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Monday, July 16, 2007

Not really, but the story by Mike Seccombe is about a recent Steve Emerson talk delivered out on Martha's Vineyard and that's the title it's given (and the tone matches). Ah well, can't have a little truth interfering with the perfect days of people who literally live on an island: Hebrew Center Lecture Promotes Extreme Views

The White House, the American Civil Liberties Union, that "idiot" the British Prime Minister, the United Nations, the FBI, CIA, State Department, New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio, CNN, and the Internal Revenue Service.

It's not often you hear them - and a lot of other governments and organizations as well - lumped together as part of the same problem.

But they were on Wednesday night when self-made counterterrorism expert Steve Emerson addressed the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center Summer Institute, as the first of their speakers for 2007...

Damn, wish I coulda been there.

All the above-mentioned parties were, to some degree or other, put forward as dupes of an international Islamic terrorist movement by Mr. Emerson. Titled Defending the Homeland, his talk might equally have been called The End of Hope.

Not everyone he mentioned came out of it badly. He enumerated some half-dozen Islamic leaders around the nation and the world whom he did not consider extremists. But then he said they had no constituencies. And he lauded the Fox News network as intellectually honest.

Sounds about right. What's the problem?

Given Betsy Sheer's stated intent as the new chairman of the summer institute to bring more controversy to the speaker series, the first night could be counted as a success.

She introduced Mr. Emerson as being neither shy and retiring nor tactful, and he lived up to the billing. He was combative with questioners and unambiguous in his pronouncements.

He also had requested no press coverage.

Given that this piece appears in the Vineyard Gazette, it looks like he didn't get any.

...He said he first got into the business of counterterrorism on Christmas Day 1992, when he happened upon a meeting in downtown Oklahoma City of thousands of Islamic activists...

You sure that wasn't Kansas City? Check the comments to this post for video of that one -- a meeting of the Islamic Association for Palestine, the precursor to CAIR. It is truly is shocking.

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