“Nobody’s Gonna Touch Israel”: NRB Interviews Ron Paul
February 28, 2011 at 7:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 4 CommentsTags: Anti-Israel, David Horowitz, Israel, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, NewsReal Blog, Nuclear Arms, Right to Exist, Ron Paul
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
We caught up with Congressman Ron Paul after his speech at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit in Phoenix over the weekend. One of the themes of that speech was that America cannot impose democracy upon the rest of the world. However, unaddressed was whether America ought to protect allies who are free and wish to remain so. Here was our follow-up with the congressman.
NRB: David Horowitz and others have been critical of the effect that your foreign policy would have upon Israel… How would you describe a libertarian vision for alliance that could support democracies where people want to determine their own course while under threat by external forces?
Ron Paul: We’ve been involved a long time, since World War II, especially since we’ve inherited or developed our empire. We strongly supported all the dictators that surround Israel, and sometimes we buy peace and pay for it. But it’s unstable. And that instability has always been a threat to Israel. Now, when it’s coming apart, and our financial system’s coming apart, Israel is in worse shape than ever because of our so-called protection.
Vile Racist Fear-Mongers Convene in Phoenix to Revel in Hate
February 26, 2011 at 7:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 1 CommentTags: American Policy Summit, Fear, Hate, leadership, News, NewsReal Blog, Racism, Summit11, tea party, tea party patriots, TPP, unions
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Such may be the headline those in the mainstream media would be inclined to concoct in reference to the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit which kicked-off Friday and continues throughout the weekend. As truly vile racist hate-mongers continue their tax-payer funded violent tantrum in Madison, demanding recognition as a protected class set apart and above their fellow man, those gathered in Phoenix under the banner of Tea Party Patriots struck a decisively different tone.
Friday’s program began with focused breakout sessions. Themes in “How to Start a Tea Party” included such hateful points as “leaders must demonstrate a positive attitude” along with “humility.” What was particularly striking about this presentation by the Northern California Tea Party Patriots was its candid treatment of the downside to leadership. There is a cost to spearheading any endeavor. Local leaders must press on through criticism, not just from ideological opponents outside the Tea Party, but from negative and counter-protective personalities within the movement. Other themes included the importance of team-building and goal-setting, points with universal application to any significant endeavor.
Huffington Turns on Obama for Not Taxing Enough
February 24, 2011 at 2:15 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, Economics, huffington post, NewsReal Blog, Tax Cut Compromise, taxes, The Concession Stand
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Presidents of the United States sit in a unique political position. Unlike their contemporaries on Capitol Hill, presidents have a national constituency. Nancy Pelosi can continue getting elected as the representative of California’s 8th Congressional District because she embodies the values of that far left constituency. Presidential candidates, on the other hand, have to appeal to a much broader electorate.
It is for this reason that President Obama has been forced to moderate somewhat since the Republican victories in November. His most deeply felt convictions pull him in one direction, decisively left. But another conviction restrains him, the desire for re-election. The results of 2010, which Obama has acknowledged as a “shellacking,” surely affected his choice to compromise with House Republicans on an extension of present tax rates. It wasn’t much of a compromise. But it was far more than Obama’s left-wing base would have conceded.
A “Progressive Tea Party?” No, “The Coming Insurrection” Is Here
February 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Johann Hari, Labor Unions, Madison Wisconsin Protests, NewsReal Blog, revolution, Scott Walker, tea party, The coming Insurrection, The Concession Stand, UK Uncut, unions
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The ongoing union protests against Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin have inspired comparisons to the Tea Party movement. Apparently, for some commentators, people at a capitol building holding signs is inherently “populist.” However, beyond the superficial similarity of people protesting, there is nothing these union demonstrations have in common with the Tea Party. Quite the contrary, the unrest in Wisconsin is the antithesis of everything the Tea Party stands for.
The Nation’s Johann Hari acknowledges this. Rather than compare the events in Wisconsin to the Tea Party movement, Hari plainly states the contrast.
Imagine a parallel universe where the Great Crash of 2008 was followed by a Tea Party of a very different kind. Enraged citizens gather in every city, week after week—to demand the government finally regulate the behavior of corporations and the superrich, and force them to start paying taxes. The protesters shut down the shops and offices of the companies that have most aggressively ripped off the country. The swelling movement is made up of everyone from teenagers to pensioners. They surround branches of the banks that caused this crash and force them to close, with banners saying, You Caused This Crisis. Now YOU Pay.
Michael Moore Plays Matchmaker Between Wisconsin Protesters and Egyptian Revolutionaries
February 21, 2011 at 1:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Egypt, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Michael Moore, NewsReal Blog, Public Employee Unions, revolution, Scott Walker, The Concession Stand, unions, Wisconsin
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
What’s that old saying? Birds of a feather flock together. If so, we might be inclined to wonder what binds bombastic Hollywood fraud Michael Moore to Egyptian revolutionaries and the public union protesters in Wisconsin.
Moore relayed a message through his website on Sunday from Egyptian union boss Kamal Abbas. The message is addressed to “the workers of Wisconsin” and draws direct parallels between the ongoing Egyptian revolution and the protests against Governor Scott Walker’s leadership in the Badger State.
I am speaking to you from a place very close to Tahrir Square in Cairo…
From this place, I want you to know that we stand with you as you stood with us.
The Price Is Wrong: Childish Word Games from the Left
February 21, 2011 at 11:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 3 CommentsTags: Despicable Me, Hollywood, NewsReal Blog, NPR, Price of Government, Taxation, taxes, tea party, The Concession Stand
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
As the father of a two-year-old, I have several opportunities to watch animated films. Now playing in the Hudson home is last year’s Despicable Me. The plot centers around a super-villain who adopts three young girls as part of his latest diabolical scheme. When he brings them home for the first time, he tells them not to touch anything. Intent upon getting under his skin, they ask him whether this rule applies to the floor and the air.
