Debbie Schlussel, who is sort of the K-Mart version of Ann Coulter, along with others on the right, is trying to fuel yet another attack on Sen. Obama for his meeting with Imam Hassan Qazwini, a muslim leader in Detroit. Schlussel is one of the reactionary nutjobs on the right and as soon as they see someone who isn’t Christian they automatically assume that they are terrorists. So they tie themselves up in knots, and accuse Obama of meeting with the enemy or some other such nonsense.
From what sort of mind does Debbie Schlussel’s accusations flow? Debbie Schlussel thought that the Virginia Tech student shootings were a terrorist attack coordinated by a “Paki”, Debbie Schlussel said “we need to be very vigilant of all Muslims”, and Debbie Schlussel claimed that Media Matters was funded by Nazis.
So back to Imam Hassan Qazwini. According to Schlussel, he is a secret agent of Iran. This has to be true because… well, Schlussel says so. Based on her attack on Obama, simply meeting with Qazwini is reason to suspect the loyalties of an American politician.
Well, then, it’s time to arrest President Bush.
Here is George W. Bush at an event with Qazwini in April of 2003 in Dearborn, Michigan:
And even more damning, here’s Bush giving Qazwini a kiss on the cheek:
Using the logic of absolute morons like Debbie Schlussel, we can only surmise that President Bush is a secret agent of Iran who wants to force us to gay marry while converting to Sharia law.
Qazwini also recently met with Pope Benedict.
Debbie Schlussel is a mainstream voice on the right. What she says, many of them believe. This is why the rest of us in the real world cannot have a rational conversation with these people.
To quote Pink Floyd:
“Ha Ha, charade you are”
Another conservative who doesn’t know enough to know they’re a hypocrite.
Oliver:
Did you email Debbie Schlussel copies of those pictures? Then again, I suppose you don’t want to be responsible for any injuries she suffers falling over after looking at them.
Oliver, man, no matter how much I like you, you can’t make me click on a Schlussel link.
She probably Google tracks herself like the Almighty Althouse, so I would not be surprised if she shows up here.
You’re so cruel Mr. Willis and I love it.
She has been criticizing Bush and the administration on a regular basis since just after 9/11 for his/their associations with people like Qazwini that she argues are radicals. She probably has a lot more pictures of those meetings than Oliver has ever seen.
Thanks, JWG, for pointing out that she is just a racist paranoid nutcase, instead of a racist paranoid nutcase hypocrite.
My pleasure.
Oliver, you forgot to add misandrist to the list of things Debbie should be called. If you read her blog long enough, you’ll understand why.
Muslims should wear criticism from the Debbie Schlussels of the world with a gigantic badge of honor.
Oliver, you’re almost seven years too late in missing Schlussel’s criticism of those meetings with Bush. So the point of your post is exactly what?
Oliver:
Lame try, but no cigar. Here’s a paraphrase of a response to a comment on my site about this (I use caps to differentiate my responses to comments on my site–it is not “yelling”):
CONTRARY TO HIS CLAIM (HE NEEDS TO LEARN TO USE GOOGLE AND ENGAGE A LITTLE READING COMPREHENSION), I’VE BEEN EVEN MORE CRITICAL OF THE POPE AND PRESIDENT BUSH FOR HANGING WITH QAZWINI, AND WILLIS QUITE OBVIOUSLY LEARNED OF THOSE MEETINGS ON THIS SITE. HE’S NOT BEING INTELLECTUALLY HONEST–NO SHOCKER THERE. UNLIKE MR. WILLIS–WHO WORKS FOR MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA AS ITS WEB DEVELOPER–I ACTUALLY AM AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CRITIC. AND UNLIKE HIM, WHILE I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEVELOP A WEBSITE, I’M HIGH TECH ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW TO USE GOOGLE (AND HE APPARENTLY IS TOO LAZY AND INCOMPETENT TO DO SO). DO A GOOGLE SEARCH ON “BUSH QAZWINI” OR “POPE QAZWINI” AND THIS SITE–MY SITE–IS THE TOP RESULTS FOR EACH:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/09/the_pope_jihad.html
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/01/extremist_imamb.html
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2001/03/funding_islamic.html
DS
Since you’re aware of Bush’s and the Pope’s relationship with Qazwini, we all know you learned of both from MY SITE. So sad, you can’t be intellectually honest about it. No-one ever accused liberals of honesty. Unlike you, I am fair in my criticism in going after all perpetrators, whether they are GOPers or DEMS, libs or cons.
