By Debbie Schlussel

As longtime readers know, I’m no fan of Madonna.  When she was tops in pop music in America, she tried to corrupt kids with her slutty single mother lifestyle, dominatrix videos, and nudie book.  And her adherence to this fake Kabbalah stuff is ridiculous (though apparently it’s served its purpose–see below).  Ditto for the absurd “Co-Exist With Islam” crap she’s pimped at her European concerts (a reason I call Europe, “Madonnastan”).

Madonna’s Less Smart Politics Displayed @ Madonnastan Concert

But, for once, she’s–so far–doing the right thing, according to the always excellent Tom Gross Media Dispatch:

More than 100 Jews and Arabs are calling on pop star Madonna to call off her Tel Aviv concerts, scheduled for September 1 and 2. They have formed an organization called Israeli Support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, and on Sunday sent a letter to Madonna asking her not to perform at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I wish my brave, tough Holocaust survivor grandfather, Isaac, was alive to see “Inglourious Basterds.”

He would love it even more than I did.  So would my dad.  And they would be cheering and laughing along with me.

Because the movie debuts at Midnight screenings tonight, I am posting this review early, and you’ll note that I was entirely wrong in my expectations for this movie when I first wrote about it, back in February.  The movie is riveting.  It’s fun and serious at the same time.  And it’s thrilling.

It’s not usual that I praise a Quentin Tarantino film or a flick starring Brad Pitt.  I’m not a big fan of either.  But “Inglourious Basterds” is either the exception to the rule or a new beginning (probably the former, at least in the case of Pitt, who is very good here).  After two-and-a-half hours of this fantastic movie, I didn’t want it to end.  I wanted more.  So well done, so interesting, exciting, and suspenseful, it flew by.  Like “The Departed (read my review),” it’s a well-wrapped treasure, with new delights at each uncovered layer.  And a few puzzles, some of which aren’t answered but are designed to make you think.

I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this movie.

It’s that well done.  My only regrets are 1) that it’s not a true story; and 2) that no-one in Hollywood has the guts to do an “Inglorious Basterds” with Americans fighting our current enemy:  Muslim invaders who’ve also replaced their friends, the Nazis, as the thugs upon Europe.  If only Abu Steven Spielberg had had the guts to do “Munich” (read my review) like this.

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By Debbie Schlussel

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This morning, rightfully outraged reader “I Am Me” sent me a link to the Front Page Mag lead article gushing over the late anti-Semite and HAMAS-nik Robert Novak.  It is no less than thoroughly disgusting. Not to mention, revisionist history extraordinaire.

Normally, FPM–David Horowitz’s outfit–is right on the money in the fight against jihad and Islam’s attempted usurpation and elimination of our freedoms.  But with this nauseating, lying article, by FPM Managing Editor Jacob Laksin (who calls this jihad-enabling liar, Novak. a “superb journalist”), they have given up all moral high-ground on this issue.

Never again can FPM be taken seriously when it criticizes the likes of Jimmy Carter, Cynthia McKinney, and sundry others (including Barack Obama) for reaching out to and praising HAMAS.  Because FPM’s newly-anointed late hero, Robert Novak did the same, and they’ve chosen to look the other way because he’s “our anti-Semite, our pan-jihadist.”

FPM really ought to be ashamed of Jacob Laksin’s complete whitewash of Novak.  It is no less than sickening.  The article is simply an outrage.  Once again, I must repeat that the Bob Novak death has been revealing and ever-illuminating.  It’s shown that the right—and now, FPM—has tolerance for the same anti-Semitism, Israel-hatred, and support for HAMAS in its “own” that it—including FPM—constantly decries in the left.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Back in May, I told you about Dr. Chilakamarri Ramesh.

The psychiatrist–who lives in the swanky Detroit neighborhood of giant houses of Royal Point in West Bloomfield, Michigan–falsified diagnoses for hundreds of mostly Hezbollah-supporting Sh’ite Muslim aliens, so they could become U.S. citizens without speaking English.

Sadly, incompetent federal prosecutors, including terrorist-enabler Jonathan Tukel, asked for only twelve months prison time for him, and yesterday, he was sentenced to only ten.  It’s ridiculous.  This man  signed 953 fraudulent naturalization waivers for 492 people, most of them in Dearbornistan, some of them in Cleveland, St. Louis, and Chicago.  That means he tried to help almost 500 non-English speaking Muslims to become citizens.  I hope they were deported for immigration fraud, but I’ll bet they were not and that their immigration attempts were successful.

