By Debbie Schlussel
Remember these two drug-addled citizens of Greater Hirsutia and their famous advertisement for bed sores, AIDS, and how to help Communism succeed in its tyranny? They called it a “Peace Bed-In.”
Well, homely actress Maggie Gyllenhaal–who famously told us that America is to blame for 9/11 and that we deserved it–is teaming up with “peace activists” (I call them, “the capitulation team”) and Ben & Jerry’s at the ice cream company’s New York to re-create the John Lennon and Yoko Ono Peace Bed-In of 1969.

Hair Peace, Bed Peace in Our Time, But NO World Peace:
John Lennon & Yoko Ono @ “Bed-In”
Joining Ms. Gyllenhaal will be photographer Roy Kerwood, who shot the original protest. They will be honoring today’s “leaders” of the peace movement, including Robert Kent, who runs a moral equivalency camp for the kids of Israelis and the Palestinian terrorism supporters who would destroy them. All together now: Awww.
And in another example of the capitalism multi-millionaires Lennon and Ono pretended to be against, Ben & Jerry’s is unveiling a new Lennon tribute ice cream, “Imagine Whirled Peace,”–caramel and sweet cream ice cream, fudge peace signs, and toffee cookie pieces.
What kind of mix-in will symbolize all the diseases John and Yoko got in their free love lifestyle?
And when will they produce the ice cream flavor about how nukes brought down the Soviet Union and communism, because we–thankfully–didn’t listen to John and Yoko?
Oh, and where is the ice cream tribute to the first wife and son (Julian) whom John Lennon cast aside for Yoko? Talk about “Whirled Peace”.
The whole thing is part of Ben & Jerry’s promotion of the Lennon Estate and Peace One Day, a nonprofit group whose goal is to have a global ceasefire every Sept. 21.
Hmmm . . . maybe they should have a “HAMAS Caramel Chaos” flavor. I’m sure–in exchange for a slice of the profits–the group will agree to a “hudna”–a ceasefire–on Sept. 21, while they plan their next terrorist attack. (Check out my other suggested “Peaceful” Islamic Ben & Jerry’s flavor names.)
As I’ve noted in the past, Ben & Jerry’s paid for Cindy Sheehan’s world tour, peppered with anti-Semitic and anti-American sentiment.
Very un-delish.

By Debbie Schlussel
Recently, Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs broke the story of how Rachael Ray wore a keffiyeh–the jihadist’s fave accessory–in a Dunkin’ Donuts online ad. As a result of the uproar in the blogosphere, Dunkin’ Donuts apologized, saying it was a stylist’s mistake and that the ad would no longer run. Pam should be very proud of her excellent work. But, per usual, the fraud Michelle Malkin appropriated it as her own work.

I’ve written a lot about the keffiyeh and why it is offensive, violent garb, including a recent February column on First Daughter wanna-be Meghan McCain’s engagement in that “fashion” offense. The message in that column is not just for Juniorette McCain, but for all of the celebs and pop culturists who adorn themselves with the scarf of death. Because neither Rachael Ray, nor the Dunkin’ stylist, nor many others get it, and because several portions of that column have been appropriated (without credit) and repackaged by Michelle Malkin in the wake of the Dunkin’ controversy, I’m reprinting my February 25, 2008 column, “Fashion Tips by Meghan McCain: The Garb of Jihad,” below. As I wrote then (and Malkin has now reconstituted my statements, presenting them as her own original thoughts), it’s not just a scarf, just as a white hood is not just a hood.
*** February 25, 2008
Fashion Tips by Meghan McCain: The Garb of Jihad
By Debbie Schlussel
Almost two months ago, NBC Nightly News ran a silly story about the Presidential candidates’ daughters. The female offspring of John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, and John McCain were interviewed by former “Entertainment Tonight” reporter Maria Menounos.
All of the daughters sounded polished, well-coached by campaign superiors, and professional. All, that is, except Meghan McCain, the bleach-blonde daughter of John McCain. While Huckabee’s and Edwards’ daughters spoke of their pride in their fathers and their enthusiasm on the campaign trail, Meghan McCain whined about criticism she faced over her make-up and fashion tips on her campaign blog. She said that it’s important to be a girl and that her tips were good ones. Judging from the gobs of make-up she wears, that’s debatable.
And judging by her latest choice in fashions, it’s beyond debatable. The case is closed. Liberal site Gawker reports (and shows pics, posted below) of Meghan McCain’s jihadist choice of accessories. She’s taken to sporting a keffiyeh, the Arabic male headscarf around her neck.

