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Pro Obama bloggers who have made it their mission to attack everything to do with my claims about Barack Obama being a fraud have been conned by life long Republican Scott W. Covington of Houston, Texas along with his alter ego “Mitch”, who himself claims to be the half-brother of Scott W. Covington. Covington, the son of wealthy Texas Republican Donald Covington, (an appointee of Texas Gov. Rick Perry), has cost his father more than $750,000 dollars is restitution this year alone in a fraud scam involving the Houston based business “The Piano Store”. This Texas business owned and operated...

UH-OH: Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis. Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body. . . . "Political leaders seem intent on suppressing and ignoring the strong evidence that biofuels are a major factor in recent food price rises," said Robert Bailey, policy adviser at Oxfam. Perhaps they...

While the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has long dominated the field, its highly politicized leadership's inability to withstand criticism, inattention to radical Islam, and apologetic approach towards the West's foes has left many Middle East studies scholars feeling unwelcome by their umbrella professional organization. Enter the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA). Founded last year by Professors Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami, ASMEA offers an alternative to MESA's post-colonialist biases and a venue for studying those elements of Islam and the Middle East that MESA's leaders ignore or downplay.ASMEA's emergence is cause for optimism....

By far our most popular EPJ post, ever, has been our Does Goldman Sachs Run The World? post. Here's an update on Goldman Sachs and their latest power move, the infiltration of the Barack Obama campaign. Robert Rubin, former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, is advising Obama. Obama has named Jason Furman, his top economic adviser. Furman, with Rubin, was an aide in the Clinton White House, and worked there directly under Rubin. He is also a close associate of Rubin through their work together on the Hamilton Project. Which doesn't mean that current Goldman employees aren't paying attention to Obama....

Yet another reason to vote for Senator John McCain. Former Hillary supporter, Barbra Streisand now endorses Barack Hussein Obama: http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/07/01/barbra-streisand-backs-obama/. Add that endorsement to backing from pro-abortion groups, the LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexuals, Transgendered) lobby, Reverend "God Damn America" Wright, Tony (Criminal) Rezko, Bill (Terrorist) Ayers, and every left wing kooky group out there and it's become crystal clear to all but the terminally obtuse that this guy makes George McGovern look good! This election is developing into a test of H.L. Mencken's thesis that you can never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Should Obama ever...

This will be RW’s 29th post about Obama’s “Rezko” house. Two recent events have brought the mortgage of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his wife, Michelle Obama, who took theirs out with Northern Trust on their Hyde Park townhouse, back into the news. First, Countrywide mortgage lenders is being sued in Illinois by Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Second, The Politico asked all 100 Senators “about their home mortgages in the wake of the revelations that Senators Chris Dodd (D-Conn) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) received special treatment from their lenders. In Obama’s case, he stated that he did not receive any...

The Enemy Within Cross posted from Radarsite From an original article at Canada.com http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9f21ec5a-e493-4885-bb14-47551110a297David Harris, Citizen Special Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008 If terrorism suspect Momin Khawaja, now on trial in Ottawa, is as guilty as Crown prosecutors say, it'll be time to settle an important question: Was Mr. Khawaja a "Naji man"? Amid trial allegations, court details and defence objections, significant questions arise about Mr. Khawaja's status as a consultant to the Department of Foreign Affairs at about the time of his arrest. Prosecutors claim the software contractor used his perch inside the department to send streams of E-mails...

According to Ron Paul Henchman and alleged erstwhile ghostwriter Lew Rockwell (broke link, Lew Rockwell not welcome on Free Republic), you can blame Dicky Flatt’s buddy, Phil Gramm: …I was involved in that campaign, when Reagan broke his moronic “11th Commandment� to speak ill of fellow Republican Ron Paul, and such figures as Karl Rove and Paul Weyrich conspired to wage a very nasty campaign against Ron. In true Republican dirty-tricks fashion, Ron’s campaign office was even burglarized and his mailing list and other documents stolen. The power-elite had annointed (sic) the Philster, and would brook no grassroots opposition. Ron,...

