The American boy arrested for making a clock meets Sudan’s president, an accused war criminal
The arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Texas student, in mid-September for bringing a homemade clock to his high school created a nationwide debate about racism and Islamophobia in the United States. Despite facing a wave of ugly criticism, Ahmed won support from high places — President Obama tweeted his support, and the teenager is expected to be a guest at the White House this weekend.
Ahead of that that visit, Ahmed has met with another president. This meeting is a little bit more surprising.
According to the Sudan Tribune, Ahmed met with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in Khartoum on Wednesday evening. The Paris-based Web site reports that the teenager told reporters that he was “extremely delighted” to meet Bashir and hoped to return to visit the Sudanese president again “with a new invention and success.”…
However, Bashir is no ordinary world leader. He has an outstanding arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, for example, for allegedly orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The country he leads is under a variety of U.S. sanctions. His government harbored Osama bin Laden for five years in the 1990s. A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks even suggested he may have secretly stolen $9 billion in oil money.”
Just one week after the federal Bureau of Prisons banned pork products from its 122 prisons, pork roast will return to the dinner lines, officials said Friday.
But it really ought to be said plainly that O’Reilly is no conservative. He is, at best, a populist, but most likely just a sheer opportunist. He’s a skilled broadcaster, no doubt, and as he does big ratings for Fox I’m sure they don’t much care that he’s faking it. I have little doubt that if MSNBC offered to double his salary, he’d jump over in a red-hot minute and start channeling Rachel Madcow. … I understand why Fox News keeps O’Reilly around, but he really is an embarrassment. Best to spit him out of your spin cycle.
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His bombastic, “I’m-always-right, you’re-just-wrong so shut up, I will just talk over you and dismiss anything you have to say) style has always really annoyed me. Especially when he does that to some very smart guests who actually have something more intelligent than he has to say!
Argh. I can’t watch or listen to him more than a couple minutes before shrieking and changing the channel. 🙂
I love Brit Hume, and also like Bret Baier, Greta, & Megyn Kelly (though I’ve certainly picked up that Kelly is pro-gay marriage — but that’s OK, I’m fine with diversity of thought on my news channels).
Some of the more strident commentators on Fox I’m simply not fond of (Hannity, O’Reilly, Stossel the resident libertarian, etc.).
I really like Brit Hume. When he anchored the evening news, I tried not to miss it. Baier seems like a nice guy, but he isn’t as smart as Hume.
Megyn Kelly is pretty and pretty smart (though not as smart as she thinks she is). She is a New Yorker, and she has liberal Yankee views on some social issues.
I agree that something about Hannity grates on the nerves. I generally agree with him (except on foreign policy or when he is blindly defending a Bush), but he is like Limbaugh without the humor.
I like the former Miss America that is on Fox sometime during the day. She has a Nordic name (Gretchen?). My Mother watches her every day. She is smart and solidly conservative.
I also like the people on The Five. Greg Guttfeld is funny, and the other man is smart and conservative. Dana Perino is sort of a bubblehead, but the Greek lady on that show is very smart.
I like the Five too — wish Hume were on more, but glad to still see him around. I agree that Baier isn’t as good as he was.
And I think you’re right about Kelly maybe thinking she’s a bit smarter than she is 🙂 I’ve noticed a change in her (more aggressive) since she’s hit it so big, but she’s still generally likable.
Not sure why Hannity grates, but part of it for me is his completely one-sided, knee-jerk approach. It gets old.
I prefer the more journalistically trained folks to the partisan commentators who develop a cranky TV “schtick.”
I haven’t actually seen a lot of Stossel to be honest — probably because libertarianism generally leaves me so cold — but I think he has probably made some interesting points. But again, kind of a one-sided presentation pushing a particular point of view selectively
It’s Grechen Carlson who was the Miss America. Shannon Bream in prettier than all of them.
Do you notice that Fox always positions the ladies so that their legs are showing. Moreso than most news channels.
Except for.
Shannon Bream
Megyn Kelly
Greta
Put me down as also “:not an O’Reilly fan”. He is just rude. I love the Five. I record too FOX shows a day, The Five. and Red Eye. Red Eye comes on a 3 am and was created by Gregg Gutfeld. It was suppose to be a comic, conservative take on the news. Most of the time it is pretty funny, sometimes it is just weird and sometimes it gets a little racy. After Gutfeld got his own show Red Eye was taken over by Tom Shillue, a stand up comedian. IMHO it is now funnier, less racy and less political. If anything it proves that conservatives are funnier ad lib than liberals are with a team of writers. Some FOX people who are surprisingly funny are Lou Dobbs, Mike Baker, Tucker Carlson. John Bolton, Eric Metaxes and Fr John Morris
KBells, The Tide was too much for our Aggies today. That was the largest meeting of conservatives in the country: 95,000 Aggies (the most conservative of Texans) and 10,000 people from Alabama (the second state to secede). My son said he saw no Obama stickers on the 40,000 trucks and cars parked around the stadium.
