Bloodthirsty Liberal

Oh wait, they did—and they didn’t!

Seven women participated in the National Organization for Women’s day of protest against Rush Limbaugh in front of Limbaugh’s D.C. affiliate WMAL, Friday.

NOW’s national protest day had been in the works since April 19, when the women’s advocacy group launched their “Enough Rush” campaign.

Pairing with media watchdog Media Matters for America NOW is targeting local affiliates and local advertisers, Friday’s demonstration was touted as the group’s big demonstration of opposition to Limbaugh with affiliates across the country participating in protests.

NOW has had Limbaugh in their crosshairs for nearly two decades, and they renewed their effort to get Limbaugh off the air as a response to the radio host’slate February insult of contraception activist Sandra Fluke.

Wait, is that how she’s billing herself now? “Contraception activist”? It does suggest some rather more attractive images than first year junior partner at Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe. But as BAR-ack (to use his original pronunciation) learned, activism—even contraception activism—isn’t all its cracked up to be (pardon the pun).

Last week Limbaugh launched a response to NOW’s campaign against him in the form of a Facebook group for his female listeners, “Rush Babes for America aka the National Organization for Rush Babes,” to show not all women adhere the NOW agenda. His Facebook group surpassed NOW’s Facebook “likes” in under 24 hours.

Matson shrugged off the women who have joined the “Rush Babe” Facebook group explaining that it is just an attempt by Rush to feed his ego.

Well, duh! Even Rush would tell you that. What part of “serving humanity just by showing up”, “half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair” and “talent on loan from God” was unclear to you?

But your Ditz Fits have backfired on you dreadfully. In the future, when your well-publicized turnout at a “massive rally” is seven, just pretend you’re trying to decide where to go for lunch. It’s a natural cover.

Hey, I’m just asking!

“Start listening to Rush Limbaugh.” That was the message representatives from Media Matters for America and the National Organization for Women delivered to NOW chapter leaders in a secret, narrowly focused strategy session Wednesday night.

In audio of the NOW/MMFA strategy webinar obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, the liberal organizations plotted the best ways to get the radio giant and veritable burr in their collective saddles off the air.

The key, according to Media Matters online outreach director Jay Carmona, is to target Limbaugh at the local level — specifically advertisers in local radio markets — but with an eye on his national sponsors.

“I will say, just going by the numbers, getting local stations to drop Limbaugh is actually a hard, more long-term campaign than just looking at getting local sponsors to drop,” she explained, adding that they do not need to get the conservative talker off every local station to make an impact.

The catch, however, is that women who are active with NOW and the men who support them — whom Limbaugh often needles as the NAGs (National Association of Gals) and the “new castrati” — are actually going to have to listen to his radio show in order to identify and target those local advertisers.

“The first thing you want to do is, I say, start listening to Rush Limbaugh,” Carmona advised.

Watch out, ladies. I started listening to Rush about three years ago, and I haven’t stopped learning since. Maybe you should just listen to the commercials—I highly recommend Rush’s line of tea: Two If By Tea!

It’s wise, Carmona added, to take mental health breaks from the show.

“Make sure that you also, just in general — if something is freaking you out and you are feeling really bad listening to Rush Limbaugh — take a break. Give yourself the time and the space that you need to listen to the stuff because it can be difficult at times,” she said.

I believe Dennis Prager broadcasts at the same time as Rush. By all means, give Dennis a listen. He’s much gentler than Rush, but you will be a committed conservative for life after listening for two weeks.

PS: And don’t let the stereotype of the old biddy stop you. Just because womens’ temperance unions and morals societies succeeded in banning everything from decent booze to literature doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go right ahead and handbag that beastly man, Rush Limbaugh, who gives you the vapors.

You know me, strong supporter of the Zionist cause, scourge of all things and all people antisemitic.

I… uh… I would do anything… almost anything… just about anything in defense of Israel.

Make it a double, neat:

A Jewish organization in the United States has become so fed up with Scottish boycotts of Israel that it has come up with a counter-boycott.

The Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (FJMC), the umbrella body for men’s clubs at Conservative synagogues in the United States, has issued a call for a boycott of certain Scottish whiskey brands.

Their call came in response to an anti-Israel boycott by a Scottish local government. The West Dunbartonshire Regional Council, located west of Glasgow, approved, shortly after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2008-2009, a bill that called to boycott goods produced in Israel. West Dunbartonshire was later joined by the large Scottish city Dundee, which decided to issue a recommendation to boycott all goods produced in Israel.

It was later reported that the municipality will also apply a special mark on Israeli products in order to make them easily identifiable.

If that was not enough, a recent report in The Jewish Chronicle noted that a ban on books by Israeli authors could also be enforced in Scottish libraries as part of the same boycott policy.

