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- Rick Perry
I have said, from the beginning that Rick Perry is our only hope of beating Obama. I base this upon my experience/learning in Advertising/Media/PR. Americans vote for the person who tells the story about America (about themselves as Americans) that they...
- Amil Imani Feels Rick Perry Is Sufficiently Reliable
Israel National News contributor Amil Imani has looked at the record of Rick Perry and some of the arguments made, and thinks that, while there are still some things in question (like any relations he has with the Ismailis), that Texas governor Rick Perry...
- Rick Perry Outlines His Foreign Policy
Texas governor and US presidential candidate Rick Perry has begun to outline his putative foreign policy. From "Perry offers outline of foreign policy platform", by Carrie Dann, MSNBC, accessed 31 August 2011: Texas Gov. Rick Perry offered the...
- It's Time For Republicans To Put Down The Hubris And Get Real
The polls are showing exactly what I believe to be true based upon the way I see things. From Ace of Spades: Romney v. Obama: 48-46; Perry v. Obama: 47-47; Ron Paul v. Obama 45-47; Bachmann v. Obama 44-48. ... Obama is still the candidate favored to...
- As An American Who Happens To Be Jewish....can Someone Please Explain The Uproar Of Rick Perry Praying?
I have not made up my mind at all about Perry, but having 25,000 people pray for the USA just does not seem either a BAD THING, or worthy of negative comment. Suppose they had prayed for the Dallas Cowboys? Would that be bad? Are people somewhere afraid...
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Rick Perry Is Not the ’5th Column Candidate’
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For the modern left, the concept of political warfare abroad engenders a kind of squeamishness, if not revulsion; using propaganda to shape the public’s perceptions recalls outrage at the CIA’s information operations during the early years of the Cold War. While feigning shame for the history of robust promotion of America by the clandestine services in prior decades, inside the United States their desire to engage in sophisticated political warfare against their enemies is performed eagerly without the slightest hesitation.
One method of political warfare involves stoking a controversy and building a wedge between a constituency and an otherwise-favored candidate. As transparent an example you will find this year is Salon’s recent article “Perry: The Pro-Sharia Candidate?” — complete with the suggestive question mark. It was an attempt to divide a sizable portion of the GOP base from Texas Governor Rick Perry. By seizing on a local story highlighting Perry’s relationship with the Ismaili community in Texas, Salon’s Justin Elliott set out to create a fake controversy meant to alarm the millions of Americans concerned with radical Islam and homegrown jihad in America.
Elliott picked up his story’s framing from the Houston Chronicle, Politico, and other media outlets.
As we’ll see, this manufactured dispute is intended to damage more than just Perry’s candidacy and the unity of conservatives ahead of the presidential election. It also benefits the Muslim Brotherhood groups many of Perry’s new critics rightly warn about.
Unfortunately, some conservative bloggers took the bait against Perry, bashing him for his links to the Ismailis and his support for the Muslim Histories and Culture Project, a curriculum co-sponsored by the Ismailis’ spiritual leader, the Aga Khan. In addition, some have seized on the endorsement of Perry in an earlier race for the governorship by Farouk Shami, a Palestinian-American businessman on the board of an anti-Israel group.
Another is Perry’s sharing the stage in a program on taxes with Grover Norquist, whose troubling connections with Muslim Brotherhood groups are becoming better known. At their most generous, critics point to the sum of these associations as a kind of “proof” establishing Perry’s unwitting compliance with the agenda of the Brotherhood. On the other side of the spectrum, overheated words have overtaken level heads. Using the Salon report as a springboard, some have accused Perry of “systematic sedition” and, in a follow up, doubling-down with, “Yes, Perry is the 5th Column Candidate.” Obviously, based on the evidence provided, Perry is neither.
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- Rick Perry
I have said, from the beginning that Rick Perry is our only hope of beating Obama. I base this upon my experience/learning in Advertising/Media/PR. Americans vote for the person who tells the story about America (about themselves as Americans) that they...
- Amil Imani Feels Rick Perry Is Sufficiently Reliable
Israel National News contributor Amil Imani has looked at the record of Rick Perry and some of the arguments made, and thinks that, while there are still some things in question (like any relations he has with the Ismailis), that Texas governor Rick Perry...
- Rick Perry Outlines His Foreign Policy
Texas governor and US presidential candidate Rick Perry has begun to outline his putative foreign policy. From "Perry offers outline of foreign policy platform", by Carrie Dann, MSNBC, accessed 31 August 2011: Texas Gov. Rick Perry offered the...
- It's Time For Republicans To Put Down The Hubris And Get Real
The polls are showing exactly what I believe to be true based upon the way I see things. From Ace of Spades: Romney v. Obama: 48-46; Perry v. Obama: 47-47; Ron Paul v. Obama 45-47; Bachmann v. Obama 44-48. ... Obama is still the candidate favored to...
- As An American Who Happens To Be Jewish....can Someone Please Explain The Uproar Of Rick Perry Praying?
I have not made up my mind at all about Perry, but having 25,000 people pray for the USA just does not seem either a BAD THING, or worthy of negative comment. Suppose they had prayed for the Dallas Cowboys? Would that be bad? Are people somewhere afraid...