The ‘debate’ between Michelle Malkin (of HotAir fame and who is hosting this particular episode of the O’Reilly Factor) and Hussein Ibish centers on the installation of a faucet (yes, a faucet, the kind that dispenses water) at the Kansas City Airport that may cater to Muslim cab drivers who have to purify themselves and wash their feet before prayer (read the World Net Daily for further info). The discussion quickly descends and promptly ends with a wonderful level of idiocy displayed by Malkin, who describes the installation of WATER BASINS AT AN AIRPORT as possibly leading to the Holocaust not being taught at public schools:
MALKIN: They’re saying, one minute you’re doing this kind of accommodation, and next minute you’re obliterating the separation between church and state. And I find it quite interesting about the double standard, because any time that you have Christmas, you can’t say that. Everyone is always screaming about separation of church and state, but here you have a city authority. It doesn’t matter that it wasn’t tax money, in fact, it was a jurisdiction of the city who paid for it.
IBISH: I think it does matter. I think it matters a great deal who paid for it, first of all. And, secondly, if you can’t tell the difference between bona fide religious accommodation and something that goes further, like this mistake in Minneapolis by a few of the cab drivers, I can’t help you. It’s obvious to most people. It’s obvious to most…
MALKIN: You know what, this is a global phenomenon. You know, one minute… and the next minute, it’s public schools stopping Holocaust lessons because they offend Muslims. What is next? That was the point of IBD.
IBISH: But this is exactly what I mean by hysteria.
MALKIN: No, this is reality.
IBISH: Someone put in a faucet, and you’re talking about Holocaust denial. It’s just madness. There’s nothing wrong with putting in a faucet and having water run. If it bothers you, you’ve got some kind of mental distortion. And the fact that we have…
MALKIN: Madness is shrugging your shoulders and continuing to be blind in the wake of 9/11.
IBISH: The fact that we have a political culture that allows people to say, “Oh, someone put in a faucet. Oh, my God, the sky is falling down,” it’s pathetic, really.
MALKIN: Mr. Ibish, thank you.
IBISH: And I really think we need to cure ourselves of this rubbish.
MALKIN: We are out of time. Talk about insane rubbish.
IBISH: Well, that’s you.
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One minute you’re eating German chocolate cake and then the next you are leading a campaign of genocide against the Jews.
Hahaha, exactly. I mean, when you do anything, you let the terrorists win.
One of the local right-wing moron columnists in Minneapolis has been using nearly identical talking points (double standard vs. Christians, Islamo-fascists about to take over) because a local college was going to put in a similar washing facility for Muslim students. But boy is it great to see that Malkin was stupid enough to let someone respond to her nonsense, and is foolish enough to get even more hysterical when he calls her on it (“Holocaust denial? I meant to say 9/11.”). This Ibish person is my new hero…which, of course, probably means the terrorists are winning.
Good to see someone standing up to that crazy bitch.
BTW, Michelle Malkin is an anchor baby. And she bashes immigrants all the time.
It’s a slippery slope. Like the other day, I told my kids to share their toys. Then next day, my toddler was beating his shoe on his podium, declaring that he would “bury me.”
You can never be too careful with religious or cultural accomodations. It’s like playing with fire.
I hate making shrill comparisons…
but I really can’t see how Malkin is much different from a Nazi in terms of her rhetorical style and intentions. She just blames a different group for the conspiracy to overthrow western society.
Gravyboat, that is one hilarious anecdote. Malkin is either sincerely crazy, or sincerely willing to do or say whatever it takes to make a buck.
Malkin Fact #23: “Hummus was created by communist, anti-semite linguist Noam Chomsky to give male children lisps.”
Malkin Fact #45: A chicken shawarma with garlic sauce piloted the plane into the North Tower.
Malkin Fact #72: Belly Dancing was invented by Charles Darwin to create “lax attitudes about Mexican immigration.”
Malkin Fact #134: Logic was invented by homosexual Greek philosphers to subvert the pro-America message of Michelle Malkin. (This hath been foretold in the Left Behind Series. See also, Chick Publications #12 “Thinking is Sin.”)
Where are these assorted facts about Michelle Malkin? I need… more!!!
Malking Fact #69: Holocaust denial is crazier than Japanese internment camp denial.
Eat lots of cheese.
Turn on Fox News.
Avoid water and fiber.
Avoid the restroom for several days.
After 7 days has passed, bring a notepad, knife, and puppy with you to the bathroom.
Sit on the toilet.
Kill the puppy with the knife.
And then, as you grunt away on the pot, her spirit will enter you.
Start writing fast.
After you pass the obstruction from your bowels, her spirit will return to her body.
That’s how I channel Malkin’s fun facts, anyway.
Wow, she’s acting crazier than she usually does.
Is she competing with Bill O’rielly?
Malkin is so bad as a debater. It’s painful. As Gravyboat said, she’s offering a slippery slope argument here, but then, she almost always does in her bigoted hysteria. She also pulls the classic Fox News talk-over-one’s-opponent schick. The right largely wants to see someone attack someone, so I guess it plays with them.
Hold on, I need to slam my head repeatedly into my bed post.
(Whack! Whack! Whack! Thud.)
Ah, sweet numbing pain. Hold on…I’ve forgotten algebra. Drats.
HJ
All laughter aside, we got trouble, yes we got trouble……
I’ve just completed a prostate exam of sorts from all my D.C. inside sources, the gist of which is that all kinds of rumors of war against Iran are swirling about, dangerously close to be becoming a fully realized reality construct, as the various ships and planes fastidiously being checked and equipped with the latest tools of our/their destruction. The cold certainty of our existence is that no body gives a shit. We are alone in the universe and nobody cares. Well, fuck it, I care. But that is cold oatmeal to a guy with the kind of physical and existential pain that I am suffering. As I have no answers anybody is really interested in, Pug Boyden told me I should go to therapy, but it wouldn’t help. And I guess that, though some of the more impudent mouth breathers among us won’t cop to it, we all feel the pain, the pain of what’s being done in our names by misguided and cruel proxies, and therapy won’t make it go away. It may help distract us, help us to ‘adjust’ to it, may reframe the meaning of the pain. But for me and my physical infirmaries, the pain is there no matter who says it ain’t. And I guess this forum serves a purpose as it may help to share life’s pain with a friend or marvel at a “foe’s” ignorance or barely hidden self-hate.
What can I say: I lead the life of a wastrel, a cad and a roué’.
Ralph Steadman wrote Hunter Thompson about the teenage rebellion of his son, and Thompson responded, “Since those far-off optimistic times, I have met some of the children of our generation, and they seem pretty good to me, but the parents on the whole are a miserable mess, fucked-up and lost – a wandering tribe of disillusioned mutants whose brains died inside an ideology that seemed like a good idea at the time.”
I wish you all were a little more understanding of Shelli (we are thisclose). It has never been easy to be that ignorant. It takes years of dedicated training. I mean you all think that having absolutely no remaining neurons is easy.
Yah, the 60′s. What a bunch of kroners and sell outs. Domesticated hippies with no souls, just wandering about and sucking the tits of capitalism. And here I am, cleansing my body of dirt accumulated by living in a polluted hell hole of an American city while day dreaming of Michelle Malkin inspecting my colon with a telescope.
michelle Malkins parents were not american citizens when they came over here, so that makes her a anchor baby, but shes got the gall to talk about other anchor babies. I think she is jealous of blacks, because most of us have been here generations. Although we seem to be hated in this country, we are seen as americans. When she’s looked at you see a foreigner. SORRY
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