Can’t we just respond in kind and put a label on Scotch that tells people its from Scotland? Wouldn’t that suffice? No?

Okay…

The FJMC counter-boycott includes three well-known producers of spirits: Morrison Bowmore, Loch Lamond and Chivas Brothers. The FJMC has made it known to its members that these companies’ whiskeys, a staple at men’s Shabbat Kiddush clubs in American synagogues, are products of that region of Scotland.

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Kirsteen Beeston, head of Brands Marketing at Morrison Bowmore Distillers, wrote Rashid that that Morrison Bowmore does not “take any political stance and this policy has been made independently from us and without our consultation.”

Catherine Servier from Chivas Brothers wrote in response to Rashid’s letter that “the West Dunbartonshire Council does not represent the views of Chivas Brothers,” adding that “while some Chivas Brothers brands are bottled in Dumbarton, none of its whiskies are distilled in this region and both The Glenlivet and Chivas Regal are bottled at their site in Paisley and not Dumbarton.”

When the whiskey industry starts to see sales fall, punk-a** Jew haters like Jim “Bollocks” Bollan will get the comeuppance they so richly deserve. In the meantime, what’s a drinker to do? I guess it’s Canadian Club for me.

I already thought they thought this way, but it’s nice of them to remove any doubt:

A Scottish politician playing a leading role in an anti-Israel boycott says members of terror group Hamas are “freedom fighters” who are “fighting an illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel.”

Councilor James Bollan’s remarks, contained in email correspondence with Jewish activists, were published by the Cif Watch blog. Bollan, a member of the Scottish Socialist Party, is a councilor in West Dunbartonshire, which has imposed a boycott on all goods produced in Israel, including books.

In an exchange with anti-boycott activist Stephen Franklin following the uproar over the Scottish decision, Bollan had this to say about the Palestinian terror group: “Hamas was elected and are freedom fighters alongside the Palestinians fighting an illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel.”

In another email exchange, with Martin Sugarman, Chair of the Hackney Anglo-Israel Twinning Association, Bollan wrote: “Scots believe in equality and justice…words unknown to Zionists.”

Sometimes, I laugh; sometimes, I sigh. This is a sigh day. Any individual is free to hold any disgraceful attitude he likes, but to make it local government policy—and to have that policy adopted and enforced—is dispiriting.

As if you had any doubt:

Israel is the only country being boycotted by the council [...] the municipality had no intention of issuing a ban on products originating from Iran, Syria or Libya.

Sigh.

Israel has to rely on a Frenchman (albeit a Jewish one) to explain civility to the anti-Semitic hordes:

[W]e are faced here with a skillfully orchestrated but calumnious, bellicose, anti-democratic and, in a word, despicable campaign.

Why?

First, because one boycotts totalitarian regimes, not democracies. One can boycott Sudan, guilty of the extermination of part of the population of Darfur. One can boycott China, guilty of massive violations of human rights in Tibet and elsewhere. One can and should boycott the Iran that is oppressing Sakineh and Jafar Panahi ? a country whose leaders have become deaf to the language of common sense and compromise. One can even imagine, as we once did with regard to the fascist generals’ Argentina or Brezhnev’s USSR, boycotting those Arab regimes whose citizens’ freedom of expression is forbidden, and punished, if necessary, with blood.

One does not boycott the only society in the Middle East where Arabs read a free press, demonstrate when they wish to do so, send representatives to parliament, and enjoy their rights as citizens. Regardless of what one thinks of the policies of its government, one does not boycott the only country in the region and, beyond the region, one of the unfortunately limited number of countries in the world where voters have the power to sanction, modify and reverse the position of said government. To such an extent that finding, like Mr. Hessel, in his recent best-selling book, the source of his “main indignation” in the workings of a democracy that, like all democracies, is by definition imperfect but perfectible ?(yet, on the contrary, having nothing to say about the millions of victims of Africa’s forgotten wars, about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, or about the massacre of Bosnia’s Muslims?) is at best profoundly stupid and at worst, disgraceful.

Oh yeah, and another thing:

It is unaware of, nor does it care to know, what Israeli citizens themselves think, for example, of the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank. It doesn’t give a hoot about demands, parameters, actual conditions of peace between the citizens in question and their Palestinian neighbors. Of the latter, their aspirations, their interests, their possible hopes and the way the Hamas regime has smashed those hopes in Gaza, it doesn’t give a tinker’s damn and never says anything, either.