As I noted in the previous post about him, those who want to become citizens must take the citizenship test in English, unless they lack mental capacity . . . which is where Dr. Ramesh comes in.  He falsified psychiatric evaluations on naturalization applicants at a Shi’ite Muslim-owned center, asserting that the applicants lacked mental capacity and should be excused from taking the citizenship test.

The Dearborn business where the fraud was conducted, Four A’s hope Global Psychological Evaluation Center, was owned and run by a Shi’ite Muslim, Walid Salah, Ph.D. a/k/a Al Kailane Walid a/k/a Walid Kailane, who was allowed to flee the country to Lebanon and has been a fugitive since 2003, and Salah’s relative, Samir Al-Kilaine, another Shi’ite Muslim.

Thrilling–isn’t it?–to note that a guy who tried to help almost 500 Muslim aliens illegally become citizens gets only 10 months in prison, less than many drunk driving convicts get.  (No doubt the profits paid for his massive, expensive home.)  Also thrilling:  that the Muslim defendant–who was really the big fish here–fled the country and will never face justice.

Read the indictment and the full details here.

By Debbie Schlussel

Yes, Archie marries Veronica, the rich sugar mommy.  And not Betty, a wife whom he can support and take care of.  Why are we surprised?

This is the new dominant male in America’s younger generation–the zeta male slacker boy, whose wife has the money, the job, or both–and definitely the power and masculinity in the relationship.

Even though this big pop culture story is confined to the comic books, it’s a sign of the times.  The comic book comes out at the end of August, the start of a six-issue story that fast forwards a few years with Archie picking Veronica over Betty and marrying her. As an Archie fan and comic book collector, in the past, I would have thought a cad, like Reggie, would marry Veronica, because only cads and jerks want to be kept men. But not any more. Now, everyone is doing it.

Lou Zers  (Two Round Objets D’Art Missing)

Guys don’t want to be the man, these days.  The alpha female is the wage earner, and guys are the slacker boys.  Yes, the new “male” is the Zeta Male. It’s even prevalent in so-called conservatism where two of the most prominent people are 1) a selfish quitter Governor, whose husband is Mr. Mom and Mr. Grandmom, giving up his masculine job so she could pursue her career, and she is the one who’s now earning the big bucks; and 2) a commentator whose husband gave up his career for hers, and he’s Mr. Mom while she earns the big bucks and he stays at home (while this person attacked parents for “warehousing” their kids in daycare, in defending Sarah Palin she bragged that she reads her kids bedtime stories over a cellphone while getting on planes–nice).

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By Debbie Schlussel

While conservatives have shown themselves–almost universally–to be hypocrites in lamenting anti-Semitic HAMAS-nik Robert Novak, I have to say my favorite lament over Bob Novak (which shows how absurd the conservatives lamenting him are) is that of the 9/11 Truthers. (Sultan Knish points out Novak’s trutherism in his column we linked to earlier today.)

Bob Novak: Father of the 9/11 Truther Movement

The nutjobs over at WhatReallyHappened.com (hint:  it should be called WhatDidn’tReallyHappenButNutcasesGottaHaveaPlacetoHangOut.com) are memorializing Novak as the first person in print to call 9/11 “an inside job,” just two days after the attacks.  FYI, it’s in the same column in which he blames Israel for the attacks, but it’s toned down from when he said–on  9/11–that Israel was the perpetrator of the attacks because it, he said, “had the most to gain.”

Here’s what the nutty Truthers are posting in tribute to Dear Old Bob:

By Debbie Schlussel

As I remarked yesterday, it’s really disgusting–the hypocrisy of so many conservatives, whitewashing the late Robert Novak, completely ignoring his pro-HAMAS, pro-PLO, anti-Semitic rantings and ravings.  The entire conservative blogosphere is rampant with it, and with that they’ve written an epitaph for their ability to ever again criticize a liberal who expresses those same anti-Semitic, pro-HAMAS ravings.  Yes, they are hypocrites.  And shameless.

Since they’re lying to you about Novak and whitewashing the complete picture, what else are they hiding from you on other issues and topics?

Conservatives Continue to Shill for a Jew-Hating HAMASnik

That includes Newsbusters.org, the outfit owned by Brent Bozell.  His employee, Brent Baker, wrote a gushing piece on Novak, and when one of my readers posted a link to my piece on Novak’s HAMAS support and hatred of Israel, Baker erased it and kept erasing it when it was posted again by me, saying that because Novak died we should ignore all the negative things he may have done.  Hmmm . . . will he do that when Jimmy Carter dies?  Don’t bet on it.  Newsbuster’s tagline is “Exposing Liberal Media Lies.”  They need to amend that to add, “And Telling Conservative Ones.”  “Newsbusters”?  Hilarious.  More like, Newsspinnersandobfuscators.

