Internet plagerism or sloppy journalism? You decide.

So yesterday, I found this great story at Brian Cuban’s blog, The Cuban Revolution titled Facebook At Odds With Obama On Holocaust Denial in which he gives a lot of good, solid information about Holocaust denier groups on Facebook.  And as a facebook user myself, I can tell you that they exist.  When I looked into the matter further, I found that the blog posted by Brian — presumably 2 days ago as that’s when the first comments appeared — plagerized quite a bit of information straight from JIDF (Jewish Internet Defense Force).  Quoting — which bloggers do often — is usually ok, as long as you link to the original source — that’s why you see links in blog posts.  But in this particular case, credit was not given to the original post posted at JIDF on October 18, 2008.

Sloppy journalism?  Maybe.  So I posted to Bob Cuban’s blog yesterday at a little before 5 pm ET:

“The JIDF has been all over this for quite a while.http://www.thejidf.org/2008/10/important-regarding-content-on-facebook.html

Welcome to the party.”

Of course, there was the wait for moderation.  And I am still waiting.  The post has not yet been approved.  If it was an honest mistake, I’d expect to be approved.  I just hate to see someone else taking credit for the hard work being done by the JIDF.  I’ll keep ya posted.

Smackdown

Enemedia’s aid and comfort is invaluable to our enemies and how I’m fighting back

No surprise from this chick ~ the Enemedia’s constant reporting on every terrorist incident is free PR ~ and as a result bolsters their morale and resolve. So says the New Media Journal in a piece called “The Incompetency of Jihad: Information Operation Failures.“

The impact of Information Operations has been detailed in a previous NGIA, Inc. In-Depth Analysis report entitled “Al-Qaeda’s Reality.” The attention the media gives to terrorist incidents unfortunately emboldens the terrorists. For the most part, AQ has a very effective message laden with propaganda that gets unprecedented airplay. To get this type of exposure, a company would have to spend millions. A careful examination of the media coverage reveals a redundant analysis of terrorist incidents and what they mean without questioning the terrorist’s message.

Ah! The Enemedia lives up to it’s name, does it not?

The infowar is not lost however ~ YouTube hirabists have been feeling the pressure. Thanks to YouTube Smackdown and others, they are finding that YouTube is no longer the safe, comfortable recruiting environment it once was. You’d think that since YouTube is a US company on US servers it would be a no-brainer. *eyeroll* If you’d like to help with this effort, check out these sites:

http://revengeofthekaizer.blogspot.com/
http://smackdownterror.blogspot.com/
http://gotwarporn.com/
http://muninn-quotheraven.blogspot.com/
http://stop-internet-terrorists.blogspot.com/
http://warintel11.wetpaint.com/

Never give up, never give in. And most of all, never forget.

About justice for the Haditha Marines

At National Review Online, Mackubin Thomas Owns has written an excellent piece called “Justice?” I highly recommend reading it…

Appearing on This Week on ABC, Murtha also contended that the shootings in Hadithah had been covered up. “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long? We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.” When Alan Colmes asked Barack Obama about Murtha’s charge in June of 2006, Senator Obama replied, “I would never second-guess John Murtha . . . I think he’s somebody who knows of which he speaks.”

But a strange thing happened on the way to the lynching. The case against the Marines began to fall apart, and a deafening media silence ensued. Eight Marines were originally charged with offenses ranging from murder to dereliction of duty, but charges against six have been dismissed, and one has been acquitted.

*snip*

For insurgents, there is no more powerful propaganda tool than the claim that their adversaries are employing force in an indiscriminate manner. It is even better for the insurgents’ cause if they can credibly charge the forces of the counterinsurgency with the targeted killing of noncombatants. For many people even today, the entire Americans enterprise in Vietnam is discredited by the belief that the U.S. military committed atrocities on a regular basis and as a matter of official policy — even though, as Jim Webb has noted, stories of atrocious conduct, e.g. My Lai, “represented not the typical experience of the American soldier, but its ugly extreme.”

Hey Murtha, you owe these Marines and all military personnel and their families an apology and more. You can NEVER repay us for giving aid and comfort to our enemies when members of our community are risking their lives over there. You have blood on your hands. We will NOT forget.

Hey Jack ~ time to face the music maybe close at hand!

According to World Net Daily, it looks like the honorable Marines who had their name drug thru the mud by dis-honorable Jack Murtha may be looking to sue him for libel and defamation.