Although throughout Mid-East history Jews and Christians have also at times sported that scarf, that’s no longer the case. In the Hebrew picture book, “Ani Kurdi [I Am a Kurd]” (part of my late father’s book collection), there are many charming photos of Kurdish Jews (who later emigrated to Israel), wearing keffiyehs. But even as they wore those, others who wore them oppressed them and their fellow Kurds. They gave up that “accessory” of oppression as they were thrown out of Iraq by Saddam Hussein and made a new life in Israel. But their oppressors continue to wear it as part of the uniform of terror.
The keffiyeh has become the symbol of jihad, and it’s no coincidence that in many beheading videos or other fierce displays of Islamic murder and violence, the warriors hide behind the keffiyeh. This isn’t “just clothing.” Wearing a keffiyeh is really no different than sporting a swastika or a white hood. The media would have a fit if a prospective First daughter wore those.
It’s a disgusting display that Ms. McCain would sport this garb of torture and murder and death and inhumanity. She shouldn’t be giving out fashion tips, when it’s quite clear she needs some, herself. Either she is extremely ignorant or she is deliberately donning this (less likely of the two). Either way, it’s disturbing. And it’s a far cry from even the partying, drunken Bush twins. Meghan McCain says on her site that she worked for Newsweek and “Saturday Night Live.” So she doesn’t know what news or humor is. But this fully grown adult should know better than to don a keffiyeh.
Even from a fashion perspective, these jihadi keffiyeh scarves are out. They were in in the mid-to-late ’80s, when I was in college. Since then, they’re really only worn by drug users, homeless people, and other parties who still wear acid-washed jeans. Although stores like “Urban Outfitters” and magazines like the now-defunct “JANE” have tried to push the keffiyehs as a rebounding trend, they’re still not in. And they’re not in despite the fact that a few misguided male foreign celebs have donned them, including–on several occasions!–Colin Farrell.
Again, the keffiyeh is the garb of death and destruction and emptiness. And that’s never hip.
Meghan McCain . . . badly in need of a fashion makeover. The Islamic Terror Scarf . . . badly in need of torching, along with everything it has come to represent.

Fatah Terrorist, HAMAS Terrorists in Meghan McCain’s Jihad Scarf

By Debbie Schlussel
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When he’s not saying a whole lotta nothin’, Barack Hussein Obama is usually making stuff up, changing his story, or engaging in some other sort of lying.
That’s why I’m skeptical–along with many readers–of Obama’s Memorial Day comments yesterday about an uncle who allegedly liberated Auschwitz:

“In World War Two we didn’t have the concept of post traumatic stress syndrome. People had to basically handle it on their own,” he said. Referring to an uncle who had been one of the first U.S. troops into Auschwitz, the concentration camp, Obama said: “The story in the family is he came home and just went up in the attic.”

Bill Warner sends this photo of Auschwitz Liberation . . .

