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The Grauniad Does Not Get It

by 1389AD ( 81 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Islamic Invasion, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Tea Parties, UK at October 12th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

Kudos to GOV

Congratulations to the venerable blog Gates of Vienna, which has just celebrated its sixth blogiversary. Though based in the US, its admins and contributors have great familiarity with the UK and European political scenes as well as that of the US. With their wealth of European correspondents, GOV has accurately been called the voice of the European counterjihad. If you haven’t been reading it every day, you’ve been missing a great deal.

The left-wing UK newspaper The Guardian, f/k/a The Manchester Guardian, a/k/a The Grauniad, is desperately trying to spin away the awareness of the dangers of Islam that has been taking hold among the public in the US and the UK.

The cat is out of the bag with regard to the true nature of Islam, and the Grauniad doesn’t like it one bit. In their article, the Grauniad blames the growth of anti-Islamism on everything except the recent actions of Muslim activists and Islamic doctrine itself. The paper is particularly upset about the English Defence League (EDL) and its participation, along with Pam Geller, Stop Islamisation of America, and members of the Tea Party movement, in the protests against the proposed Ground Zero Mosque in New York City. In their attempts to use guilt by association to cover up the truth by libeling conservatives and counterjihadists alike, the Guarniad has come to resemble nothing so much as the Chucklehead at LGF.

Gates of Vienna does a great job of calling them out on it.

GOV: The Grauniad on the EDL and the Tea Parties

I’m not going to examine the latest from The Guardian in any detail, since it’s really just more of the same. I’m just posting this article to point out the extent to which the leftist press are using the websites of ICLA and 4Freedoms — not to mention American Counterjihad sites — as sources for their reporting.

As you read through this, see if you come to the same conclusion I did: The Gnudaria doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on. They read our blogs and our forums, and they quote our words, but it’s like a deaf person reading a musical score — they have no real sense of what it all means. This is especially true of their account of what is going on here in the USA, for which they have a thoroughly tin ear:

English Defence League forges links with America’s Tea Party

As the far-right group marches in Leicester, details are emerging of growing contacts with extremist US groups in a ‘war on Islamification”

The English Defence League, a far-right grouping aimed at combating the “Islamification” of British cities, has developed strong links with the American Tea Party movement.

An Observer investigation has established that the EDL has made contact with anti-jihad groups within the Tea Party organisation and has invited a senior US rabbi and Tea Party activist to London this month. Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a regular speaker at Tea Party conventions, will speak about Sharia law and also discuss funding issues.

The league has also developed links with Pamela Geller, who was influential in the protests against plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero. Geller, darling of the Tea Party’s growing anti-Islamic wing, is advocating an alliance with the EDL. The executive director of the Stop Islamisation of America organisation, she recently met EDL leaders in New York and has defended the group’s actions, despite a recent violent march in Bradford…

Read the rest.

The conclusion that I reach is that the Grauniad (and the rest of the leftist press) not only has no clue about what is going on, but also that they actively avoid getting a clue. They are afraid of the truth because they would have to abandon their entire world view, start over from scratch, and learn to identify, and be ready to fight for, everything that is truly worthwhile. As everyone can see from my own nom de guerre, the year of the Battle of Kosovo, such a prospect holds no terrors for me, but it sure does scare the leftists who put their faith only in the futile strategy of appeasement.


Why Obama’s job approval here and worldwide is sinking to historic lows after only 1½ years

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 105 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Misery Index, Progressives, Socialism, UK at June 20th, 2010 - 10:00 am

Of course, we, meaning those of us with functioning brains, which excludes liberals, leftists and other various losers and miscreants, knew that most of America and the world would eventually WTFU and come to realize what we’ve known all along- That the incompetent bungler-in-chief Barack Hussein Obama will end up being the worst President in the history of our country.

Think about that for a minute.

He’s even more incompetent than that anti-Semitic ignoramus Jimmy Carter. Voters are getting buyer’s remorse, and the morons that bought this America-hating POS’s hope and change bullshit are starting to finally “get it”.

Well, not only most Americans, but also in Britain (and around the world, for that matter). Most Americans and Brits are finally realizing that this buffoon is not qualified to manage their local 7-11, much less our country, and that he is screwing up the relationships we’ve worked for years to build with our friends around the world, while coddling our enemies.

The amazing thing is that the bungler-in-chief and his band of lib losers have managed to do this in less than 18 months. This is what happens when an inexperienced and incompetent snake oil salesman fools 53 million dolts into voting for him.

This arrogant, ignorant asshole actually had the audacity (and not of hope) to send a letter to the leaders of the G20 nations lecturing them and almost demanding that they keep spending money that they (and we) don’t have to try to stimulate the world’s economies, even though most countries already are basically bankrupting their future by this out of control spending. This result is what happens when brain-dead liberals like Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Frank, and Reid have unfettered control of the government.

Every policy or idea these idiot libs have enacted or propose to enact has already been tried and failed miserably numerous times, and these will fail also. The one thing that we know that will work at stimulating the world’s and our economies is cutting taxes and cutting spending. But mentioning tax cuts and spending cuts to these moronic libs is like offering kryptonite to Superman.

As usual, Nile Gardiner hits it out of the park it in his June 17th op-ed in the London Daily Telegraph-

Barack Obama: the most unpopular man in Britain?

What a difference 18 months and an oil spill makes. In January 2009 Barack Obama was hugely popular on this side of the Atlantic, and could have walked on water in the eyes of the British media, the political elites, and the general public. In June 2010 however he probably qualifies as the most despised US president since Nixon among the British people. In fact you can’t open a London paper at this time without reading yet another fiery broadside against a leader who famously boasted of restoring “America’s standing” in the world.

When even Obama’s most ardent political supporters in Britain, including Boris Johnson, are on the offensive against the White House, you know the president’s halo has dramatically slipped. It’s hard to believe that any politician could become more disliked in the UK than Gordon Brown, but Barack Obama is achieving that in spades. And as Janet Daley noted of the British press, the love affair with Barack is well and truly over.

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We are witnessing one of the worst exercises in public diplomacy by a US government in recent memory, one that could cause significant long-term damage to the incredibly important economic and political partnership between Great Britain and the United States. And for those who say this is minor storm in a tea cup, I would point out that it is highly unusual for a British Prime Minister to have to stand up to an onslaught against British interests by an American president, as David Cameron has just done. In fact the prospect of a major confrontation between Downing Street and the White House grows stronger by the day.

But this is not the whole picture. President Obama’s handling of BP is part of a far bigger problem. This is an administration that has consistently insulted Britain, and has even sided with her foes in some cases, most notably in its wholehearted support for Argentina’s call for negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position that has been strongly backed by Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez.

Read the whole article here

BTW, hat tip to Denny