When the ideas of the left come into view, the themes often include the closing of Guantanamo, attacks on the Patriot Act, opposition to military recruitment on campuses, casual mockery of patriotism and a failure to admit that defeating terrorism will require some tradeoffs between security and civil liberties. (Emphasis added)
Meanwhile, Islamofascists are preparing to kill more London commuters.
8/22/05 — Michael Graham was fired.
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Michael Graham’s instincts were correct. He was suspended for calling Islam a terror organization. As long as the radio station isn’t run by the government, WMAL is within its rights to can him, as weak-willed as it may be.
Read the column that started it all.
Michael and I chatted briefly at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, and I was impressed that he knew who was. He’ll emerge from this wiser, bolder, and richer. Can’t wait for his book. 
I support you 100 percent, Michael.
Contact WMAL and tell them what you think.
(Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)
Update: A commenter says his e-mail to WMAL bounced back. Use this contact form. The switchboard telephone number is 202-686-3100, programming is 202-895-2327.
Update II (7/30): Michael Graham speaks.
Update III (7/31): Attention new readers and commenters: Please read the comment policy. I blame the fundamental misunderstanding of the First Amendment on our shoddy government schools.
When they’re not leaving phony comments attributed to me on other blogs, this is what they do.
Update (6:25 p.m.): Meanwhile…I’m taking the weekend off to get my thoughts together for this conference. As I begin to speak at more conferences, generate more publicity, and publish that first book, I suspect more lonely, anonymous slobs will scamper from under their damp and filthy rocks to see what La Shawn Barber does next.
Obsession is not good for the soul.
Update II (7/31): The revolution will be televised.
…in exchange for quality services.
And it’s too weak for words. The Radio Equalizer has a few questions.
This is what happens when you rely on taxpayers’ money to get your awful radio outlet off the ground instead of competing and meeting the market’s demands (like conservative talk radio), a symptom of a tragic disease known as America-Utopia Socialism Delirium.
It doesn’t occur to these infected folks that if there were a demand for their product, they wouldn’t need to divert government funds from poor black kids in New York. Advertisers would be more than willing to fill their coffers.
But, alas, the we-care-so-much-about-you-black-folks flakes are on the dole, too.
Related: Air America Allegedly Stole Money From Poor Black Kids in New York
(Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)
Also see Robin Hood and Air America.
John at Discriminations, one of my almost-daily reads, blogs about the Pontiac Fire Department’s skin color quota system. Quotas are supposed to be illegal in the U.S., but then again, so is skin color discrimination, sanctioned by the government.
In what I’d call tragic irony, the U.S. government, the same one that allows skin color discrimination in hiring and public university admissions, is suing the city of Pontiac, Michigan, for setting quotas, which is skin color discrimination.
Warning: Run-on sentence below.
Exactly how businesses and governments are supposed to hire lesser qualified minorities without having a “reasonable” idea of a number to aim for to satisfy the EEOC’s (a total waste of space and money) labyrinthine formula for hiring lesser qualified minorities and without being sued by the government for setting up a quota system designed to make the determination, is a dilemma, an unintended consequence of government-sanctioned race discrimination.
I’ve heard people say, in the same breath, they’re against quotas but support affirmative action, without the slightest idea that what they just said was total nonsense.
Any disparity between the number of blacks in a particular place of employment and their percentage in the general population is considered intentional discrimination. To non-bureaucrat types, especially those blessed with a rare quality, common sense, this is patently ridiculous. But fat government grants, contracts, and heavy PR causes some people to lose what little minds they had in the first place. If you think I exaggerate, read this gobbledygook and judge for yourselves.
Also see Adversity.net’s comment on the so-called Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, which are nothing more than quota guidelines obfuscated with bureaucratese. While you’re there, check out the whole site.
Related posts:
Jeff Jarvis has crossed over to the Geek Side WordPress (good move!), and he hits the ground running in “Snob.” Some mainstream media person named Bob Cauthorn is blogging and displaying non-blogger-like behavior.
Cauthorn wrote: “Memo to mainstream media: You don’t get to blog…You have a publishing apparatus. So you don’t get to blog. You have a broadcasting apparatus. So you don’t get to blog.”
And Jeff responds:
Who are you, Cauthorn, to say who can and who cannot blog?You are trying to import the worst traits of old, big media — exclusion, snobbishness, the closed club — to citizens’ media. And it is most unbecoming, especially since you served in both worlds, since you yourself are a mainstream media guy who is now, uh, blogging (can you smell the irony, Bob?).
You tell him, Jeff. I may dislike certain liberal bloggers as much as they dislike me, but I wouldn’t dream of telling them they shouldn’t blog or what to blog about, even when they’re blogging negatively about me.
Jeff will be on Pundit Review radio this Sunday.
It could be poor print ad sales in general or Newsweek’s notorious anti-America bias that’s turning advertisers off.
Whatever the reason, I hope their “ad pages” continue to drop.
Related:
8/22/05 — Michael Graham was fired.
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“Islam is a terror organization.”
The Roots of Islamic Terrorism:
The nature of the terrorist threat is unambiguously Islamic and is not so much a deviation from Muslim tradition as an appeal to it. Al Qaeda’s ideology draws on two traditions to legitimize itself: one classical, the other modern.Regarding classical Islam, the oft-quoted remark that Islam is a religion of peace is false. It is historically illiterate to claim that war is foreign to Islam and it is theologically uninformed to argue that jihad is merely a personal inner struggle with no external military correlate.
The Crisis of Islam book review:
A Middle East expert, Lewis proffers that Americans are puzzled by this venomous sentiment because their general level of historical knowledge is “abysmally low.†Muslims, however, are defined by their history: who they are, where they came from, and what they perceive as God’s purpose for their lives. “For [Osama] bin Laden, his declaration of war against the United States marks the resumption of the struggle for religious dominance of the world that began in the seventh century,†Lewis writes.For example, to the Middle East, President Bush is just a successor in a long line of rulers — from the Byzantine emperors of Constantinople, the Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna, Queen Victoria, and other European imperialists — who are serious impediments to the divinely ordained expansion of Islam, merely delaying its inevitable conquest. Without understanding how important history is to followers of Islam and how important it should be to Americans, the confusion will continue.
Update: Brits turned down our request to arrest one of the London bombing suspects a month ago. See ThoughtsOnline.
