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Surrender monkeys and court eunuchs

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In this case, as Secretary Clinton and Gen. Dempsey well know, the film has even less to do with anything than did the Danish cartoons or the schoolteacher’s teddy bear or any of the other innumerable grievances of Islam. The 400-strong assault force in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars: that’s not a spontaneous movie protest; that’s an act of war, and better planned and executed than the dying superpower’s response to it. Secretary Clinton and Gen. Dempsey are, to put it mildly, misleading the American people when they suggest otherwise.

One can understand why they might do this, given the fiasco in Libya. The men who organized this attack knew the ambassador would be at the consulate in Benghazi rather than at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli. How did that happen? They knew when he had been moved from the consulate to a “safe house,” and switched their attentions accordingly. How did that happen? The United States government lost track of its ambassador for 10 hours. How did that happen? Perhaps, when they’ve investigated Mitt Romney’s press release for another three or four weeks, the court eunuchs of the American media might like to look into some of these fascinating questions, instead of leaving the only interesting reporting on an American story to the foreign press.

Mark Steyn

Written by Sinclair Davidson

September 15th, 2012 at 4:53 pm

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  1. [...] Surrender monkeys and court eunuchs In this case, as Secretary Clinton and Gen. Dempsey well know, the film has even less to do with anything than did the Danish cartoons or the schoolteacher’s teddy bear or any of the other innumerable grievances of Islam. The 400-strong assault force in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars: that’s not a spontaneous movie protest; that’s an act of war, and better planned and executed than the dying superpower’s response to it. Secretary Clinton and Gen. Dempsey are, to put it mildly, misleading the American people when they suggest otherwise. [...]

    loonys now protesting in Australia … | pindanpost

    15 Sep 12 at 5:07 pm

  2. I think it may be one of his all time great columns.

    The only reason most Americans don’t feel the same way is that they don’t know.

    JamesK

    15 Sep 12 at 5:08 pm

  3. They don’t know?……maybe :-)

    They are terrified of any perceived threat to their benefit regime. Baby Boomers are pretend Tea Partiers. Only the competent finance their own lives…..
    The US is bankrupt 4x over.

    Alfonso

    15 Sep 12 at 5:56 pm

  4. After the 2009 killings at Fort Hood General George Casey, the U.S. Army chief of staff said: “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

    (It is simply not true to claim diversity is America’s strength. That’s about as sensible as claiming our diverse rail gauges are our strength. America’s strength derived from its unity and the push to make all newcomers proud to be American).

    In 2010 NASA was ordered by President Obama to “reach out to the Muslim world”.

    A few days ago, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, contacted Pastor Terry Jones and expressed his concerns over the nature of the film, the tensions it will inflame and the violence it will cause.

    With NASA ordered to reach back to the 7th century, one general in the US Army on the side of mush and another unable to see the problem, Romney if elected, will have quite a job getting the US back on the rails.

    HRT

    15 Sep 12 at 5:57 pm

  5. “Senior officials are increasingly convinced, however, that the ferocious nature of the Benghazi attack, in which rocket-propelled grenades were used, indicated it was not the result of spontaneous anger due to the video, called Innocence of Muslims. Patrick Kennedy, Under-Secretary at the State Department, said he was convinced the assault was planned due to its extensive nature and the proliferation of weapons.”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html?printService=print

    How reliable is the ‘Independent’?

    Ellen of Tasmania

    15 Sep 12 at 6:18 pm

  6. Meanwhile, in Sydney Australia, Muslims are violently outraged about a movie. A movie. Just a movie. A bit of acting. Barely seen and distributed. That can be ignored. That isn’t forced upon them. That other religions, if it concerned them, would merely shrug and laugh at. A movie.

    When will they stop this nonsense and their confected outrage or leave this country and all that it has given to them? Their behaviour is not welcome here.

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    15 Sep 12 at 6:34 pm

  7. Lizzie, their confected outrage is working for them. Why would they give it up?

    Bob Sewell

    15 Sep 12 at 7:03 pm

  8. The only reason most Americans don’t feel the same way is that they don’t know.

    No. Most of this has been widely reported by mainstrem media. The decision to attend the rally in Vegas was all for everyone to see. And his words there.

    The problem is that left-leaning people, whether they like Obama or not, would not criticise Obama whatever he does, as they see him as lesser evil.

    However maybe undecided/uaffiliated voters may indeed take notice.

    Another thing is that criticising Obama is seen as politically incorrect. This may work against Obama at the ballot box, where people may express their true preferences, without fear of being ostracised.

