By Debbie Schlussel
On Friday, I told you about the racist movie “Obsessed,” brought to you by Beyonce Knowles, her daddy, and Magic Johnson (yes, that “Magic” Johnson).
Some people e-mailed and/or commented that I was wrong or over-reacting. But not the “Why Black Women Are Angry” blog, written by, obviously, an “angry Black women.” Actually the name of the blog is “Diary of a Content Black Woman,” but the URL for the site bears what she obviously meant to call it: WhyBlackWomenAreAngry.blogspot.com. Clearly, this woman is far more angry than content, and she illustrates the point I was making about how this movie plays into Black women’s racism against White women.

The reason that Obsessed is #1 is because Black women have been dying to see a movie where the Black woman kicks the ass of the white woman who tries to steal her man! There. I said it. . . .

[T]hrough the silver screen, every Black woman’s fantasy was fulfilled. Beyonce (Susan) kicked “this crazy white woman insistent on taking her husband’s” ass.
It was exhilarating!

‘Nuff said. Time to send this chick, er . . . “Angry Black Woman,” er . . . “Content Black Women” to anger management and sensitivity training.
*** UPDATE: It gets worse. Here’s what a Black woman said about “Obsessed” on a Black supremacist website:

Go see the movie Obsessed. White women stalking and seducing a black man. . . .
My husband told me one time he notices that white women are aggressive especially when you turn them down.
Hakeema

By Debbie Schlussel
Real men take showers (when they can). But they don’t have “man showers.”
And someone needs to tell that to sleazy Michigan billionaire Peter Karmanos, CEO of Compuware. He’s the same guy I told you about, recently, who hired convicted felon and deposed Detroit ex-Mayor Kwame “The Kingpin” Kilpatrick after Kilpatrick got out of prison. This was on the same day Karmanos laid off 250 of his current non-felonious employees.
Karmanos, who is on wife #3, announced news a while ago that his 35-year-old wife (he is 66) was expecting twins. When they are born, these kids will be far younger than Karmanos’ grandchildren (kids of his grown kids from marriage #1) to whom these kids will be “aunt” and/or “uncle.”
And, as if the post-mid-life mid-life crisis wasn’t obvious enough, Karmanos’ friends held a “man shower“–yup, a baby shower for a man–for him. I’m wondering whether Kwame Kilpatrick was in attendance.
Real Man in Shower . . .

Girlie-Man in “Man Shower” . . .

“Man Shower” Guest of Honor Pete Karmanos

w/Daughter, er . . . Wife #3, Danialle Karmanos
Just what does one do at a “man shower”? I’m not sure, since it appears to me that men who hold one are a little testosterone-starved (and Karmanos admitted in sworn testimony in a sexual harassment lawsuit that he brought pre-Viagra sexual stimulants to work). At least we know, in Karmanos’ case, they won’t be giving each other haircuts. The bald Karmanos finally brought himself to cut off his absurd ponytail a while ago.
Karmanos’ friends gave him a “Real Men Have Twins” t-shirt, which could also be worn by that guy in Vegas who had breast implants put in to win a bet.
But, ya know, Karmanos is a “new kind of a guy.” He cries and does yoga. Yet more things that “real men” don’t do.
As I noted before, Karmanos is an advisor to Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate, pan-Islamist Attorney General, and all-around sleazebag, Mike Cox. I urge Karmanos to advise Cox to cry, do yoga, and have “man showers.”
It will help my candidate of choice, Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra, best him in the primary.
By the way, it should be noted that when I searched man shower in google images, many of the results were from gay porn. Not that this was a surprise. Just a tiny hint for Mr. Karmanos.

By Debbie Schlussel
Ah, civilization. When South Africa got rid of Apartheid racism and all White leaders it associated with it, we were told South Africa was now going to be new and advanced, that it would become far more civilized and modern.
But, in fact, as the African National Congress continues to its path downward to ever deeper nadirs, this very uncivilized gang of thugs– now a controlling political party for well over a decade–shows us the exact opposite.
The ANC is now the tribal politburo. Whoever heads the party becomes the leader of South Africa, without exception. And the latest ANC chief-cum-South African President, Jacob Zuma, is just the latest example of the decivilization of South Africa. He will soon be inducted as the country’s third democratically-elected post-Apartheid President. And there is a trend here . . . downward.

South Africa’s Corrupt New President, Polygamist Communist Jacob Zuma
When he is inaugurated on May 9th, no one knows which of the Communist Mr. Zuma’s two wives will accompany him to the event. Yes, he’s a polygamist (and a serial husband–he’s been married four times). Here’s how even the liberal Los Angeles Times editorial board described this new “advanced” leader of the “new South Africa”:

Jacob Zuma, the man destined to become South Africa’s president after his African National Congress party swept national elections this week, is a polygamist, a former communist revolutionary with little formal education, an alleged taker of lavish bribes and a man so stunningly clueless about his nation’s No. 1 public health threat that he once declared his belief that he could fend off HIV by showering after sex.

Yup, exactly the kind of man Muslims need to head up South Africa, as they continue to make inroads with their religion in this country that boasts of the Oprah Winfrey School for Girls (where sexual assaults have occurred) and little else. And that’s why the Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa endorsed Zuma.
In a speech two weeks ago to South African Muslims, Zuma pandered to Islam far more than even Barack Hussein Obama and quoted from the Koran. He had the nerve to claim that Muslims came to South Africa as slaves. Wrong. They were the slavers and slave traders. And he quoted his fellow radical and anti-Semite Nelson Mandela:

As Nelson Mandela reflected during the celebration of Eid in 1998; “Our country can proudly claim Muslims as brothers and sisters, compatriots, freedom fighters and leaders, revered by our nation. They have written their names on the roll of honour with blood, sweat and tears”.

Although Zuma is not Muslim, he’s close enough. There is a dynamic symbiosis between his lifestyle and views and that of Islam. It’s not just the polygamy and his days as a Communist terrorist. It’s his pan-Arabist worldview. Since the White leaders have been relegated to South African’s dustbin of history, South Africa has embraced the Muslim world’s anti-Israel stance, in addition to other Third World radical policies.
Zuma wanted to invite his friend, Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir to his inauguration, but couldn’t. That’s because South Africa would be under an obligation to arrest Bashir–under indictment for crimes against humanity–because of U.N. agreements and treaties the country signed.
But no worries. Zuma invited the next best thing, his buddy the dictator from Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. And like Mugabe, as he presides over a dirt poor country, Zuma will spend the riches on himself–with an inauguration costing 75 million South African rands.
My question is: Who is America sending to the Zuma inauguration? I doubt Barack Hussein Obama will have the guts or the inclination to snub him. After all, this is the same President who just hung with Hugo Chavez. And the same President who has been talking to HAMAS since before he was elected.
Let’s just hope he has the decency to send someone far lower ranking than Hillary Clinton. But don’t bet on it.

By Debbie Schlussel
Despite Israel’s waning economy–which, like the rest of the world, is in the doldrums–Israelis, this weekend, showed why they are very employable and desirable, at least to those on the high seas.

The captain of an Italian cruise ship with 1,527 people on board described yesterday how his ship fought a running battle with pirates.
Commander Ciro Pinto of the MSC Melody, carrying 991 passengers and 536 crew, said the ship was left with smashed windows and bullet holes on its port side after six pirates trying to board the vessel fired at least 200 rounds with assault rifles from their dinghy.
Israeli security guards on the ship responded by firing pistols into the air and spraying them with a firehose.

Israeli Security Guards Defend Italian Cruise Ship
from Islamic Terrorists/”Somalian Pirates”

“They started firing like crazy at the ship,” Commander Pinto said of the attackers, who struck in international waters 200 miles north of Victoria in the Seychelles and 600 miles off the Somali coast.
No passengers were injured but there were reports that some attempted to repel the pirates by hurling chairs overboard at the dinghy, before being ordered below decks by the captain. . . .
Some cruise lines refuse to equip guards with small arms because it is forbidden in some of the ports where they dock. However, industry sources said guards were often used “discreetly” and cruise line security work was popular with young Israelis who had recently completed army service.
Domenico Pellegrino, the managing director of MSC, confirmed that the ship was protected by Israeli security guards. “We use them because they are the best – and we have just had a demonstration of that,” he said.

Yes, they are the best. And maybe some day, we will take advice from “the best” on how to do airport screening, instead of the dumb “search granny” and “no liquids over 3 ounces” BS that we do here. The Israelis look at people (ie., Muslims and Arabs and their buddies), not objects.

By Debbie Schlussel
I’d planned to post my brief review of Beyonce Knowles’ “Obsessed” as an update to my reviews of this weekend’s other new releases. But after seeing it, I think this movie should get its own post. And not because it’s good. But because it’s racist. Blatantly so.
It’s not bad . . . for a Lifetime movie of the week, produced by BET. (There was absolutely no suspense and it’s a poor, cheap copy of the far superior classic, “Fatal Attraction.”)
But it’s also racist in a way that would be unacceptable, today, the era of Obama and the Post-“Mandingo” movie age, were the races in this movie reversed. You’ve heard of “Blaxploitation.” Now, check out the new racist trend out of Hollywood: White-sploitation.

In this movie executive produced by Beyonce Knowles, her father/manager, Matthew Knowles, and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Beyonce plays the Black wife of a Black investment executive. Her husband is relentlessly pursued and stalked by a hot, White (and crazy) blonde temp (Ali Larter). Although the husband never gives in to the White chick’s pursuits, she frames him up to make it look as if he did, and he’s in the doghouse with his wife.
And the Black couple is surrounded by a cadre of brainless and otherwise non-ideal human beings with gaping flaws. There is the lecherous, married White male co-worker (Jerry O’Connell) who can’t believe the Black executive won’t accept a little something on the side with the hot blonde–something he (the White guy) says he wants to do with her. Then, there is the world’s most brainless White baby sitter, who gullibly lets the stalker White chick into the house to kidnap the baby. And don’t forget the world’s most brainless gay White male secretary, who ditzily gives the stalker White blonde the complete scoop on the Black couples’ weekend plans, making it easier for her to stalk them. Even the White chick cop (Christine Lahti) isn’t too bright. Yup, not a single White character in the movie who is sympathetic.
Sure, race is never mentioned in the movie. It doesn’t have to be. Look at the movie poster and the colors they chose for the design, and the way the characters are juxtaposed. It’s all about Black versus White, baby. I live in a mostly Black suburb of Detroit, and I saw the movie in a local theater with an entirely Black audience. I heard all assortment of racist comments about the White people and the White chick stalker, throughout the movie and afterward as I left. No wonder this obvious race-baiting film wasn’t screened for critics.
It plays on the worst fears of many Black women in America, who fear that White women are stealing their men–even though less than 5% of Black men are married to White women, according to the Janks Morton documentary, “What Black Men Think.” And of those 5%, I doubt most of the women were merciless stalkers as in this movie. Movies like this breed and feed on racism, particularly against White women. This kind of pop culture influence on the Black community is of no benefit and serves no purpose other than confirmation of baseless anger and racial hatred. I can’t tell you how many times In my own neighborhood stores, I’ve been called racial epithets, like “bony-assed White bitch,” for no reason whatsoever other than my skin tone.
I wondered how the audience would like it if the movie was about a Black male stalker was terrorizing a White couple, and all of the other Black characters in the movie were vapid, morons, or both. And why Hollywood can make a film like this, yet it’s justifiably no longer permissible to make a movie in which the races are reversed.
Well, actually, I know why. We’ve long advanced past the era of “Mandingo,” but we’ve regressed “forward” into the era of . . . “Blondingo,” courtesy of Hollywood’s newest producers (and race-baiters), Beyonce and her daddy.
The movie is mildly entertaining, but would it have killed them to include a single sympathetic White character in the entire movie? Are we all that bad and/or stupid?
I guess Beyonce, her father, and Magic Johnson have forgotten the race of most of those who’ve made them rich beyond their wildest dreams and beyond the wealth of most Americans, Black OR White:
Blondingos like me.
FOUR MARXES

(From the Debbie Schlussel Hollywood Zombie Card Collection)

By Debbie Schlussel
Yesterday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee sent me this comment regarding news of new ICE chief nominee John Morton’s testimony at confirmation hearings.

Looks like it’s time to come up with a new nickname for The ICE Princess’ replacement.

The ICE person suggests Mor(t)on, which is intersting.
For new readers, “The ICE Princess” was my very appropriate nickname for incompetent and unqualified former Bush ICE chieftess Julie L. Myers, the spoiled niece of General Richard Myers who selfishly chose herself for the job when she was recruiting for it a the Bush White House personnel office.
Like Myers, the new guy doesn’t have any law enforcement experience. Sorry, but being a lawyer–even a prosecuting attorney–is NOT law enforcement. Unless you’ve had a badge and a gun, you ain’t law enforcement.

And like Myers, it’s gonna be a disaster. Perhaps it won’t be as much of a train wreck. But it’ll be pretty bad. It’s bad enough already. Still, he won’t be as ripe a target for my site and the Photoshop biz. And at least his appointment will get ICE’s own George Costanza, John P. Torres, an uber-narcissist thug, out of the driver’s seat at the agency.
I’ve thought about new names, and the best I can do is “The ICE Sheikh” (very apropros now that were in the Hussein Obama era). “ICE Bitch” would probably be more fitting, since ICE–and Morton–is now DHS secretary Janet Napolitano a/k/a “The Lesbionic Woman“‘s bitch. And since she is investigating and persecuting ICE agents for doing their jobs and giving work permits to the illegal aliens they arrested. Or ICE Mor(t)on will do. Maybe you can come up with a better moniker for Mr. Morton.
In the meantime, check out what Mr. Mor(t)on said–the reason we’re already searching for a new nickname for him:

ICE Nominee: I’ll Focus on Employers, Not Immigrants
“President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency plans to target unscrupulous employers who hire illegal immigrants by stepping up prosecutions and civil fines against them – rather than the people they hire. John Morton, a career federal prosecutor, said in his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that the administration also plans to eventually require mandatory use of the online E-Verify database to enable employers to check the immigration status of new hires.”

Um, that’s been tried before–the E-Verify program, but Congress (that means, Senator Leahy) tabled it and the funding, which means E-Verify ends on September 30th, just a few months away. So you already know Morton’s lying and BS-ing. And since he can’t use E-Verify and he won’t go after illegal aliens, Jose and Ahmed, this is your era. Bring the whole family.
Our friend, Bonzer Wolf, has much more on the new ICE Mor(t)on.

By Debbie Schlussel
Hear my reviews every Friday Morning between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Eastern on the Sirius Patriot Channel’s “Mike Church Show.”
It’s ironic that the movie I most expected to hate, “Fighting,” is the one I liked the best of the bunch of new movie releases this weekend, top-heavy with sorry offerings. “Obsessed” was not screened for critics, a sign it’s a dud. But I’ll review it later this afternoon. Here’s what I did see:
* “Fighting“: This movie was far better than I expected. While it’s not a “great” movie (the thin story is predictable, and a good deal of it is schlocky), it’s not bad. It has a “Rocky”-for-the-Ultimate-Fighting-crowd vibe to it. And even though it’s obviously low budget, it had a certain charm to it. The audience at the screening I attended applauded at the end because it turns out to be a feel-good movie. It is what it is–a working-class-guy-struggles-to-make-it fighting movie, starring a very hot-looking actor (the smokin’ hot Channing Tatum) with a love interest story in the background.

Channing Tatum plays a hayseed fighter from the South who is struggling to eke out a living on the streets of New York by selling counterfeit merchandise. When he gets into a fight, a street hustler (Terrence Howard) spies his right hook shot and sees a diamond in the rough–a fighter who can make him some money. Soon, Howard is wheeling and dealing with mobsters to organize private fights at clubs between Tatum and others, and they’re in business in underground, unsanctioned street fighting. Tatum also meets a cute but mysterious Puerto Ricana single mother and tries to romance her.
But can Tatum win the ultimate fight of his life, in which the purse is 100,000? Can he swallow his pride and agree to lose to his hated childhood rival if it will help his friend and patron make money by betting against him?
Like I said, this movie was far above my expectations, even if it seems kind of dated and like something from the ’80s. It’s really a guys’ movie, but with the eye candy of Tatum, it will keep women interested. It’s fine for teens and above. While the fighting was very violent (and there is some blood), there isn’t that much in the way of four letter words, and even the “sex” scene is just a scene of Tatum and the girl sharing a kiss.
TWO REAGANS