Which One of These is Obama’s Uncle?
Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on January 27, 1945.
Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydow Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 538.
After all the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic stuff he and his advisors and cronies have uttered and engaged in, what better way to try to get back some of that “stubborn” Jewish vote he’s squandered, than to suddenly conjure up an uncle who liberated Jews from the Nazis?
And it seems to have worked with at least one (and actually the majority) of my gullible fellow co-religionists:

Afterward, Paul Weinbaum, 66, beamed his approval of a candidate who had captured both his frustrations and his desire.
“There is hope for America,” he said. “The sincerity comes through.”
He wore a straw cowboy hat, a Star of David necklace and, on his lapel, the crossed rifles of an infantryman, which took some explaining. Weinbaum served in the Navy during Vietnam, but after the war emerged into an economy that could not give him civilian work. “I got out of the Navy, went to college: No jobs. So I joined the Army.”

We’ve never heard of this unnamed, anonymous, allegedly Auschwitz-liberating uncle before. So, it’s odd, he suddenly “remembered” this person (if the person even exists).
Either way–imaginary uncle or not–no Jew, no American should vote for a guy based on whether his uncle saved Jews now mostly dead or dying from Nazis now mostly dead or dying, when Obama, himself, comiserates with and wants to appease the new Nazis of Islam around the world, including Der Fuhrer Ahmadinejad.
Who cares if your relatives liberated people, when you want to break pita with the modern incarnations of their murderers and tormentors?
Oh, by the way, did you hear? Michelle Hussein Obama’s aunt was in the Haganah.
**** UPDATE: Reader Craig writes:

Umm, Deb, Auschwitz is in POLAND and was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in Jan or Feb of 1945 . . . . Was his uncle in the Red Army?

Yes, and his aunt had an office in the Kremlin. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
**** UPDATE #2: FOX News reports this as being Obama’s exact quote–surely a lie:

I had a [sic] uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps and the story in our family is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he did’t leave the house for six months, right. Now obviously something had really affected him deeply but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain.

By Debbie Schlussel
The entire entertainment world is abuzz with news of the death of director/producer/actor Sydney Pollack at the age of 73 from cancer.
Frankly, he was a highly over-rated director. He did some good films, like “The Firm,” “Tootsie,” and “Three Days of the Condor,” and some okay films, like the highly-overrated, pan-Communist, “The Way We Were,” and the annoying, “Out of Africa.” But his real star turn was in front of the camera, in his co-starring role as Dustin Hoffman’s agent in “Tootsie,” in his best scene ever–below. And a lot of his movies were dreck, chick flick stock, and standard left-wing pap. I like the other Sidney–Sidney Lumet–far better.

In the dreck/left-wing pap category, foremost in my mind is “The Interpreter,” which Pollack executive produced and directed, and from which he whitewashed all references to Islam. As I wrote in my review of the movie, when it was originally written the script was about the plot of Arab Muslim terrorists to murder thte leader of their country at the U.N. But the whole thing was changed to Black Africans with AIDS who try to murder their leader (but, hey, no racism, right?) in order to not offend Muslims. The movie stank anyway, but stank far more with the stench of Pollack’s PC machinations.
Pollack’s last role was in the awful “Made of Honor,” currently in theaters. But like I said, his best role–his best scene–is the one above from “Tootsie.”

By Debbie Schlussel
This week, I’ll be screening “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” the Adam Sandler Mossad-agent-versus-Palestinian-terrorists comedy about which I’ve been writing on this site and to which I’ve been looking forward.
But an interview with “Zohan” co-star Emmanuelle Chriqui in the June edition of Women’s Health magazine sounds like the moral message of this movie might be what I originally feared: the Rodney King, “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” BS. Diners at Jerusalem’s Sbarro Pizza, patrons at Tel Aviv’s Mike’s Bar and the Dolfinarium Disco, those trying to celebrate Passover at Netanya’s Park Hotel–all of them . . . well, the ones who are still alive, know that we cannot all just get along.

Beautiful Airhead Emmanuelle Chriqui Clueless on Mid-East
But Chriqui, a (tattooed) Jew of Moroccan descent who was raised in Montreal, plays Sandler’s love interest–a kindly Palestinian woman who gives the Jewish former Israeli Mossad agent his first job as a hairdresser in New York. Aww, Peace in the Middle . . . Manhattan.
And Chriqui doesn’t have a clue. She describes her Israeli Moroccan relatives’ support for their country and recounting of the anti-Semitic persecution they endured even in “moderate” Morocco, as “the other side”:

I have relatives in Israel. When I was growing up, all I ever heard about was “the other side,” and it was mostly negative.