I am writing this post to bring to the public some interesting information and a complete contradiction as well. I was notified today by an individual working with me to obtain my phone records from Sprint/Nextel/Boost, that Sprint stated those records do not exist because it was a prepaid cell phone account. After being told this, which I knew to not be true, I decided to call Detective Robert MCVickers, of the Chicago Police Department to inquire as to whether he had been able to obtain the phone records from Sprint? Det asked me if Sprint was my carrier and...

...the mortgage crisis is turning into a feast for the well connected power elite to take advantage of the crisis atmosphere and use it for their own benefit. Not only is private equity attempting to grab the banks, but the elite banks are writing the mortgage bailout bill to their benefit...It appears that Bank of America essentially wrote the bailout section of the Dodd-Shelby mortgage bailout bill. National Review Online obtained a copy of an internal Bank of America's 64 page “discussion document” on the Dodd-Shelby bill...Almost all of BofA’s preferences are mirrored in the Dodd-Shelby legislation. The BofA document...

Norman Baker is an American hero who has been detained against his will for more than three years. His "crime": owning too much property. 
 His sentence: a court-appointed guardianship on the brink of costing him everything he spent his life building.

Over at S.D. Watch, Todd Epp has reported a truly breath-taking story that has the potential to derail Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s big Unity push just as it’s beginning. … the Clinton campaign offered a major fundraiser to the state (SD Dem) party in exchange for two superdelegate votes … Todd promises more details, and I, for one, am waiting at the edge of my seat. Given what he’s reported so far, this seems to be an ongoing offer from Clinton rather than something that faded away after the June 3 primary. An intra-party dispute erupted Thursday during the...

Rape by gangs of immigrants is an assertion of dominance, and in that sense it is a political act. It says, “We are in charge here, and we do as we please with non-Muslims. No one may stop us; we operate with impunity.” There’s been a lot of talk here recently about the increased incidence of rapes, many of them committed by Muslim immigrants, in both Europe and Australia. We’ve highlighted the situation in Sweden, Norway, and Britain. Now it’s time to look at Belgium as well. If the Belgium government fails to prove such assertions wrong, then immigrant-dominated areas...

The following shows that the Delaware matter is nothing more than a vindictive attack by the Obama Camp those in powerful places who support Barack Obama’s dirty Chicago Style Politics. On June 16 and 17, 2008 two letters from the Social Security Administration were mailed to my Duluth home stating that my disability and medical benefits had been terminated for the following reasons: “Our records show that the following warrant for your arrest was issued for a parole or probation violation:” Issued by: New Castle County Superior Court N King Street, Ste 500 Wilmington, DE 19801 Date of Warrant: February...

Rumor Mill opens: Obama is Amish! So he is. Central Pennsylvania, land of Paper Mills, Windmills, and now, the Obama rumor mill. DotPenn writers are currently collecting and--what the hell--creating their own rumors about presidential candidate Barack Obama to keep Obama's Fight the Smear site busy. Obama's site is designed to respond to smears, rumors, and whitey lies. Sven Waring, DotPenn correspondent, said opening up the Rumor Mill will give thousands of central Pennsylvanians something better to do than going to church and expending shells at the local gunnery. "We want to make sure that both the residents and members...

In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent" you? The classic phrase is "We don't want nobody that nobody sent" - from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) and now retired federal judge. (And someone I campaigned for while in high school when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in the early 70s.) As a young student, Mikva wanted to help out the his local Democratic Party machine on the south side of Chicago. In 1948, he walked into the local committeeman's office to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas and...

The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event. Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks. Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended. Michelle Obama spoke at the Women's Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant --- his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems. For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into...