Such wordplay is common among children, who think themselves rather clever for finding a literal meaning contrary to a clear directive. Along with showboating grade school kids, the other group most inclined toward such behavior are leftists.
Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a news segment for my local Fox affiliate. The topic was the funding of infrastructure. NPR put out a story called “Balancing The Budget: The Problem Might Be You.” Its thesis was that Americans want improvements to the country’s infrastructure, but are unwilling to pay for them with additional taxes. Hence, you – the American voter – are the reason we can’t balance the federal budget.
Suhail Kahn Led CPAC Panel Sympathetic to Nation of Islam and La Raza
February 17, 2011 at 12:06 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: David Horowitz, Frank Gaffney, islam, jihad, La Raza, Nation of Islam, NewsReal Blog, pjtv, Racism, Segregation, Suhail Khan, The Concession Stand
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The Nation’s Sarah Posner authored a shameless ad hominem attack on Frank Gaffney and David Horowitz on Tuesday. The piece titled “Religious War Comes to CPAC” makes no pretense of addressing any factual claim made by either man in the ongoing case against American Conservative Union board member, and jihadist sympathizer, Suhail Khan. Instead, it relies upon name-calling and disparaging comparisons to convince readers that they ought not consider Gaffney and Horowitz’s arguments, lest they too be smeared.
Of course, Posner has a troubling association of her own. She serves as associate editor for the online publication Religious Dispatches, a plainly radical inter-faith organ preaching an intolerant universalist narrative. Religious Dispatches has an ambiguously stated mission which translates to cherry-picking through theology to concoct support for leftist ideology.
The goal of RD is to inform public debate by analyzing and critically engaging the role of religion and values on the most vital issues of our time. This will involve bringing a wider spectrum of perspectives into the conversation, especially voices that have been marginalized in most media, and increasing attention to progressive expressions of religion and values.
Inclined toward such a mission, Posner is predisposed toward ignoring any facts which undermine it. Suhail Khan, whom Gaffney has exposed as a jihadist symphaizer, and whom David Horowitz further exposed during his speech at CPAC, is a poster child for everything Religious Dispatches hopes to accomplish. As a devout Muslim seeking to dilute the conservative movement with radical voices, Khan serves the so-called “progressive” agenda.
Robert Spencer Frustrates Muslim Brotherhood Apologist on Hannity
February 16, 2011 at 12:32 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Egypt, islam, Koran, Michael Ghouse, muslim brotherhood, NewsReal Blog, Pew Research Center, polls, robert spencer, Sean Hannity, Sharia Law, The Concession Stand
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
It’s one thing to suspect that someone may be lying. It’s another thing to know they are, to behold as they emphatically proclaim as true something they plainly know to be false.
Such was the case Monday night on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. Hannity hosted Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer and America Together Foundation’s Michael Ghouse in a debate over whether the new Egyptian government to emerge in the wake of Hosni Mubarak’s departure will be predominately secular or become an Islamic state.
Ghouse was given the first word and stated his belief that a secular government will emerge in Egypt. Ghouse supplied no evidence to support this belief. The closest he came to an argument was the absurd implication that the role of social media in organizing protests somehow imputed secular intent. Ghouse minimized the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the opposition movement, again citing no evidence for his claim.
Spencer then took the floor with facts. Ghouse was quickly backed into a corner and lashed out with flimsy attacks upon Spencer’s character, along with several bold-faced lies.
Divide and Conquer: Mother Jones Attacks Tea Party Patriots
February 15, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 1 CommentTags: Activism, grassroots, Jenny Beth Martin, Laura Boatright, Mark Meckler, Mother Jones, News, NewsReal Blog, North Star Tea Party Patriots, tea party, tea party patriots
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Mark Meckler of Tea Party Patriots, one of Mother Jones' targets in a Valentine's Day hit piece.
There is a mentality among artists which I have always found puzzling. While poor, unknown, and ineffective, they are considered “authentic.” However, as soon as they strike it big, start to make money, and meet with success, they become reviled as “sell outs.”
A similar dynamic threatens to undermine the Tea Party movement. To some among its ranks, the term “grassroots” seems to demand perpetual lowliness. Once a grassroots activist or organization begins to mature, build coalitions, and meet with success, they are suddenly “part of the problem.”
Such is the narrative of an ongoing “investigation” by Mother Jones of Tea Party Patriots, perhaps the preeminent national Tea Party organization and a favorite among grassroots groups. No doubt thrilled at the opportunity to malign an organization fundamentally opposed to their editorial positions, Mother Jones has made strange bedfellows with professed Tea Party activists formerly affiliated with Tea Party Patriots.
Bill Maher Thinks Lenin and Stalin Were “Right-Wingers”
February 14, 2011 at 10:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: authoritarianism, Bill Maher, Hollywood, joseph stalin, Left, Libertarianism, NewsReal Blog, Political Spectrum, Right, The Concession Stand, Vladimir Lenin
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
It’s not unusual for Bill Maher to accuse his ideological opponents of being flat-earthers. But he took the concept to a new extreme over the weekend in his analysis of history and the political spectrum. According to Maher, when you go too far to the Left, you end up on the Right.
“Both [the Russian and French] revolutions got hijacked by the right-wing – and the Iranian Revolution,” Maher added.
However, Maher explained that you could argue the Russian Revolution was “hijacked by the left-wing,” but due to the nature of it being that far left, it was really right.
“I suppose people would say the Russian Revolution was hijacked by the left-wing,” Maher said. “I think when you go that far left – you’re really the right-wing. I consider Lenin and Stalin right-wingers. Don’t tell Rush Limbaugh.”
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