Ricky I just hope they have enough in them to crawl back up to the top four. It is not easy being a fan of a team that considers not getting a National Championship a bad year. 🙂
Chas, If you are not going to run for President this year, I think we should start a Draft Shannon Bream committee. Maybe she will choose one of the two of us to be her running mate.
I enjoy the debates Kelly and O’Rilley get into.
Kelly states her point.
O’Rilley hollers at her.
Kelly replies.
O’rilly hollers back.
Kelly turns and smiles at me.
And, just like that, O’Rilley loses. That simple.
I have forgotten everything he said.
Chas and I will be sure and tell Fox News when they have too many beauty queens.
Tychicus, The most interesting part of that article was how Texas was so much safer to work in than the Yankee states. With farming, oil exploration, fishing, manufacturing, refining and ranching, we have some dangerous jobs. I think the truth is that our people fake injuries less (because they are rewarded less for faking).
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FOXNEWS BAIER 2,006,000
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FOXNEWS GRETA 1,670,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 1,488,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,031,000
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Oh look, Ahmed the bomb clock boy continues his world tour. He’s now in Sudan meeting with other “inventors”……..
Oh wait, no, he’s not. He’s meeting with a genocidal maniac and war criminal instead. “Cuz you know, science, or something……
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/10/ahmed-the-clock-boy-meets-with-genocidal-muslim-leader-and-war-criminal/
“The Washington Post reports:
The American boy arrested for making a clock meets Sudan’s president, an accused war criminal
The arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Texas student, in mid-September for bringing a homemade clock to his high school created a nationwide debate about racism and Islamophobia in the United States. Despite facing a wave of ugly criticism, Ahmed won support from high places — President Obama tweeted his support, and the teenager is expected to be a guest at the White House this weekend.
Ahead of that that visit, Ahmed has met with another president. This meeting is a little bit more surprising.
According to the Sudan Tribune, Ahmed met with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in Khartoum on Wednesday evening. The Paris-based Web site reports that the teenager told reporters that he was “extremely delighted” to meet Bashir and hoped to return to visit the Sudanese president again “with a new invention and success.”…
However, Bashir is no ordinary world leader. He has an outstanding arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, for example, for allegedly orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The country he leads is under a variety of U.S. sanctions. His government harbored Osama bin Laden for five years in the 1990s. A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks even suggested he may have secretly stolen $9 billion in oil money.”
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I’m thinking this may be a better first move than firing on Fort Sumter.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/lord_monckton_the_texas_talent_will_replace_the_dollar.html
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Just one week after the federal Bureau of Prisons banned pork products from its 122 prisons, pork roast will return to the dinner lines, officials said Friday.
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Some tough but I suspect honest words about O’Reilly:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/10/killing-oreillys-reagan.php
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But it really ought to be said plainly that O’Reilly is no conservative. He is, at best, a populist, but most likely just a sheer opportunist. He’s a skilled broadcaster, no doubt, and as he does big ratings for Fox I’m sure they don’t much care that he’s faking it. I have little doubt that if MSNBC offered to double his salary, he’d jump over in a red-hot minute and start channeling Rachel Madcow. … I understand why Fox News keeps O’Reilly around, but he really is an embarrassment. Best to spit him out of your spin cycle.
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We don’t like Bill O’Yankee here in Texas. He is anti-Southern and very soft on perversion.
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His bombastic, “I’m-always-right, you’re-just-wrong so shut up, I will just talk over you and dismiss anything you have to say) style has always really annoyed me. Especially when he does that to some very smart guests who actually have something more intelligent than he has to say!
Argh. I can’t watch or listen to him more than a couple minutes before shrieking and changing the channel. 🙂
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I love Brit Hume, and also like Bret Baier, Greta, & Megyn Kelly (though I’ve certainly picked up that Kelly is pro-gay marriage — but that’s OK, I’m fine with diversity of thought on my news channels).
Some of the more strident commentators on Fox I’m simply not fond of (Hannity, O’Reilly, Stossel the resident libertarian, etc.).
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I really like Brit Hume. When he anchored the evening news, I tried not to miss it. Baier seems like a nice guy, but he isn’t as smart as Hume.
Megyn Kelly is pretty and pretty smart (though not as smart as she thinks she is). She is a New Yorker, and she has liberal Yankee views on some social issues.
I agree that something about Hannity grates on the nerves. I generally agree with him (except on foreign policy or when he is blindly defending a Bush), but he is like Limbaugh without the humor.
I like the former Miss America that is on Fox sometime during the day. She has a Nordic name (Gretchen?). My Mother watches her every day. She is smart and solidly conservative.
