http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/04/pelosi-laura-bush-scarf

April 4, 2007

Right Wing Smears Pelosi As ‘Subservient’ For Wearing Scarf - What
About Laura Bush?


Yesterday, right-wing Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted a photo of
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wearing a headscarf while visiting the
tomb of John the Baptist inside the Umayyad mosque in Damascus.
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/04/03/20070403_231059.htm

As Mahablog points out, the right-wing is now seething:
http://www.mahablog.com/2007/04/04/pelosi-wears-scarf-righties-bark-at-moon/


HotAir: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/03/pelosi-in-damascus/

“The campaign commercial practically writes itself. Ah well. A woman
must know her place when entering a mosque. … It pains the left too,
I’m sure, to see the most powerful woman in America having to yield,
however slightly, to a misogynistic culture’s expectations, but they
can’t vent their anger at the people responsible so they’ll vent it at
Charles or me or whomever instead.”


Instapundit: http://instapundit.com/archives2/003880.php

FEMINIST IN AMERICA, subservient in Syria.


The New Editor:
http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/5629-Feminist-in-the-US,-Subs

“This picture disgusts me. What message is Nancy Pelosi trying to
send? Are women equal to men, or not? Why is modesty foisted only upon
women?”


Little Green Footballs:

“Pelosi in a Hijab. The modern Democratic leadership. How … quaint.”


Apparently they never saw Laura Bush when she visited al-Aqsa mosque
in Jerusalem:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lauramosque2.JPG

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lauramosque1.JPG

More photos at Mahablog.
http://www.mahablog.com/2007/04/04/pelosi-wears-scarf-righties-bark-at-moon/

____________________________________________________

Aren't the rightards cute?

Harry

Putting an American face on Palestinian aspirations

My first reaction to the death of Rachel Corrie was to sigh at the
damfoolishness of a 23-year-old from Olympia who would place her body
in the way of the Israeli army. On March 16, 2003, in Rafah,
Palestine, an Israeli soldier drove his bulldozer over her and crushed
her.

I think of the Chinese man who blocked the column of tanks in Beijing
on June 4, 1989. That man created an image and vanished, never leaving
his face. Rachel left her face.

In "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," now playing at the Seattle Repertory
Theatre, actress Marya Sea Kaminski brings Rachel to life in a
90-minute monologue extracted solely from Rachel's diary and e-mails.
Here is The Evergreen State College idealist, who declares, "I am
building the world myself and putting new hats on everybody."

The 9/11 attacks have provided a focus to her fervor. She is drawn to
the Palestinians. She imbibes Arabic. Feeling that she must join in,
she goes to Gaza to witness the Israeli occupation.

Making use of her "international white person privilege" - an asset
she feels she shouldn't possess but does - she joins a campaign to
block the bulldozing of Palestinian homes, which is how the Israelis
searched for smuggling tunnels.

Still, Rachel says, "I worry we are not really effective. I still
don't feel particularly at risk." The protesters take more risks - and
the soldiers grow more steely. Toward the end, she says, "I am really
scared and questioning my belief in the fundamental goodness of human
nature."

Her father, an actuary - Rachel denounces his "neoliberal job" - says
in an e-mail he is proud of her but wishes her home. He knows the
military. He served in Vietnam with the First Air Cavalry. He senses
that this is not going to come out well.

She has dreams of dying. "I can't die. I can't die," she insists. But
she does.

I spoke to her father, Craig Corrie. He said where Rachel was killed
there had been two bulldozers (49-metric-ton Caterpillar D9s) and two
soldiers in each one, plus an armored personnel carrier. There were
six or seven protesters - and unlike the man in Beijing, the
protesters in Gaza intended to stop the army permanently.

For a while, the bulldozer drivers would stop at the protesters and
yell at them. Then they were called away. After they came back, they
didn't stop, and within five minutes Rachel was run down.

Apologists say it was an accident. Perhaps the driver's intention was
to force Rachel to jump aside, and it was an accident that her legs
got caught in the advancing pile of dirt.

The not stopping was no accident. Certainly, the Corries do not speak
of accidents. Not once when I heard them did they say their daughter
had "left us" or "passed away" or "died." Always they say she was
killed.

It was her death, and her expressive writing, that made Rachel Corrie
an international figure. A British paper, the Guardian, asked to see
Rachel's writing and published it. A Guardian editor, along with actor
Alan Rickman (the terrorist in "Die Hard") made a play of it. It has
been performed in London and New York only, and to much controversy.
The play is doing so well at the Rep that it has been held over until
May 6.

Of course the play does not tell both sides. Neither did the 1960
movie "Exodus," which I saw as a kid. It told the Israeli side only,
and in Paul Newman, put an American face on that side. For years, it
was the only side Americans could see.

The Palestinian side never had an American face. Now it does. It is a
female face, an unthreatening face. Rachel's face.

One wonders whether Rachel would think it was all worth it. Her
mother, Cindy Corrie, says Rachel's story may open Americans to
hearing the Palestinians' side, which would be a good thing. Still,
she says, "Sometimes you want to reclaim your child for yourself."

--
amicalement,

Daniel

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/04/pelosi-laura-bush-scarf

April 4, 2007

Right Wing Smears Pelosi As 'Subservient' For Wearing Scarf - What
About Laura Bush?


Yesterday, right-wing Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted a photo of
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wearing a headscarf while visiting the
tomb of John the Baptist inside the Umayyad mosque in Damascus.
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/04/03/20070403_231059.htm

As Mahablog points out, the right-wing is now seething:

HotAir: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/03/pelosi-in-damascus/

"The campaign commercial practically writes itself. Ah well. A woman
must know her place when entering a mosque. . It pains the left too,
I'm sure, to see the most powerful woman in America having to yield,
however slightly, to a misogynistic culture's expectations, but they
can't vent their anger at the people responsible so they'll vent it at
Charles or me or whomever instead."


Instapundit: http://instapundit.com/archives2/003880.php

FEMINIST IN AMERICA, subservient in Syria.


The New Editor:

"This picture disgusts me. What message is Nancy Pelosi trying to
send? Are women equal to men, or not? Why is modesty foisted only upon
women?"


Little Green Footballs:

"Pelosi in a Hijab. The modern Democratic leadership. How . quaint."


Apparently they never saw Laura Bush when she visited al-Aqsa mosque
in Jerusalem:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lauramosque2.JPG

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lauramosque1.JPG

More photos at Mahablog.

____________________________________________________

Aren't the rightards cute?

Harry