yet targeted our food supply (and sounded as if he was practically begging them to, so that he could fly in and fail, yet again, to save the day). During the debates with John Kerry, President Bush alluded to some Cabinet appointments he regretted making. Reportedly, Bush was alluding to Bono-groupie (and part-time Treasury Secretary) Paul O’Neill and Tommy Thompson.

Bush is thinking: “Why did I pick this idiot?”
Since he left HHS, the intellectually-challenged Thompson has consistently engaged in exploits of the idiotic. For instance, he joined the board of a microchip company and endorsed the implantation of microchips in humans. Talk about Big Brother. That’ll make you really healthy.
Thompson was Governor of Wisconsin when I was in grad school (University of Wisconsin Law School ’93; University of Wisconsin Business School ’95). His nephews were in some of my classes, and even they acknowledged what a dummy their uncle was. We overwhelmingly voted for “Hollywood Squares'” Charles Nelson Reilly over Thompson as our law school graduation speaker, and he was dead (we thought).
Maybe it’s no coincidence that Thompson hails from Elroy, Wisconsin. It seems fitting that this cartoonish figure comes from a town that shares its name with a Jetsons character. Unfortunately, he’s no cartoon. Fortunately, Tommy Thompson has as much chance of becoming President as the Unabomber.

By Debbie Schlussel
For those of you “wise” men and women who still believe that ABC provides a “balanced” view of the news, that Santa Claus and the tooth fairy are real, and that the earth is flat, here’s more evidence of late ABC News anchor and managing editor’s jihad against Israel, America, and anything else pro-Western:
ABC News producer Miriam Shahin (reportedly a Palestinian)–whose hiring was approved by Jennings–and her husband, George Azar, are currently traveling around HAMASastan pimping travel and tourism there. They’ve written a new book, “Palestine: A Guide,” and are promoting it. Gee, they would be TOTALLY balanced in producing news coverage of Israel, wouldn’t they? Ditto for ABC News producer, Sami Ziadeh, right? Ziadeh produced Nightline coverage of the Gaza giveaway.
Of note, the “about the author” portion of the Amazon book listing only discusses Azar, not Shahin. Trying to hide the fact that Shahin is an ABC News producer? Affirmative.
FYI, customers who bought this HAMASastan travel guide also bought books by notorious anti-Semitic Columbia University Islamist Rashid Khalidi. No surprise, nor was the Amazon suggestion that reads of the HAMASastan travel guide would also want to view books on “how to defeat the neoconservative and fascist reaction.”
This, by the way, is not the first conflict-of-interest laden book written by ABC News producer Miriam Shahin. There is also her thrilling “Palestine: A Traveller’s Guide.”
If ABC News were truly “balanced” (it isn’t), the “news” operation would have an Israeli settler producer for every one of the Palestinians and pan-Islamists it employs. It has none.

By Debbie Schlussel
Yes, that was me who Rush Limbaugh called, “my friend Debbie Schlussel” on his show, just a few minutes ago. Three mentions of my name. Thanks, Rush!
Here’s the e-mail I sent Rush that he read on the air (Lila Lipscomb is the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, who was in “”):
Rush:
In the last year or so since F911 came out, Lipscomb has been doing essentially the same anti-war protesting/appearances as Cindy Sheehan has, but it’s been mostly only in Michigan. You can find many Detroit newspaper articles about that. But she has now made it big–not because of CNN or Moore, but because you just mentioned her . .. . .
Regards,
Debbie
*** UPDATE: Here is part of that portion of today’s transcript from Rush Limbaugh’s show:
RUSH: Yeah. Al-Qaeda did not make a decision to send her son to Iraq. I think her son made the decision. Wouldn’t that be true? I don’t want to be wrong about this. Somebody help me out. Wouldn’t it have been her son? I mean, bin Laden didn’t order her son there, and Bush certainly didn’t. I mean Bush didn’t order her son to go. Okay, so that’s Lila Lipscomb–and I’m really doing this to try and help the mainstream press because my friend Debbie Schlussel is right. Simple exposure on CNN is not enough to make this woman a household name around the country, but on this program, Lila Lipscomb has a chance to become the replacement field general for Cindy Sheehan and we want to help you people in Crawford. I feel sorry for you. The field general is gone. Your cause is defective anyway, but I know how much you have of your own identities wrapped up into this. To show you our compassion and our sympathy, we hope that you can come up with a suitable replacement until the field marshal, Cindy Sheehan, can return in glory to the battlefield, and in the ditch at Crawford, Texas. So we’ll see if maybe we can help CNN here elevate Lila Lipscomb to be the replacement field marshal. After playing this dramatic moment from Fahrenheit 9/11, Miles O’Brien said to her, “What is it like?”