I also like the people on The Five. Greg Guttfeld is funny, and the other man is smart and conservative. Dana Perino is sort of a bubblehead, but the Greek lady on that show is very smart.
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I like the Five too — wish Hume were on more, but glad to still see him around. I agree that Baier isn’t as good as he was.
And I think you’re right about Kelly maybe thinking she’s a bit smarter than she is 🙂 I’ve noticed a change in her (more aggressive) since she’s hit it so big, but she’s still generally likable.
Not sure why Hannity grates, but part of it for me is his completely one-sided, knee-jerk approach. It gets old.
I prefer the more journalistically trained folks to the partisan commentators who develop a cranky TV “schtick.”
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Donna – John Stossel used to do some stories for 20/20. I enjoyed the stories he did, as he brought common sense to bear on the issues he dealt with.
What is he like on Fox (we don’t get that channel)? It’s been a few years since I’ve seen him, so maybe he’s changed his delivery or something.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-the-2016-presidential-race-will-be-a-historic-ideological-battle/article/2574244
Understatment: Two electorates, both smelling victory, see no reason to cede policy ground. Ideological warfare is sure to follow.
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I haven’t actually seen a lot of Stossel to be honest — probably because libertarianism generally leaves me so cold — but I think he has probably made some interesting points. But again, kind of a one-sided presentation pushing a particular point of view selectively
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It’s Grechen Carlson who was the Miss America. Shannon Bream in prettier than all of them.
Do you notice that Fox always positions the ladies so that their legs are showing. Moreso than most news channels.
Except for.
Shannon Bream
Megyn Kelly
Greta
Don’t know why.
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Thanks, Chas. You are right about Shannon Bream. In fact, she is so pretty that everything she says seems brilliant.
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I think Shannon Bream was a Miss Florida. Florida, like all the states of the Old Confederacy, has very high standards.
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Put me down as also “:not an O’Reilly fan”. He is just rude. I love the Five. I record too FOX shows a day, The Five. and Red Eye. Red Eye comes on a 3 am and was created by Gregg Gutfeld. It was suppose to be a comic, conservative take on the news. Most of the time it is pretty funny, sometimes it is just weird and sometimes it gets a little racy. After Gutfeld got his own show Red Eye was taken over by Tom Shillue, a stand up comedian. IMHO it is now funnier, less racy and less political. If anything it proves that conservatives are funnier ad lib than liberals are with a team of writers. Some FOX people who are surprisingly funny are Lou Dobbs, Mike Baker, Tucker Carlson. John Bolton, Eric Metaxes and Fr John Morris
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KBells, The Tide was too much for our Aggies today. That was the largest meeting of conservatives in the country: 95,000 Aggies (the most conservative of Texans) and 10,000 people from Alabama (the second state to secede). My son said he saw no Obama stickers on the 40,000 trucks and cars parked around the stadium.
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Ricky I just hope they have enough in them to crawl back up to the top four. It is not easy being a fan of a team that considers not getting a National Championship a bad year. 🙂
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Don’t have cable, so don’t worry about O’Reilly, but did read his death of Jesus book she my on-believing walking pal pressed it on me.
Totally sloppy writer. 😦
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Ok, I do have to say that Fox kind of gets too carried away with the blonde beauty queen theme at times … Sorry guys 😉
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Chas, If you are not going to run for President this year, I think we should start a Draft Shannon Bream committee. Maybe she will choose one of the two of us to be her running mate.
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I enjoy the debates Kelly and O’Rilley get into.
Kelly states her point.
O’Rilley hollers at her.
Kelly replies.
O’rilly hollers back.
Kelly turns and smiles at me.
And, just like that, O’Rilley loses. That simple.
I have forgotten everything he said.
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Ricky, on Rush’s program last year, there were these commercials:
“Dr. Carson!
Dr. Ben Carson!
Report to the Oval Office.
STAT
Your country needs you!”
That may be the reason he entered the race.
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Donna
I’ll admit that Fox sometimes gets carried away with the blond beauty queens at times..
But not “too” carried away.
😉
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There it is, RW – Texas pride!
Think about who is running the states that are ranked worst…
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2015/07/02/the-best-and-worst-states-for-making-a-living/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&intcmp=hplnws
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Yeah, I figured you’d say that (@12:59), Chas 🙂
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Chas and I will be sure and tell Fox News when they have too many beauty queens.
Tychicus, The most interesting part of that article was how Texas was so much safer to work in than the Yankee states. With farming, oil exploration, fishing, manufacturing, refining and ranching, we have some dangerous jobs. I think the truth is that our people fake injuries less (because they are rewarded less for faking).
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Donna: You can depend on Ricky and me. We’ll be watching closely.
We’ll let you know.
😆
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Let me just add Bill Hemmer and Clayton Morris ain’t too hard on the eyes either.
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