Israel Matzav

Anti-tax, pro-terrorism

This is outrageous.

I had seen something about Pam Geller not being invited to CPAC this year. Being in Israel, I may not follow everything in the US as closely as I should. But this story might be connected to that one.

I was surprised and honored that Jihad Watch was among the nominees for the People's Choice Blog Award, sponsored by Right Wing News and TheTeaParty.net, to be awarded at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2013.

As you can see from the vote above, Jihad Watch won decisively, getting over 50% of the vote in a field of fifteen. And I received confirmation of the victory from one of the organizers of the CPAC blog awards when I asked him when voting officially ended:

From: XXXXXXXXX
Subject: Re: You've Been Nominated For A People's Choice Award At the CPAC Blogger Awards
Date: March 2, 2013 2:58:26 AM EST
To: Robert Spencer
Robert

It officially ended at midnight. You won!
But as time went by and no announcement was made of this victory, and the voting continued despite my having been told that it officially ended last Friday night and that I had won, and the promised links and other placement promised to the winning blog didn't materialize, I started to wonder. So I contacted the organizer who had written me telling me I won and asked him what was going on.

He told me that there was a slight problem: the Tea Party group, which co-sponsored this People's Choice Blog Award, didn't want to allow me to receive it at CPAC next week unless I promised not to criticize Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan as I accepted the award.

I told the organizer that I couldn't agree to that. He asked me if I had planned to talk about Grover and Suhail. I said no, I hadn't, but I had to now.

So that's that. The People's Choice Blog Award is now the Grover's Choice Blog Award. I will not be going to CPAC and will not be receiving this award.

And since I will not be allowed to receive this award at CPAC, I will talk about Norquist and Khan here.

There was a President named George W. Bush who had a very simple test for Islamic terrorism: Are you with us or with the terrorists? I don't care how anti-tax Norquist and Khan are if they're pro-Hamas. And Robert Spencer (of whom I already had a high opinion) has just gone up some more in my book.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: blogosphere, CPAC, Islamic terrorism, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, taxation, Tea Party

Bolton: Obama gets no credit for killing Osama

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told CPAC over the weekend that the killing of Osama Bin Laden was '20 years in the making' and that President Obama does not deserve credit for it (Hat Tip: Jack W).

"Basically what Obama did was get out of the way," said Mr. Bolton Saturday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. "It was a decision that 99.99 percent of the American people would agree with. That does not equal a foreign policy."

Mr. Bolton, who represented the U.N. in 2005 and 2006 during the administration of President George W. Bush, accused Mr. Obama of neglecting foreign policy issues and encouraged a CPAC audience to "replace the Obama policy of drift, decline and defeatism with a Reaganite foreign policy."

"Barack Obama brought us to the brink of an Iranian nuclear weapons capability, dangerous proliferation worldwide, dramatic insecurity and instability in the Middle East and growing threats to Israel and paralyzing reductions in our defense and intelligence budgets," he said.

I wonder if Obama will be relieved to hear that he's not responsible for killing someone.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, CPAC, John Bolton, Osama Bin Laden

@AndrewBreitbart at CPAC says that he has videos from Obama's college days and he'll use them

Andrew Breitbart told CPAC on Friday that he has videos of Barack Hussein Obama from Obama's college days, and that he's going to use it as part of the 2012 campaign.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Dan F via Director Blue and Mediaite).

Let's just hope that the Republicans don't nominate another wimp like John McCain. Are you listening Mitt Romney (who thinks he's going to be the nominee)?

Labels: Andrew Breitbart, Barack Hussein Obama, CPAC

Totally awesome John Bolton speech at CPAC 2011

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and possible Presidential candidate John Bolton at his devastating best. Click on the picture to go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Hot Air).

Labels: CPAC, John Bolton

The Ground Zero Mosque: The second wave of the 9/11 attacks

World premier at CPAC next month (February 11) and in New York City (February 20).

More details here.

If someone would post a trailer, I'd love to post it. And if you send me a ticket....

Labels: CPAC, Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Victory Mosque, John Bolton, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer