By Debbie Schlussel

I can only recommend one of the two new movies in theaters, this weekend. Hint: it’s not the one glamorizing sex slavery and physical abuse of women. Many readers have asked where my movie reviews from last weekend are. I had many issues with this website last week. The site ate my reviews and I had to start over, and by the time I did, it was time for the Jewish Sabbath. So I’ll try to post those later today. Stay tuned. In the meantime, there are these new ones:

* “Fifty Shades of Grey“: It’s hard to take seriously the NFL’s claimed opposition to domestic abuse against women, especially since the League approved ads which ran during the Super Bowl promoting this lame, boring two-hour excuse for promotion of sex slavery and domestic violence. This painful-to-watch movie pimped women on this idea for two hours: ugly, mousy women can nab billionaires and live the good life . . . if they only submit to being hit, handcuffed, tortured, and treated like animals. Hey, it worked for Melanie Griffith’s and Don Johnson’s unattractive daughter, Dakota Johnson, who plays Anastasia Steele, the naive idiot who stars in this movie and accepts being tortured. Heck, she’s “empowering” herself by negotiating what objects she agrees can and will be inserted into and clamped on to her. Yay, Grrrlpower! My favorite line amidst the equally dumb dialogue throughout: “Um, what’s a butt plug?” Yup, welcome to American “culture” in the Kartrashian Age. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

So, liberal, elitist, anti-American, anti-Israel, self-hating Jew and professional propagandist Bob Simon is dead. No tears from me. He lied about Israel, he lied in favor of the Palestinians, and his lies cost American lives in Vietnam. If this is “great journalism”–and the conventional mainstream media wisdom is that it is–then we have yet more confirmation that “great journalism” is lying-through-your-teeth propaganda pimping leftist garbage. And we knew that already.

It’s fitting that Bob Simon died yesterday in a car accident in his regularly-chauffer-driven Lincoln town car. This limousine liberal was driven around like royalty because he made a career of spitting on the graves of U.S. servicemen and Israeli Jews, most of whom could never dream of living his hifalutin, luxe, holier-than-thou Manhattan lifestyle. It’s hardly news that Simon died because he refused to put on a seat belt. His was a life of arrogance. Arrogantly lying on TV news, and too arrogant to wear a safety harness in an automobile. Because nothing had ever happened to him as a result of his conduct and behavior. And he believed nothing ever would. He thought that his open contempt for Jews and Israel made him “better” than everyone else. But if this were 1940’s Auschwitz, this condescending asshole would be sent the ovens just like everyone else–including the millions of fellow co-religionists he very clearly hated.

Simon’s so-called “reporting” consisted of lying about American boys on the front lines in Vietnam, lying about Israeli soldiers trying to protect their country, lying about an Israeli fence built to try to keep Islamic terrorists out of Israel so it would be harder for them to bomb coffee and pizza shops, bars, synagogues, and Passover Seders. Even in one of his few mildly decent reports, about persecuted Christians in the Middle East, Simon still took the opportunity to attack Israel, the one place in the region where Christians are actually safe. I would link to some of these “stories” as evidence, but I don’t want to lend the lies any credence. Search “YouTube” for Bob Simon and Israel and you’ll see. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

No tears for the newly-departed Kayla Mueller, the ISIS hostage whose parents confirmed today that she is dead. Mueller was a Jew-hating, anti-Israel piece of crap who worked with HAMAS and helped Palestinians harass Israeli soldiers and block them from doing their job of keeping Islamic terrorists out of Israel. She also worked to prevent Israel from tearing down terrorists’ “houses,” which the Palestinian terrorists used to smuggle weapons from and to HAMAS in order to perpetrate terrorist attacks. And she wrote several lying, anti-Israel blog posts.

As I noted last week and many other times on this site, I have no sympathy for any of these “American” (in name only!) hostages of ISIS. And my attitude when I hear they’ve been snuffed out is, so sad, too bad. Every single one of these hostages has been a leftist America-hater. They are anti-American “journalists” there to tell us how “moderate” and “democratic” these beheaders and live-human-burners are. Or they are anti-American “aid workers” (that’s like the Middle East version of Barack Obama’s “community organizer”).

This latter category describes Kayla Mueller, who went to Israel and the so-called “West Bank” and Gaza to help HAMASnik Jew-haters. From the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a terrorist group that aided and abetted Al-Qaeda, HAMAS, Islamic Jihad, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorists (including two British Muslims who blew up “Mike’s Bar” in Tel Aviv):

Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the popular committee in the village of Bil’in where Kayla joined the protests, told ISM: “Kayla came to Palestine to stand in solidarity with us. She marched with us and faced the military that occupies our land side by side with us. For this, Kayla will always live in our hearts. We send all our support to her family and will continue, like Kayla, to work against injustice wherever it is.” . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

What’s atop the list of the top 10 best-selling books in America for the last decade? You can probably guess. And it says a lot about how low this country has sunk, culturally and otherwise. We’re a nation of lowlifes and vapidiots. (At least, the women are.) But you knew that.