Friday we started a series on Obama’s birth certificate. The most recent post, Obama’s BIG Birth Certificate PROBLEM, featured two supposed “Certificates of Live Birth” from Honolulu, Hawaii: one presented as evidence of Obama’s 1961 birth; and the other certifying the birth of Patricia Decosta. Here again is the document proffered by the Obama Campaign as evidence of his birth: And here is Ms. Decosta’s certification: We received confirmation from the Hawaii State Department of Health (HSDH) that: 1. Certified copies of birth certificates are NEVER sent electronically. Copies can be requested by qualified individuals in person, by mail, or...

I have acquired additional information related to my earlier posts today (at my blog) on the subject of Barack Obama’s ‘Certification of Live Birth.’ My first post on this subject, Obama Birth Certificate, Fake?, included an analysis that I came across by a blogger named Polarik, who concluded based on “20 years of experience in computers, printers, and typewriters” that the document provided by the Obama campaign (and published by Daily Kos) was manufactured. In a subsequent post, Certification of Birth from Hawaii: Where’s the Seal?, I showed a ‘Certification of Live Birth’ from Honolulu County for Patricia Decosta, which...

From today's New York Daily News: Sharpton Gets Big Gun to Fend Off Feds, by John Marzulli: Facing an escalating federal probe into his charity's finances, the Rev. Al Sharpton now has his own muscle: former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Zachary Carter. Sharpton said Thursday he hired Carter - a respected ex-prosecutor - to represent him and his National Action Network because he thinks the probe has become politicized. ... Prosecutors and the IRS have been investigating whether Sharpton misstated the amount of money he raised during his 2004 run for President in order to qualify for matching federal funds. They...

t seems that someone with an YouTube username of oswaldo123432 is pretty pissed off with Larry Sinclair. If you are not aware, Larry Sinclair is someone who has made allegations against Obama claiming that Obama has used drugs and participated in homosexual acts in 1999. I heard about this story a while back but have never posted anything about it. Mr Sinclair is scheduled to give a press conference about these allegations on Wednesday which means this is becoming news. I don’t know if I believe this one or not, but it is what it is. Well it appears that...

The question of weather Barack Hussien Obama is a Muslim, ever was a Muslim, is a good or bad guy brand of Muslim, is still haunting Barack Obama. As he scrambles to set up an internet war room to counter what he calls e-mail lies and smears, allegedly being spread about him, Obama continues to deny that he was ever a Muslim, or that he ever went to a Muslim school. I wrote nearly 3 months ago facts about Obama's Muslim & Communist ties including photos. There is so much Obama baggage it just keeps building and building until it...

In an offensive mode, the blog Firedoglake continues its forceful opposition to letting Larry Sinclair have a forum at the National Press Club. Here is the latest email from Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake: "This morning a group of volunteers delivered nearly 11,500 petition signatures to the National Press Club asking them to check the facts of Larry Sinclair's story before giving him the stage. "But it looks like we need to keep pressure on the National Press Club getting the message yet. "Friday, as news was getting around Washington about our petition, the president of the National Press Club, Sylvia...

Via Jeralyn at TalkLeft: Barack Obama and John McCain are in a statistical dead heat according to the Daily Gallup tracking poll. Why? Seems to me to be the high number of undecideds combined with those who won’t vote for either. As Karl Rove has been mentioning frequently on Fox News, during the same general pre-convention time period, Michael Dukakis enjoyed a 12-14% advantage over George W. Bush. The key appears to be the large number of undecided voters or those who do not wish to vote for either candidate. Why is this so, and how can we take advantage...

“Excuse me folks, I’m going to say this. We ought to find the people who are doing this, take them out and shoot them. Really. You take them out - they are traitors to this country - and shoot them. You have a problem with that? Deal with it. You shoot them. You call them traitors - that’s what they are - and you shoot them dead. I’ll pay for the bullets. How about you take Mark Dice out and put him in the middle of a firing range. Tie him to a post, don’t blindfold him, let it rip...

