By Debbie Schlussel

I’d bet that Sean Vannity and Bill O’Reilly are privately seething over a much-publicized Harris Interactive poll that just came out.  They see Glenn Beck, whose FOX News show airs in daytime, nipping at their heels and getting, at times, higher ratings in daytime than they get in prime-time, a much higher volume day-part.  (For the record, I’m no fan of any of these three, including Beck, but I think the item is newsworthy, nonetheless.)

Drama Queen Act Beats Phony “Great American” BS

Asked who their favorite TV personality was,  2,276 respondents picked Glenn Beck at Number 2, just behind Oprah.  Bill O’Reilly barely placed in the Top Ten, at last place, and Sean Vannity . . . well, Sean who?  He didn’t even make the list.  And, again, he’s in prime-time, unlike Beck.  Moreover, in several categories, Beck was THE MOST admired television personality, including Conservatives, Republicans, Matures (64+) and two demographics that are not expected:  Midwesterners, and Independents.  Yup, he beat out Oprah in both of those.

But in the coveted younger age groups, there’s no Beck or any other conservative. Oprah dominates Gen-X and Baby Boomers, and Conan O’Brien is most admired by Echo Boomers (ages 18-32). Check out the complete details of the poll. Given that the survey was conducted between December 7 and 14, 2009, Charlie Sheen’s alleged violence against his wife and Jay Leno’s late-night machinations didn’t enter into consideration. Still, it, sadly, appears that David Letterman’s mass orgy with his female staff didn’t hurt him much in public opinion (and perhaps helped him).

As I’ve noted on this site before, Vannity is worried and desperate as Beck continues to make headlines and get magazine covers, whereas Vannity continues to be the only three-hour on-air tribute show to Rush Limbaugh, whose show Sean cribs heavily, in addition to telling everyone they’re a great American.  He simply doesn’t have the intelligence or acting chops or much of anything else to generate any excitement. Beck has some of that and has developed a cult-like following of enthusiasts. And Vannity knows that FOX News execs are considering moving Glenn Beck into primetime, perhaps even into Hannity’s prized 9-10:00 p.m. Eastern time-slot and moving Vannity into the less watched Greta Van Surgery hour.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Yesterday, I reminded you about the pan-terrorist “record” of liberal Republican Tom Campbell, a very wealthy man who is running for the U.S. Senate from California.  I’ve been on the case of Campbell–an open supporter of a ton of Islamic terrorists and terrorist groups, and an avowed enemy of Israel–for years.  Unfortunately, he keeps rearing his ugly head because Republicans and Jewish Republicans continue to look the other way and even promote him.

GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Tom Campbell: Loves Terrorist Al-Arian “Like a Brother”

After I posted the item, I heard from a friend, who is very much a person in the know.  I can’t say more other than the person is eminently reliable and informed.  This is a MUST-READ for anyone considering voting for Tom Campbell in the event he is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer.

I have just finished reading your posting on Tom Campbell.

On or about August 30, 2000, the American Muslim Association had a convention in Irvine, Ca. at a hotel.  It was a three day convention (the entire weekend).  I was asked to go because Sami Al-Arian was scheduled to speak at one of the panels.  I went on a Friday.

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By Debbie Schlussel

**** UPDATE: Read the Masfaka/Abu Ratib indictment, which, at this point, is a DebbieSchlussel.com web exclusive. Note that he ran the Holy Land Foundation HAMAS fundraising out of his Farmington Hills, Michigan home. ****

I’ve long known about Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka a/k/a Abu Ratib.  That’s because a lot of Christian and Druze Arab singers, whom I know, lost out on gigs to him because they weren’t Islamic extremists like he is.  I’ve always wondered about his immigration status and how he got citizenship, given his extremist views.

Now, I know why.  He lied on his immigration forms to cover up his ties to the HAMAS-finance arm in the U.S., the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The scary thing is that this terrorist singer has been traveling North America (and Australia) spreading his jihadist singing baloney, to places like Kansas and throughout Canada for the anti-Israel, extremist Muslim Sabeel group.  He’s known as a “Munshid,” a singer of Islamic religious songs, all of them extremist and many of them anti-Semitic.  Ironically, in his bio, Masfaka brags about being in a play called, “Prophetic Immigration,” and about his presence at a conference where Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf Al-Qaradawi was the keynote speaker.

Abu Ratib, HAMAS/HLF Employee, Sings His Extremist Muslim Crap . . . .

And now he’s being prosecuted, fortunately, by the skilled ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) litigator, Mark Jebson, the same prosecutor who got terrorism convictions against both top Al-Qaeda official, Mohammed Al-Churbaji (whose son was an Obama fundraiser) and Islamic terrorist Ibrahim Parlak.

