September 24, 2001 New Yorker Cover, Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly
Posted: September 11, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: 9/11, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, NYC, The New Yorker, World Trade Center Leave a commentAre Conservatives a Little Paranoid? The Obama Administration has ‘Richly Earned Citizens’ Distrust’, says David French
Posted: May 11, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Think Tank, War Room, White House | Tags: 9/11, Al Gore, Berkeley, Bush Administration, Conspiracy, Coup, Dissent, George W. Bush, Global warming, Hillary Clinton, IRS, Mark Halperin, Misconduct, Paranoia, Pope, Sedevacantism, University of California Leave a commentNo, the Obama administration isn’t going to invade Texas
David French writes:
…Let’s not forget that more than half of Democrat voters thought it was “very” or “somewhat” likely that the Bush administration either “assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.” Let that sink in: For all the elite’s disdain of allegedly gullible conservatives, a majority of the Left believed that an American president was complicit in mass murder.
[Disagreement as Mental Illness]
[Cultural Conservatives Have Barely Begun to Fight]
[The P.C. Thought Police Aren’t Fragile; They’re Vengeful and Malicious]
But extreme paranoia wasn’t limited to the Democratic rank and file. As National Review’s own Rich Lowry pointed out, Naomi Wolf (former campaign consultant to Bill Clinton and Al Gore) actually wrote a book explaining how the Bush administration was mirroring the early actions of dictatorships like those in Germany, Russia, and China. Harper’s Magazine published breathless stories about a barely averted Bush administration “coup” or “military dictatorship.” Even as recently as 2013, the National Journal published an article claiming that military officers were considering “staging a coup” against President Obama — the basis for the claim was a series of statements by a retired general who specifically declared that no coup was being contemplated.
[Democrats Push to Criminalize Dissent]
[The Burdens of Thought Policing]
In this atmosphere of earned distrust, it is appropriate for elected officials to ask questions about even benign and well-meaning military exercises. No, the Obama administration isn’t going to invade Texas or Utah. Yes, there are some bottom-dwelling, opportunistic conspiracy-mongers who’ve done their best to whip up public concern. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Interview’ New York Premiere Canceled
Posted: December 16, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: 9/11, North Korea, Seth Rogan, The Interview, Variety Magazine Leave a comment‘We Featured Him For His Hair, Not Terrorism’
Posted: November 6, 2014 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: 9/11, Hair Removal, Hairy, Hemen Dene, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Meme, NRO, Terrorism, Turkish 1 Comment
9/11 Mastermind Featured in Turkish Hair Removal Ad
“We didn’t know that he was a terrorist. This image is in popular use in Turkish memes on the Internet. The guy is quite hairy, so we thought his body was a good fit for our ad.”
— Turkish cosmetics company
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