For a movie called "The Happening" not much happens. M. Night Shyamalan effectively delivers the usual broody air of foreboding that has been a trademark of his hits ("The Sixth Sense" and "Signs") and misses ("Lady in the Water" and "Unbreakable"). And this fear-mongering story of an airborne toxin that causes victims to snuff themselves in nasty ways shoving hairpins into their throats, hurling themselves en masse off a high rise, the like induces plenty of seat-squirming. The shock value wears off quickly, though, and writer-director Shyamalan strands us (along with Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) in an ultimately boring...

Two weeks before the seventh anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001--the worst attacks on American soil in the nation's history--the Democratic Party, barring a last-minute upset, will formally pick a Presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama II, whose Kenyan cousin covertly supports Al Qaeda. Raila Odinga, Kenya's current prime minister and opposition leader made a huge fortune during his stint as energy minister by dealing with incredibly rich, Islamist-funding Saudis and Libya's deranged dictator, the terrorist sponsor Muammar Khadaffy. More recently, Odinga promised his country's Al Qaeda-associated Islamists that he would impose Islamic law on all Kenyans,...

Let me be clear from the start. I do not know if Larry Sinclair is telling the truth about his relationship with Senator Obama. I made decision some time back that I would wait and see where this story went and how it played out. Do I believe Larry Sinclair's story of a night of passion with Obama? No. Too many intangibles. No physical proof. So, I believe I will sit back and observe on this one. I do not want it to be said that I am peddling rumor and innuendo. Besides, I am terribly afraid of Obama's hit...

The following changes have been made in the Wednesday June 18, 2008 News Conference originally scheduled for the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club. The event is now scheduled for Wednesday, June 18, 2008 from 1-5:00 PM in the HOLEMAN LOUNGE at the National Press Club. This change was due to capacity in the Lisagor Room was a maximum of 40 people. The Holeman Lounge has a capacity of 110. In addition the Holeman Lounge is available from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM It is also my understanding that a very special guest will attend to provide moral support.

Hot on the heels of my column yesterday, "Islam in America's Public Schools: Education or Indoctrination?," which included mention of the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Fairfax, Virginia, comes news that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has released its findings from a review of the school's textbooks and found that they promote hatred, intolerance, and violence. As reported by the Associated Press: -The authors of a 12th-grade text on Koranic interpretation state that apostates (those who convert from Islam), adulterers and people who murder Muslims can be permissibly killed. -The authors of a 12th-grade text on monotheism write...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday dismissed accusations from two United States lawmakers that it had hacked their office computers as alarmist and unfounded.

It seems the Barack Obama Camp are running scared and desperate now that I have secured the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club for Wed. June 18, 2008. THE OBAMA WAR ROOM HAS ALREADY BEGUN ITS HARASSMENT DIRECTED AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB AS HAS THE OBAMA BLOGGERS. The Obama “Internet War Room” has begun a ridiculous attempt at an internet smear against me as referenced below. Anyone with information on the identity of the individual pictured please forward it to the US Attorneys Office in DC since this person is claiming to engage in sex for money. It...

With the ink barely dry on the verdict form in one trial, a federal judge on Monday set a trial date for Tony Rezko's next case. The trial for the onetime influential political fund-raiser is set to start Feb. 2, 2009. It involves a $10 million loan fraud scheme. Rezko allegedly asked a former state official, Ali Ata, to doctor up a letter to help secure loans for his pizza franchises, as part of the case. On Wednesday, a federal jury convicted Rezko of far-reaching fraud tied to state deals. He surrendered to jail immediately. In limbo now is a...

