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Here's To President Obama - Leftie Style

Jason Linkins Chief Moonbat at The Huffington Post writes about the Right's response to Obama's victory. Let's call this a prime example of pathological projection. The man's wanting to protect himself from believing that the Right can be civil. We can also be mean:

Jason Linkins seems to approve of what I wrote about social conservatives earlier today, titling his link to LGF: “Hey! Let me make total sense for just a second!” Hey, Jason! Take your approval and shove it. Sideways. No need to get back to me on this.

I second that motion. If the deranged monkeys on the Left cannot understand humility and good will from those ideologically opposed, about their "post-partisan" candidate, then they should graciously bite their tongue. For a more objective analysis of the Right's response, see my post from last night.

Exhibit 103A in Phillip Adams v. The Realm of Reality

In his latest column, Phillip Adams demonstrates quite capably, without much assistance, that he is deranged. His fight with reality continues. He argues that Obama "is the Sidney Poitier of presidential politics" as cast in the movie In the Heat of the Night and implies that his detractors are evil white men. He even defends Obama's nutcase pastor, Jeremiah Wright. His church produced a sermon series on DVD titled "God Damn America". And that's just one of them. Hmmm...what to make of Adam's defence that "Obama’s candidacy is being destroyed by a couple of sermons in a local church".

He then launches into an attack on John McCain associating him with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Except that he isn't associated with either. He doesn't attend their churches. Nor did he get either man's endorsement (Robertson from memory endorsed Guiliani). More to the point, Adams gives no basis for his accusation.

Another one of Adams' Rage against Reality.

Useful Idiot On The Right

Last night I noted Federal Labor MP Julia Irwin's moonbat-induced rant against celebrating Israel's 60th birthday. Well today, a Federal Liberal MP Susan Ley decided to shill for Hamas, albeit less moonbatishly than Irwin (which isn't saying much). Her central argument is that no-one cares for the poor Palis and that they are suffering white man's guilt over the Holocaust:

Their's is not a popular cause but it's one I support in part out of the knowledge that the victors in World War II, including Australia, wrote a homeland cheque to cover the sins of the Holocaust and centuries of anti-semitism in Europe. But it was the Palestinians who had to cash it.

Unfortunately, former Iranian President Khatami made similar remarks in 2001. In countering this sort of argument, Alan Dershowitz offers two rebuttals in his bestseller, The Case For Israel.

Labor's Anti-Israel Streak Emerges

Courtesy of Julia Irwin, Federal Labor MP. I wonder what Australia's only sitting Jewish MP and Labor member, Michael Danby thinks about this sort of obnoxious nonsense:

PRO-PALESTINE Labor MP Julia Irwin has accused Israel of human rights violations and threatened to boycott a vote to celebrate 60 years of the Jewish state...Asked if Israel was engaging in human rights violations, Ms Irwin said she had no doubt...Ms Irwin has previously made speeches in Parliament characterising Israel's policies as "ethnic cleansing", and Gaza as a "concentration camp".

Sally: Not The Girl From Next Door

Tonight, the ABC Four Corners program is airing an "investigative TV journalism" piece entitled "Dangerous Ground" on the heels of a study done by Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Centre:

A recently completed three-year study found that Australia's tough stance on counter-terrorism and security could actually be increasing the threat of breeding home grown terrorists. Erring on the side of aggression – just to be on the "safe" side - can radicalise and alienate the people who are targeted, analysts tell Four Corners...As Four Corners reporter and author on terrorism Sally Neighbour illustrates, defeating terrorism presents not just a policing issue but also a challenge to core community values of pluralism and tolerance.

Dick Digs Hicks

Whilst I am all for giving criminals (and heck, even terrorists) a chance at life after serving their time, Dick's digging of Hicks is rather repugnant, given that Hicks remains unrepentant:

Dick Smith has approached his friends to try to get a job for self-confessed terrorism supporter David Hicks.

Coming only months after another wealthy national icon bails out former Camp Delta detainees in the U.K., Dick's bleeding heart syndrome can be attributed to raving Moonbat syndrome:

My advice is that he should tell the full story to the Australian people because one thing I will say is what the Americans have told us about David Hicks and what the previous government has told us I believe is wrong.

This Man's Mother Is A Holocaust Survivor

* By Moose

It is not enough to say that we, the West, Jews and the Hebraically Challenged alike, have learned nothing from the Holocaust. If only that were that true. Were it so, would not have created monsters like this.

No, worse, we have actually learned. All the wrong lessons.

Our New Cultural Overlords

Tim Blair, naturally:

In the universe of modern crazy, your truthers are at the top of the list. Where normal people see footage of massive jets piling into the World Trade Centre towers, truthers see all manner of clues hinting at unmanned aircraft, substitute flights (where did the passengers go?) and controlled demolition.

Michael Leunig is also given a new one. Don't miss the illustration accompanying the column.

(Aside: As I typed this post, I noticed that "truthers" has not yet entered into my browser dictionary. According to my browser, it is a spelling mistake and should be "druthers". I doubt it, our new cultural overlords will not give me the choice.)

The Green Left

Was walking down the main street of Katoomba yesterday and came across a bearded gentleman in his 60s selling (?) copies of the Green Left. His selling point was something along the lines of:

Buy your copy of Australia's Green Left. Australia's only weekly radical newspaper. Read the news that the mainstream media isn't telling you.

I remember walking past him a second time just as he was uttering "...only weekly radical newspaper..." to point out "yes, it is". I guess people drinking the moonbat koolaid don't realise the intellectual (if you can call it that) tripe they consume and how ridiculous they seem to most people.

The French Resistance

Someone tell the French (Socialist) Resistance that World War II ended decades ago:

France's state-owned rail operator SNCF says there is a "concerted campaign of sabotage" on the tracks of the high-speed TGV network aimed at stopping services resuming amid a national strike...These included several fires, including a "very large" blaze on the Atlantic branch that damaged 30 kilometres of the signal network and forced TGV trains to use normal tracks.