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Saturday, September 09, 2006
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Via Ed Brayton, this publisher's description of the new Dinesh D'Souza book:
In THE ENEMY AT HOME, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza makes the startling claim that the 9/11 attacks and other terrorist acts around the world can be directly traced to the ideas and attitudes perpetrated by America’s cultural left.
D’Souza shows that liberals—people like Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bill Moyers, and Michael Moore—are responsible for fostering a culture that angers and repulses not just Muslim countries but also traditional and religious societies around the world. Their outspoken opposition to American foreign policy—including the way the Bush administration is conducting the war on terror—contributes to the growing hostility, encouraging people both at home and abroad to blame America for the problems of the world. He argues that it is not our exercise of freedom that enrages our enemies, but our abuse of that freedom—from the sexual liberty of women to the support of gay marriage, birth control, and no-fault divorce, to the aggressive exportation of our vulgar, licentious popular culture.
The cultural wars at home and the global war on terror are usually viewed as separate problems. In this groundbreaking book, D’Souza shows that they are one and the same. It is only by curtailing the left’s attacks on religion, family, and traditional values that we can persuade moderate Muslims and others around the world to cooperate with us and begin to shun the extremists in their own countries.
So, basically, the Jihadists are right: American values and liberals are evil, and the only way to stop the Jihadists is to get to the liberals so the Jihadists don't have to. Sounds a bit like appeasement to me. If they can't defeat the Jihadists, and American Conservatives can't, then I guess they'll join them.
1:04:46 PM 
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For whatever reason, ABC has decided to become part and parcel of the conservative movement:
One of the agents, Thomas E. Nicoletti, was hired by the producers of the mini-series in July 2005 to oversee its technical accuracy, but left after less than a month because of scenes he believed were misleading or just false.
“There were some of the scenes that were total fiction,” said Mr. Nicoletti, who served as a supervisory special agent and a member of the joint terrorism task force before retiring in 2003. “I told them unless they were changing this, I could not have my name associated with it.”
Chief among Mr. Nicoletti’s concerns were scenes that placed people at places they had not been present at and scenes that depicted events that were out of chronological order.
“There were so many inaccuracies,” he said.
Mr. Nicoletti said he asked the producers to make changes, but was rebuffed. “I’m well aware of what’s dramatic license and what’s historical inaccuracy,” Mr. Nicoletti said. “And this had a lot of historical inaccuracy.”
There is no reason not to fix historical inaccuracies unless you wish to produce a product with a particular and unsupported by the facts slant. ABC is taking one of the most important moments of modern American history and deliberately lying about it, all in the apparent attempt to bolster Republicans in the coming elections.
(Via Lean Left.)
12:46:54 PM
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John Peterson (R-Pa.) writes a letter to the President.
"Mr. President, our current energy crisis is self-imposed - the product of a failed national energy policy that for years has encouraged growth in demand for clean-burning natural gas, while at the same time working furiously to lock away supply," Peterson wrote in a letter sent Friday. "(I)t is with frustration that I write to you today, disappointed by what I consider your administration's failure to deal with the challenging circumstances facing American energy consumers and producers right now."
(Via First Draft.)
12:34:05 PM
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