    Boris

    15 Sep 12 at 8:03 pm

  9. Baby Boomers are pretend Tea Partiers. Only the competent finance their own lives…..

    Alfonso, that statement diminishes you. The boomer-bash is a bankrupt gambit. I’m of that generation and have worked for forty plus years and have no debt. So be careful who you denigrate.

    blogstrop

    15 Sep 12 at 8:05 pm

  10. No. Most of this has been widely reported by mainstrem media

    That is simply not true Boris.

    David Limbaugh Column: Liberal Media Might as Well Wear Obama Buttons

    While the media gleefully and supportively report Obama’s laughable exercise in projection in depicting Romney as one who shoots first and aims later, they ignore Obama’s abdication of his foreign policy duties to free up his schedule for campaigning.

    While Obama sends mixed messages on terrorism, which he dare not call by its name, and snubs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then lies about it, he soaks up the love in Las Vegas and at other campaign stops, all of which he may do, free of scrutiny, because of a press corps dedicated solely to getting him re-elected

    .

    JamesK

    15 Sep 12 at 8:10 pm

  11. Lizzie, their confected outrage is working for them

    Not with anyone I’ve spoken to lately, at the coalface of things, left or right actually.

    People are getting sick of it. But the ABC was a right royal mess of Muslim-luvvie stuff tonight, in compensation.

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    15 Sep 12 at 8:24 pm

  12. the 400-strong assault force in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars

    when is some one going to say that it was all a pretext for violence.

    The Quran and the hadith do not mention blasphemy

    Jim Rose

    15 Sep 12 at 10:12 pm

  13. Lizzie, those at the coalface don’t count. The average aussie knows what’s going on, but the government has blasphemy and discrimination laws aplenty and isn’t afraid to use them.

    The religion of the perpetually outraged likewise are not afraid to use their outrage to push their agenda and keep us in our places.

    What are your people at the coalface actually doing apart from talking about it in hushed tones?

    This is the problem.

    nilk

    15 Sep 12 at 10:22 pm

  14. on government and blasphemy and discrimination laws, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_Australia

    a few states still have such laws, but they fallen into disuse. any rogue private prosectution would be taken over and dropped by the DPP.

    the tension between free speech and an discrimination laws is well-known.

    British Columbia has a broad hate speech law that prohibits any statement is “likely” to expose a person or group or class of persons to hatred or contempt.

    Professor Sunera Thobani of the University of British Columbia faced a hate crimes investigation after she delivered a vicious diatribe against American foreign policy, remarking that Americans were “bloodthirsty, vengeful and calling for blood.”

    such an irony would test the moral courage of Voltaire.

    Jim Rose

    15 Sep 12 at 10:35 pm

  15. Nonsense blog….most Baby Boomers are on the Govt teat.
    Adequate Super from their working lives is rare.
    Rely on illiquid real estate as your wealth store equals a mistake.

    Alfonso

    15 Sep 12 at 10:53 pm

  16. …prohibits any statement is “likely” to expose a person or group or class of persons to hatred or contempt.

    But there are some people who the powers-that-be are more than happy to expose to as much contempt as they can pile on to them.

    Ellen of Tasmania

    16 Sep 12 at 9:30 am

  17. the attacks on the U.S, because of a silly film imply collective and national guilt.

    these concepts of collective and national guilt, of course, do not apply to countries harbouring terrorists such as when the taliban was in charge in Kabul

    Jim Rose

    16 Sep 12 at 4:45 pm

  18. America is a dying superpower because of the criminal incompetence of the various regimes – Bush and Obama – as well as the highly inefficient civil service. The US is innovative in the private sector, but its public sector has hardly advanced since the 19th century.

    Samuel J

    17 Sep 12 at 4:06 pm

  19. but its public sector has hardly advanced since the 19th century.

    That is grossly unfair on the US public service of the 1800s Samuel.

    JamesK

    17 Sep 12 at 4:17 pm

  20. The US is innovative in the private sector, but its public sector has hardly advanced since the 19th century.

    I’d go along with that. However I think the timing and the characterization is incorrect.

    The US civil service has become a dumping ground for minority hire which means that the hiring is 3rd rate and caused it to regress to 3rd world standards.

    JC

    17 Sep 12 at 5:32 pm

  21. Nonsense blog….most Baby Boomers are on the Govt teat.
    Adequate Super from their working lives is rare.
    Rely on illiquid real estate as your wealth store equals a mistake.

    Nonsense. Stop making long range predictions about stuff you don’t know. US real estate fall wasn’t a cyclical decline, not necessarily secular.

    JC

    17 Sep 12 at 5:34 pm

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