Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts

9.14.2012

3rd Day of Dana Loesch scapegoating Muslims and Obama for the US Embassy bombings

Yesterday was the 3rd day in a row that Dana Loesch continued her scapegoating on Obama, Democrats, and Muslims for the attacks against US Embassies in Libya, Egypt, and Yemen. She also is still defending Romney's highly controversial critique of President Obama.

Even more of her ignorant lie-filled tweets:


























And Dana's hubby Chris Loesch jumped in as well:




Loesch's preposterous lie from Big Peace: "State Dept Denied Marines From Carrying Live Ammo At Cairo Embassy"


Did the State Department ban Marines from carrying ammo at the U.S. embassy in Cairo? That's what some are reporting, as well as claiming our Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, had forbidden it.  
At least Marines were present at the embassy in Cairo; despite initial reports, Marines weren't present at our Libyan consulate and Libyan security hired to protect out ambassador gave him up to protesters.
How many other of our embassies lack adequate protection? 

Media Matters Senior Fellow and Loesch's top nemesis Eric Boehlert calls her out on the falsehood on the US Marines:


On Big Journalism Wednesday, Loesch provides cover for Romney's gaffes while blaming Obama:

MSM was furious with Mitt Romney today after he issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the state department's initial apology and today criticized the Obama administration for attempting to placate our attackers. Romney didn't apologize. He condemned. More importantly, he led. It was a move that shamed President Obama by comparison.  
Media went into overdrive to protect Obama, their political investment. Politifact brought out three "apology" experts to help lay the groundwork for Obama to deflect. Multiple outlets attempted to reframe the focus on Romney's response, which they chided, as opposed to Obama's foreign policy fumble and his failure to fortify embassies abroad leading up to September 11th. Romney held a press conference and took questions whereas Obama refused questions and flew to campaign in Vegas. 
Media ignores the recklessness of this administration. The curtain separating the legend of media objectivity from the truth of its propaganda will be shredded if this administration loses its reelection bid. Media is now propaganda. If Obama loses it's not just a referendum on him, it's a rejection of legacy media's mass-market propaganda. 
This evening Obama remarked that Romney "shoots first, aims later." Interesting, coming from someone incapable of aiming. Obama skipped a a week's worth of intel briefings leading up to the attacks -- in fact, he's missed half of his daily intelligence briefings.  
 The media cares more about winning an election for the Democrat incumbent than anything else, more than the basic principles of its responsibility. 

Of course, Dana is lying in order to defend Romney, which was widely condemned outside of RWNJ/#TCOT-land, and even some prominent Republicans, such as former Homeland Security director Tom Ridge, fellow 2012 GOP Presidential candidate and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, and Joe Scarborough, a former Congressman who represented Florida's 1st Congressional District and is now the main host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, have gone after Romney. In fact, Romney has made himself into a a dumbass over his anti-Obama comments about Libya.

WaPo's Eugene Robinson has a brutal takedown of Tricky Mitt:


I mean, Mitt Romney. Really. U.S. diplomatic posts are attacked abroad, and your first reaction is to issue a statement blasting the president? J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other officials are killed in a commando-style assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, and your instinct is to seek not safety for other Americans at risk, not justice for the cold-blooded killers, but political advantage for yourself? 
Romney’s rushed statement Tuesday night calling the Obama administration’s response to the violence “disgraceful” was a new low in a campaign already scraping bottom. And Romney’s subsequent decision to double down on the attack, even as Americans mourned the first killing of an ambassador since 1979 and officials began investigating what now looks like a well-planned terrorist attack . . . well, I guess this whole performance says a lot about what kind of man Romney is. 
The most charitable explanation is that he’s in a panic over polls that show Obama opening a lead. If this is not the case, then Romney’s ignorance of foreign policy is more profound — and potentially dangerous — than anyone could have suspected.
But international affairs are different. For one thing, there is general consensus that at times of crisis, the United States must speak with one voice. Most Republicans, even some of Obama’s most adamant foes, have respected this tradition. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) both issued measured statements recognizing that this is a moment for patriotism, not politics.
More important is the fact that words spoken in the heat of international crisis can have life-or-death impact. Romney’s ostensible complaint was that Obama should have spoken up more clearly for American values — presumably, in this case, freedom of speech.



The "movie" was an excuse and the attack on our Libyan consulate was planned, claims one paper. 
The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal. 
The State Department had 48 hours advance warning of the attacks and did nothing. Nothing. Sensitive documents have now gone missing and the names of brave Libyans working with the United States have been exposed to the mobs who would kill them.
Foreign policy President, indeed.
More proof that Loesch is a craven liar.