Hmmm . . . how much of “the other side” would she hear in an Arab or Muslim country?
Guess what, Emanuelle? Rape, torture, murder, and property confiscation–the general scheme of Arab Muslim treatment of the Jews in Arab countries–usually isn’t “positive.” It’s generally “mostly negative.” Ditto for the experience of being one of the million Jews kicked out of Arab Muslim nations since Israel became a state. Newsflash, Emanuelle: That’s mostly negative.
Chriqui continues with her clueless, misguided hippie, peacenik outlook:

Through this comedy, you get to see our similarities as well as our difference–but how we can live together, too. We’re actors showing how the world should be, but it’s still real. We had both Palestinians and Isrealis on the set.

Um, no. A movie set is not real.
Israelis and Jews do want peace, but those of us who are realists know we’ll never get it . . . especially not through a Hollywood set and a silly comedy, while a billion plus of our real-life enemies want to eliminate us and complete what Hitler started.
Like I said, tell it–“how we can live together”–to diners at Jerusalem’s Sbarro Pizza, patrons at Tel Aviv’s Mike’s Bar and the Dolfinarium Disco, those trying to celebrate Passover at Netanya’s Park Hotel–all of them . . . well, the ones who are still alive.
This is not even Isreal, and I can’t exist here without getting Muslim death, beheading, rape, and torture threats from my Muslim “neighbors” Lola Elzein, Mohammad Fouad Abdallah, Robert Mustaq John, and Wasil Burki.
Israel is not a Hollywood set. It is a tiny island of civility, humanity, brainpower, innovation, and courage amidst several continents and nations comprising Greater Barbaria. It’s hardly the same thing as surviving along with fellow ditzes with make-up artists, fancy wardrobing, and giant, unmerited paychecks, and chai lattes amidst palm trees.
So sad that even actors in a comedy about Israeli agents fighting terrorists, don’t get it. Even sadder when the utterer of such stupidity is a descendant of a family which saw that life as Jews in the Arab Muslim world was hardly like the good life in Burbank and Malibu.
Memo to Emmanuelle Chriqui: Shut Up and Act!
Looking forward to this “Zohan” movie less and less.

By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE: Read this related New York Times piece about “Border Agents, Lured by the Other Side” And don’t forget what didn’t happen to Daphiney Caganap. ****
I hate to give a plug to anything on PBS a/k/a “Palestinian Broadcasting System,” given that I’d increase its ratings from the two 73-year-old cat ladies who watch it.
But tonight, PBS will air a “Frontline” special about crimes at the Mexican border and corrupt Customs and Border Protection agents. Here’s a preview–and yes, the part with Mozambique songs about eco-toilets is for real; and they wonder why no-one watches PBS:

Other video from tonight’s show:
A Smuggler Tells How Easy it is for Aliens to Cross Into America . . .

ICE Video of Alien “Load House” . . .

On a related note, San Diego area Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents just rounded up 905 illegal aliens. And guess what? It didn’t cost $10 million dollars, the amount spent by ICE to arrest 306 illegal aliens in Iowa.
Well, if it didn’t cost millions and they didn’t rent out a giant cattle exhibition center and fly in a thousand agents from all over the country, then I guess it’s not important.

By Debbie Schlussel
Check out these images from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, taken while and after it landed on the planet, Monday.
Press reports say it spent the first full day, Memorial Day, checking instruments in preparation for a digging mission to study whether the Martian arctic plains could have once been habitable (and perhaps whether it could be in the future).

