The charming Republican Representative Peter King of New York bracing himself to spew another round of baseless charges against the Council on Ammerican Islamic Relations.
And then we have an image of a young Muslim woman drapped in the flag, singing the national anthem at a rally last Sunday.
Tomorrow Representative Peter King (R-New York), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, will open hearings on Islamic radicalization in the United States;. Said King Bigot: "I'm not going to give into political correctness. I'm going ahead," The hearing has generated much debate, publicity for King and outrage on the part of Muslim Americans. The Council on American Islamic Relations questioned the motives driving the hearing at this point in history. King is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee hosting the hearing. But he harbors an existing grudge Against a mosque in his district. Ahead of Thursday’s hearing, hundreds of protesters gathered Sunday in Times Square to accuse King of unfairly targeting Muslims. Some of the claims Representative King makes would be risible were they not confected for a seriously dangerous demographic. www.cair.com
And in Salt Lake City Tim DeChristopher, 'Bidder # 70' was convicted of two felony charges for impersonating oil and gas cororate interests bidding on Utah canyonlands. Meanwhile, if DeChristopher can be criminalized for his act, isn't James O’Keefe also guilty? O’Keefe of ACORN infamy is at it again: secretly taping a luncheon, this time between two top NPR executives, one of which called the Tea Party movement racist and xenophobic, and said NPR would be better off without federal funding. Although the man making these remarks, Ron Schiller, resigned prior to the video being shot and was expecting to leave NPR in May, his resignation went into effect yesterday. Even US News & World Report says in its headline that the story is like something straight out of Orwell.
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