Two Babes and a Brain

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Political Correctness

It was the young wizard’s biggest challenge yet: understanding why those who should be defending their civilization were pretending that nothing was happening or even becoming apologists for the other side. Barry Rubin tells the tale that began with a headline in the Daily Prophet newspaper: “Minister Fudge Urges Engagement; Accuses Harry Potter of Voldemortphobia”

News item: The Iranian newspaper Kayhan, has criticized officials there for allowing the sale of the new Harry Potter book, claiming the series is a Zionist project in order to disrupt the minds of young people.

“The main thing is to try and convince as many people as possible that You-Know-Who came back, Harry….[Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge] is absolutely refusing to believe it’s happened.”
“But why?” said Harry desperately. “Why’s he being so stupid?”…
“Because accepting that Voldemort’s back would mean trouble….”
“It’s hard to convince people he’s back, especially as they really don’t want to believe it in the first place.”
—Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, pp. 93-94.

What’s going on here?” Harry said angrily. “I personally saw Voldemort gathering his followers but when I read the Daily Prophet it would seem there is no real threat. And now they want to negotiate with Voldemort?”
“That’s not all,” Hermione explained. “The newspaper is trying to make you sound deluded for exposing the truth.”

“Yes,” Ron added, ”and there are a lot of people now who favor giving aid to Voldemort in order—they claim—to moderate him.”
Certainly, the MSMM (Mainstream Magical Media), had long been blind to the return of Voldemort and his Death Eater movement. The Order of the Phoenix, the group formed to fight Voldemort, had a lot of blogs but the followers of You-Know-Who seemed to control all too many of the biggest institutions. Even on the Internet, Draco Malfoy had even developed one of the most popular blogs of all, “The Daily Draco” and some of the blander naïf’s from one of Hogwarts’ houses had created the “Hufflepuff Post.”

Harry just didn’t understand. How could anyone not see the terrible things going on around the world: the suicide bombing attacks; the organized incitement of hatred, the attempt by an extremist movement to take over and enslave millions of people? Why were they constantly attacking the victims and ridiculing those trying to expose these dangers, distorting their words and slandering their characters?

Gee, I was wondering the same thing.
-LizaJane

You can read the whole thing here: Pajamas Media, article by Barry Rubin

The Author’s note says: As popular as the Harry Potter series has been, it is still just a set of novels about a fantasy situation. Thank goodness nothing like this could happen in the real world.

Diversity and its Prospects

The Hazards of Regarding Lying as a Solution
by Fred on Everything
warning: tough talk, bad words and graphic sexual content

"I spent over six years as a police reporter, riding at least weekly in a variety of cities, usually in black sections because that’s where the crime was. There’s a saying that you can bullsh*t the fans but you can’t bullsh*t the players. I know what is out there. So does every cop, every prosecutor and most urban reporters, unless they cover runway fashion. None will say it. To tell the truth is a firing offense. It's another world downtown, troops, nothing like anything most people have ever imagined."

The media suppressed these stories.

SSG Rob

Media Going Too far?

The mother of a missing 2 year old boy committed suicide today after being grilled in an interview by CNN News anchor Nancy Grace. The victim's grandparents reportedly told the local news station that the media coverage was too much and may have forced their granddaughter to suicide.

The search for the missing child in continuing, and the police have not yet ruled out the mother as a suspect in the disappearance.

What Were They Thinking...

NBC is feeling the heat after a disgusting skit broadcast during the Emmy Awards last night. In the skit, host Conan O'Brien boards a private plane that crashes on its way to Los Angeles. The skit was aired just hours after a plane crash in Kentucky killed 49 passengers and crew.

"In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy," NBC said. "The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast was meant to spoof some of television's most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate, and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused."

The skit was reportedly a spoof of the hit TV series "Lost", and the LA Times called it "cringe-inducing" and "of questionable taste."

NBC had to know that the skit would have this effect on people, especially in a post-9/11 world. With that anniversary looming, and with numerous aviation incidents in recent weeks, the skit was certainly in poor taste. The skit was clearly designed to be controversial but ended up being yet another example of Hollywood's inability to relate to everyday America.

What do you think?

LIsa

source: BREITBART.COM - NBC Expresses Regret for Air-Crash Skit

Damned if you do...

Michelle Malkin is back and wondering why no one is covering the story of the two kidnapped Fox Reporters. At the top of the list of reasons, of course, is the bias against Fox by the liberal media.

The most common suspicion among my readers is that bias against Fox News Channel is coming into play. Another possible factor may be Fox's own internal strategy of keeping the story low-key while it negotiates for Centanni and Wiig's release. Or is it because Centanni is not a high-profile player in the Washington media scene--not a spotlight-hogging insider or industry schmoozer?

I love how these situations turn into damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you don't cover it, you are biased against Fox and the life of their reporters aren't worth as much as reporter Jill Carol. If you do cover it and the whole thing goes bad, how long until you think the accusations that the liberal media killed Fox reporters with their careless coverage of a delicate situation and the life of a Fox reporter isn't worth as much as a story...blah blah blah...

In any case, it's been over a week since these guys were taken, someone should be doing something to get them home.

Chris

Sometimes....Shit Really Does Happen

I sat here last night...in the heat with all of my windows and doors open (no airconditioning)... and wrote a post on how the media, whenever the review a book written by a conservative, tend to leave out all of the facts the author used to back up their arguments.... that was my intro to the latest that happened to Ann Coulter.