DS
Well, Debbie, if I may borrow a bit from SpiderJ, you are a paranoid, anti-Muslim bigot (”we need to be very vigilant of all Muslims”), just not a hypocritical, paranoid, anti-Muslim bigot.
It wouldn’t kill Oliver, though, to acknowledge his mistake and apologize (something you certainly would never do for your past offensive statements).
I went to Schlussel’s post that Oliver linked to, and I noticed an interesting omission. She never mentions President Bush “hanging” with Qazwini in the past. She could have wrote something like “Obama is making the same mistake that President Bush made in having meetings with this guy, meetings that I have written about in the past” and then linked to to those writings. But she didn’t. So basically, she gets to a. engage in “I criticize all sides” posturing; and yet b. leave the impression to all those reading her post who are not unaware of Bush’s previous contacts with Qazwini that it’s only Obama who has had contacts with this individual.
Costco Coulter
“It wouldn’t kill Oliver, though, to acknowledge his mistake and apologize.”
Yes. Apologizing to paranoid, anti-Muslim bigots is sooooooo important.
If Schlussel, and other paranoid, anti-Muslim bigots, were intellectually honest she would explain the exactly the nightmare scenario of Muslim domination that keeps her up at night. We hear a lot of idiots telling us that we’re fighting WWIII against Muslim extremists with our very way of life hanging in the balance, and yet they never seem able to explain the likely route to which Osama Bin Laden takes over the United States and forces us all to pray five times a day.
So, Debbie, how is it that we’re going to end up with a prayer tower on top of the White House?
She never mentions President Bush “hanging” with Qazwini in the past.
Amen. It’s not as if Schlussel wrote “Man, Obama is just as bad as the Pope and President Bush, meeting with this guy I don’t like”. Nope, she wrote “Boogedy boogedy secret muslim Barack Obama meets with scary Iranian secret agent”.
I don’t apologize to idiots, and certainly not bigoted smear artist idiots.
Yes, yes…we know the drill…criticisim of the Messiah is racist (even if the same criticism has been made against a republican president and the pope).
I warned you. I knew she’d show up, like the attention whore she is.
Is that like when Oliver shows up in other blogs to defend himself?
JWG – Oliver didn’t bring up Obama’s race. He mentioned Obama’s religion. Which isn’t Muslim.
“Yes, yes…we know the drill…criticisim of the Messiah is racist …”
Yes, yes, we know the drill … pointing out the right’s paranoid idiocy is liberal fascism.
Paranoid idiots are the black man of liberal fascism. Indeed, it is central to my point.
(I use caps to differentiate my responses to comments on my site–it is not “yelling”):
Because those pesky italics and block quote tags are instruments of Hezbollah.
Schlussel, have some more onion rings. You know what I’m talking about.
“Because those pesky italics and block quote tags are instruments of Hezbollah.”
ROFL.
Duros62 wrote: “Because those pesky italics and block quote tags are instruments of Hezbollah.”
That, and they’re danged elitist too when you really think about it.
Kahaneists. Go figure.
“Booogedy boogedy secret Muslim Barack Obama.”
Where in the above words did Oliver mention Obama’s race?
“Is that like when Oliver shows up in other blogs to defend himself?”
I’m sure that Oliver defends himself more honestly than Schussel did here. At least she could have mentioned her omission in her blog post that Oliver linked to that she didn’t note that President Bush and the pope have had contacts with Qazwini in the past. Why is this omission worth mentioning? Because it gives people who don’t know of the latter contacts the clear impression that only Obama has met with this supposedly heinous individual.
Sorry if we confused Debbie Schlussel with the typical robot right-winger who would defend George W. Bush at all costs, against all common sense and sanity.
Apparently, Debbie is so far to the extreme right than even good ole Dubya is a scary scary liberal who’s way too far to the left to do her religionist bidding.
We made an assumption! Our bad!
JWG, Since when is “Booogedy boogedy” a racial slur? I’ve always heard this term when talking of general fearmongering. Like, “boogedy boogedy there’s a monster under your bed!”
The point wasn’t that Schlussel et al were throwing racial terms but trying to strike fear into people about Obama. Interesting you went straight to race. Perhaps you were thinking of the racial terms the reich-wingers have taught the public to associate Obama with, like “jigaboo.”
The only reason race is brought up is to couple it with fear. They are not a package deal until the Republicans make it so, which they’ve been doing a lot.
