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September 2013

Holocaust Denial in Translation What Iran’s President Really Told CNN About Nazis and the Jews. WSJ

Reasonableness at last. That was the general reaction Wednesday to the news that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appeared to acknowledge and condemn the Holocaust during an interview this week with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Previous President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had rarely missed an opportunity to call the Nazi genocide of six million Jews a “myth.” But Mr. Rouhani has adopted a more tempered tone, and the world longs to see him as someone with whom “we can do business together,” as Margaret Thatcher once said about Mikhail Gorbachev.

One problem: The words attributed to Mr. Rouhani are not what he said.

According to CNN’s translation of Mr. Rouhani’s remarks, the Iranian President insisted that “whatever criminality they [the Nazis] committed against the Jews, we condemn.” Yet as Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars pointed out, Mr. Rouhani never uttered anything approximating those words. Nor, contrary to the CNN version, did he utter the word “Holocaust.” Instead, he spoke about “historical events.” Our independent translation of Mr. Rouhani’s comments confirms that Fars, not CNN, got the Farsi right.

So what did Mr. Rouhani really say? After offering a vague indictment of “the crime committed by the Nazis both against the Jews and the non-Jews,” he insisted that “I am not a history scholar,” and that “the aspects that you talk about, clarification of these aspects is a duty of the historians and researchers.”

ACTOR SAMUEL JACKSON SOUNDS OFF AGAINST OBAMA “‘Stop Trying To Relate, Be F–king Presidential’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/samuel-l-jackson-obama_n_3987808.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D381659

(The actor’s use of the f-word is not out of anger. He has said that using the term “motherf**kers” helped stop his stutter.) HUH???? RSK

Samuel L. Jackson did not mince words when he said President Obama needs to “stop trying to ‘relate'” and “be f–king presidential.”

The 64-year-old recently gave a candid interview to Playboy’s Stephen Rebello. The discussion opened with talk of his new flick with Spike Lee, “Oldboy,” and then turned to talk of linguistic errors in society today. Jackson told an anecdote about how, when he was younger, he always made sure to address his elders properly. Nowadays, he sees people on Twitter who don’t even know the difference between “your” and “you’re.” (To which the actor asked: “How the f–k did we become a society where mediocrity is acceptable?”)

Rebello raised the point that even highly educated people, including Barack Obama, consciously drop g’s from words in order to sound more like the average Joe.

“First of all, we know it ain’t because of his blackness, so I say stop trying to ‘relate,'” Jackson replied while chatting with the men’s magazine in West Hollywood. “Be a leader. Be f–king presidential. Look, I grew up in a society where I could say ‘It ain’t’ or ‘What it be’ to my friends. But when I’m out presenting myself to the world as me, who graduated from college, who had family who cared about me, who has a well-read background, I f–king conjugate.”

He then addressed comments he made last year to Ebony magazine, saying he hopes “Obama gets scary in the next four years.” Alas, he doesn’t think much has changed since then, due to the political deadlock in Washington.

“He got a little heated about the kids getting killed in Newtown and about the gun law,” he told Playboy. “He’s still a safe dude. But with those Republicans, we’re now in a situation where even if he said, ‘I want to give you motherf–kers a raise,’

ANNE BAYEFSKY: ROUHANI GIVES OBAMA COVER TO DELAY, DELAY, DELAY

  http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/ President Obama’s standing on the world stage took another nosedive Wednesday at the UN General Assembly. According to White House officials, the president of the world’s leading democracy was prepared to shake hands with the president of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism – and the terrorist turned the democrat down. The […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: WHAT IS THE GOP STRATEGY AGAINST OBAMACARE?

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/09/25/whats-gop-establishment-strategy-against-obamacare/

In mounting their case against Senators Ted Cruz, House conservatives, and the grass-roots campaign to defund Obamacare, the Republican establishment and its like-minded scribes pound an oft-repeated talking point into conventional wisdom: Cruz cannot win.

