President Barack Obama told the United Nations today that the world should respond to the wave of anti-American attacks and outrage across the Middle East by looking at the “deeper causes,” not security, and fight anti-Islamic rhetoric. It was similar
After his disastrous Univision appearance last week and a gaffe-tastic “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, President Obama sealed the deal on a trifecta of failed appearances today with a deeply offensive speech before the entire world at the United Nations.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has approved a U.S. request for the extradition of Abu Hamza al-Masri, Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary, and Khaled al-Fawwaz. Although attorneys for the men had argued their clients would
President Barack Obama will attempt to answer critics of his foreign policy in his Tuesday address to the United Nations General Assembly. White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday said Obama would “send a clear message the United States will
If you were sitting at a bar and someone bet you the next round of boilermakers that you couldn’t name the top two best-selling movies on Amazon.com, which movies would you guess, off the top of your head? Would you
First Romney, then the You Tube clip, now the Marines are to blame?The Obama administration’s shifting claims on what took place inBenghazi, Libya on 9/11 became more defiant yesterday when unnamedofficials suggested that no amount of security would have mattered
Hillary Clinton met with Republican House members and Republican senators in two separate meetings to brief them about the terrorist attack in Libya on the U.S. consulate on Thursday. She tried to make the Administration’s case that the attacks were
Fox News: An Iraq war veteran was asked by the property manager to take down the American flag that he hung from his California apartment balcony for 9/11. Amy Grossman, the veteran’s wife, said, “She wanted it to be removed
An article published in the early morning of September 12th by NBC News confused events taking place in Libya and Egypt. The article, which was reproduced over 1,200 times on the web, may have led to confusion about what happened
The U.S. State Dept. issued a travel warning telling Americans to avoid Libya two weeks before the deadly attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others. In addition, a recently updated threat assessment for Libya demonstrates the State Department
Public Policy Polling conducted a poll in Virginia that showed President Barack Obama did not receive a bounce from the Democratic National Convention. According to the poll, Obama led Mitt Romney by five points, 51% to 46%. In PPP’s survey
Rep. ALLEN WEST: “Well, it’s very simple. When I listened to the UN ambassador Susan Rice today several words came to mind: asinine, naive, inept, incompetent and borderline ignorant. Because when you understand that the Egyptian government, their intelligence services,
Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, refused to answer on Sunday questions about the lack of Marines at the U.S. consulate in Libya prior to eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. She also punted when asked why
“If they’ll protect a scumbag like me, then they’ll protect all of you.” Larry Flynt’s infamous quote summarizes Hollywood’s self-congratulatory celebration of free speech in its Academy Award-nominated film “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” Critic Roger Ebert said the film
Recently the entire Muslim world exploded in rage and riot, supposedly inflamed by a low-budget spoof of Islam called “The Innocence of Muslims.” In a coordinated attack, a large group of terrorists killed four American personnel including the U.S. Anbassador,
In the wake of the Egyptian embassy attack on 9/11, Republican lawmakers are pressuring Obama to do retaliate. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) believes Obama should be putting heavy pressure on Egypt and its president, Mohamed Morsi. King says such pressure should continue
White House Spokesman Jay Carney says recent violence in the Middle East and uprisings against US Embassies were a reaction to a video “many Muslims find offensive,” and not connected to the 9/11 anniversary or to US policies.
(AINA) — During the demonstration which was held in front of the American Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, 9/11, a Muslim cleric named Abu Islam tore and burned the Holy Bible in front of thousands of Muslims. His action was
The Pentagon deployed two warships, the USS Laboon and the USS McFaul, to Libya Wednesday evening after radical Islamists attacked the U.S. consulate on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, killing the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. According to reports from the Associated
The murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens has raised questions as to why he was in Benghazi to begin with and who in the Libyan government knew he was there. Stevens’ home base was not in Benghazi, but Tripoli. What was
The Cairo Embassy’s controversial statement about “abuse” of free speech was written by a senior public affairs officer and approved by the Chargé d’affaires. A draft of the statement was sent to the State Department; officials there recommended against it
Israeli sources have revealed that Egypt’s General Intelligence warned jihadists were planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli embassies as early as a week before they occurred on the anniversary of Al Qaeda’s 9/11 terror attacks. The report indicated that the group
Aside from the 11th anniversary of 9/11, there was no bigger story on Sept. 11, 2012 than the attack made upon the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt. But for half the day on Tuesday, MSNBC didn’t mention the incident. A
Let’s recap. Yesterday, riots broke out at American embassies in Egypt and Libya. The American ambassador and three other American officials were murdered. Their bodies were dragged through the streets to a cheering mob. This all happened on the anniversary
Yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, former President Bill Clinton hit the stump for President Barack Obama–breaking a campaign pledge not to launch political attacks on 9/11, and flat-out lying about Romney/Ryan and Medicare. Clinton’s lies expanded upon of
NPR’s Morning Edition gave a very warm welcome Tuesday to Michael Lewis, whose interviews of Barack Obama are soon to debut in the October issue of Vanity Fair. On NPR, Lewis’ interviews were called “compelling narratives” and his every utterance
The New York Times‘ coverage of the radical Islamist attacks on 9/11 on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi begins–like the Obama administration–with acknowledging “anger” over an anti-Islamic film, not with the attacks themselves–and criticizes
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Mitt Romney addressed the National Guard Association Conference in Reno, Nevada. He recalled the “smell of war” on 9/11, spoke about an “American century,” paid tribute to member of the National Guard,
Faced with increasing criticism over an apology issued by the U.S. Embassy in Egypt for the alleged “abuse” of free speech by Americans critical of Islam–even as Islamist radicals raided the building on the 11th anniversary of 9/11–the Obama administration
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on American soil, news of attacks against Americans overseas created a social media firestorm — except on a site dedicated to trendsetting in social media. Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed Politics has written
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agreed to a truce on the airwaves on Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But the Obama campaign broke that truce, posting a commercial online Tuesday that accused Romney
An American has been killed on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 as Islamist mobs attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in Libya. A US official was killed and another wounded on Tuesday as an armed mob protesting over a film
While angry mobs raged against the U.S. embassy in Cairo and set fire to our consulate in Libya, President Obama spent time talking with the “Pimp with the Limp”: The President spent the somber 11th anniversary of 9/11 with his
The Obama Administration is letting Israel twist slowly in the wind. The Israeli government, desperately trying to convince the U.S. government to draw a line in the sand that Iran must not cross, is pleading to a president deaf, unconcerned,
On the day that radical protestors storm the U.S. embassy in Egypt, the White House turns down a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Barack Obama violates his campaign pledge not to campaign on 9/11 by dissing
Obama couldn’t even wait a day — and can’t find the time for our most important ally in the Middle East. But The “Pimp with the Limp” Obama has all kinds of time for. That, despite the fact that there
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney spoke in Reno, Nev. to a gathering of the National Guard on a day when both presidential campaigns halted their overt politics in deference to one of the most unifying days in U.S. history.
Let’s all have a moment of silence for NBC News’ journalistic integrity. “The Today Show,” an integral part of NBC News’ broadcasting empire, decided to air an interview with Kris Jenner at 8:46 a.m. this morning. At that same time
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Last year, I wrote an essay asking whether anyone could ever truly make a film about 9/11. As with the Holocaust, some occurrences are so overwhelming that while it is essential that we be able to contextualize them in film, it may
Here on the 11th Anniversary of the attacks that took some 3,000 American lives on September 11th, 2001, a pair of Maryland State Democrats are throwing fundraisers. If that isn’t bad enough, one of them even said it is “patriotic”