But as Sultan Knish points out in a great piece, Robert Novak wasn’t even a conservative.  He was for illegal immigration and alien amnesty and compared those of us who were against these to apartheid supporters.  And he was a promoter of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam’s loony leader.  And there’s so much more.  The Sultan’s piece is a MUST READ.  Unlike most conservatives, he actually did his homework on Novak.  Also a Must Read, the only other prominent conservative with the guts to tell the truth on Novak, Diana West (who is not Jewish, I might add).  She gets it!

And finally, there is the incompetent, boring, octogenarian failed New York radio host with nine lives, Bob Grant.  The guy is “only” 80 but he sounds like  180.  And he doesn’t do his homework.  This morning, I made the mistake of agreeing to be on his schlocky online radio show.  Unfortunately, next month, this incompetent old fool will yet again have a radio show on Sundays on WABC.  (I guess they needed to shore up that prized 80-95 demographic of hip, hot-roddin’ seniors.)   It’s the second time I’ve done his show (and the last), and it’s clear he’s got many screws loose, that Alzheimer’s or dementia long ago set in with this guy.  He’s one of the worst radio hosts I’ve ever heard.  No, THE worst.

Without bothering to read my column on Novak (or do the tiniest bit of show prep ‘cuz that would actually make the show a tad interesting), he asked me about Novak’s death.  I said the guy was a HAMAS supporter, Israel-hater, and anti-Semite.  Grant didn’t care and said, “But he was a giant.”  BFD.  Who cares if an anti-Semite is a “giant”? That makes it right?  Jimmy Carter is a “giant” in some liberals’ minds.  And he says the same stuff Novak said.

When I talked about all of this stuff, Bob Grant said he wasn’t aware of Novak’s support for HAMAS or anti-Israel sentiment and didn’t believe me.  Well, dude, I can’t be responsible for the fact that you’re 80 years old, don’t bother to read or do show prep on your guests, and are completely clueless and not all there.  Since he couldn’t respond to any of the things I was saying, he first called me, “cheap”–yeah, Bob, insult the messenger, when you don’t have a clue how to respond to facts; that’s what’s really cheap.

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By Debbie Schlussel

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You won’t see me among the many conservatives crying over the passing of noted anti-Semite and open friend of HAMAS, Robert Novak.  I couldn’t care less if he was a conservative.  That makes his open anti-Semitism and wish for Israel’s death no less offensive, no less noxious, no less disgusting.  (I had my own personal encounter with him and his anti-Israel baloney.  More on that below.)

Robert Novak, “Prince of Darkness”:

Noted Jew-Hater is Dead

And spare me the “give it time until he’s been buried” and forgotten BS.  This needs to be said–and it needs to be said now, while a bunch of ignoramuses on the right are lamenting this “great man,” who wasn’t great at all, as some sort of saint he wasn’t (predictably among these is Michelle Malkin, who is telling people to ignore the truth about Novak–she did something similar with Islamic terrorist lover and enabler Henry Hyde, and she also did it with Hezbollah’s and Arafat’s fave criminal thug Congressman, Darrell Issa;  also predictable, complete ignoramus Ed Morrissey who works for Malkin, praised Obama’s sickening speech to the Muslim world, and constantly panders to pan-Muslim Grover Norquist).

All of them who praised and more than tolerated Novak in life are either the same ones who would jump all over liberals and lefties who said the same anti-Semitic, pro-HAMAS garbage he uttered.  Or they are anti-Semites of a similar stripe, like Sean Vannity’s friend, pro-Hitler Pat Buchanan (the Vietnam War draft dodger who claimed Jews didn’t fight in America’s wars; tell it to my cousin, who was served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and my dad, who proudly served during Vietnam while Pat Buchanan dodged the draft).

Sorry he had cancer and died.  But that doesn’t erase for a single second who Robert Novak really was in life and good health.  In fact, Novak was a vessel of hate–hatred for Jews (he was one but hated us so much he converted away), hatred of Israel, and love for Hate, Inc. a/k/a HAMAS and every other Islamic terrorist group he openly and happily embraced on CNN’s “Crossfire” when he hosted it, in his columns, and to anyone who would listen.

He shamelessly announced on “Crossfire”:

There are many Americans who support HAMAS, and I am one of them.