Wow Maybe Deb ought to kow WTF she’s talking about before ranting, here’s pictures of her FAVE prez with said Iman
http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/17/debbie-schlussel-portrait-of-a-conservative-nutjob-in-heat-imam-hassan-qazwini-edition/
Nice kiss there Bushie and the Iranian agent are really lovey here aren’t they
If I had to bet, and I think I’d win, Ms. Schlussel is a Ashcan-Nazi Zionist who is afraid that Barak Obama will not be sympathetic to Israel, she’s probably a member of the ADL, and he might try to cut off their welfare check of more than $3,000,000,000.00 a year of which they now demand being paid in Euros. Now thats what I call CHUZPAH! She really doesn’t have to worry because Brzezinki is hidden in the back room running his campaign, probably with Henry Kissass-inger.
I’m a strange Muslim in that I like seeing White American start talking about Islam – what they say is unimportant to me, but I like seeing Islam mentioned millions of times each and every day – how else do you think Islam spreads?
Debbie is no Pat Robertson, Rod Parsly or Hagee – but she shows promise and gets lots of Republicans and freepers talking Islam to – lots of new Red Neck Muslims these days
“Schlussel is one of the reactionary nutjobs on the right and as soon as they see someone who isn’t Christian they automatically assume that they are terrorists.”
Well, I guess you didn’t do your research. First of all, you are a hypocrite for writing your prejudicial comments. And second, Debbie Schlussel is not even a Christian. She is Jewish, so by your logic Debbie must believe that she herself is a terrorist. Bravo, what a brilliant writer you are.
Oliver Willis, I think Debbie doesnt have a clue who is Hezbollah, Fadlullah, or Qazwini. how on earth Qazwini was iranian agent. he’s iraqi. Qazwini’s family is a prominent family in iraq. so her asumption is will blatantly false if she tried to linked as ‘iranian agent’. and about hezbollah, hezbollah taqlid to khamenei rahbar not Fadlullah.
DEBBIE : next time when made this up, be sure have sufficient knowledge about this rather than throwing ur propaganda which only make u embarassed for urself
thank you
Debbie Schluessel= Racist Paranoid Zionist Bigot. The End!
Debbie Schlussel is not worth talking about. She feeds into that.
Is this the same Debbie Schlussel connected with the recent Selective Service story?
Al
Debbie stated “I am an equal opportunity critic”, whereas the word ‘equal’ is nowhere in her vocabulary. She should use her negative energy toward something more productive; like possibly sign up at a gym to lose a few pounds. Maybe that’s why she’s like that, she’s simply INSECURE
I found her while doing some research about Muslims in Detroit and then went on to her website… I was ABSOLUTELY APPALLED at the lack of professionalism she shows in her so-called journalism.
After making SEVERAL comments that dispute her position on issues from Muslims in America to President Elect Obama, the ignorant Bitch BANNED ME FROM HER WEBSITE… even though my comments did not contain any profanity nor any outward insults of other users.
In response to what I had written and the subsequent banning, she left this in a comment regarding what I had written:
[TB: FYI, LEILANI HAS BEEN BANNED. I DON'T ALLOW PEOPLE WHO DELIBERATELY LIE ON THIS SITE. SHE'S A TROLL, AND THIS IS A TROLL-FREE ZONE. PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE ARE FINE, BUT HER BEHAVIOR WENT BEYOND THE PALE. DS]
Now, I don’t feel that I had made any outright lies regarding my stance on her columns, but even if that is the case, where in the hell does she get off calling me a troll???
I have never seen someone who holds so many degrees be so ignorant! Her site is NO DIFFERENT than those run by the KKK and the Aryan Nation.
Warning to other readers: Anyone who opposes her viewpoint WILL BE DELETED!!!!
Wow, I really thought that was Rachel Dratch with a flat iron and a bad bleach job. The only reason this self-proclaimed “babe” can brag about being a size one is that all the fat is in her face, and, of course, brain.
Moreover, can you say no life if she’s trolling these blogs?
“Schlussel is one of the reactionary nutjobs on the right and as soon as they see someone who isn’t Christian they automatically assume that they are terrorists.”
Well, I guess you didn’t do your research. First of all, you are a hypocrite for writing your prejudicial comments. And second, Debbie Schlussel is not even a Christian. She is Jewish, so by your logic Debbie must believe that she herself is a terrorist. Bravo, what a brilliant writer you are.
No, Kevin G. The above commentator is just being politically correct in of course blaming Christians rather than Jews.