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9.12.2012

Loesch still attacking Obama and Muslims, defends Romney on Libya and Egypt

As the Libya and Egypt stories continue to dominate the news cycle, Islamophobic wingnut Dana Loesch continues to blame Muslims and Obama for the attacks in Libya and Egypt, while defending Romney's insensitive and defamatory anti-Obama attacks about the Libyan bombing incident.


Loesch's senile lie-filled tweets:

































President Obama finally remarked upon the attacks on our consulate in Libya -- but was silent on the attack on our embassy in Egypt -- and stressed the importance of not disrespecting religion in his speech, something he's newly concerned about:

While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.

It's interesting that only when Islamists riot is Obama concerned for religious respect. I assume that Islam is excluded from what is called his 'war on religion' as he's never before shown any concern for the denigration of other faiths. 
Not only is Obama warring against religion at home, but now with this statement, he's warring against free speech. Islamists don't have the right to not be offended. 



Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Morsi, wants to use the American legal system to suppress the free speech of those who criticize Islam.  
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi asked the Egyptian embassy in Washington to take legal action in the United States against makers of a film attacking the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, the official state news agency said on Wednesday.
Morsi had requested the mission take "all legal measures", the MENA agency said, without giving further details on what that might involve. 
I'm not quite sure what Morsi's argument is here: is he suggesting that the film somehow defames Islam or will show Islam in a negative light? Because I'm pretty sure that the Islamists burning down consulates and killing Americans do a better job of "defaming" Islam than a film someone makes about the faith. 




The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today called Terry Jones to tell the pastor to stop promoting the film "Innocence of Muslims" that may or may not exist (there are but two clips on Youtube, screenshot above) and may or may not have been produced by a group of Coptic Christians living in the United States. No one has any idea really, but they are sure of this: a movie that may or may not exist done by some people who can't completely be identified has sparked people who already attacked our Libyan consulate to do it again.  
The Obama administration has called General Martin Dempsey to put a stop to Terry Jones in an effort to quell the Islamist violence. Why Jones? Because he's apparently promoting the film, but not as much as the Islamists talking about it.  
Just when you thought that the Obama administration couldn't bungle up the debacle any more after apologizing, they send a member of the military to tell private citizens to disregard the rule of law, free speech, in our country in favor of the sharia favored by the ruling party in Egypt. Make no mistake, that's exactly what this is: and now Morsi wants to engage in lawfare to further squelch free speech concerning Islam, a tenet of sharia.
It's disturbing that our government has shown they will go right along with it. 

While the Muslim Brotherhood calls for more protests, just months ago the Obama administration had endorsed them in Egypt's elections. 

All of this is more proof that Loesch is a far-right loon who hates Muslims and Obama in order to defend Romney at all costs.


The REAL facts about Romney's Libya and Egypt remarks, from AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The gunfire at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, had barely ceased when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seriously mischaracterized what had happened in a statement accusing President Barack Obama of "disgraceful" handling of violence there and at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
In fact, neither a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo earlier in the day nor a later statement from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered sympathy for attackers. The statement from the Cairo Embassy had condemned anti-Muslim religious incitement before the embassy walls were breached. In her statement, issued minutes before Romney's, Clinton had offered the administration's first response to the violence in Libya, explicitly condemning the attack there and confirming the death of a State Department official.
"I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today," Clinton said in a written statement received by The Associated Press at 10:08 p.m. "As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss."
It wasn't until Wednesday morning, when the U.S. confirmed the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, that Romney's team recognized the severity of the situation - and that, the night before, it had opened itself up to criticism for politicizing a diplomatic crisis.

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9.11.2012

Rabid Islamophobe Dana Loesch uses the Libyan and Egyptian attacks on US embassies to demonize Obama and Muslims

Today, on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks (and her conversion from liberalism to conservatism), rabidly Islamophobic radio host and CNN "contributor" Dana Loesch uses the attacks on US embassies in Libya and Egypt to blame it on Obama, Democrats, and Muslims. She even had the gall to attack the POTUS for "snubbing Israel's leader Netanyahu."

She wrote four articles on breitbart.com's blogs to attack Obama and Muslims for it and falsely accusing Obama of "apologizing to terrorists":
After an angry mob stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo and tore down the American flag, the embassy apologized for provoking the mob and condemned the free speech back across the Atlantic which hurt the mob's feelings.
The AP says the protesters were largely ultra-conservative Islamists.
Iran's FARS news agency says the film is the work of a group of "extremist" members of the Egyptian Coptic Church in the United States.
Al Ahram online says the film is reportedly being produced by U.S.-based Coptic-Christian Egyptians, including Esmat Zaklama and Morees Sadek, with the support of the Terry Jones Church in the United States.
Jones is the evangelical pastor who stirred controversy last year by threatening to burn a Quran in public.
CNN says the film in question is a Dutch production.
Of course, this is from an administration who endorsed Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's new leading political party who not only fosters an abuse of women, oppression of Coptic Christians, murder of gays for existing, and crucifixion of political opponents and will be welcoming their leader, President Morsi, to Washington D.C. this month. 
Egypt's ruling party, the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, blasted the United States after an angry Islamist mob stormed the U.S. embassy's walls and shredded an American flag over alleged offenses in a film that no one can name.
Why hasn't President Obama or the state department demanded that Egypt control its angry mob? It would seem we're the ones owed an apology after they stormed our embassy's walls and tore our flag.
That our administration still treats a religious group like a political party only further exacerbates the problem. 