In this telling, the senator has recklessly embarked on a populist campaign that taps into public anger over Obamacare but has no winning endgame. The Beltway clerisy elaborates that Cruz and his defunding partner, Senator Mike Lee, have failed to account for the Democratic majority and procedural rules that control the Senate. These purportedly immovable obstacles guarantee that the defunding measure they spurred the House to pass cannot be enacted into law. Therefore, conventional wisdom now holds, the only outcomes Cruz & Co. can hope for are (a) an ignominious, demoralizing defeat that will strengthen President Obama’s hand or (b) a stalemate between the House, on the one hand, and the Senate and Obama, on the other — a stalemate that will result in a government shutdown that, in turn, will grievously harm Republican electoral prospects.

There is a good deal wrong with this analysis. I’ve already described some of it in a recent post, and there will be more to say on it. But I want to explore a different topic that the establishment potshots at Cruz, Lee and House conservatives have obscured:

What is the GOP establishment’s strategy for undoing Obamacare?

TONY ABBOTT AMD JULIE BISHOP INTEND TO REVERS THE ANTI-ISRAEL DIRECTION IN AUSTRALIA’S VOTING PATTERMS IN THE UN

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/unstinting-support-for-israel-back-in-place/story-e6frg76f-1226727165855TONY Abbott and Julie Bishop intend to reverse the anti-Israel direction in Australia’s voting pattern in UN resolutions that Kevin Rudd oversaw as prime minister and foreign minister, and which Bob Carr continued. This is an immensely important sign of the Coalition government’s values and direction. Canberra will revert to the voting pattern established by […]

Iran and the Nuclear Chicken by Ali Salim

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3988/iran-nuclear-chicken The use of weapons of mass destruction to kill civilians in Syria is merely the preview for the main event, which, as soon as Iran’s nuclear project is completed, will be, in the name of Allah, the destruction of entire nations — especially those with oil — as the Saudis see better than anyone. […]

NEW YORK MUSLIM DAY PARADE PARTICIPANTS CARRY AL-QAEDA FLAGS!!!! DANIEL GREENFIELD

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/new-york-muslim-day-parade-marchers-carry-al-qaeda-jihad-flags/ Some are held by spectators and others by marchers in the parade meaning that the organizers of the parade had to approve marchers carrying Jihadist symbols. I can’t think of any other group that would be allowed parade around with blatant terrorist insignia in the city that those same terrorists attacked. Muslims will claim […]

CAIR Honors Leading Interfaith Islamist Posted By Ryan Mauro

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/cair-honors-leading-interfaith-islamist/ The rest of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network is admiring the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) for its success in forging interfaith partnerships. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that its 19th annual banquet will honor the Islamist that has become the face of that success: Sayyid Syeed of ISNA. CAIR […]

Obama’s Enabling of Islam’s War on Christians — on The Glazov Gang

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/crucified-again-on-the-glazov-gang/

This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by Raymond Ibrahim, the Freedom Center’s Shillman Fellow and the author of the new book, ”Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.”

Raymond shed light on Obama’s Enabling of Islam’s War on Christians. The discussion occurred within the context of a larger dialogue about Islam’s new war on Christians, the Brotherhood’s Church-burning sprees, its rape gangs, and Egyptians’ anger at Obama.

Raymond also discussed the hypocrisy of Obama’s call for war against Assad, the Syrian rebels’ plans to annihilate Syria’s Christians, and the media’s cover-up of the whole Islamic war against Christians.

To watch the interview, see below:

REMEMBERING THE CONSTITUTION: A NEEDED REFRESHER COURSE ON THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/25/editorial-remembering-the-constitution/ Everyone can use a reminder of the principles that made America the exceptional nation. That’s why Congress established Sept. 17 as Constitution Day, marking the anniversary of the adoption of that remarkable document. Robert Van Tuinen, a student at Modesto Junior College in California’s Central Valley, learned the hard way that eternal vigilance is […]