Her/his blog begins with this header: "THOSE WHO ASK "WHO + WHAT" = USE OR ABUSE POWER = MANY REPUBLICANS SOME DEMOCRATS = NON INCLUSIVE THOSE WHO ASK "WHEN + WHERE" = WILL ACT / ACTION = SOME REPUBLICANS + DEMOCRATS = PARTIALLY INCLUSIVE THOSE WHO ASK "WHY + HOW" = SHOWS EMPATHY = MANY DEMOCRATS SOME REPUBLICANS = INCLUSIVE GEORGE "CUSTER" BUSH = "ABUSES POWER" + " ACTION" = "CUSTERS LAST SURGE",SPEAKS EMPATHY IN WORDS NOT ACTIONS HILLARY CLINTON = USES ACTION + EMPATHY / REASONING = LACKS SOME UNDERSTANDING OF POWER RESPECT BARACK OBAMA = POWER + ACTION...

Barack Obama campaigns with promises of change and he regularly blasts corporate insiders yet a high-ranking campaign advisor and top fundraiser has received millions of dollars in the sort of highly questionable loans that the Illinois Senator blames for infecting the economy and creating a home foreclosure crisis. A major newspaper broke the story over the weekend that contradicts Obama’s infamous change rhetoric and ardent critiques of well-connected corporate insiders who get perks that most Americans cannot even fathom. It turns out that the bundler (committed to raising at least $100,000) who is in charge of finding Obama a running...

Supporters close to Barack Obama said that the senator and presidential nominee has had an encounter with the paranormal. According to the supporters, Obama was visited by the ghost of Vincent Foster, former Clinton aide and conspiracy subject, while staying at the notoriously haunted Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. Gil Gerard Shayweather, a supporter of Obama said, “The senator told us that Foster came to him and said simply, ‘You got two Clintons who are about one stray bullet away from the White House, you do the math,’” Shayweather said. “It was very creepy.” “Foster then told Obama that...

Know what your candidate is going to push for once in office, I firmly believe. For those folks out there who are considering Obama as their candidate and who are also law-abiding gun owners, there’s some things you should know. FACT: Barack Obama voted to allow reckless lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry. FACT: Barack Obama wants to re-impose the failed and discredited Clinton Gun Ban. FACT: Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting. FACT: Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership. FACT: Barack Obama supports local...

Commentary OK. I'll acknowledge this. Tim Russert, the host of NBC's Meet the Press, has developed into a good journalist. But just a few years ago, it would be easy to say Russert's roots were showing and I'm not talking about hair color. You see, before suddenly becoming a journalist, Tim Russert worked as a political hack for the Democratic Party. Russert was a former counselor to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and New York Governor Mario Cuomo after that, before being hired by NBC in 1984. It's clear to anyone who watches Russert today he has come a long way....

Barack Obama's friend, financier and political supporter Tony Rezko was convicted by a Chicago jury today on sixteen counts involving various forms of political corruption. Obama released this statement: I’m saddened by today’s verdict. This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform. I encourage the General Assembly to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent these kinds of abuses in the future. I don't doubt that Obama is saddened by his mentor's conviction, but the rest of his...

With all this talk of Hillary as VP, I thought it only logical and prudent to review the various and sundry ways in which many former unlucky associates of the Clintons have met their fates. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June, after all. Go to the link and scroll down to the Clinton Body Count. Review the list of macabre and creative deaths on the Clinton Body Count, and let America know which one is your favorite! Disclaimer: Ovrtaxt takes no responsibility for any wagering or gambling of any type, with respect to possible future events. Such activity is illegal...

Plausible deniability - keep that in mind for the coming days and weeks. Clinton needs to derail the Obama Express somehow without the entire planet figuring out that her campaign and/or surrogates were behind the dirty deed. Right now Clinton has a great case to make for stepping into the breach to replace a damaged Obama campaign. She has the popular vote lead right now in many reasonable scenarios, and the party is clearly split 50-50. Yet all indications are she may suspend her campaign tomorrow in New York. So what gives with this whisper campaign about a video showing...

Here's an interesting exercise: do you see anything wrong with this statement from the NY Times? Mr. Wright, however, emerged from retirement in April and spoke at the National Press Club, offering deeper and broader criticism of the United States and using mocking language. Among other things, he opined that the United States government may have had a hand in creating the AIDS epidemic. Beldar does: This paragraph is one of the most egregious examples I've ever seen of lying by omission. What made Wright's comment so outrageous was not his suggestion that the government "had a hand in creating...