But its gone....POOOOOF....just like that.  I scheduled it to be posted at 3 a.m. today, and it's not there....it's not anywhere.  It's like the liberal medial gods came down and snatched it from the scheduled posts.

Now it was about midnight when I wrote this so my memory is rather blurred... but the gist of it was that Coulter is absolutely right about the "Jersey Girls"...the women who collected millions after their husbands died in 9/11 and now they are using this tragedy to promote the democrats and bash Bush.... but the problem for them is that Coulter called their bluff....She stated in her book the facts about all information available prior to 9/11.

Noticeably missing from the initial press reports was any mention of what Coulter actually wrote:

"The 9/11 Commission was a scam and a fraud, the sole purpose of which was to cover up the disasters of the Clinton administration and distract the nation's leaders during wartime. Not only did the Jersey Girls claim credit for this Clinton whitewash machine, they spent most of the hearings denouncing the Bush administration for not stopping the 9/11 attacks from the weak position handed it by the Clinton administration."

The gist of what Kristen Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza claimed was that an August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing should have alerted Bush to order immediate action to prevent 9/11.

The number one fact missed by the media was that Coulter was attacking the knee-jerk support that the "Jersey Girls" had for Bill Clinton, demonstrating that their first priority was not "getting to the bottom" of whom to blame for 9-11, but instead to score political points againts Bush.

Coulter notes in her book that "all the information about bin Laden in the August PDB comes from the nineties. Not one fact in the PDB is more recent than 1999."

I grant you Coulter takes no prisoners when she writes.

"Mostly the witches of East Brunswick wanted George Bush to apologize for not being Bill Clinton," was her take on the Jersey Girls, but "the rest of the nation was more interested in knowing why the FBI was prevented from being given intelligence about 9/11 terrorists here in the United States more than a year before the attack..."

The answer - well-known by now - is that Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, "had specifically prohibited intelligence agents from telling law enforcement agents about suspected terrorists in the country."

And whom did the Democrats put on the 9/11 Commission? Jamie Gorelick.

So what we are seeing in the denunciations by members of the U.S. Senate and now the New Jersey Assembly represents more than a fair amount of partisanship.

Coulter has done a very good job of documenting her case. If some Jersey Girls get a public spanking in the process, so be it.

Compliments of Newsbusters

I went on to say in my masterpiece that I agree with Coulter in her opinion of the "Jersey Girls".. These women have collected millions from the government and are set for life because of a tragedy.  Tragedies happen everyday.  What about the military widows with children whos husbands were killed by terroriests?  Where are their millions?  While the Jersey Girls are lunching at Country Clubs and hobknobbing with the democrats, the military widows are trying to figure out how they are going to make ends meet....While the Jersey Girls' childrens' college tuition is secure... the children of the military widows aren't so lucky.  They will have to find a way to pay for college on thier own.

Anyway...that was the gist of my article last night...

Today, you get the condensed version....sigh

Lisa

Today's Giggle...I mean Gaggle

Lisa

Hat Tip:  Newsbusters

You Gotta Love Ann Coulter...

It just never ceases to amaze me how the left MSM continues to push their agenda on people who don't follow their logic...or lack there of.  Leave it to Ann Coulter to put Matt Lauer in his place and prove what an idiot he really is.

Here's just one example:

Lauer starts with:

"David Gregory said if you ask people what they care about they say Iraq and gas prices. Gay marriages are way down on the list, but that's what the president is talking about and what the Senate is taking up. Why?"

Coulter pops right back:

"I don't know what people are talking about or how David Gregory knows that. But I do know that gay marriage amendments have been put on the ballots in about 20 states now and passed by far larger numbers than Bush won the election by."

Oh OK....one more example....

Lauer throws out:

"Here's how E.J. Dionne puts it in the Washington Post: 'The Republican party thinks its base of social conservatives is a nest of dummies who have no memories and respond like bulls whenever red flags are waved in their faces.' Do you agree with that?

Coulter: "That the base are dummies or that Bush thinks that?"

Lauer: "That he can wave a red flag and they will run to the polls to respond to him?"

Coulter: "They don't need to respond to him. He's not running again."

Lauer: "They want the voters to turnout in the mid-term elections. They don't want to lose control of the congress."

Coulter: "Maybe they want to do what the voters want. Whatever you can say about whether or not Bush has a mandate, the mandate against gay marriage is pretty strong. It passed by like 85 percent in Mississippi. Even in Oregon, and that was the state that the groups supporting gay marriage fixated on and outspent their opponents by like 40:1, it passed even there. There is a mandate against gay marriage."

Lauer: "Do you think George Bush in his heart really cares strongly about that issue?"

Coulter: "I don't know what anybody cares in his heart."

Lauer: "Would you take a guess?"

Coulter: "I know what Americans think because they keep voting, over and over and over again overwhelmingly they reject gay marriage. So why is that a bad thing for politicians to respond to what is overwhelmingly a mandate?"

I may not agree with everything Ann has to say, but I love how she smacks around the media.

Lisa

Hat tip:  Michelle Malkin

Look What...

Rolling Stone Magazine has in store for us in their next issue....

I can't wait to rush right out and get my copy... how about you?

Lisa

Them's Fightin' Words....

The terms "NASCAR" and "Formula One" are never to be used in the same sentence....

Lisa