No. Regardless of what its promoters and its useful idiots say, the only real, accepted, hackneyed goal of this boycott campaign is to delegitimize Israel as such. That is what the comparison with the South Africa of apartheid implicitly expresses. That is what the anti-Zionist rhetoric that serves as the common denominator of all the groups constituting the BDS movement explicitly says, and, if words have any meaning, what signifies their intent to undermine the very idea that today, like it or not, binds the Israeli nation. And that is why this campaign, in fact, contravenes the customs, rules and laws of international and, in this case, French or American national law.

Stupid, disgraceful, idiotic, in contravention of customs, rules, and laws—and those are only their good qualities.

Just blew over $100 on Ahava products from Israel for Mrs. BTL, and it felt great. Not just to check off another item on the Xmas list, but busting the nuts of the boycotters felt even better I gotta say.

Merry [bleepin'] Christmas, you boycotting a-holes, you.

[Aggie covered this below---with the same title no less!---but I started this before taking the Bloodthirsty Puppy out for a romp. And I need to finish it.]

Well, not we so much as you:

Massive public pressure via ‘Tweets” and e-mails have convinced YouTube to reinstate the Palestinian Authority watchdog site Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which had been accused by YouTube of spreading incitement. The pressure convinced YouTube that PMW was actually exposing PA hatred.

YouTube banned PMW on Sunday, apparently after an anti-Israel movement bombarded Google with complaints. The tactic backfired because the closure prompted thousands of e-mails and Tweets that convinced YouTube it had mad a mistake, PMW director Dr. Itamar Marcus told Israel NationalNews.

“YouTube decided that because we expose Palestinian Authority incitement calling for genocide, that is hate speech, and they closed down the entire account,” he said. “There was tremendous pressure Sunday night, and people were tweeting every minute and calling Google offices.”

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“Some people told Google that you cannot stop hate speech if you do not expose it. On the other hand, YouTube does not close down Hamas and Al-Qaeda videos” calling for the murder of Jews,” Dr. Marcus commented.

That last paragraph should give you pause. When Hamass and Al Qaeda make Jew-hating videos, YouTube doesn’t blink. When PMW (and MEMRI, too) expose the blood libel, they get shut down.

There are two ways to look at that, neither very reassuring. One is that YouTube and Google didn’t see the difference; the other is that they didn’t see anything, but were susceptible to cynical manipulation—more people complained about PMW’s exposure of hate speech than complained about the hate speech itself.

Some of us are more tolerant of hate speech than others—too much so—which brings me to the next case (Hat Tip to reader Carol):

As many of you may already have heard, a group calling itself Stop30Billion has purchased the following billboard and bus banner ads that demonize Israel. The bus ads will run on buses that serve downtown Seattle for at least the next four weeks starting on December 27. This is part of a growing campaign that has placed similar ads on buses and billboards in Houston, Albuquerque and San Francisco.

These ads, as you can see here, for the first time try to spread broadly into our community a message of hate against Israel.

In our culture of sound-bite news, what people will remember from this bus and billboard ad campaign will be the lead line, “Israeli War Crimes.”

This is a well-funded effort to have our community reject Israel, an effort to have our friends and neighbors, co-workers and children’s schoolmates see Israel as a pariah state, a country acting outside of acceptable norms.

The impression it leaves is false and wrong, destructive and divisive.

So far, the facts. But what is the appropriate response? The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle responds here (too kindly in my opinion).

Another response:

At the Pacific Northwest office of the Anti-Defamation League, the ad campaign is seen quite a bit differently.

“We’re dismayed,” says Community Director Hilary Bernstein, who calls the bus-born advertisement grotesquely one-sided. “Citizens young and old will be seeing this sort of propaganda, this very one-sided distortion. It’s unfortunate.”

Unfortunate? Dismayed?

Come on, guys, get mad! It’s libel. It’s propagandistic hate speech. And it’s on government property. There’s a whole lot that’s wrong.

I know Aggie wants to weigh in on this story (we’re stepping on each other’s toes this morning), but my own thoughts are evolving. My first reaction was that as offensive as this campaign is, the right to freedom of speech and expression protects it. So you just fight fire with fire:

StandWithUs Northwest will be running an advertising campaign on buses and billboards to counter these anti-Israel ads. We have responded to these types of anti-Israel ad campaigns elsewhere by running our own advertising in support of Israel, emphasizing Israel’s desire for peace.

But I’m a good deal angrier now. That these ads run on public buses is an offense—and not just to Jews or supporters of Israel. It’s one thing for the government to allow offensive speech; quite another to be seen promoting it.

If it’s open season on the truth, I’d like to buy an ad featuring a hooded figure in a white robe denouncing President Obama as a Socialist. It may be more offensive than the Israel bashing (may be), but it’s a lot closer to the truth. What’ll that run me? I can probably afford one bus, maybe one on a route through a black neighborhood. Will they take a check drawn on the First Bank of Bloodthirstan?