As you probably also know, earlier this week, author Harper Lee announced that she was releasing her first new book in more than a half-century. In an article about it, the Wall Street Journal published this list, below, of the top 10 best-selling adult fiction novels for the last 11 years. Atop the list was the poorly-written, incredibly stupid, torture sex “novel,” “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Even worse, the two sequels to that book are respectively Numbers Five and Six on the list. Lee’s well-known “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Number Nine on the list.

The list spans from the week ending January 4, 2004 through the week ending January 25, 2015, so it covers just over 11 years. It was compiled from Nielsen’s BookScan’s U.S. Consumer Market Panel. If you look at the list, it might seem inaccurate. For instance, the Fifty Shades books sold a total of 45 million in the United States (and more than 100 million worldwide, including the U.S.). But the list has the total at 15.7 million copies. That’s because this list doesn’t include e-books, and it covers about 85% of the print book market, not the entire market. (The Fifty Shades books were only available as e-books at first and for a long time. They thought women would be embarrassed to be seen reading the trash. No, that’s not today’s America. They have no shame.) Still, it’s a pretty strong indicator of what most Americans are reading in the fiction market and how dumbed-down, depraved and warped they are. Or, rather, how dumbed-down, depraved, and warped American women are. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

There are a lot of great comments on Twitter about Brian Williams’ big lie, er . . . “misremembering” (as he puts it) about being shot down in a helicopter in combat. Most of them are under the hashtag #BrianWilliamsMisRemembers.

Here are some of my tweets (follow me on Twitter) about it. . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

News You Can Trust.

You have to wonder how on earth Brian Williams still has a job in “journalism,” let alone THE job as anchor of “NBC Nightly News.” He didn’t “misremember” the false story he’s been passing off as truth about being in a helicopter that was shot down. He just flat out lied. He lied and he lied and he lied. And he embellished. So did two people on “the right” who are frequently on FOX News, and you’ll read more about them, below.

To take the temperature of what a big deal this is, #BrianWilliamsMisremembers has been among the top Twitter hashtags in the United States since last night. (I’ll post some of my tweets about it a little later (follow me on Twitter).) NBC should have immediately fired Williams. But the network not only didn’t fire him, they’ve kept him in his anchor seat. This is a man for whom the network regularly runs commercials (complete with voice-overs from his Hollywood pal, Michael Douglas) declaring that Williams is a man we can trust, that he’s accurate, etc. PUH-LEEZE. I never believed that crap. In fact, the only thing I believed on NBC News were the endless biased, incestuous stories about how Williams’ daughter Allison got the job in NBC’s live broadcast of “Peter Pan” all because of her incredible talent. Oh, wait, I don’t think I bought that story, either.

But, now, Williams has been caught in a big lie–a lie he told more than once on the air, on the newscast. A lie that he kept embellishing ever more each time he told it, including on “Late Night With David Letterman.” The guy should resign. Or, better yet, NBC News should fire him. Immediately.

But Williams isn’t the only one. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Jordan’s King Abdullah needs to take a page out of his late father’s playbook. He needs to repeat Black September, the 1970 massacre King Hussein led against Palestinians–most of whom supported the PLO. The ISIS crisis has its roots in that portion of the Palestinian rebellion that his father failed to snuff out. But the son simply doesn’t have the guts or the resolve of his father.

So, this morning in Jordan, two Al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists were executed in response to the brutal, savage murder of Jordanian pilot Moaz Al-Kasasbeh by ISIS, in which he was burned alive. But two executions is not enough. That’s hardly the “earth-shaking response” King Abdullah promised yesterday. Nor is the total six executions Abdullah has reportedly ordered. Yes, the Jordanian King is said to have quoted Clint Eastwood’s character in “Unforgiven,” yesterday, while meeting with Members of the U.S. Congress. Reportedly, the King said, “Any man I see out there, I’m gonna kill him. Any son of a bitch takes a shot at me, I’m not only going to kill him, I’m going to kill his wife and all his friends and burn his damn house down.” But talk is cheap. Action–and it needs to be the action on the scale of Black September–is what sends a message. And it’s a message only Arab Muslim leaders can undertake because anyone else in the world who legitimately performs the task will be accused of “genocide.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

**** UPDATE, 02/04/15: Too Bad Jordan’s King Abdullah Won’t Send ISIS a Black September; ISIS Ties to Palestinian Rebellion ****

How should Jordan respond to the barbaric ISIS murder of a captured Jordanian pilot it was holding hostage?

