By Roger Aronoff When conservatives taunt Muslims in the room, they apparently thank them for their questions, and say, “Well, I’m glad to see you’re representing Muslims in this company.” This is then translated by the press into the “ugly taunting” of an innocent American University law student who just wanted to ask a question … Read more
by Dylan Byers Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank set off a flurry of outraged tweets on Monday night after posting a highly critical recap of a panel event at The Heritage Foundation that, he says, “deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.” Video of that … Read more
A panel discussing the Benghazi terrorist attack assailed the media for failing to serve as watchdogs, letting the Obama administration avoid tough questions in the months following the events that left four Americans dead. “This story has been an abomination of journalism,” said radio host Chris Plante, who moderated Monday’s panel at The Heritage Foundation. … Read more
by James Simpson The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a column titled “Heritage’s ugly Benghazi panel,” portraying a forum held Monday afternoon in Heritage’s auditorium by an independent group, the Benghazi Accountability Coalition, as nothing more than an anti-Islamic hate fest. This was a serious panel with numerous, widely recognized experts, one of whom is … Read more
by Micah Morrison With the curtain soon to go up on select committee hearings on Benghazi, a key question remains unanswered: what on earth were we doing there? What policies were being pursued in that violent outpost of the Libyan revolution? The White House would rather not say. In an email obtained by Judicial Watch … Read more
A Heritage Foundation panel focusing on the Benghazi controversy went a bit off topic when an American University law student named Saba Ahmed took the opportunity to ask a question: “I know that we portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam.” “We have 8 million-plus Muslim Americans in … Read more