BTW, President Jack Nicholson tried to appease Martians as badly as President Bush has tried over 7.5 years to appease the Muslims who hate us. And look what happened:

By Debbie Schlussel
More waste over at Michael “Serpenthead/Mr. Burns” Chertoff’s Department of Homeland (Non)Security.
While America’s economy is sputtering, our precious DHS has chosen to spurn Americans and pay four times as much to import bomb-sniffing dogs from Europe. Because we need to subsidize the European economy. Buy American? No way, at DHS:

The government imports hundreds of untrained bomb- and drug-sniffing dogs from Europe each year for as much as $4,535 apiece, four times the price charged by American breeders, says a federal report out [Friday].

Who’s Your Doggie?: DHS’ Luxury European K-9s
Cost 4 Times More than American K-9s

The high canine price tags are prompting outrage from congressional and government spending critics and U.S. breeders, who say taxpayer money is being wasted.
“What kind of dogs are these – gold-plated?” asked Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste.
The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general (IG) found that the Customs and Border Protection division spent $1.46 million on 322 untrained dogs between April 2006 and June 2007. CBP has more than 1,000 trained dogs working at the nation’s borders, airports and seaports, and the number is expected to grow.
The report called the figure “reasonable” and “comparable” to what other government agencies pay. The Secret Service, which has 75 dogs, pays an average of $4,533 for its dogs. The Department of Defense, which gets a discount because it buys more dogs than other agencies, pays between $3,300 and $3,800 per dog, the IG found.

HUH? Two wrongs make a right? They’re all wasting money. Just because one agency or more are wasting money abroad when they could “Buy American” at 1/4th the price, doesn’t mean it’s “reasonable.” It isn’t.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., called it “irresponsible” that the government is spending so much, even before it pays $15,000 per canine team for 13 to 15 weeks of training.
A typical purebred in the USA sells for about $1,200. . . . “Using canines . . . is smart security,” Thompson says. But “paying $4,000 for an untrained European canine seems excessive, a waste of taxpayer money and does not support the breeders we have right here at home.”
Lee Titus, director of CBP’s Canine Enforcement Training Center in Front Royal, Va., where the dogs are trained, said 90% of the dogs come from overseas because Europe has a long history of breeding dogs with the proper temperament for security duties. U.S. breeders, he says, breed mostly “pretty” show dogs or pets.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the “bloodlines from Europe make the dogs very desirable for us.”
The government, which puts its requests for dogs out for competitive bidding, buys Belgian Malinoises, Labradors and shepherds.
Michelle Denson, who breeds Belgian Malinois dogs in Ocala, Fla., says her dogs are no different from European dogs. She says she has sold some to police departments for $1,000. “There’s plenty of American breeders who breed these kinds of dogs,” she says, “and they don’t charge this exorbitant amount of money.”

Hmmm . . . police departments all over America buy and train drug-sniffing dogs from American breeders. And they seem to work just fine for these real, actual street cops.
Sorry, but I don’t buy this “European breeding” BS from the snobby, money-wasting suits atop DHS. It’s just another excuse to live the high life and enjoy the finest at taxpayer expense. Just because dogs were bred on a continent where no-one uses deoderant, shaves their armpits, or takes a shower more than once a week, doesn’t mean they can sniff things any better.
Blue-blood dogs–You’re paying through the nose for them. Your tax dollars “at work.”
But . . . ah, next time a bomb or arms gets through Customs, we can blame Europe.

By Debbie Schlussel
When people ask me why I attack fraudulent “conservatives” almost as much as I attack liberals, Los Angeles-based “conservative” radio talk show host Kevin James is Exhibit A. A fricking idiot, if I ever saw one.
This guy is a complete ignoramus, a Sean Hannity in the making. He is so clueless that he made for great-but-painful television on MSNBC recently. For the record, I don’t like Chris Matthews and never have, but in this video where he nails James, he’s 100% on target. Kevin James–who is clueless about Neville Chamberlain’s famous handover of the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslavakia) to Hitler in exchange for “peace”–is a complete moron, an empty vessel of hot air, and an example of how only idiots and airheads who pretend to be conservatives are the ones getting talk shows, today.

