Atlas Shrugs is the news today
Bookworm on Jun 13 2010 at 8:16 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama, Islam
Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller’s website, is ordinarily a phenomenal place, and it’s “shame on me” that I don’t link to it more often. Today, however, there are two posts there that mandate links from all bloggers. The first because it’s a fascinating link and the second because it’s an important link for every blogger who supports freedom of speech and commerce.
The first link involves the Egyptian President’s claim that Obama told him, in private, “I am a Muslim.” Now, the Egyptian president could be engaged in a bit of confabulation to impress the audience back home. Egyptian presidents have been known to do that.
For example, during the Six Day War, back in 1967, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, got on the phone with King Hussein of Jordan and boasted about Egypt’s spectacular military victories. This was an out-and-out lie. Nasser was engaged in some serious face-saving and Hussein, who had been educated in Britain, took those statements at face value. Rather than sending Nasser the help he so desperately needed, Hussein pretty much congratulated Nasser on his victory, hung up the phone, and was surprised to learn later that the Egyptian military had been decimated. So, Egyptian presidents lie.
Having said that, however, we also know that American presidents lie, and that Barack Obama is probably the champion liar in the White House. Unlike all other presidents who lie to cover up sins, this president lies reflexively in the way of all narcissists — in any given conversation, he will say what will enhance him in the eyes of the audience to that particular conversation. In other words, lying isn’t just about self-protection, it’s also about self-aggrandizement. What better way to solidify your standing with the Egyptian president than to announce, fairly credibly given your own history, that you are a Muslim.
I continue to believe that Obama is not a Muslim. I also do not believe he is a Christian, or an animist, or a Hindu, or a devotee of any other type of religion. To the extent he has a belief system, he’s a socialist. And to the extent he has a God, that God is the man he sees before him every time he looks in the mirror. I think my take on Obama is even more worrisome than the notion of a covert Muslim in the White House.
Okay, that’s the first link at Atlas Shrugs.
The second link is just as disturbing, and it touches all of us: Pamela Geller has been banned from PayPal because PayPal has classified her as a “hate” site. As Geller points out, pro-Palestinian organizations that advance the destruction of Israel are not hate sites, but Geller, who seeks to optimize freedom everywhere in the world is. Hating Jews is not hate, apparently. Writing fact-filled stories (often with video evidence or citations to original sources) that call Muslims on the misogyny, antisemitism and homophobia is hate. Only on the Left, my friends.
The problem here, of course, is that PayPal is a very important site on the Left. We all use it, whether to give or receive. When PayPal starts making calls like this, unless we get a little competition from a similarly trusted escrow service (because that, essentially, is what PayPal is), we’re all up ordure creek, paddle-free. Here’s Pamela’s request for help:
Want to make a contribution to my fight?
Mail a check to Pamela Geller, PO Box 121, 1040 1st Avenue, NY NY 10022. Until I beat those pathetic Paypal pussies. Unbelievable.
If you want to send an email directly to the Acceptable Use Policy Department, here is the email address: aupviolations@paypal.com. (hat tip Daryl)
And as an aside, is this a good place to mention something my readers have commented upon and that I’ve learned through emails? Namely, that YouTube removed that viral Latma video called “We con the world”? More decent sites than YouTube have made the video available. I’m reposting it here.
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Let me tweak the header to:
Today Pamela Geller/Atlas Shrugs and Tomorrow the World.
Concerning the “I am a Muslim” quote (apparently) by Obama…
Courtesy of AtlasShrugs, the source material can be found at:
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/Portals/0/May2010.pdf
The full relevant text in that pdf file is on P 12 of that pdf file. AtlasShrugs, I believe, only paraphrases it:
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My wife Rachel, who monitors Arab language broadcasts for
Israel Radio, picked up a revealing statement on the
“Round Table Show” on Egypt’s Nile TV.
Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting
with Obama, who told him that he was a Muslim, the son
of a Muslim father and stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his
half-brothers in Kenya were Muslims, and that he was sympa-
thetic to the Muslim agenda. He asked the Arabs to show pa-
tience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic
American issues (like healthcare reform), he would show the
Muslim world how he would deal with Israel.
—–
Now, Obama will definitely say that this is a lie – though he won’t use the word “lie”, but something else that, in the real world, means “lie”. Therefore, one of the two men at that point will be lying. Which one???