There are many, many Mohamad Masfakas in our midst–Muslims who lied on immigration forms to get green cards and citizenship and who are involved with financing Islamic terrorism. Just a few are like Masfaka in that they get caught and the government actually wants to pursue them. That’s not the case with, for example, Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, who lied about his ties to Hezbollah, the Government of Iran, and Ayatollah Khomeini on federal immigration forms, and yet he’s still a citizen, spreading his hate everywhere.

And Masfaka/Abu Ratib is an example of yet another thing we see a ton of: to the non-Muslim world he preached the false message of “Islam’s tolerance,” while at the same time he was fund-raising for Islamic mass murder. They are almost always as two-faced as he is when it comes to “peace” and “tolerance.”

From a Justice Department press release, Friday:

Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka, a 47-year-old native of Syria, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection when he attempted to enter the United States from Canada via the Ambassador Bridge. Mr. Masfaka made his initial appearance in federal court in Detroit on an Indictment charging him with Attempted Naturalization Fraud, False Statements, and Perjury. . . .

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By Debbie Schlussel

I’m against obnoxious, far-left U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer as much as the next person with a brain.  And I hope a good, solid conservative beats her in the 2010 elections.  But, with liberal, failed former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in the lead, that person has yet to emerge big (it’s Chuck DeVore, who doesn’t have quite the money the others do).  And it certainly isn’t liberal, pan-terrorist former Republican Congressman Tom Campbell.  If you live in California or know those who vote there, please do everything you can to stop this man.

Jihad-enabling GOPer Tom Campbell Wants to be California’s U.S. Senator

It’s not just that Campbell was one of the most liberal Republicans in the House of Representatives.  It’s much more important than that:  Campbell was the Islamic terrorists’ best friend in Congress when he served.  Campbell, as I’ve noted before, is a friend of convicted Islamic terrorist and Islamic Jihad founder and frontman, Sami Al-Arian.  He did everything in his power to stop Al-Arian from being convicted or deported.  He was also one of the most anti-Israel members of Congress and the most pan-Muslim.  The alphabet soup of Muslim interest groups–CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS–all knew that Campbell was their go-to guy and even placed extremist Muslims (redundant) as staffers in his office, including the son of an Al-Qaeda fundraiser!

From my September 2005 column about how Jewish Republicans were set to host Campbell (they replaced him as a result of my column):

When [Sami] Al-Arian was fired from the University of South Florida, from which he ran his terrorist network, Campbell wrote a letter of support praising Al-Arian and asking the University president to reconsider her decision. In the letter, Campbell noted that Al-Arian helped him raise money for his failed U.S. Senate bid.

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By Debbie Schlussel

As readers know, I’m happy Scott Brown was elected as the new U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and I criticized Glenn Beck for his unhinged comments about Brown joking about his daughters being available.  His comment that this is all going to end “with a dead intern” was ridiculous.

Still, some readers noted this photo, below, of Brown posing with  his daughters, one of them in clam shells, which–if she weren’t flat-chested–wouldn’t cover much, and barely do, as it is.  I gotta say, the picture looks like a tourist guy posing with waitresses at Honolulu Hooters.  It appears they’re posing at some Hawaiian-themed luau-style party at their home.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Comments coming out of the Saudi government about Saudi students traveling to the U.S. are laughable . . . and scary.

First, the scary part:  the Saudis are saying–unlike American Muslims (who are decrying it as profiling)–that America’s “added” security screening at airports isn’t a big deal, and that it doesn’t affect Saudis.  The Saudi government says the Saudis–particularly Saudi students–coming to America aren’t undergoing any added screening or scrutiny.

Worthless “Cultural Understanding” – Saudi Arabian Students @ Eastern Michigan University: Obay Alzowawi, Abdullah Alarfaj & Mohammed Algahtani

HUH?  Um, isn’t this the country that sent us 15 out of 19 hijackers, plus Osama Bin Laden, himself?  Isn’t this the same country, whose extremist students have been convicted, in America, of torturing and raping their housekeepers (while selling anti-American, terrorist propaganda), and whose scholarship recipients perpetrated dry runs of terrorist attacks on school buses?  And we’re NOT subjecting these people to added screening before they invade our country and disappear on student visas, never to be found again?!  Hellooooo . . . ?  I guess now that the media and the feds have finally discovered America in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is now nothing to worry about?  Absurd.

