Bias…or just bad reporting and analysis at the Washington Post?

From the same folks who brought you the reporter who thought the most riveting question of the day at Obama’s first press conference was what he thought about A-Rod’s admitted steroid use comes this gem from its story today on the election results in Israel:

“In many ways, the deep split in the Israeli electorate mirrors the split within the Palestinian government, between the Fatah party that controls the West Bank and the Hamas organization that controls the Gaza Strip.”

You just gotta love those Fatah “moderates”…such peace lovers…especially in comparison to those evil Israeli nationalists leaders such as Bibi, Lieberman, Elon…

WaPo would have us believe that Hamas and Bibi are just two peas in a pod…

Really?

The Washington Post has long had terrible Israel coverage…My question:

Is it bias…or just bad reporting and analysis?

They like us again…

Thanks President-Elect Obama…

They already like us again…

They really do!

The New American Judaism

I am disappointed with American Jews to say the least.  This you would know from my previous posting.

I mean we just can’t ever get it right.

And the fact that we have voted so overwhelmingly for a man who is a mystery when it comes to a lot of issues except Israel and the Jewish People.

What we do know is the friends the President-Elect sought out to catapult his political career do not share the same concerns as Jews.

Rashid Khalidi…former official press liason for the PLO when it was considered a terrorist organization compares Israeli settlers to Osama Bin Laden and the alleged Israeli oppression of the arabs worse than naziism…Obama admitted that Khalidi opened his eyes and he will take what he learned from Khalidi with him forever… (see LA Times – Call To Action , Ask Khalidi )

Rev. Jeremiah Wright…preached black liberation theology, anti-semitic, anti-zionist, racist ideology while Obama sat in his pews for 20 years without condemning his mentor once…

William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn…communist and anti-zionist unrepentant domestic terrorists are his mentors…Obama has condemned their actions but has refused to condemn them personally to this day…

I made mention of his friends many times as not being a diversion of the issues but the core of all issues. (Obama’s friends ,Strange Bedfellows )

His whole campaign void of ideas and substance…consisting of mere slogans…with his consistent bashing of Bush, we can assume at least, he is against anythng Bush is for…and that is not good for Jews as Bush has been the best friend Israel has ever had…

With Obama tapping Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, you will indubitably hear from Jews a collective hurrah!  Solely because he is Jewish?

They will claim he is an orthodox Jew… but that fact alone doesn’t mean all Jews are good for the Jews…this is akin to asserting that Obama’s skin color automatically makes his policies good for blacks…his skin color alone however I will admit should serve to inspire all those of minority groups in the US and world-wide…

As for Rahm, his father sounds cool…but Rahm’s service under Clinton was in coordinating the failed Oslo accords…

You will hear that his father fought in the Irgun…Sounds good to me! But ironically, the Jews trying to defend Obama would in any other situation be the ones claiming the Irgun was a terrorist organization akin to Hamas.  But what does that have to do with Rahm’s policies and priorities?

Nothing.

Dennis Ross, Rahm Emanuel, and other distinguished Jews were destructive in their efforts under Clinton in forcing Israel hand to make concessions for peace with an enemy who did not want peace….and the result was Intifada and deaths of innocent Israelis and Americans.

Peace Now activists all but disappeared from the scene after Clinton’s attempts to push Israel into making painful and fatal concessions to the Palestinian Authority…hopefully the Rahm appointment doesn’t wake all these Peace Now activists up from their slumber again and start Israel down the dangerous path again…

Jews have gone to bat for Obama by asserting Obama is a friend of Israel and the Jewish People because his wife’s first cousin was the “black rabbi” of the southside.  But they will not answer the question why the did he not go to his cousin’s synagogue instead of sitting in the pews of Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years.

But of course Jews will defend their man until the cows come home.

The simple reason:

The new American Judaism.