In a 2007 appearance on “Charlie Rose” on PBS, he attacked “the Jewish Community” and its “influence” on “both parties.”  He said he agreed with all of the vehemently anti-Israel columns written by his former partner Roland Evans.

Israel. We—the “Evans and Novak” columns—we ran hundreds of columns critical of Israel, all of them written by Rolly Evans. But I agreed with him. . . . Rolly became very committed on the issue.

Full transcript here.

Here’s more of Bob Novak’s scintillating gems, from his syndicated column and elsewhere:

*  On 9/11, Novak blamed Israel for the attacks, saying it “had the most to gain.”  Just two days after the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on America, Novak was the first to call the attacks “an inside job” and blamed the attacks on the U.S. relationship with Israel.

* In 2007 column, Novak wrote that Israel’s policies were “worse than apartheid,” claiming that Israel also oppressed Christians, and that the real peace-seekers were HAMAS. As if. He also called on President Bush to pressure Israel, decrying that he wasn’t.

* In a December 2001 column written less than two months after the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on America, he called HAMAS terrorists, “freedom fighters.” Yup, he took his cues from CAIR and other Muslim extremists (redundant phrase).

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By Debbie Schlussel

Last week, I told you about Ihab Maslamani, the 17-year-old Shi’ite Muslim illegal alien from Lebanon, who stayed here illegally for 9 years, and just over a week ago, murdered pizza delivery guy Matthew Landry, robbed a bank, and carjacked more than one person (including Landry).  As I noted, the mainstream media refused to disclose his background or even spell his last name correctly.  Because I did on this site (and we were atop google all week for the story, where we remain as I write this), I pushed them into doing something . . . but not the right thing.

Ihab Maslamani: Contrary to MSM Reports,

He’s MUSLIM, NOT Chaldean

While the Detroit Newsistan and the Detroit non-Free Press finally spelled the guy’s name right and finally disclosed the news I broke well before them–that Maslamani is from Lebanon–they tried to pretend he’s a Christian, lying to readers.  It marks the first time in history that the Detroit Free Press–which constantly tries (via politically correct, deceitful editors Ritu Sehgal, Theresa Mask, and others) to shield Muslims in its news coverage of terrorism, cigarette smuggling, money-laundering, mortgage fraud, and bridge card fraud cases–has ever identified the religion of an Arab in a crime story (obviously to try to respond and obscure what I accurately reported, which tops that paper’s coverage on Google).  Oh, and they mentioned the WRONG religion.

The Freep lied,  telling readers that Maslamani is a Chaldean, an Iraqi Catholic, writing this:

Ihab Maslamani was a Christmas baby whose 17 years have been a chilling arc from childhood victim to icy predator. . . .  Maslamani was born into a Chaldean family on Dec. 25, 1991.

But that’s completely false–utter bunk.  In fact, court and social service documents back exactly what I was the first–and still the only one–to report to you:  Maslamani is a Shi’ite Muslim whose family is in Hezbollah.  The documents identify the mother who gave birth to  him (and later abandoned him) as Zeinab Hammoud, from the famous South Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim Hammoud family that is the bulwark of Hezbollah.  His family also spent time in Hezbollah-sponsor/terror host state Syria–not the place where there are any Chaldeans.  Court documents also identify Maslamani’s father, “Isam Masolmany” (spelled incorrectly again) as a terrorist on the run from Lebanon, where he was facing a death sentence.  (And Maslamani spent time with Shi’ite Muslim relatives in Dearbornistan–not the place where Chaldeans live–who facilitated his illegal alien stay here.)

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By Debbie Schlussel

The latest public opinion poll of the Palestinian people–conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research—confirms, yet again, what we’ve been saying about them for decades.  They can’t even get along with themselves, don’t feel safe among their own, and don’t believe in honoring agreements with Jews.

And yet, Israel is supposed to make “peace” with these people?!  (Thanks to IMRA for the tip.) Riiiiight.

*  53% say they are worried that they or a member of their family would be hurt by other Palestinians, from Fateh or Hamas, and 46% say they are not worried. Respondents in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are equally worried. Three months ago, respondents in the  Gaza Strip were more worried than respondents in the West Bank (65% to 50%) which means that the level of worry has dropped considerably in the Gaza Strip and increased slightly in the West Bank.

*  49% agree and 45% disagree that the platform of a National Unity Government should accept all agreements signed between the PLO and Israel.  These results are almost identical to those obtained three months ago.

Yeah, let’s hear it for Israel’s new peace partners! More like, pieces.  Someone ought to ask Barack Obama how he expects Israel to sign any more agreements, give up any more land to these people, given these repeated survey results.