Oh, and the Saudis also want the Saudi royals’ loyal subjects to know that, when coming to America, you should avoid any form of violence against kids because, you know, those infidels don’t go for that.

Saudi Gazette – 23 January, 2010

The Deputy Higher Education Minister for Foreign Scholarship Programs at the Ministry of Higher Education has said that the media has been making “too big a deal” over increased security at airports in the United States.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Even his own sister says that Maron Thomas’ decapitation of his 2-year-old niece with a machete (and the murder of four other family members) is due to his recent conversion to Islam. But I’m sure this mass murder in Texas had nothing to do with it, just as Islam had nothing to do with 9/11 hijackings and mass murders, the Undiebomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the two special Muslim units of the SS and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem’s urging of Hitler to hasten the Final Solution and export it to the Mid-East, and assorted other violent, brutal murders, rapes, tortures, and mutilations that go on every second around the world, all perpetrated by Muslims.

Maron Thomas: American Mass-Murderer Brought to You By the Religion of Peace

But all of this has nothing to do with Islam. In fact, all of these people are hijackers who’ve hijacked the religion and it’s not the Islam that preaches peace and love (and occurs nowhere in the Islamic world). And no worries that there’s a ton of it on U.S. soil. Nothing to see here, move along. Oh, and I’m sure he’s just “mentally unstable” and “needs help,” the usual excuse for Muslims who commit violent, brutal crimes.

A family dispute pushed Maron Thomas to go on a rampage marked by a fury so intense that he decapitated his 2-year-old niece with a machete after killing her and four other family members, Austin County investigators said Wednesday.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Hmm . . . yet another “drunk, unruly” passenger on a cross-country flight–this time from Washington Dulles to Las Vegas.  Funny, I don’t remember this many “drunk, unruly” passengers, trying to crash a plane before November, when a series of these began and, ultimately, the Flight 253 Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was nearly successful in murdering 300 passengers in U.S. airspace.

I’ll believe this was just a “drunk” passenger, when I find out his name and religion.  Until then, I’m reserving judgment.  But I’ll say this:  thank G-d for brave American men, like my new heroes, Earl Stafford, Art Thomm, Sergei Sandou, and Barry Eynon, who subdued the passenger.  For all the “conservative” feminist sniping at me that I’m sexist because I think a mother should actually raise her kids, I’ll tell you this, all of ’em would prefer a good, strong man–like an Earl Stafford, an Art Thomm, a Sergei Sandou, or a Barry Eynon–to save them from a passenger like this, rather than a Sarah Palin or Kelly Ayotte, who wouldn’t be worth a damn here (kinda like their value in their current jobs).  Yup, the new conservative embrace of Betty Friedan’s whines of “sexism” wouldn’t apply here . . . if you really wanted your life saved.

More:

A United Airlines flight from Washington to Las Vegas was diverted to Denver on Saturday night after a passenger became unruly and tried to open a cabin door, authorities said.

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By Debbie Schlussel

When I read USA Today, this morning, I was in disbelief by a headline and accompanying article:

Army Top Doc:  No Clues to Violence in Hasan File; Says Fort Hood Tragedy Couldn’t Be Predicted

Yeah, Right:

Army Surgeon Gen., Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker Denies Clues on Nidal Malik Hasan

HUH?!, I thought. This is, after all, the same Nidal Malik Hasan who not only gave hints to his advocacy of Islamic jihadist violence against Americans repeatedly throughout his career, but several Army doctors and officials voiced their concerns. It’s also the same Nidal Malik Hasan, about whom I read a different headline in the very same McPaper, two days earlier:

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By Debbie Schlussel

Last night was the finale of the horrid MTV Show (redundant phrase) “Jersey Shore.”  I already told readers what I think of this crappy waste of time that mocks Italian Americans in a way MTV (and everyone else) would never have the guts to do with Muslims or Arabs in America.  I’m all against PC, but only if there’s no PC for anyone, not just for some groups and not others.

But I found this “Shore Speak Dictionary” to be somewhat entertaining in a mind-numbing, IQ-lowering way . . . especially since a lot of “their” terms are hardly original.  “Heated” as a way of describing extreme anger isn’t their invention.  What–they never heard of phrases like “heated conversation” or “heated argument”?  Also disgusting: that these morons have the nerve to compare themselves to Navy SEALs on the battlefield.  Still, I gotta say, I like the term “Grenade,” as in Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Hussein Obama Idi Amin Dada is the First Grenade.  The “Bar Behavior 101” rules, which follow the Shore Speak item, below, are kind of hilarious, as in, do they really not know not to punch girls in the face or take shots you didn’t pay for, and they need rules on this?

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