The President spent the somber 11th anniversary of 9/11 with his admin apologizing to Islamists when they disrespectfully desecrated our flag on 9/11, and snubbing Binyamin Netanyahu.

It is so far the only death from mob attacks in Libya and Egypt over Islamist anger at an alleged film in production by Coptic Christians focusing on Islam. The United States spent 9/11 apologizing for hurting Islamists' feelings in Egypt which incited protesters to desecrate our flag and storm the walls of the U.S. embassy.
Afterwards, President Obama rejected a meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu, saying that his schedule was full, the same day he announced another appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman."
Those four articles posted are proof that Loesch will do anything to marginalize Muslims and Obama at all costs.


Loesch did more demonizing of Obama and Muslims on Twitter.










Of course, Mitt Romney, GOP's nominee for President, used this attack as an excuse to attack Obama.

CNN:

(CNN) - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday issued a paper statement sharply critical of President Barack Obama over his handling of violence in the Middle East earlier in the day.
“I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi," Romney said in the statement. "It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”




The US Embassy of Cairo, OTOH, has condemned the attacks on the US Embassy of Egypt:


And the US Department of State condemned the attacks on both Libya and Egypt:



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2.11.2011

Dana at CPAC 2011

Here are some highlights from CPAC 2011 that Dana Loesch was making lies about:

Parker/Spitzer blog interviews Loesch at CPAC:

Thousands of conservative activists will descend on the nation's capital Thursday for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, a three-day political carnival of speeches, strategy sessions and after-hours networking.

Loesch is attending the CPAC meeting.

How important is this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference?

I think it's important for the members of any coalition to gather together from time to time. There's a great fellowship that occurs which you can't replicate online to some extent.

Possible 2012 Republican presidential contenders are scheduled to appear at the conference: former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Gingrich, Pawlenty, former senator (Pa.) and Sen. John Thune (S.D.). What will you be listening for from them?

I'm interested in seeing what sort of reception Mr. Gingrich receives. There are many people whom I'm hoping to hear.

What do you hope to accomplish at the conference? What will you do there?

I'm speaking on Thursday afternoon about new media and also introducing the documentary "Fire From the Heartland," a film about the rise and leadership of women in the conservative grassroots movement. Myself, Rep. Michele Bachmann, and other ladies are featured. I'm also broadcasting my radio show live from radio row and have a great bunch of guests scheduled.

Turns out that Loesch was NOT on Parker/Spitzer, thank goodness.


Her full speech of nuttiness:



She was at CPAC interviewing Richard Dreyfuss.


Speaking at CPAC 2011:



Newly hired CNN contributor and Breitbart toady Dana Loesch praises Lila Rose's "sting operations", smears Planned Parenthood and creates the illusion of "feminist genocide."




Adam Shriver at the St. Louis Activist Hub had this interesting piece: Dana Loesch swaps conspiracy theories with other bloggers, such as Pamela Geller and Jim Hoft.

Dana Loesch, Bill Hennessy, and Jim Hoft are today lamenting the birth of democracy and end of Mubarek's repressive regime. Why? Because scary people-who-aren't-Christians will now be allowed to live in a democratic society! And naturally that will result in chaos, since as we all know only tea partiers are informed enough to be allowed to vote.


Too bad for Loesch, Hoft, and their buddies: Egyptian "Elected" Dictator Hosni Mubarak resigned today.

Dana Loesch talks to Future Voices



Jimmy McMillan, the man who ran on the "Rent Is Too Damn High Party", visits The Dana Show.
from the 02.11.2011 edition of The Dana Show, at CPAC.


I'd love to see him get the GOP nomination, but sadly, it won't happen because he is pro-LGBT Rights and presumably pro-choice.
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2.02.2011

Dana The Devil defends the Mubarak dictatorship, claims it's "either Mubarak or 'radical Islamists' running Egypt"

Today, we have more nonsense peddled from Dana Loesch-- this time regarding the Egyptian Protests. She defended the Mubarak dictatorship as this:

So, why in the world does Anderson Cooper (or any responsible media outlet) allow Loesch to spew out lies without getting chewed out?

The Pro-Mubarak protestors beat up reporters, including Anderson Cooper.

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