Maybe the ads depicting Israel as a true seeker of peace are fine, but they don’t scratch my itch. As long as we’re dealing with buses, how about something that gets your attention?

TAKE THE PALESTINIAN EXPRESS—75¢, STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN

That’s more like it.

A tautology, I know, but sometimes their cluelessness outstrips their leftieness. (Or is it the other way around?)

The Board of Directors has decided that the Olympia Food Co-op will boycott Israeli made products and divest from any investments in Israeli companies. The Co-op would stop carrying the Israeli products it currently sells and would not stock new products from Israeli companies. If the Co-op has money invested in Israeli companies or bonds, we would terminate those investments. We would refrain from dealing with non-Israeli companies that sell products or services to Israel that are used to violate the human rights of the Palestinians.

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The Olympia Food Co-op has engaged in a number of nationally and internationally called boycotts including: products from China (human rights abuses); products from Norway (whaling abuses); products from Colorado (anti gay legislation); Gardenburgers (farmworker abuses) and more.

So, Israel is on par with Norwegian whale-killers, Chinese rights-violators, Coloradan gay-bashers, and Gardenburger abusers. I’m sure they’d all be surprised to find themselves lumped together, but leftists don’t have to make sense as long as they make accusations.

Arutz Sheva takes the point further:

In answer to the question, “When will the boycott end?” Olympia answered:

“When Israel ends its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantles the Wall; [when] Israel recognizes the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; [and when] Israel respects, protects and promotes the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.”

Thus, after nearly 20 years of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Olympia – whose mission statement includes the goal of working for “social justice” – has determined that the only “socially just” solution is for Israel to accept the entirety of the PA position and to withdraw from 100% of Judea and Samaria. Israel must also, according to the Olympians, dismantle the partition wall that Israel says has prevented dozens of Palestinian terrorist attacks and saved possibly hundreds of Jewish lives.

In addition, Olympia has resolved that Israel has not yet recognized the fundamental rights of Israeli-Arabs. In fact, however, Israel did so on the very day of its founding, and continues to do so today. Arabs have always served in the Knesset, and benefit from the same rights as Jews, Christians and other Israeli citizens.

Reader Carol has long told us about these fruitcakes from the Evergreen State, the late Rachel Corrie being their most illustrious alumna. So we can’t claim to be surprised.

But while their bigotry and blind hatred no longer take us aback, their stupidity never fails to amaze. The Palestinians aren’t starving; they’re positively glutted with luxury goods.

In fact, I’d say a Gaza mall compares very favorably to Olympia’s aisles of mealy, scaly, pest-infested goods:

Can you tell them apart? I’d say the kaffiyehs and burqas would be a clue, but this is Washington state we’re talking about. They’re practically issued with your driver’s license there.

Code Pink is picking on a family-owned cosmetic chain, Ricky’s NYC, trying to bully them into boycotting AHAVA cosmetics from Israel.

What these skanks know about beauty is lost on me, but they sure have big mouths.

I call on all our NYC-area residents to get their pretty on, and buy, buy, buy AHAVA—or at the very least shout down these harridans:

You can contact Ricky’s NYC to urge them to continue selling the AHAVA line:

Dominick Costello, CEO Ricky’s
dcostello@rickys-nyc.com
212-352-8545, ext. 9

(Ricky’s locations here.)

I think we had some Ahava moisturizer around the house once. It was good stuff. Use it.

(Hey, my fingers get a little chapped doing all this typing, okay?)

Oppose AHAVA BOYCOTT – Tell Nordstorm to Continue Selling Beauty Products from the Holy Land

The radical group CODEPINK: Women for Peace (sic) has targeted Nordstrom, and is asking people to send e-mails calling for Nordstrom to boycott Ahava products.

You can e-mail the same people at Nordstrom saying how disappointed you would be if they listened to these radical “Women for Hate”.

These are the people they are e-mailing:

Linda Peffer Divisional Vice President, Social Responsibility
Linda.Peffer@Nordstrom.com

Tara Darrow, Director of Public Relations, Nordstrom
Tara.Darrow@Nordstrom.com

Krischel Pen Nordstrom
Krischel.Pen@Nordstrom.com

And while you’re at it, you might send an email to the skanks at CODESTINK suggesting that they could benefit from using Ahava products themselves. If that sounds like a gratuitous insult calling these principled women ugly hags who couldn’t get a date on Saturday night if the USS Nimitz were in port, you know me too well.

PS: I thought CODESKANK hated Bush and the wars. Are you telling me that Leftism transitions neatly to anti-Semitism with blinking an eye? Go figure. Did you know that, Aggie?