When Fat Jack stood up there in May of 2006, jowls a-swinging, and declared that those Marines had killed innocent Iraqi citizens “in cold blood,” he had tried and convicted our honorable Marines without due process for all the world to hear. He gave an immeasurable amount of aid and comfort to our enemies. He is a traitor. For that, more than ex-marine Murtha’s jowls should swing.

I am LIVID!!

Letter from Congressman Stark Criticizing Our Military

LETTER FROM REP. STARK TO SECRETARY GATES ABOUT POSSIBLE ABUSE OF MILITARY OFFICERS’ TIME

Below is the text of a letter sent today to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates by Representative Pete Stark (D-CA), regarding the possible abuse of military officers’ time.

May 16, 2008

The Honorable Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301

Dear Secretary Gates:

Yesterday, while voting on the war supplemental spending bill in the House of Representatives, I couldn’t help but notice a contingent of approximately 20 flag rank Army officers sitting in the House Gallery watching the debate and vote for a couple of hours. I was looking from below so I thought they were Army, but there could have been other branches present.

It’s possible they were on leave time or vacation. If so, I obviously have no concern. However, if they were doing this on military time, I want an explanation of why they were there.

At a time when our nation is at war, our troops are over-extended, and the Administration is literally asking for emergency military spending, what good to the “war on terror” is having US Generals and other top ranked officers – who were likely accompanied by staff and escorted by their chauffeurs – spending hours sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives?

Please provide for me the name, rank, branch, and duties of each of these officers, as well as the number of additional staff and drivers that were used to facilitate their attendance yesterday. I would like this information by Monday, May 19th.

If they were here on official duty, this was an abhorrent misallocation of our military resources at a time of war.

Sincerely,

Pete Stark

CC: The Honorable Ike Skelton, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services

CC: The Honorable Jack Murtha, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense

Stark, the coward, only accepts input from his district. It turns out that these military officers who were observing in the House Gallery that day were students from the Army War College according to the AP. Too bad the fine folks at the Pentagon had to take time away from the war to answer the petulant foundering of this traitorous coward.  I guess it made him feel like a tough guy to fire off that rant to the Pentagon.  Wonder what he was REALLY worried about?  Those mean old Army guys might just hurt him if he didn’t vote to fund the war.  After all they are just vicious.  I know – I read it in the New York Times!!!

UGH!

Dear Pete,

You mommy called.  It’s naptime.  Go home.

Gates

Sometimes the media gets it right

Today is the funeral of SSG Keith “Matt” Maupin. Over 3500 people attended. I wore a POW bracelet for Matt for the last 4 years. My arm feels a bit naked without it, and I am trying to formulate what I want to say to his parents in the letter I will write to accompany it’s journey to his parents. So far the words won’t come.

But today, some of the local TV stations did a great thing. They pre-empted their programming to cover the funeral. (Including the first game of the NBA playoffs, the PGA, and possibly the NHL playoffs.)

“The network programs are important and popular, but there is nothing more important than our commitment to local news,” says Les Vann, Channel 12 vice president and general manager.

Like I said, sometimes they get it right. Thank you!

And another one down….

Media General Inc. will take a loss in the first quarter as it looks to sell four television affiliates.

The corporate parent of The Tampa Tribune and WFLA-Channel 8 reported a net loss of $20.3 million, or 91 cents per share, compared to a $6.5 million, or 27 cent per share, loss experienced the quarter before. Revenue was down 10.9 percent from $218.3 million in the first quarter of 2006 to $194.5 million this quarter.

Another one bites the dust….

Looks like the Toronto Star is the newest enemedia outlet to be falling down. Everyone got their violins ready?

Iriaqi’s support the war! Someone inform the Slimes!

From FR….

VIDEO: Local (Everett) Iraqis Support War, Hope For Iraq
kirotv.com ^ | 3/19/08 | KIRO 7 Eyewitness News
Posted on 03/20/2008 2:47:23 AM CDT by USMC Brat
VIDEO: Local (Everett) Iraqis Support War, Hope For Iraq
Iraqis living in Everett see the five-year anniversary of the war as a time to celebrate the future of their country.

Related Video:
EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Local Iraqi man Ali Al-Faham explains support

WOW! But I thought that Iraqis “felt that the rapid buildup of U.S. troops in Anbar province and in Baghdad has made overall security worse, not better” and see the United States “through the filter of general antipathy.” Maybe the pollsters are skewed?