The other day I mentioned a possible pending Michelle Obama bombshell, and it looks like it's getting closer. Republican strategist Roger Stone was interviewed today on Fox News and had this to say: FNC 06/01/2008 14:43:30: …>>> Welcome back to our special coverage live coverage from Puerto Rico. just before the break, Roger Stone the Republican strategist made the comment that Michele Obama used the phrase whitey when describing white people and Michael Brown says bs that is republican dirty tricks as usual. Roger take it away. Michael, you are in the wings. >> This has little to do with...

On 23 March 1989 Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton, UK, and Stanley Pons of the University of Utah, US, announced that they had observed controlled nuclear fusion in a glass jar at room temperature, and — for around a month — the world was under the impression that the world's energy woes had been remedied. But, even as other groups claimed to repeat the pair's results, sceptical reports began trickle in. An editorial in Nature predicted cold fusion to be unfounded. And a US Department of Energy report judged that the experiments did "not provide convincing evidence that...

A court in French-Flanders annulled a marriage since the bride turned out not to be a virgin... The judges came to the conclusion that the bridegroom was deceived concerning an 'essential characteristic' of the bride, who had assured him before the wedding that she was still virgin. Both bride and groom are young French Muslims... The fraud was revealed when on the wedding night the groom could not show blood spots on the sheets to the feasting family. The groom's father brought the bride back to her parents.

It is clear these profs were very naive. Such unusual stock and option buying before a deal would result in SEC scrutiny. Real insider traders no how to hide their tracks. When Gordon Gekko has Bud Fox in the movie Wall Street tip off the financial media to a coming takeover, “Blue horse shoe loves anacot steel”, it’s to create buying from others, to provide cover for Gekko’s own buying. If the SEC questions him, his reply can be, “Hey, I bought because of the news item in the paper and the fact that volume picked up in the stock.”...

We've talked of this on the air, maybe you heard it. But National Review puts it into the printed page (here) and I thank them. As you may know, Obama's "community organizing" was as a trainer with 'ACORN,' a faaaaaaar left, radical group which purports to help the poor, and I'm sure does, sometimes, but also acts as a conduit for far left politics and policies. It was through ACORN and the boards on which he served (which funneled money to ACORN) that he met Weather Underground buddy Bill Ayers. As a 5th Listener to the show responded when we...

A group supporting North American integration is holding its fourth annual "North American Model Parliament" for 100 university students from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The North American Forum on Integration, or NAFI, began is "Triumvirate" sessions Monday in Montreal's City Hall with a plan to conclude Friday. According to the NAFI website, "Triumvirate 2008" brings together the students "to participate in an international negotiation exercise in which they will simulate a parliamentary meeting between North American political actors." Participants are assigned to play one of three roles: a legislator, representing a country other than their own; a journalist; or...

I returned to my apartment building last Saturday night to an unsettling sight. A young, seemingly Arab-American man was sitting smack dab in the middle of the doorstep, accompanied by a bulky backpack and all the while talking to himself and gazing at the cover of the large, leather-bound Koran on his lap. He appeared to be drunk or under the influence of something and when I tried to get past him with a careful, "excuse me," he merely mumbled incoherently. Keeping a watchful eye on him and making sure he wasn't watching back, I managed to get into my...

Richard Landes has produced a 14-minute video accompanying his column on the French court of appeals judgment reversing the defamtion verdict against Phillipe Karsenty in connection with his criticism of the infamous France 2 television report on the death of Muhammad al-Dura: In the asymmetrical warfare of global Jihad against the West, the “weak” side treats the media of the “strong” side as a theater of war, and no single case shows the Western journalism’s vulnerability to this kind of manipulation better than the Al Durah affair. Nothing illustrates the dysfunctions of our media more than their pervasive refusal to...