It would be very useful to have the video of this “Round Table”. Or if not available, at least the audio. Else the two men, recognizing the danger in this revelation, will just get their stories together and both claim it didn’t happen, and that this Israeli publication is the liar. But if the wife heard it on the radio, it shouldn’t be TOO hard to prove that that is what this Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit actually said.
Why would Gheit lie? And with such specificity? The specificity of the list is rather amazing; read it again:
[Obama] told him that he was a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father and stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half-brothers in Kenya were Muslims, and that he was sympathetic to the Muslim agenda. He asked the Arabs to show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic American issues, he would show the Muslim world how he would deal with Israel.
Remember Obama was mostly polite to Pennsylvanians leading up to its primary. But when he thought he was speaking “privately” at a Democrat San Francisco fundraiser in early April that almost derailed his effort, because someone in the audience audio taped him and released it:
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
So, the private Obama – quite stupidly thinking he could speak his mind to a hundred people and keep it secret, but such stupidity on his part is hardly unique to this one instance! – Obama sees Pennsylvanians as clinging to their guns, having antipathy to “the other”, which means, xenophobia, or are “anti-immigrant” (not anti-ILLEGAL immigrant, mind you!).
That is the real Obama, and he only speaks his truth when he thinks he can get away with it. So I really have to wonder… in a moment Obama thought was private, did he tell the Egyptian Prime Minister, “I am a Muslim”?
In my own musings, I just wondered, what if this were a more perfect world? By that I mean:
What if Andrew Breitbart had the audio of the “Round Table”?!?!?!
The scenario (in my mind) would unfold like this, following exactly the Breitbart template that he followed when exposing ACORN’s repeated attempts to work with the prostitute and her pimp to open up a house of prostitution, staffed by under-age illegal immigrant girls, using ACORN funds…
1. Put the information out there in a form that doesn’t provide ABSOLUTE proof. (In this case, the Israeli publication)
2. Sit back… and wait… and watch
3. The Left goes absolutely berserk. Denunciations of Breitbart and the Israeli publication inundate us all like a mile-high tidal wave. ”Lies! Lies! Lies!” they scream. ”The Israelis are evil liars, and Breitbart is a fool and is extremely dangerous, repeating these lies, lies lies!”
4. After days of high-volume denunciations by the Left, dominating internet news, and spilling over into the MSM, who have the angle they want: A denunciation of an Israeli publication and Breitbart, too…
5. Breitbart finally releases the actual audio, as proof.
6. The Left takes yet another massive hit to its credibility, and exposes themselves as the raw hypocrites they always are
7. And now the “I am a Muslim” Obama quote really gathers steam and absolutely explodes.
I can only dream.
Therefore, one of the two men at that point will be lying. Which one???
The Round Table was in Arabic, I believe. Other than that small detail, which I am sure Robert Spencer could translate (he’s bi-lingual) http://www.jihadwatch.org/ we are still stuck with the issue of taqiyya or to turn an old phrase: one lies and the other swears to it.
Let’s assume that Gheit and Obama are both liars, but for different reasons. It doesn’t change the reality on the ground and we’re back to square one. For the sake of discussion here, this part of the quote is more revealing about Obama and I put a few words in emphasis to make my point.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Bitter, religion, anti immigrant sentiment and frustrations – that is his resume.
He was channeling his own personal resentments.
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania…..”
Today is Flag Day in Pa. and when we’re not clinging to guns or religion….
Pennsylvania became the first (and only) U.S. state to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday, beginning in the town of Rennerdale.
Somehow or other – maybe sheer dumb luck, who knows? – I have managed to attain my sixties without ever having once encountered, utilized, or crossed paths with Paypal. They are, evidently, not nearly as central to one’s continued existence as they think they are.
jj
My grandmother, who lived to 100, managed an entire life without owning a credit card.
My mother never had an ATM.
We (you and I) managed to survive to 60 something without Paypal.
My children, operate financially with all of the above plus paying their bills online.
It’s not whether or not we use PayPal, the issue is the ‘option’ and how the determination is made and why. What if credit card companies determined credit limits by political affiliations? Hmm..maybe this was the method (ab)used by Fannie/Freddie on mortgages applications.