The spinmasters’ finest hour and what really moves Obama


This week on the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced every week by Latma, the satirical Hebrew-language media criticism website that I run, we bring you Freddy Spin, Israel’s premiere elections consultant telling us what goes on behind the scenes in Israel’s electoral politics. We also bring you Obama’s foreign policy adviser who reveals what makes Obama tick with respect…

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Justice for Ft. Hood Heroes


November 5, the day before the US Presidential elections will be the third anniversary of the massacre of 13 US soldiers at Ft. Hood by Islamic terrorist, US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.   The Obama administration has refused to acknowledged that the attack was a terrorist attack. The Defense Department has insisted on covering up the nature of the…

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American Jewry’s cherished values


Decades ago, the sociographer Milton Himmelfarb coined the aphorism that “American Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.” And his words ring as true today as ever. Surveys show that roughly 70 percent of American Jews intend to cast their ballots for President Barack Obama’s reelection next month.   Himmelfarb’s quip indicated that American Jews abjure their economic…

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What Israel’s neighbors want and poor little Channel 10


This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew language media satire website I run we bring you an interview with our trusted, professional correspondent Flock Builder discussing Israel’s options for responding to Hamas’s latest barrage of mortars and missiles on southern Israel. We also bring you an interview about modern music and an…

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Biden, Obama and the politics of personal destruction


Thursday the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger published a column called “Obama and the L-word.” In it he described with disgust and dismay the way the Obama administration has been playing fast and loose with the term “liar” to describe Mitt Romney since Romney trounced Obama in last week’s presidential debate.   Henninger noted that the use of the term…

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The Left’s only enemy


Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s legal term in office expired nearly four years ago. But his supporters don’t care. In Israel, Washington and throughout the world, Abbas’s supporters extol the authoritarian leader as a great moderate. In 2002, desperately searching for a face for the Palestinians that wasn’t Yasser Arafat’s face, the Left pushed Abbas out from behind Arafat’s shadow.…

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Perilous times


The Republican Jewish Coalition produced a short documentary showing yet again how hostile Obama is to Israel.   Please share it with everyone you know who is planning to vote for this man again next month. I don’t want anyone to have the excuse that they didn’t know. If people don’t know it’s because they don’t want to know, or…

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The media’s math and Egypt’s honor


This week on The Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced every week by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, we bring you “Flock Builder” who explains how demonstrators are counted as well as Egyptian Minister of Conspiracy Theories and fiasco and expert Yevava Ben-Whine who defend Egypt’s honor and Israel’s defeat in the Yom Kippur War.   …

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Obama’s dangerous consistency


On Tuesday, Egypt’s chief prosecutor issued arrest warrants against eight US citizens.   Their purported crimes relate either to their reported involvement in the production of the Internet movie critical of Islam that has received so much attention over the past 10 days, or to other alleged anti-Islamic activities.   One of the US citizens indicted is a woman who…

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