One of Hamas’ main command bunkers is located beneath Shifa HOSPITAL in Gaza City.
Yes, a hospital. And it’s no SECRET that it’s there!
On July 15, 2014, William Booth of the Washington Post wrote that the hospital “has become a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can be seen in the hallways and offices.”
Back in 2006, PBS aired a documentary showing gunmen denying hospital staff access to protected locations within the building.
During the three weeks of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, Hamas has been caught using not just hospitals, but also mosques and schools to hide militants and weapons, all of which are contrary to international rules of war created to protect civilians. When their actions result in casualties to their own people, they publish bloody photos and blame the Israelis.
On July 28, 2014, Hamas attempted to fire a rocket with a 220 lbs warhead at central Israel from a playground outside the Shifa hospital. It exploded on the site, wounding and killing dozens. Palestinians blamed the explosion on an Israeli air strike.
So why are reporters presenting Israel as the aggressor and Hamas as the victim? Because, unlike Hamas, Israel has never kidnapped or murdered any journalists who made them look bad. Currently, Hamas is refusing to allow any journalists to leave Gaza and at least one who failed to submit Hamas propaganda to his editors has been subjected to Hamas interrogation.
Instead of believing pro-Hamas news reports, listen to what Hamas actually says and does.
Hamas Sermon from the Gaza Strip: “We will totally exterminate you. We will not leave a single one of you alive.”– July 2014
PunditFact (a division of PolitiFact) is a left-wing “fact-checking” site that very selectively chooses and evaluates statements based on a Leftist agenda. So what a TOTAL SHOCK (read: completely expected) that the majority of said statements that had been heard on FOX turned out to be like totally false!
I mean like oh em gee … Fox lies like all the time!
All you really have here is a politically-driven “conclusion” to a “study” that was based on kindergarten methodology in order to give Leftie talking heads and tweeters something they can repeat to discourage their mindless followers from tuning in to FOX News.
Kevin D. Williamson writes,
The deeper problem with PunditFact is the bias in how it evaluates statements. Consider two structurally identical questions: In the first, it considered Chris Wallace’s claim that Hillary Clinton had “defended Syria’s President Assad as a possible reformer at the start of that country’s civil war.” That statement, the editors decided, was only half-true, because that was “not expressly her opinion.” Rather, she had said that members of Congress of both parties who had visited Syria had suggested that Assad was a possible reformer. (Never mind that Mrs. Clinton’s claim is itself untrue, a three-Pinocchio offender in the Washington Post’s judgment.)
In the second instance, PunditFact considered a claim from Bill O’Reilly, made during an interview with President Barack Obama, that he had not accused the administration of obscuring the motive behind the Benghazi attack for political reasons. O’Reilly had in fact interviewed people who said that, but he himself had not made that claim. PunditFact nonetheless rates it “mostly false,” because O’Reilly had, in its view, “nurtured suspicion.” Mr. O’Reilly and Mrs. Clinton were engaged in precisely the same rhetorical strategy: the time-honored Washington dodge of using others to suggest indirectly what you think or suspect yourself, e.g. “it’s a serious charge,” “some have said,” “it has been suggested that,” etc. In both cases, the statement was made on Fox News, but Mrs. Clinton gets a pass (“not expressly her opinion”) while Mr. O’Reilly gets labeled a liar — for precisely the same thing.This is what simple bias looks like.
Poll Question 16. Now not thinking about whether you agree or disagree with President Obama’s policies and programs, but thinking about the competence and effectiveness of his administration, how competent would you say the Obama administration is in its role of managing the federal government?
Obama (June 2014 aftermath of invasion of Iraq)vs. Bush (March 2006 aftermath of Hurricane Katrina)
Very competent: 11% vs. 14%
Somewhat competent: 39% vs. 39%
Not too competent: 19% vs. 22%
Not competent at all: 31% vs. 24%
Note: When looking at these numbers, factor in the scathingly unfair media coverage Bush suffered through in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina vs. the lapdog slobbering Obama has enjoyed since before his first day as a presidential candidate.
For example, the media repeatedly pushed the “Bush doesn’t care” meme by reprinting the photo of him looking at the devastation from high above in Air Force One.