Did you watch the video of the Barbaric ISIS murder of First Lt. Moaz Al-Kasasbeh, in which ISIS doused him with gasoline and burned him alive in a cage, then dumped construction rubble on top of him? I can’t and won’t watch because I would have nightmares for years. But I just heard Shepard Smith describe the video in great detail on FOX News on XM (I don’t have cable but the loaner car I’m using has satellite). It was bad enough just imagining it from Smith’s graphic description. Remember . . .

THIS. IS. ISLAM. It has always been Islam. It will always be Islam. These baloney calls for reform by Western leaders are ridiculous. The way you reform Islam from within is you leave it. The way you reform it from without is you destroy it. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

If you’re not following me on Twitter (why not? follow me on Twitter), then you missed these tweets I posted last night during the Super Bowl.

First of all, I thought it was entirely inappropriate that the NFL let Katy Perry sing, “I Kissed a Girl” during halftime, forcing parents to explain this to young kids who were watching. This is part of the NFL’s efforts to pimp the whole gay/lesbian thing as part of its “diversity” drive, including its non-stop drooling over hack, never-been Michael Sam. I’m a libertarian on that, but don’t shove it in people’s faces (and their kids’ faces). By the way, for those of you still foolish enough to believe that airhead bim Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a conservative, when she was still a co-host on “The View,” she gushed over Katy Perry and that song (which is the one that jump-started Perry’s career). I suppose that song is tame, compared to her other song, “You’re So Gay,” which includes lyrics about “j-cking off.”

So here are some of my tweets posted last night . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

In the wake of the continuing decline of McDonald’s and the news, last week, that the restaurant was dumping its CEO, I thought it was time to pull out this article I’d been saving since last year. The Republicans should listen to this expert advice on McDonald’s. At least some of it.

Back on Christmas Eve, I was at a Detroit-area shopping mall doing some research for a project I’ll let you know about at some point in the future. I took a break at one of the mall’s coffee hangouts, and took out the day’s print edition of the Wall Street Journal. And I noticed an article in which the Journal solicited business experts to give advice to McDonald’s on how to stem its decline. Even though I don’t eat at McDonald’s (because it isn’t kosher–except in Israel), I’ve been following the chain’s successes and stories for years, especially since it came under attack from leftist nutjob Morgan Spurlock in “Supersize Me.” It’s one of the great American companies. And I read a lot of articles about businesses and restaurants that I don’t patronize. As I read the experts’ advice in the WSJ, I thought, “Hmmmm . . . this is great advice for the GOP, which tries to be everything that it thinks the liberals and America’s changing population demands.” I particularly thought of the push for illegal alien amnesty to allegedly please Hispanic voters and the emphasis on giving up opposition to affirmative action and abortion to please, respectively, minorities and women. So, last week, when it was announced that Don Thompson was fired as McDonald’s CEO, I thought it was time to bring out the article and the experts’ advice.

I also, by the way, would be remiss if I didn’t notice the parallels between Micky D’s ousted chief, Thompson, and the former RNC Chair, Michael Steele. Thompson is Black and many say he got his job because of affirmative action, which may be why he failed miserably. Before his promotion to the top, McDonald’s was kicking butt in both profits and stock prices. And under him, both of these (as well as same-store sales year over year) declined. It reminded me of Steele, appointed Republican National Committee Chairman mostly for his dark skin tone. His incompetence didn’t help the GOP, and he tried to reach out to low-life rappers like Jay-Z and rap impresario (and enabler of Jew-haters) Russell Simmons to get Black GOP voters. Did that help? Nope. But it made the GOP like something it’s not: the DNC. Now, Steele, long since deposed, is defending Muslims and their extremism, touting the BS that Islamic terrorists are just a few people, rather than the heroes of over a billion.

(And while a number of McDonald’s franchisees complained that it takes too long to be fast and efficient with so many menu choices–clogged by “healthy” options which nobody buys–Thompson suggested “resolving” that with allowing customers to customize sandwich toppings, likely making service even slower.)

And, so, the parallels between McDonald’s and the advice it was given over a month ago in the Journal and the route that the GOP should take, are stark:

Larry Light, CEO of management-consulting company Arcature and former McDonald’s chief marketing officer:

. . . . In the short term, the first priority is to love the customers you have. I am concerned that the McDonald’s strategy seems to be more focused on customers they would love to have. Attracting new customers is an imperative, but keeping current customers is the base upon which customer attraction yields incremental growth. Protecting the base is about never sacrificing the core principles that made the brand successful, and one of those in fast food is speed. At Five Guys if you order a customized burger you have to stand around and wait for it. McDonald’s core customer wants fast service. McDonald’s has lost trust and trust is a multiplier, so if trust is zero, it doesn’t matter what else they do. Read the rest of this entry »