If you have any intelligence, you won’t get a show (but for the brilliant Rush Limbaugh, Sirius’ Mike Church, San Francisco’s Lee Rodgers, Oklahoma’s Pat Campbell, and a very scant few other exceptions). You have to be a know-nothing, like James or “The View’s” Elisabeth Hasselbeck, or a plagiarist and fabricator, like Monica Crowley, or a combination of both, like Vannity.
I don’t usually agree with liberal columnist Len Pitts, but he’s on the money on James and what he represents:

If thoughtful conservatives see the disconnect, if they have the intellectual integrity to find it shameful, the news flash is, thoughtful conservatives no longer predominate their ideology.
No, that honor goes to unthoughtful conservatives, the loud, proudly ignorant voices of talk radio, books and television of which Kevin James is now the poster child. . . .
They are geniuses at rhetoric . . . that rouses the rabble and lets them feel aggrieved, while simultaneously having the intellectual heft of cotton balls. But they can no more step beyond that rhetoric than Gilligan could step off his island. There is no there, there.
Still, every once in a while, one is required to stand and deliver. His inability to do so says everything you need to know about James and his brand of conservatism.
During the MSNBC interview, his opposite number, Mark Green of the liberal Air America radio network, gave James some advice: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”
James, whose station, KRLA, might want to rethink its slogan — “Intelligent. Conservative.” — did not listen.
So I figure he’s halfway to China by now. If we’re lucky, he’ll take the other unthoughtful conservatives with him.

I’d bet that if Hannity had been in that seat, he would have been equally as ignorant of the answer to Matthews’ repeated question. (I’m sure he’s looked it up since . . . just in case.)
For the record, I agree that Obama is an appeaser and that his strategy echoes that of Chamberlain and the Munich Agreement. And Matthews is wrong that talking to the enemy is not appeasement. It, in fact, often is. And we’ve, frankly, talked to Iran enough. It’s gotten us nowhere. But, unlike James, I actually know what I’m talking about. People like this guy can’t make the point because they’re so incredibly ignorant of history (and frankly, actual conservative opinion versus talking points they got through google; any monkey can google).
With so many airheads and frauds like James, Hannity, Hasselbeck, and Crowley dominating the public face of the conservative movement, I think I hear Miss Teen USA South Carolina blushing. “U.S. Americans, the Iraq . . . such as.”
Oh, and one other thing: Kevin James was an Assistant U.S. Attorney before his tour of non-duty as an ignoramus talk-show host. Any wonder why the Justice Department is completely incompetent?

By Debbie Schlussel
Feliz Memorial Day from John McCain.
Yes, it is true that many names of those who fought and died in WWII and especially in Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan are surnames like Gutierrez, Torres, etc. But most of those Hispanics are U.S. citizens. And yes, the ones who risk their lives to serve our country who are not naturalized should, indeed, get citizenship. But they are a tiny, infinitesmal fraction of a fraction of those seeking citizenship, the 20 million who are here illegally.
So why did John McCain use today–and the dead bodies of so many Hispanic American patriots who were either born here and/or are here legally–to push for Illegal Alien Amnesty in a campaign ad which aired today in New Mexico? I’ll give you a hint: 44% or almost 1 of every 2 New Mexico residents is Hispanic. Sorry, McCain, but this ethno-baiting has those dead Hispanic American soldiers, who were mostly here legally, turning over in their graves. Watch this abomination:

They died for our country, therefore we should . . . open wide our borders and give citizenship to those who broke the law, as well as assorted terrorists and other hardened criminals–and do what the enemies they fought could not?! Hello . . .? Hola . . .? As Salaam Aleikum . . . ?
We are ALL G-d’s Children. But some of us are here legally, and others are not . . . and shouldn’t be rewarded for it. Yo Soy Americana, but not through amnesty.