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Published: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:23:17 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleIssuesMedia continue to falsely suggest Palin supports benefits for same-sex couples
In recent reports, McClatchy News Service and the Las Vegas Sun falsely suggested that Gov.
Sarah Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees.
McClatchy reporters George Bryson and Richard Mauer reported that Palin is in
favor of "prohibiting same-sex marriage." They added: "After
becoming governor 20 months ago, on the other hand, Palin didn't balk at
implementing an Alaska Supreme Court ruling that ordered the state to provide
the same benefits to same-sex partners it provides to married couples."
The Sun's David McGrath
Schwartz reported that, as
governor, Palin "vetoed a bill that would have prevented same-sex couples
from getting public employee benefits." In fact, while Palin did veto a bill in 2006
that would have prevented state officials from granting spousal benefits to
same-sex couples, she has stated
that she did so because the Alaska attorney general had advised her the bill
was unconstitutional,
not because she supported spousal benefits for same-sex couples, as Media Matters for America
has repeatedly documented.
Moreover, Palin indicated in a written
questionnaire and in December
2006 press releases that
she disagreed with the Alaska Supreme Court's ruling that same-sex couples are
entitled to the same spousal benefits given to other state employees; in
another questionnaire,
Palin replied, "Yes," when asked whether she would support "a
Constitutional amendment to overturn [the] Alaska Supreme Court decision
mandating public employers to provide benefits equivalent to marriage to
same-sex couples."
Media Matters previously
documented numerous media outlets and figures, including the Associated Press, CNN Headline
News' Glenn Beck, CNN.com,
United Press International,
and syndicated columnist Debra Saunders,
advancing the myth that
Palin supports benefits for same-sex couples.
From the September 14 McClatchy article:
Palin considers herself a born-again
conservative Christian. She supports teaching creationism in the public
schools, outlawing nearly all abortions (even in cases of rape or incest) and
prohibiting same-sex marriage.
After becoming governor 20 months
ago, on the other hand, Palin didn't balk at implementing an Alaska Supreme
Court ruling that ordered the state to provide the same benefits to same-sex
partners it provides to married couples.
And she has yet to advance
legislation that insists that creationism, or ''intelligent design,'' be taught
in public school science classes whenever biological evolution is taught -- as
urged by a plank in the official Alaska Republican Party platform.
From the September 15 Las
Vegas Sun article:
Of course, both sides are trying to
make Palin into a caricature. For the left, it is to cast her as a frightening
religious zealot. However, as governor she vetoed a bill that would have prevented
same-sex couples from getting public employee benefits; she also drew flak from
pro-life groups because she declined to take up two abortion-related measures
during special sessions aimed at getting a natural gas pipeline agreement
passed, saying the abortion-related proposals would be a distraction.
Published: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:52:41 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleIssuesLiddy guest Walid Shoebat falsely claimed that Obama is "definitely a Muslim"
On the September 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated
radio show, G. Gordon Liddy hosted self-described former terrorist
Walid Shoebat to advance the false claim that Sen. Barack Obama, whom
Shoebat said would be
"extremely dangerous" as
president, is a Muslim. Liddy also did not challenge
Shoebat's false claim that Hamas supports Obama.
During the interview, Liddy asked Shoebat: "Obama was
in a -- in Indonesia,
in a public school and in a Catholic school. And in the Catholic school, he was
listed as a Muslim. And he was over in Indonesia, which is a Muslim
country, until the age of 10.
How much of that Muslim indoctrination would carry over?" Shoebat
speculated that Obama was subject to extreme teachings at the "government
school" he attended in Indonesia
and later claimed: "You can see
-- even
speeches of Barack Hussein Obama saying that Arab-American families
that's rounded up, he would help them. He's talking about the same
kind of issues that CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations, would want to
fight for, and that is fighting for the terrorist cause." He also said:
"No one is called Hussein unless he is Muslim. So it is very clear that
Barack Hussein Obama is definitely a Muslim." Shoebat also said:
"In Islam, in the law of Sharia of Islam, the Prophet of Islam said ... whoever leaves the
Islamic faith is to be killed. So what part of killing people don't
understand? He is not called to be killed by the Muslims. Why do they support
him? I haven't heard a really serious testimony of his Christian
conversion. A Muslim who converts to Christianity, the first thing he does is
denounces Islam. Has
Barack Hussein Obama denounced Islam as a false religion?" Liddy
responded: "No."