Today in America secular Jews dominate the scene.  The majority in Jewish opinion circles are non-orthodox.  Where in orthodox Jewish circles you will find more than 80% with conservative ideology, less than 20% of the non-orthodox Jewish circles share the same views.  While secular Jews have retained their cultural identity by enjoying a good bagel with a shmear of cream cheese ( what we call gastronomic Jews), they stopped believing in God…and in fact took the Jewish idea of “fearing God” to a wholly non-Jewish idea of being “scared of God.”  Sadly, secular Jews began thinking it was funny to mock their brethren who do…and unfortunately have condemned our gentile friends of faith as well…they are scared of not just God but those who believe in an existence of such higher spiritual power.

The American Judaism consists of a Jew without Judaism.

Reminiscent of the days of communism when Soviet Jews filled the vacuum created by the lack of religion with a Party…the communist party…secular Jews in America today have filled the vacuum and replaced their religious identity with a Party…it may not be the communist one…but it appears to moving in that direction very quickly…

What a shanda!

Palin defines going rogue…

Palin defines “going rogue” on her return to Anchorage.

When asked by the media about “going rogue,” she responded by asserting that trying to call the press was what her handlers described as her rogueness…

I respect her more every day…

Congratulations Barack Hussein Obama

Congratulations are in order for our new President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama.

Indeed an amazing victory for so many reasons at such a critical time in our young country’s history.

I may oppose the international man of mystery’s policies and judgment, but I am loyal to the US and will always show honor for our president-elect and the office which he will hold, while in America and abroad. To do otherwise would be un-American.

Let us all pray that the Almighty grant him wisdom and strength in doing the right thing.

And may we continue to serve in our role as the loyal opposition.

American tolerance…

With all this talk about hope and change and the change for hope of changing hope, many insist that the change they wanted was a tolerant America….and with Obama at the help we can hope for it…

Remind me who said that the election would not be about race and in the same breath claimed that the republicans would make it all about race…

It is beyond me, that people in America needed this election to prove to themselves and the world that America is beyond racism, bigotry, and hate…

I guess that’s because in the red state from which I hail, all us redneck conservatives of faith already knew that…

As for bigotry and hate, I am not saying that bigotry does not exist…But what I am saying is that America as a whole is beyond racism and those doubters are hopefully now assured of that by our historic election which is an incredible inspiration to people of all races…

I think our real problem remains, however, in the inherent sexism in this country…This is what we should be talking about…Sexism is hate too…and hopefully Obama can prove his naysayers wrong by leading us into an era void of sexism too…

Given Obama’s poor record, all we have is hope to change the discussion from race to gender…

Testing Obama and change…

It is heartwarming to reaffirm what we have always known…America is a place of opportunity for all…no matter one’s race, religion, national origin, (although still worried about that gender thing as I speak of in my blog American Tolerance), and as we saw last night even 2 dimensional figures lacking any substance…I never understood the need to prove to the world that Americans are a tolerant people…especially by electing a man whose substance consists of mere slogans…I hope my concerns are unfounded…

It is now more important than ever before to not just hope…but to make certain he understands that we are watching him…and for a smart guy who does things based on political expediency, unless we make it clear that he will be out of power with a vote just as easily as he and his colleagues have gained power, we must continue to make our voices heard…we can only do that by keeping ourselves educated…

i’m also kind of wondering what happens once all the information the msm and obama have been suppressing for so long finally comes out now that he is elected…actually begins to make headlines…at least it will serve one good purpose…keeping us all involved…

I guarantee you I will continue to be as passionate as ever for the values and principles our great country was founded on…continuing to stand up for all that makes America great…It remains the duty of all Americans to make sure The One and his minions do not trample on our constitution and free market principles…

This just in:
Upon hearing the news of the Obama’s impending presidency, Biden’s words are already ringing true…Obama is being tested…not within 6 months…but within 6 hours…
While Hamas is already praising Obama on his victory Gaza has violated its truce with Israel and has begun firing over 40 missiles into Israel…
Russian president medvedev has called on its military to place short range missiles on its borders to its west…

stay tuned for more tests…

Time to change…

The landslide that was anticipated: Obama wins popular vote…

The landslide that wasn’t: Obama wins the electoral college vote…

I stand with our country in supporting our new President-Elect to do what is right…