By Debbie Schlussel
After seeing Wes Craven’s (Director of “Nightmare on Elm Street“) “Red Eye” (in theaters, today), I’ve changed my mind on my about this movie. Overall, “Red Eye” is one of the few exciting movies this summer. With all of the sequels, remakes, etc., “Red Eye” is certainly one of the few originals and one of the few with an interesting plot.
The plot: A terrorist corners a luxury resort hotel manager on a red-eye flight. He blackmails her into changing the hotel room of the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, so that terrorists can launch a Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM)into his suite. (This is NOT a spoiler. The missile going toward the room is featured on a lot of the TV trailers for “Red Eye.”)
The plot is not only very plausible, but the use of SAMs to target a hotel floor or suite is a very real threat, as we learned when Al-Qaeda tried to use SAMs to bring down an Israeli plane over Kenya in late 2002, and was nearly successful.
Some comments by posters on this site I would hate “Red Eye” because the main terrorist, Jackson Ripner, played by Cillian Murphy (of Irish descent and with blue eyes), was not Islamic. But, are the terrorists, for whom Ripner works, Islamic? Perhaps. Before the missile is launched, you can hear those for whom Murphy is working speaking almost inaudibly. If you listen carefully and speak Russian, as I do they are saying, “Adin, Dva, Tri, Chetiri,” which translates to “One, Two, Three, Four.” They could, therefore, be Chechnyan terrorists.
And that’s my one criticism of the movie. To wit, that director Craven doesn’t tell or impress upon you whether the terrorists are Muslim, in another politically correct move, designed to dodge the criticisms of Islamist groups, like CAIR. And, since most Americans don’t speak Russian, they are unlikely to notice even the one-time barely audible Russian spoken by the terrorists. Craven took the wimpy way out on terrorism, like so many in Hollywood.
Other observations:
* It’s doubtful terrorists would try to attack the DEPUTY Secretary of Homeland Security, as opposed to the main guy. That said, the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security is played by former Armani and underwear model, the handsome (even in his 50s), suave, and debonair Jack Scalia (real-life third draft pick in 1971 Major League Baseball draft–Montreal Expos). I know many DHS agents and employees, and while some are very handsome (sorry, , not you), but take a look at Scalia versus the real Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. They’ve definitely glammed things up. (Looks would not matter if DHS was actually doing its job of protecting us. It isn’t.)

Red Eye’s Deputy Sec. of Homeland Security Jack Scalia vs. the real thing, Deputy Sec. of Homeland Security Michael Jackson
* The Deputy Sec. of Homeland Security stays weekly in a giant suite atop a luxury beachside resort, complete with regular complimentary Cuban cigars and Krystal champagne. In real life, DHS officials are neither allowed to waste tax dollars on such largesse, nor to accept such extravagant free gifts (especially goods from Cuba)–strictly prohibited.
* Terrorist Jack Ripner looks too much like a glammed up version of NBC “terrorism expert” Evan Kohlmann (minus the goatee).

Separated at Birth?:
Red Eye’s terrorist Cillian Murphy & NBC “terrorism expert”
* Another face we see too much of in “Red Eye” is “Survivor’s” Colby Donaldson (who plays a Secret Service agent). No-one who wasted 39 days of life in an Australian desert for CBS should get to be in a major motion picture. Leave that to the real, left-wing actors, so they will be occupied with something and stay out of politics.
* An old, familiar face from the past, Robert Pine, the police chief from “CHiPs,” plays an angry hotel guest. What, no Ponch & Jon?