Shoebat also claimed, without challenge from Liddy:
"So, you can see from Al Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood to Hamas, every
single Muslim terrorist organization supports Barack Hussein Obama. So why
would Americans want to have a president that is connected to Islam and that is
proud to be Muslim?" Shoebat cited no evidence that Al Qaeda and the
Muslim Brotherhood support Obama. Regarding Hamas, as Media Matters for America has noted, while Ahmed Yousef, chief
political adviser to the prime minister of Hamas, reportedly said in an April
13 interview with
conservative radio host John Batchelor and WorldNetDaily.com Jerusalem bureau
chief Aaron Klein that he liked Obama and hoped he would win the election, a
Hamas official responded to Obama's June
4 speech
to the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee by saying, according to Reuters,
"Hamas does not differentiate between the two presidential candidates,
Obama and [Sen. John] McCain,
because their policies regarding the Arab-Israel conflict are the same and are
hostile to us, therefore we do have no preference and are not wishing for
either of them to win."
Later, Liddy asked Shoebat: "Would you consider Barack
Hussein Obama dangerous if he were commander
in chief of the -- all the power and might of
the armed forces of the United
States?" Shoebat replied: "He
would be extremely dangerous. He
would -- he's already calling for dismantlement of nuclear
weapons. He's already calling for negotiations with Islamists. He's
already calling to help Arabs who are arrested in America. He's already
professed to hold hands with the Muslims, and wanting to hold hands with the
Muslims in his book. In his book, it's very clear."
According to his website, Shoebat has appeared several times
on radio and television, including on Fox
News' Hannity & Colmes
and The O'Reilly Factor and
CNN Headline News'
Glenn Beck.
From the September 10 broadcast of Radio America's The G. Gordon Liddy Show:
LIDDY: Walid, will you take a moment
to tell us your life story, in a nutshell?
SHOEBAT: In a nutshell, my life
story is similar to Barack Hussein Obama, because I have an American mother,
married a Palestinian father. Went to the Middle East, she wasn't allowed
to leave for 35 years.
And from my father's perspective, you know, his father was friends with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the
grand mufti of Jerusalem,
who collaborated with Hitler to destroy the Jews. And my mother's side, her grandfather
was friends with Winston Churchill, who wanted to destroy Nazism. So, I lived
both worlds of the Christian and Muslim as well. I went to Christian schools in
the Middle East, I went to similar schools
that Barack Hussein Obama went to, I understand the Muslim mindset, and I grew
up pro-Islamic. Came to the States, was inculcated in the system of the Muslim
Brotherhood in America.
Was underground in Chicago,
same even city as Barack Hussein Obama. And you can see on my website,
Shoebat.com, S-H-O-E-B-A-T.com. At the bottom of the website, you can see the
kind of activities we were doing in Chicago.
Islamic activities, pro-Hamas --
even before Hamas. You know, you can see the violence and the attempted change
in America
to make it pro-Islamic and pro-Sharia.
LIDDY: Shoebat, Obama was in a -- in Indonesia, in a public school and
in a Catholic school. And in the Catholic school, he was listed as a Muslim.
SHOEBAT: That's
right.
LIDDY: And he was over in Indonesia,
which is a Muslim country, until the age of 10. How much of that Muslim indoctrination
would carry over?
SHOEBAT: Well, when I went to a
government school --
you know, it wasn't a madrassa. He was not in a madrassa school, but it
was a government school. And in those schools, from fifth grade, we learned
what is called Islamic eschatology, that the day of judgment will not come to
pass until the tribes of Islam destroy the tribes of Israel, the Jewish people. And then
the trees and the stones will cry out: There is a Jew hiding behind me. We
would learn Islamic eschatology. We would learn that it's an honor for a
Muslim to die as a martyr, to shed his blood for the cause of Allah. We would
learn that the establishment of Sharia law is a mandate. We would learn that
fighting jihad is a mandate against Israel, against the West, and those kinds of things.