* “Anvil!: The Story of Anvil“: Not knowing that there actually was a metal band from the ’80s called “Anvil,” when I saw this movie, I thought it had to be a parody in the vein of “This is Spinal Tap.” But, sadly, it isn’t. It’s a documentary about losers who won’t wake up and won’t grow up, to the total disregard of their families.
These guys are losers. The members of the ’80s band are still–in their mid-fifties–unable to face the fact that they didn’t make it. And they’re still pursuing their dream, even though their style of music long ago became passe. And even though their long lush locks of hair are now scraggly fragments hanging from scalps that are covered with doo-rags, apparently to hide baldness.
I hated these people, and I wanted them to fail. Robb Reiner and Steve “Lips” Kudlow are the original members of Anvil, the rock group that had one hit in the ’80s, “Metal on Metal.” And they just can’t let go of the fact that it didn’t go beyond that. At the beginning, we see disgusting shots of them from their better years: Kudlow playing a guitar with a vibrator (wow, this guy has taste) and another shot of him in complete hairy, gross frontal nudity. Yuck.During the course of this movie, we watch these idiots trudge through Europe on a tour, where they are treated like dirt and, in many cases, no-one (or barely anyone) shows up to their gigs. Still, they don’t get it. They leave their families for months on end and later beg and borrow to get funding for a 13th album, which they must sell on-line and out of their cars.
The best scene in the movie is when “Lips” Kudlow, in a bid to earn money to fund the album, works at the telemarketing firm of one of his superfans. We watch him fail miserably to telemarket sunglasses, as he unconvincingly tells someone on the phone that the sunglasses are the ones worn by Keanu Reeves in “The Matrix.” Yes, even “Anvil” superfan geeks have grown up and succeeded in the real world. But not “Anvil” band members, who just can’t get it together.
Most annoying part of this movie–and there are many such parts–when both Kudlow and Reiner tell us how their parents were Holocaust survivors.
They survived the camps and escaped the Nazi ovens so their kids could do this?! Hilarious. And ultimately, very sad.
While I hated these people, the documentary is a great case study in narcissistic losers who don’t grow up, even at age 56. And you gotta watch it that way to enjoy it. Memo to Anvil: Get a haircut. That is, the few hairs you have left.
ONE REAGAN

* “Earth“: While this movie is stunningly beautiful and very entertaining, my biggest beef with it is the same beef I have with every other movie about animals aimed at kids: parts of the narration (in this case, by James Earl Jones) are so annoyingly eco-frightening and meant to scare your kids, it disappointed me. Fortunately, of those movies, this one is the best and the eco-preachy messages in the movie aren’t as obtrusive and frequent as in “Under the Sea 3D” (read my review) and “Arctic Tale” (read my review).
This Disney flick follows a year in the lives of three families of animals–elephants, dolphins, and polar bears–along with assorted scenes of other animal and plant life. It’s fascinating and the imagery is unbelievable. It’s also interesting, too. While the brief environmental messages are there–the animals are always thirsty, hungry, and in desperate struggles to survive because of global warming, we are told–I still recommend this movie highly for your kids. It’s a wonderful portrayal of nature and wildlife and a great way to get kids interested in science and nature. You can explain to them that they should ignore the narrator’s brief hyperbolic interludes on impending disaster.
TWO REAGANS

* “The Soloist“: When will the uber-boring romanticization of the homeless end? I feel bad for those less fortunate, but as the main character in this movie illustrates, some of them are given all the opportunities in the world, but they are down and out anyway, by virtue of their own refusal to get it together.
Jamie Foxx plays a homeless, Juilliard-trained cellist discovered on the streets in L.A. by a Los Angeles Times columnist. It’s based on a true story profiled on “60 Minutes.” But that’s where it should have remained–as a boring 12-minute segment on a news show, instead of an extremely boring two-hour exercise in insomnia cure at the box office.
We’re treated over and over again to scenes of Jamie Foxx acting like a nutty, out-of-touch homeless guy refusing help when it is offered and any chance of making it back to the real world. Some of the scenes are so laughable, I thought it was a flashback to Foxx’s days on the comedy show, “In Living Color.” The arrogant, annoying reporter, Robert Downey, Jr., is equally boring. What’s the point of this movie? That homeless people are people, too? I already knew that. But this repetitive waste of time didn’t help their case. This movie was so fricking slow and boring I fell asleep twice and didn’t miss a thing. Dude, go back to playing Ray Charles.
Extremely skipworthy.
FOUR MARXES

