Conservative Review Issue #141 Kukis Digests and Opines on this Week’s News and Views August 29, 2010 In this Issue: 'There is No Moderate Islam in the Mainstream of Muslim Life' by Andrew McCarthy This Week’s Events Five Myths About New Orleans and Hurricane Say What? Katrina by Harry Shearer Must-Watch Media A Little Comedy Relief Links Short Takes Additional Sources By the Numbers Polling by the Numbers The Rush Section A Little Bias ABC Tries to Manufacture News Saturday Night Live Misses Islam: The Only Religion Protected and Defended Yay Democrats! by the American Left Obama-Speak Libs Blame Rush for Mosque Flap More Proof Obama is an Amateur News Before it Happens Additional Rush Links Why I'm Not Hiring by Michael P. Fleischer What Handouts To Cut by Walter E. Williams Perma-Links Who Cares About Our Future? By Walter E. Williams Too much happened this week! Enjoy... The Daily Bell Interviews Walter Williams Walter Williams on the Tyranny of the Majority, the US Federal Budget and Free-Market Thinking The cartoons come from: www.townhall.com/funnies. Sunday, August 01, 2010 - with Ron Holland Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings If you receive this and you hate it and you don’t The White House is having a disastrous 'summer want to ever read it no matter what...that is fine; of recovery.' email me back and you will be deleted from my By Karl Rove list (which is almost at the maximum anyway). Obama jobs death toll: Layoffs, layoffs, layoffs By Michelle Malkin Previous issues are listed and can be accessed When Did the Rules Change? By Jonah Goldberg here: In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: 'Who http://kukis.org/page20.html (their contents are lost Europe ?' A speech by Geert Wilders described and each issue is linked to) or here: If George Bush was an idiot... http://kukis.org/blog/ (this is the online directory Author unknown they are in) I attempt to post a new issue each Sunday by 2 or the news media ignored almost completely, 3 pm central standard time (I sometimes fail at Beck’s “Restoring Honor” gathering received a lot this attempt). of press. I try to include factual material only, along with For 15 years now, the New York City has been my opinions (it should be clear which is which). fighting the tiny Bronx Household of Faith, a small I make an attempt to include as much of this Christian congregation that has been having a week’s news as I possibly can. The first set of difficult time finding a place to meet. It wants, columns are intentionally designed for a quick consistent with its reading of the U.S. read. Constitution - and mine - to meet in a vacant public school space on weekends, just as all other I do not accept any advertising nor do I charge for community groups are allowed to. A New York this publication. I write this principally to blow court determined that this was legal back in off steam in a nation where its people seemed 2005, and religiously-tolerant Bloomberg have collectively lost their minds. continues to fight it. And if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, always remember: We do not struggle against flesh and Say What? blood, but against the rulers, against the Liberals: authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of Obama: “We’re buying shrimp, guys.” evil in the heavenly places (Eph. 6:12). Joe Biden on the economy: "We're turning this great ship of state around that was wandering This Week’s Events out to sea and it's headed back to port. While progress isn't fast enough, there isn't any doubt Huge natural gas deposits have been discovered it's moving in the right direction." off Israel’s northern coast. Boehner calls for the resignation of Obama economic advisors Geithner and Summers. Oakland, CA just cut back on its police force, and told its citizens not to expect them to show up if called about a burglary or something minor like that. Unions continue to fight a Wal-Mart store in Brooklyn, despite the fact that this would provide a great many jobs, as well as a service for the community. It should have been called the Wal-Mart mosque, and it would have been fast-tracked and received special state funding. Unlike the early protests of the Ground Zero Mosque and the first large TEA parties, which Page -2- Joe Biden: “Entire new American industries are built two and a half blocks from Ground being born -- the very industries that are going to Zero-which is further than the current mosque allow us to lead the world in the 21st century.” just two blocks away and not too far from another mosque that has been in the same And from the office of the Vice President: “As a neighborhood for years.” result of the Administration's unprecedented commitment to energy efficiency, more than Justin Elliott headline for a NY Post story: How 200,000 low-income families have been able to the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering save money on their energy bills while saving began energy, and thousands of people have been put A viciously anti-Muslim blogger, the New York to work.” Post and the right-wing media machine: How it all went down. From Black America . Com: “[Glenn] Beck has done more harm than good in the arena of racial [Let me add that, none of these people politics” mentioned that there were large demonstrations by New Yorkers against this mosque long before Rachel Maddox: “I have been talking for awhile there was any manufactured controversy about about the Fox strategy of scaring white people in the mosque (I received an email about this, and order to score political points and benefit posted it here, weeks before I saw any news conservative politicians, and one of the hallmarks stories on it).] is that their most potent `scare-white-people' stories are not real news stories. They're stories Daisy Kahn, Ground Zero Rauf's wife, said of that they invent out of thin air. That's true about opposition to the mosque, "It's beyond ACORN. That's true about the Shirley Sherrod Islamophobia. It's hatred of Muslims." case. That's true about the fake New Black Panther Party thing. That's true about Van Jones.” Headline of Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic: “The Rise of Shrieking Bigot Pamela Resurrection: the Ground Zero Mosque, CAIR Geller” First line of the story: “There is a very spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said: “The level of depressing story today in The Washington Post anti-Muslim hysteria has gotten out of control about the lunatic racist Pamela Geller, who has over this manufactured controversy.” been leading the crusade against the so-called Ground Zero mosque.” Pamela Geller is an Comment from a liberal about the mosque: “This outspoken blogger who is against the Ground is just another NewsCorp-manufactured Zero Mosque. controversy meant to whip the ignorant masses into a frenzy and shield them from the real The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip issues.” Erdogan: “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.” Infoshop News (an independent news service) headline: The Muslim Community Center at Cord Jefferson on NPR: “Little is known about the Ground Zero: a Manufactured Controversy [Glenn Beck] event except that there will be speeches by Beck and Sarah Palin, and attendees Blogger Jack Hunter in the Charleston City Paper: are prohibited from bringing signs. The fear, of “It should be noted the extent to which this story course, is that it will turn into a pit of hatred a la is largely a manufactured controversy, when you the health-care town halls.” consider that the proposed mosque would be Page -3- Senator Max Baucus, who wrote the Healthcare John Adams,: "Suppose a nation in some distant bill, said, "I don't think you want me to waste my region should take the Bible for their only Law time to read every page of the health care bill. Book, and every member should regulate his You know why? It's statutory language. We hire conduct by the precepts there exhibited... What experts." a paradise would this region be!" Doug Shoen (actually, a Democratic pollster): “It’s time for Obama to pull a Clinton.” That is, when Must-Watch Media Republicans take over the House and possibly the Senate, for him to move toward the middle of the You may or may not like Sean Hannity, but he did political spectrum. an excellent show called The Green $windle — the Environmental Agenda. If you have an Crosstalk: interest in global warming, this is a must-see. Parts 1–6 below: Chris Wallace: ... you said the other day that you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-V5k9Bux8s don't rule out a political comeback. And you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9oOEEn compared yourself to Winston Churchill. You Xt0 can't be serious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUiFYryuWIo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGDvQaJ q-k Rod Blagojevich: I -- comparing myself to Winston http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JeDc3S-yU Churchill, no. You're right, I'm not serious. I don't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_98Cvpk-OcY smoke cigars or scotch, and I think I can run faster than him. A good 3 minute coverage of Beck’s rally.