This is even in a government school, not even in a madrassa, as most Westerners
--
LIDDY: Well, would he have achieved -- been exposed to those
things at the age of 10,
in a government school over there in Indonesia?
SHOEBAT: Yes. It would be the same thing,
it would be exactly the
same kind of an education system. Barack Hussein Obama's connection is
very clear. He rallied for his cousin Odinga in Kenya,
in which Odinga wanted to establish Islamic-compliant Sharia law in Kenya. So, you know, even his Christian
connection with Pastor Wright, who collaborated with Louis Farrakhan of the
Nation of Islam in 1993 to visit Muammar
Qaddafi in Libya.
Odinga called for change, similar to the change of Barack Hussein Obama. You
can see -- even speeches of Barack Hussein
Obama saying that Arab-American families that's rounded up, he would help
them. He's talking about the same kind of issues that CAIR, Council on
American-Islamic Relations, would want to fight for, and that is fighting for
the terrorist cause. Every single terror organization in the world -- Islamic terror
organization in the world supports Barack Hussein Obama. His name is Barack
Hussein Obama. Hussein is one of the prophet's
names. Muhammad the prophet --
some of his names are Mustafa, Muhammad, Ahmad, Hassan, Hussein -- all of these are Islamic
names portraying Muhammad, to be proud Muslims. His grandchildren are Hassan
and Hussein. This is all Islamic names. No one is called Hussein unless he is
Muslim. So it is very clear that Barack Hussein Obama is definitely a Muslim.
His Christian convert -- I converted to
Christianity. Where is the Christianity of Barack Hussein Obama? This is what
he adheres to in his Christian theology is the same Christian theology that the
Christian terrorists in the Palestinian areas adhere to. You have the PFLP,
Popular Front to Liberate Palestine, led by George Habash, a Christian,
supposedly. And they adhere to what is called the liberation theology, as
Pastor Wright adheres to. That kind of theology is very close to Islamic
theology, in which it calls for jihad and the same kind of thing. So, you could
see from his Christian claim that, you know, being connected to Pastor Wright,
that it's not Christianity whatsoever. In Islam, in the law of Sharia of
Islam, the Prophet of Islam said [speaking Arabic] whoever
leaves the Islamic faith is to be killed. So what part of killing people
don't understand? He is not called to be killed by the Muslims. Why do
they support him? I haven't heard a really serious testimony of his
Christian conversion. A Muslim who converts to Christianity, the first thing he
does is denounces
Islam. Has Barack Hussein Obama denounced Islam as a false religion?
LIDDY: No.
SHOEBAT: Because that's what
every single convert to Christianity from Islam must and does do. Why am I
being called to be killed by the Muslims and Barack Hussein Obama to survive? So, you can see from Al
Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood to Hamas, every single Muslim terrorist
organization supports Barack Hussein Obama. So why would Americans want to have
a president that is connected to Islam and that is proud to be Muslim? If he
had converted to Christianity, he would change his name Hussein to something
else. He would change his name Barack to something else. And maybe he would
bury his old name that he used, you know, when he was a kid.
LIDDY: Yeah. Let me ask you, Mr.
Shoebat. Would you consider Barack Hussein Obama dangerous if he were commander in chief of the -- all the power and might of
the armed forces of the United
States?
SHOEBAT: He would be extremely
dangerous. He would -- he's
already calling for dismantlement of nuclear weapons. He's already
calling for negotiations with Islamists. He's already calling to help
Arabs who are arrested in America.
He's already professed to hold hands with the Muslims, and wanting to
hold hands with the Muslims in his book. In his book, it's very clear. He
mentioned that. He'd rather hold hands with the Muslims. So it is clear from his activities and his
name and his connections to Rezko and Arafi with financial connections and all
kinds of friendships with his cousin Odinga in Kenya,
who is pro-Islamic Sharia, who wants to establish Sharia law -- let's not forget, also, over a
thousand Christians were killed in Kenya. Burned. So where is Mr.
Obama's denunciations of those things?
LIDDY: Mr. Shoebat, we need to take
a quick pause for the benefit of our advertisers.
Published: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:52:25 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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