* “The Informers“: Annoying, has-been novelist of ’80s “excess”-laden angst of the yuppies, Brett Easton Ellis, brings us more. As if we needed it. We didn’t. I already saw this same movie by the same author, back in the ’80s. It was called “Less Than Zero.” (This also copies much of “Bright Lights, Big City.”)
I think the purpose of this movie was to show us ’80s assymetrical hairstyles on men and scene after scene of topless sex orgies. Um, no thanks.
A group of over-privileged, spoiled Hollywood kids party, do drugs, and have bisexual orgies. One of them gets AIDS and dies. An English rock star barely gets to see his son who lives with his estranged wife. In the meantime, he has endless nights of sex with teen boys and girls. A Hollywood studio exec (Billy Bob Thornton) who is estranged from his wife (Kim Basinger) gets back together with her, while he pines for his TV reporter girlfriend (a very old-looking and hardly recognizable Winona Ryder). And a failed actor/doorman who was kidnapped as a kid is visited by his former captor who raised him, who has kidnapped another kid for sale to a pervert. The end.
A horrible, horrible, dreadful movie. Completely vile, disgusting, and pointless. And, oh yeah, there’s no plot. Semi-porn. And complete trash.
FOUR MARXES PLUS

By Debbie Schlussel
Last week, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) went to Nazi mass-murderer John Demjanjuk‘s suburban Cleveland home to arrest him for deportation, he was in a wheelchair moaning and feigning complete disorientation and frailty.
And because of this alleged “frailty,” Judges stayed Demjanjuk’s deportation and sent him home, after his son-in-law and other family members filed a motion in court claiming he was deathly ill and that the deportation trip to Germany would kill him. His eternal friend and supporter, the anti-Semite Pat Buchanan, wrote an entire column comparing this Nazi mass murderer to Jesus and calling him “this American Dreyfus.” Buchanan stressed Demjanjuk’s “gravely ill” condition.
But it was–just as we suspected–all an act, a complete fraud perpetrated on the U.S. justice system. And the entire John Demjanjuk family and, apparently, his lawyers, too, were in on it. In fact, the Justice Department released surveillance video taken by ICE agents of the “frail,” “wheelchair-bound” Demjanjuk on April 6th (just a week before ICE agents came to his home), Demjanjuk is shows walking around, laughing, and completely lucid–a far cry from the wheelchair-bound moaning body near death that he played for the cameras and gullible appellate court judges . . . and Pat Buchanan.
Watch the video of John Demjanjuk walking around and completely lucid on April 6th.

Now, watch this video of ICE trying to arrest and deport him, eight days later:

Congrats to the ICE agents who conducted the surveillance and got the video of the real, completely healthy Demjanjuk.
That Buchanan either fell for–or more likely, helped pimp–the fraud is no surprise. This kind of medical fakery on the government is old hat for SS officer Pat. The hawkish Buchanan is a draft dodger who got out of serving in the Vietnam War, after fraudulently claiming he had a bad knee. But, in fact, Buchanan, is an avid runner whose knee is just fine. (Ironically, Buchanan in one of his many anti-Semitic columns wrote that the men who fought in the Vietnam War were “kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzalez and Leroy Brown” and weren’t Jews. That’s false. In fact, many Jews fought and died in Vietnam, and my own father who was drafted during that war served proudly in the U.S. Army. But one person who neither died, nor fought, nor even ever served–because he gamed the system to get out of it–was named Patrick J. Buchanan.)
But even with this video, as I’ve noted before:

In the end, Demjanjuk has the last laugh. . . . [H]e is 89 and has lived a long life on U.S. soil, gaming the system for decades. His victims long ago incinerated, many of them at less than a quarter of the years he’s lived.

