June 3, 2009, - 10:43 am
As I Predicted in 2006, Obama Now Owns Muslim Background: So, Where Are the Apologies to Me From the Left . . . and the Right?
By Debbie Schlussel
So, now, Barack Hussein Obama is now “owning” his Muslim heritage and background (see here also), something he tried to “p3wn” us on for the last three years. It’s no surprise. And back in 2006–to the jeers of so many who now decry what Obama is doing with this–I predicted it and pointed it out.
Yes, back in 2006, I was the first blogger to write about Barack Obama’s Muslim background–and how according to Islamic law, he is a Muslim and that’s how the Muslim world sees him.
All of it was and remains factual.
Yet, because we’re not allowed to mention the “M” or “I” words, I was savaged all over the internet and mainstream media for it. I was attack by the left–including the Nazi-funded Media Matters–and the right, by self-appointed moral judges of political correctness who believe and want to make the rest of us know that they’re better than that Debbie Schlussel who dared point out the completely irrelevant fact that Barack Hussein Obama’s father was Muslim and that Obama himself was raised as a Muslim and identified as such when he lived in Indonesia.
One of my critics on the right was Hot Air’s AllahPundit (too cowardly to go by his real name and too cowardly to apologize), who didn’t bother to read what I actually wrote and lied, claiming I called Obama a “Muslim Manchurian candidate.” I never actually wrote such a thing, but the left told him that, so he believed them.
But don’t worry, I’m not expecting any apologies. Those on the left would never admit the facts that we saw in the news yesterday and today–that by Obama’s own admission, he is proud of his Islamic family and now thinks America is a Muslim nation (more on that later). Those on the right are even more classless in their inability to apologize. Hey, they’d rather savage me in their continuing professional jealousies that they never dare quell. Dignity, decency, and class never comes anywhere near far too many of them.
So, I’m not holding my breath about the blogosphere and mainstream media that savaged me over Obama’s Islamic ethos, since I first wrote about it in 2006.
I was right then, and I’m right now. And–now that it’s too late and we will likely have 8 years of Obama, especially if Sarah Palin is the nominee–they are finally waking up and saying, Hey, whaddya know, Obama is owning his Islamic roots.
Shocker. You heard it here first back in 2006. Yes, lots of apologies should be coming my way, but just as I was right in my predictions and work in 2006, I’m right about this: the cowards won’t dare utter these two words, “I’m sorry.”
I have been stunned at the number of right-wing bloggers that have gone center and left since Obama won. I am even more stunned at how many are saying that his avowing his Muslim roots is not “truly” stating that he is a Muslim! Go figure.
Keep up the good work Debbie.
kaporet on June 3, 2009 at 11:37 am