They also screamed about how he went to his ranch for two days, which no “compassionate president” would do. How much have you ever heard about the fact that while Iraq burned, Obama went fund-raising and golfing in Palm Springs? Or that he played cards with his peeps during the bin Laden raid? Or that NOBODY KNOWS where he was or what he was doing while the embassy in Benghazi was under armed assault?
After Katrina, the media harped on the fact that Bush didn’t make his first ground visit until two days after the hurricane hit, as if this was a sign that he didn’t care, rather than what it really was – a sign that (a) POTUS doesn’t go places until the Secret Service ensures it is safe and (b) a visit by POTUS is disruptive to humanitarian and rescue operations. Overall, Bush made more than half a dozen on-the-ground visits … while the media continued to reprint the AF1 photo.
After Katrina, the media also harped on the pathetic response by national government, which was always “BOOSH’s fault!”, ignoring the fact that (a) disaster relief is a state function and that (b) the then-Democrat government in Louisiana and New Orleans were the truly incompetent and obstructive factors in delaying relief.
Now … given all that … isn’t it EXTRAORDINARY that Obama’s “competence” numbers are now WORSE?!
The LA Times is irked about the 2006 book “Who Really Cares,” by Arthur C. Brooks, in which Brooks reported on a DECADE of research, both within the United States and overseas, into the single question of how one’s political beliefs affect one’s personal charitable behavior.
Brooks wrote in his preface that he was raised liberal and went into this field specifically to prove to conservatives that liberals were more charitable. After ten years of finding out he was wrong, wrong and wrong (even abroad), he gave it up and admitted that right-wingers give a larger percentage of their money and more of their time and blood than left-wingers, even when donations to churches are removed.
Point One: Brooks’ research was his dedicated field of study for a decade. He was TRYING to prove liberals were more generous. He failed.The LA Times article supposedly trashes all that with ONE study slapped together by two guys at MIT? Riiiiiiiiight.
Point Two:The MIT and LA Times both stressed that conservatives only give more because they’re generous personally AND to their churches. There are two problems with this. The major one is that Brooks addressed that and found it to be incorrect. There’s a whole bunch of stuff about that in his book … which I read. In fact, I own it. He found that conservatives give more overall AND give a larger percentage of their income and more volunteer hours to both church and to non-church charities; heck we even give more blood!
Also, the attitude expressed in the article is that church donations are inherently “not generous”, because churches only use the money to benefit their own wealthy members. Obviously, these people actually believe that churches are just really boring country clubs, which makes me suspect they have (a) not read Brooks’ book and (b) never spent any time in a real church. Where I live, the kitchen cupboard, soup kitchen, homeless shelter, thrift shop, and “second chance” housing project (for convicts who have served their time) are all church-backed projects. The churches in my area also provide low cost space for non-church activities like day care and aerobics classes.
I can’t speak to other congregations, but my parish never refuses a family the use of our beautiful facility for weddings or funerals just because they have never darkened the doorstep before. And I know for a fact that my diocese continued to fund an inner city school long after the Catholic kids had moved to the burbs. All the students were black Baptists; even the principal was a black Baptist. And no, it wasn’t about proselytizing; it was about providing the ONLY quality educational opportunity that neighborhood had after the public school had become a wasteland of politically correct mediocrity and violence.
Point Three:The LA Times article seems to assume (or totally ignores … probably didn’t read the book) the over-arching point of Brooks’ book, which was that big government welfare is bad for human beings in a way that is rarely or never acknowledged. In short, it makes people selfish and selfishness makes people unhappy. If you haven’t read the book, I encourage you to do so. It’s enlightening and uplifting, unlike the LA Times article which is sneering and left me wanting to take a bath.
The original plan was to make today an open thread because yours truly was getting pretty tired of all the crap. It is so rare that there is anything for us to truly feel good about I couldn’t pass the opportunity up. The full effect of what happened last night has not been fully manifested yet. I feel a pretty good rant coming on,so grab a refreshment and get comfortable.
For the last six long,agonizing years we have been forced to stand by helplessly while a deranged Kenyan dickweed has run roughshod over the legislative and judicial branches of the government. We keep waiting,in vain,for the republican party to show some political courage and stand up to him. They stand there with their thumbs hooked in their vest pockets and huff that they’ll have to pass a resolution if he keeps breaking the law. Then they turn around and tell the base “we will destroy you!”
They had a suspicion that the base wasn’t happy but they figured we were as ignorant and unprincipled as those on the liberal plantation. We’d still vote for whoever the party put up. Guess again. They don’t understand if it takes years to establish a party loyal to our founding principles then so be it.
Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity were,as expected,all over this last night. Among other guests,Megyn had Carl Cameron and Brit Hume. I like both of them,but they seem to have spent too long in DC. Cameron posits that Brat won because it was raining yesterday. Fox News Channel’s Washington-based chief political correspondent Carl Cameron blamed the rain for Eric Cantor’s loss to Dave Brat.
“It’s worth noting that the weather was foul here yesterday and today as well. So some of it may have been nature helping out David Brat.”
What he didn’t appreciate was that this was what I call a “broken glass” election. That’s one where you would crawl on your hands and knees over broken glass to get to the voting booth.
Brit Hume insisted that without ‘immigration reform’ to tout that the republicans have no chance of winning the White House in 2016. He is loathe to call it amnesty but that is precisely what it is. The so-called “pathway to citizenship” is as phony as Obama’s birth certificate. These illegals have no desire to become citizens. They want the jobs,the free housing,medical,food stamps and welfare. If Brit ever sojourned near a Latin neighborhood he’d see the sign in every storefront window announcing wire service to Mexico.
The FOX News hosts are fuming over Dave Bratt’s upset tonight over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Brit Hume led the charge tonight:
“The margin is amazing… The conventional wisdom on this Megyn is already begun to form. It goes this way. That this is bad news long term for the Republicans and great news for Democrats. It is argued by some that immigration reform now will never pass with Republicans who were very much chastened by what happened to Eric Cantor.”
Even Blabbermouth put down her mayonnaise to chime in:
The left had to chirp about Linda Grahamnesty winning his primary last night and bragged about he won because he supports amnesty. Truth is,he ran against 6 candidates. The Tea Party in South Carolina is very territorial and the four could not agree on one candidate to endorse so they split the vote. Grahamnesty also actively solicited democrats to cross over and vote for him. About 20% of his total was from democrat switchovers who will now switch back. Truth is, Linda is just damn lucky. In 2010 the dems ran a convicted drug dealer against him and now he managed to avoid a runoff thanks to democrat shenanigans.
The thing that terrifies me now is what will happen between November and January. If the democrats do,indeed,lose their majority in the Senate expect them to try to shove some parting gifts through before they go to work as lobbyists. This is what happened here in Illinois. On the very last day of the lame duck the dems passed a 67% income tax increase. They got no republican votes. The single vote it passed by was bought from an outgoing dem who got a cushy advisory job making mid-six figures to do basically nothing. That’s how they do it here in the land of the undead voter.
Lefties complain that Fox News doesn’t hire enough minorities. So NATURALLY, when Fox hired a black female (actress Stacey Dash), Lefties piled on the congrats. Just kidding. They did what they always do, which is trash any female and/or black who dares to step off the Democrat Plantation.
Via Twitchy:
Stacey Dash joins Fox News. Because Fox News needed to be more clueless
fox news adds another coon newscaster
Congrats on your new token, Fox!
she truly thinks she’s a white woman
motherfucker’ll fit in well w/ all the other dummies
F Stacey Dash
Turncoat ass bitch
Ew! Truly USELESS Actress
Stacey Dash just pissed off my entire existence….MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE…who tf hurt her? why is she like this?
Somebody please help her get her life.
Stacey Dash is now with Fox News to offer cultural analysis? the jokes write themselves.
Lunatics follow lunatics.
how is Stacey Dash about to “contribute” to Fox News like straight-to-DVD black cinema aint pay some of them bills.
As per usual, the Leftists hashtag – #YesAllWomen – REALLY means #YesAllWomenNotConservative. But Stacey refused to be sucked into the hate fest. She tweeted this gem!
Remember when we elected Michelle Obama to tell us how to feed our kids?
Yeah. Me neither.
On May 27, 2014, CNN’s Carol Costello claimed Michelle Obama ‘Signed The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act Into Law’
From TPNN: It’s incredible that we live in a time when the President has dismissed the Supreme Court’s importance as “an unelected group” of people, but has offered his wife a chance to combat Congress on a measure in the House from the bully pulpit of the White House.