Decades past time to deport Demjanjuk. Deport him NOW!
RELATED: Read Boycott Watch/Fred Taub’s article, “The Nazi Who Cried Wolf.”

By Debbie Schlussel
Much has been made by anti-Semites, Israel haters, and, sadly, some conservatives, about the story that broke this week, alleging that Congresswoman Jane Harman was overheard in an NSA wiretap promising a quid pro quo involving helping two pro-Israel lobbyists under indictment.
But it’s interesting how they quickly took the bait of the Harman story without questioning why it’s coming out now at the time the trumped up charges against the two men are about to be dropped after being exposed as baseless and tenuous for two years.
I also find it incredibly interesting, since as I reported to you last week, the NSA planned to wiretap a Congressman who had contacts with an Islamic terrorists in the Mid-East. None of the conservatives concerned about Harman–Michelle Malkin, the squishy and confused Ed Morrissey (friend of Pan-Islamist Grover Norquist), and others–cared (or wrote) a lick about that story.

Congresswoman Jane Harman
And they didn’t seem to care about the double standard. While the NSA wanted to wiretap the Congressman who had contacts with a terrorist while in the Middle East, they nixed it because they thought it wouldn’t go over to wiretap a U.S. Congressman. How very interesting, then, that they had no such reservations when the Congressman was talking to suspected agents of Israel (rumored to be producer and billionaire Haim Saban–who is actually very left-wing on Israel, so hard to see how he’s an “Israeli agent”), our ally, instead of an Islamic terrorist bent on our destruction.

[I]n one previously undisclosed episode, the N.S.A. tried to wiretap a member of Congress without a warrant, an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The agency believed that the congressman, whose identity could not be determined, was in contact – as part of a Congressional delegation to the Middle East in 2005 or 2006 – with an extremist who had possible terrorist ties and was already under surveillance, the official said. The agency then sought to eavesdrop on the congressman’s conversations, the official said.
The official said the plan was ultimately blocked because of concerns from some intelligence officials about using the N.S.A., without court oversight, to spy on a member of Congress.

Yes, the NSA had court approval to wiretap Harman . . . because the NSA sought it. Why didn’t the NSA seek court approval on the pan-Islamist Member of Congress? Why the double standard?
And the targets of the Harman transcript release are interesting, too. The target isn’t just Harman. Keith Weissman and Steve Rosen–the two men under indictment, former employees of pro-Israel lobby AIPAC–were entrapped at the direction of David W. Szady, head of counterintelligence for the FBI from 2001 to 2006. Szady, well known as an Islamo-sympathizing, anti-Semitic FBI agent, was intent on exposing Israel in a negative light. He dreamed up the whole scheme, using Weissman and Rosen, to show “balance” to his Islamic world buddies–to show that America was not just going after them (as if America has gone after much of them at all). The FBI honcho also had a vendetta to settle because he was upset that Israel was cooperating with the NYPD in counterterrorism investigations that led to NYPD arrests of terrorist in New York–arrests that showed up the incompetent FBI and its floundering counterterrorism efforts.
But you won’t read anything about that in the writings of the conservative bloggers and others who gush over this story as a “gotcha Israel spies” item.
In fact, the trumped up “espionage” charges against Weissman and Rosen began to fall apart from almost the moment they started. The men showed Israeli contacts documents they and a pro-Israel counter-jihadist employee of the Pentagon were given about Iranian nuclear capabilities. The men were never told that they could not show them to third parties, and frankly, the documents contained information the U.S. government was required to show Israel, under mutual agreements between the two countries. The Pentagon employee, Lawrence Franklin, was also entrapped because he was one of the few in the Pentagon who actually got it on jihad and the Iranian threat, one of the few who was known to be pro-Israel. This was a “kill three birds with one stone” operation. A brilliant man with several graduate degrees and expertise on the Middle East, Franklin has been reduced to serving as a car parking valet at night.
And though the alleged transcript–which reports claim shows Harman promising to ask the Justice department for leniency for Rosen and Weissman–has yet to surface, reporters and bloggers are slobbering over the allegations, repeating them as fact.
In fact, Rosen and Weissman didn’t need Harman’s calls for “leniency.” They never committed espionage and even the federal judge on the case sees it as a frame-up job. The judge has asked the Justice Department why the case should continue, and there is every indication the Department will soon drop this witch-hunt. The release of this transcript from two years ago was done deliberately to hurt Rosen and Weissman and their chance at a chance at real justice after two years of persecution. There is no evidence that Harman ever followed through on helping their case or ever contacted the Justice Department on their behalf. But the release of the transcript was designed to put them (and Israel) forever under suspicion that the charges in their case were not dropped because they are baseless but because of bribery of a U.S. Congresswoman.
That’s not to mention the fact that Jane Harman was far more hawkish than most Democrats, a reason Nancy Pelosi didn’t pick her for Intelligence Committee Chairman. Harman supported the NSA wiretaps. She was hawkish against Islamofascism. And she strongly supported Israel. But why should conservative bloggers who claim to support these things care, when they can easily savage this Democrat and Israel a spying, bribing enemy in one fell swoop?
Is it too much to ask for a little critical thinking in this matter? Apparently it is. Because those who deign themselves to be reasonable, critical thinkers and spokespeople for the right did absolutely no critical thinking–in fact, no thought at all–as they jumped on the Harman allegations and trumpeted them around.
AHA! Gotcha, Israel. Gotcha, Democrat Jane Harman. No biggie that Harman was one of the biggest national security hawks on the Democrat side of the aisle. Some–too many–on the right refuse to look at even the boldest nuance as they wish to paint the broad brush against every single Democrat, no matter how trumped up and baiting the story is.
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Read Wall Street Journal writer Dorothy Rabinowitz’s “First They Came for the Jews: A Prosecution Under the Espionage Act Threatens the First Amendment.”

