The Wacky World of David Horowitz

Ouch!:

Basra’s academics face a wave of assassination in the southern city of Basra, probably at the hands of Shiite religious militias. You wonder if David Horowitz is happy that more “balance” is being achieved in Iraq history departments, what with the rubbing out of those secular liberal humanist professors.”

Speaking of the wild, wacky, wing-dingy world of David Horowitz, the blog of his “Frontpage” online magazine has got to be read to be believed. The latest battiness from “Moonbat Central”: because a Scottish daily, The Scotsman, once did an article on suspected Israeli agents in America who cheered and danced when the World Trade Center was attacked — and were arrested and deported — that newspaper has been consigned by Moonbat-par-excellence Steven Plaut to the status of “a moonbat far-Left Scottish newspaper that loves moronic conspiracy ‘theories.'” So how come Glenn Reynolds is citing them as an authoritative source?

C’mon guys, get your story straight!

From Camp Casey: More Trouble for Bush

Here National Review‘s Byron York whines that Cindy Sheehan has enlisted the services of a “radical organizer” to further the antiwar cause. Oh me, oh my! The pro-war Right is having a major hissy fit over Cindy, but if I were them I would be grateful that the media hasn’t picked up on this guy.

As the BradBlog explains:

“U.S. Army Specialist Tomas Young has some questions for George W. Bush. He’s never met with the Commander-in-Chief who sent him into Sadr City, Iraq in a canvass covered truck during a massive uprising in that city on April 4, 2004. The same city on the same day that Cindy Sheehan’s son Casey was killed.

“Tomas was lucky. He was only paralyzed from the chest down. Amongst other things he’d like to ask of Bush, is why he won’t allow funding for stem cell research which might eventually restore the spine that he lost in Bush’s War. A spine, as Tomas explained to us yesterday on The BRAD SHOW, which apparently Bush has never had.”

Proof that theft doesn’t work

Charles Featherstone on the LRC Blog: It’s going to be a very busy and very interesting day for world energy markets today. The NY light, sweet crude contract has already traded at $70 in Singapore. The results of Katrina are likely to make things much, much worse.
[…]
The war for resources — the "kicking their ass and taking their gas" — is not working. And won’t. So give up on it.

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Savage Conservative Warmongers

I don’t listen to the conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage very often, but I happened to tune in the other night and heard him basically say that a Sedition Act should be passed and that those who don’t support the troops in Iraq should be placed in internment camps. What is conservative about this?

And thousands of conservatives listen to this man? Evidently so. He has been on the radio for years and has written several popular books about his brand of savage conservatism. It is because of conservatives like this that I ceased years ago to refer to myself as a conservative.

FReepers score own goals in Crawford

Via Atrios, professional Freeper agitator Kristinn Taylor tried to distance FR from a fellow pro-war protestor in Crawford yesterday:

A handful also got themselves arrested, including a protester whose anti-Sheehan sign was deemed unnecessarily offensive by organizers of a
large pro-Bush rally. The man carrying the sign became violent when he was asked to put it down.

Ken Robinson, of Richardson, Texas, who described himself as aVietnam veteran, was carrying a sign at a “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy!” rally. The sign read, “How to wreck your family in 30 days by ‘b**** in the ditch’ Cindy Sheehan.”

Kristinn Taylor, an event organizer with FreeRepublic.com, heard about the sign and rushed up to Robinson.

“This is our rally and you can’t do that here,” he said, only for Robinson to insist he was within his rights.

Camera crews rushed in and Taylor turned to face them.Bitch_in_ditch_1


“To all the media here, this sign is not representative of the crowd
here today,” Taylor announced. Some of the crowd around Robinson came
forward to shake his hand, while others chanted, “Idiot, go home.”

The two men then squared off and raised their voices.

“Just get outta here!” Robinson yelled, and aimed a kick at Taylor’s midsection. Taylor called for security, and a young Woodway policeman
quickly showed up.

“I have the right to freedom of speech,” Robinson said.

Robinson continued to protest loudly as police handcuffed him and led him away.

The only way the sign wouldn’t be "“representative of the crowd here today,” is if there weren’t any Freepers there, because as you can see here and here, the sign is highly representative of Freeper attitudes and rhetoric, more shame to all of them.  The Free Republic website is monitored, highly censored and demands conformity of ideology so if posts calling Cindy Sheehan "The bitch in the ditch" or "Ditch Bitch" were unwelcome, they’d be out of there.  They’re displayed in all their vicious glory still.

Were there Freepers in Crawford this weekend?  Well, who else would be stupid enough to attack their fellow pro-war Republicans?  Apparently, some reading-challenged Freepers were enraged at some Protest Warrior signs that were sufficiently complex for the message to go right over their heads, so they did what comes naturally to them – they eliminated them. Freepsvspw

AP reports: At the pro-Bush rally several miles away, there
were some heated moments when two members of Protest Warrior, a group
that frequently holds counter protests to anti-war rallies, walked in
with a sign that read "Say No to War Unless a Democrat is President."

 

Many Bush supporters only saw the top of the sign and believed the men
were war protesters, so they began shouting and chasing the pair out.
HumblegunnerOne man tore up their signs. When Will Marean of Minneapolis kept
repeating that he was on the Bush side and tried to explain Protest
Warrior’s mission, one Bush supporter shook his hand and apologized.

A Freeper who was there posted, "Even the "victim" admitted that he could see how the misunderstanding could happen. But it WAS quite a scene, and I think the poor guy was literally terrified."