The HEADLINES about the VA scandal have been making my hair stand up and smoke. I couldn’t bear to read the stories until Dearest talked to our Rep. Tom Reed and learned VA services in our area appear to be good. Phew. I’ve got a kid who uses them for a war injury. My heart goes out to those who are NOT getting care, but relieved my inner Mama Grizzly can calm down and take a BREATH about one piece of good news. Plus, my hair.
Leading liberals have long touted the VA as an efficient model of government-run health care.
In 2009, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, wrote, “The system for veterans is by all accounts one of the best-performing and most-cost-effective elements in the American medical establishment.”
In 2011, New York times columnist Paul Krugman called the VA a “huge success story.”
Yeah, right.
Whistleblowers have now identified 26 VA facilities around the country experiencing similar problems. One says illegal dealing of VA pharmaceuticals was a daily occurrence at his hospital.
In Los Angeles, federal bureaucrats tried to cover up their decade-long backlog by simply canceling 40,000 diagnostic tests and treatments for American veterans with cancer and other illnesses.
One veteran who had a small spot on his forehead confirmed as cancerous in 2011, but was forced to wait four months before having it removed, by which time, it had spread and has since killed him.
The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has passed a DOZEN VA reform bills; they’re all gathering dust in the Democrat-dominated Senate.
GOP Rep: House Passed VA Bills Collecting Dust On Reid’s Desk
My FOX news update email said the VA scandal “has become a crushing burden for vulnerable Democrats.”
Good! I hope it squashes the corruptocrats FLAT.
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Apologies for my lack of attention to this regular feature. This subject upsets me so much, I was literally SHAKING by the end of my blogging day on Saturday. Keeping track of where I read what just didn’t happen.
Below are the headlines and first paragraphs from two news sources about the same story. One is by LifeNews, an unabashedly anti-abortion news aggregator serving the pro-life community. The other is by Associated Press, an allegedly unbiased world news aggregator allegedly serving American voters. I’m passing this on for two reasons. One, it’s good news for the unborn. Two, it highlights in a stark and blatant way just how left-biased Associated Press really is.
May 12, 2014 by LifeNews: “Kansas Wins Court Battle to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Business”
Several states in the last couple of years have taken steps to yank taxpayer funding from the Planned Parenthood abortion business. In each case, the abortion giant has taken the state to court in an attempt to force taxpayers to finance its grisly trade.
Planned Parenthood has admitted defeat in its lawsuit against Kansas after its state legislature dropped funding. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri dropped its legal challenge Friday. The organization filed a brief stipulation of dismissal Friday in U.S. District Court in Kansas.
May 9, 2014 by Associated Press: “Planned Parenthood drops Kansas funding challenge”
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri dropped its legal challenge Friday to a Kansas law that stripped two of its Kansas clinics of federal money for family planning, leaving uncertain the impact to its low-income patients in Wichita and Hays who depend upon them for reproductive health care services.
The organization filed a brief stipulation of dismissal Friday in U.S. District Court in Kansas.
Later in the stories, both news aggregators explained that the Kansas law was about Title X federal family planning funding.
LifeNews said PP became ineligible “when the state enacted an annually-renewed proviso that such money go to full-service public health clinics and hospitals.”
The AP version was cleverly written to give the distinct impression that Kansas law-makers just wanted to stop low income people getting any help from Title X moneys.
The Kansas law actually INCREASED the availability of services by shunting the money ONLY to full-service facilities. Note: Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms.
Here’s how AP covered up the reality of the effect of the Kansas law and pandered to poor widdle PP, the organization that SUED Kansas for trying to ensure low income women HAD access to mammograms.
“We take seriously our duty to defend Kansas law against legal challenges,” Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a written statement. “This law was successfully defended.”
His statement did not address what provisions, if any, the state was making to provide low-cost reproductive services that had been funded through federal planning dollars at the clinics. His office referred that question to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, which did not immediately respond to phone messages.
Did you catch this? The AG’s statement about Kansas winning the court case did not include information about the contents of the law that was under challenge.
Oh my. How HORRIBLE of the man to only speak to the actual news of the day.
And THEN that meany-pants AG, who is no doubt a woman-hating Repukelican, told the AP reporter to do her own homework. The NERVE!
And THEN that HORRIBLE Kansas Department of Health and Environment did not IMMEDIATELY respond!
I mean … what could they POSSIBLY have to do that would be more important than waiting breathlessly by the phone 24-7 hoping for a chance to explain public information to AP reporters who are too lazy to GOOGLE?!
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