By Debbie Schlussel
As longtime readers know, in the past several years, I’ve gotten a lot of death threats, ALL of them from Muslim residents of the United States a/k/a the “moderate” ones. Three of the four have been prosecuted, but the Justice Department refuses to pursue the most scary and frequent of the death threat perpetrators (Lola Elzein, who contacted me six times with escalating threats of rape, torture, and death to myself and my family members).
But yesterday, I got a not-so-veiled threat from a man named Chad Castagana, who is on the right . . . the far, far, nutty right. He was, in the past, an alleged frequent commenter on Free Republic under a fake name (not to say Freepers are like him, most are not), and he has a far-right blog.
Mr. Castagana was upset that I wrote about Pat Buchanan’s history of anti-Semitism and his latest–a column on how the Jews (he says) killed Christ, and now they are “killing” Nazi mass-murderer John Demjanjuk–and how Sean Hannity continues to promote Buchanan’s anti-Semitic screeds, including a pro-Hitler book.

Mr. Castagana told me that if I continued to write about Buchanan’s anti-Semitism and his alliance with Sean Hannity, that I would end up like Irv Rubin, the now-deceased head of the Jewish Defense League (JDL). Mr. Rubin was mysteriously assassinated in federal prison while he was awaiting trial. Here is an excerpt of his e-mail, from which I’ve redacted his pro-Buchanan/Hannity vitriol:

From: Chad Castagana zopix2@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Subject: Sean Hannity an antiSemite ? You’ve got to be kidding!
To: Debbie Schlussel
. . . . Remember what happned [sic] to JDL founder Irv Rubin?
I offer that not as a comparason, but as an example where . . . views can take an individual. . . .
C.

Castagana’s e-mail became all the more frightening after I googled him and learned that he has already been convicted in federal court of anthrax hoax threats–he sent envelopes containing soap powder to Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”, talk show host David Letterman, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, Democrats Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. Since this nut, Castagana, is now on probation (he was ordered to get psychiatric help) and believes I’m somehow a liberal because I’ve written about Pat Buchanan’s well documented anti-Semitism and his well-documented promotion by Sean Hannity, I certainly hope I won’t be the victim of a similar crime by this loon.
It’s no coincidence that each of those who sent me death threats are anti-Semites and that the one on the far right–the only non-Muslim–is a Pat Buchanan/Sean Hannity fan. There is a lot in common with Pat Buchanan’s followers and extremist Muslims. They all hate Jews and Israel.
I’ve already contacted the FBI about Castagana’s e-mail, which I take very seriously.