Right-Wing Media Outraged That Pledge Of Allegiance Was Recited In Arabic: Media Matters

NBC News reported that a student at upstate New York’s Pine Bush High School read the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic on March 18th in celebration of National Foreign Language Week, sparking controversy and prompting the school to apologize.

Andrew Zink, Pine Bush’s senior class president, normally reads the morning announcements, and told NBC News that he consented when a teacher asked another student to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic. There were talks about having the pledge read in Japanese, French and Spanish this week as well. [NBC News, 3/19/15]

Media Matters reported on the reactions in the Conservative Media:

Radio Host Laura Ingraham Compares Saying Pledge In Arabic To “Skinheads” Saying Pledge. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 3/20/15]

Fox’s Alex Ferrer: Pledge Should Not Be Read In Language “Tied To … Terrorist Attacks.”  [Fox News, Outnumbered, 3/20/15]

Fox Guest: Reciting Pledge In Arabic Inappropriate Because “We Are At War” With Many Who Speak Arabic.  [Fox News, Fox & Friends,3/20/15]

Daily Caller: The School “Screw[ed] Up The Pledge Of Allegiance,” called it a “gimmick.” [Daily Caller, 3/20/15]

Fox’s Todd Starnes: Saying Pledge In Arabic Means “our schoolhouses have become places where Christianity is marginalized and Islam is given accommodation.”  [FoxNews.com, 3/20/15]

More here:

http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150318/NEWS/150319327

Pat Robertson Recommended For A Woman Working With Buddhists To Quit Her Job

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Wikipedia states that Marion Gordon “Pat” Robertson is an American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister.

He supports conservative Christian ideals, and he presently serves as chancellor and CEO of Regent University and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Robertson recommended recently that a Christian woman working with Buddhists quit her job.

He told viewers on Monday that Buddhism was like a “disease” and that Christians could get “infected” if their coworkers practiced it.

GOP Warns Iranian Nukes May Hit US Cities: Are They Serious?

A week ago, three presidential candidates talked to a roomful of wealthy donors at the Koch Brothers’ American Recovery Policy Forum in Palm Springs, California. The discussion underscored disagreement within the GOP over global affairs and national security.

Republican Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul took part in a largely friendly, but occasionally fiery, panel at the event sponsored by Charles and David Koch.

The event was moderated by ABC’s Jonathan Karl, and marked the first time potential GOP contenders gathered on the same stage at the same time to talk about policy in 2015, a year that’s expected to see several candidates compete for the Republican nomination.

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Koch Brothers Network: More Powerful Than You Think

The Koch brothers are among the most prominent donors in American politics and are two of the top five wealthiest Americans.

Funneling much of their money through so-called Super PACs and other advocacy groups, the co-owners of Koch Industries have garnered the attention of left-leaning activists and politicans critical of outside spending in elections.

According to Politico, conservative megadonors Charles and David Koch have reportedly invested massive amounts of money in a company that’s developing complex profiles of 250 million American voters and their consumer habits.

Politico also states that in the last four years the billionaire brothers and their allies have already spent at least $50 million on the effort, which is being spearheaded by a data firm called i360.

The firm i360 connects voter information with social networks, consumer data from credit bureaus, interactions with political campaigns, estimated income, recent home addresses, voting frequency, TV viewing habits, and “even the brand of car they drive,” the report said.

According to Politico, the new i360 operation even rivals the data arm of the national Republican Party.

“The Koch network also has developed in-house expertise in polling, message-testing, fact-checking, advertising, media buying, dial groups and donor maintenance,” wrote Politico reporters Mike Allen and Kenneth Vogel.

“Add mastery of election law, a corporate-minded aggressiveness and years of patient experimentation — plus seemingly limitless cash — and the Koch operation actually exceeds the RNC’s data operation in many important respects.”

A top Republican involved in presidential races told Politico the Koch operations “are the most important nonparty political players in the US today, and no one else is even close.”

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins talks about the Koch brothers with attorney Howard Nations.

Ring of Fire video.

http://boycottkochbrothers.com/blog/

http://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-data-firm-i360-2014-12#ixzz3MqPBy5dv