While I will remain just as passionate for the values and principles for which I stand, I have also learned how to communicate with the American people…

As such, I implore all Americans to keep up the fight:

It is now time to change the change for the hope of changing hope to hope for change…

I know I am getting through to you now…

Things are going well…

at least for one candidate…

I hope this guy’s voting for McCain…

Prediction: Landslide…

You heard it here first…

Landslide for Obama and McCain…

No that’s not the new ticket…

It’s a landslide for both candidates…

I know I sound confident…but I have proved the pundits wrong consistently…I was one of the first to say McCain would get all mavericky and pick the maverick from Alaska…I said Texas would beat OU…and now I say…

Obama will win the popular vote with huge margins in the millions in each of NY, CA, IL…
McCain will win the electoral college by keeping almost all red states except  a mix of NV, CO, NM and IA, but picking up PA and a possible district in NH…each of the battleground states by the slimmest of margins…and a word to those watching late night exit polling…don’t believe it…just like you shouldn’t believe the polls as they stand right now…

The polls just cannot be right.  The pollsters are basing their polling too heavily weighted in the favor of democrats.  Not only that, the early exit polls show a 1% advantage to democrats nationwide.  But what I haven’t heard is that a significant portion of those democrats are the energetic and enthusiatic voting block of PUMAs.  They have seen first hand the divisive tactics and strategy of intimidation by the Obama campaign during the caucuses.  They have experienced it first hand and are out for blood.  They number more than 4 million strong.  And they are strong! And they will make a difference.

In addition to the PUMAs, too many people are still undecided the day of the election…it seems Obama hasn’t closed the deal…this has nothing to do with the race or the so-called “Bradley Effect.” Too much emphasis has been put on the “Bradley Effect” by the campaign playing the race card the whole election.  The media have even reserved speculation that this may be the reason people will not vote for Obama.  But I believe we are better than that.  This is America.  Murtha might think we are racists, but I have a feeling he may be projecting…

The reason:

Two years without scrutiny by the MSM will not enable Obama to coast his way into the White House.  On the contrary, at the end of the day,  undecided voters will walk into the polling station feeling uneasy about voting for a man about whom they know very little.  The pollsters and the media claim that Americans are not interested in Obama’s nefarious friends and sketchy past.  And Obama rhetoric and oratory skills will not overcome what little undecided voters do know about his associations.

If only the MSM had properly vetted their candidate before anointing him?  Instead, they took it upon themselves to divert the attention away from the issues and in the direction of Palin because neither the Obama campaign nor the media had vetted Palin, and hence they payed to the public as if McCain didn’t. Oh yeah the eve of the election it turns out Palin has been cleared of the politically motivated investigation?  Is it too late for the media to investigate what a great job Obama did with the south side of Chicago?  It doesn’t have to be all negative.  Maybe they can produce a friend of Obama’s from before he was sworn in as a US senator from whom Obama is not distancing himself.

With all the new-found information about Obama, that the MSM has been suppressing for so long, finally coming up to the surface for all to view only now, if given another 5 days who wouldn’t guarantee a McCain victory?  Imagine how many great new ads would hit the air waves.  Coal states…check. Jewish and Christian Zionists…check. Free market capitalists…check.  Defenders of the Constitution…check.  All in the McCain column.

But I believe McCain doesn’t need 5 more days…and I really don’t think I could handle 5 more days. McCain has the momentum and the undecided voters will almost entirely break for McCain.  It’s a lot easier to supplant doubt in one’s mind, than to convince him you are The One.  As a result I think time may have run out on Obama and not the reverse, as conventional wisdom would have you think.  In addition to the experienced and well oiled machine that is the traditional republican get out the vote effort and the strength on the ground of the democrats for McCain who have been fighting against Obama for over a year, independent groups like GOPtrust.com, Team Sarah, the RJC, and a host of others exploiting Biden gaffes and Obama’s associations and policies, the McCain campaign has done enough to plant the seeds of doubt which will blossom into a McCain-Palin Victory.

McCain-282 Obama-256

Update: or not…

It appears the American people have chosen hope for the change of changing hope for change over substance…