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Must. Find. Muslim. Angle … Aha!
The ‘Costco Coulter’ (hat tip Alex in comments), running out of ways to tie Islam directly to the Virgina Tech Massacre, has discovered a new storyline to push.
Above: Costco Coulter roxxors teh Foxxors
While at least 32 were murdered in yesterday’s massacre at Virginia Tech University, a lot more could have been killed. But a number of students were spared because of the heroic efforts of Liviu Librescu.
Librescu, a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor and Israeli, was a professor at VTU, yesterday, when the gunman tried to enter his classroom. But he stopped the gunman and saved the lives of his students by jumping in front of him and giving his life.
On the Palestinian side, Jamal Al-Barghouti, a Palestinian Student from the “West Bank” (who grew up in Saudi Arabia) took video of the shooting that made TV worldwide.
His film didn’t save a single person, but he’s getting far more media attention and kudos than the barely-mentioned Librescu is getting. And he used the “opportunity” on CNN, to compare the Virginia Tech massacre to “violence” in the in the “Occupied Territories”. One problem with his story: He grew up in SAUDI ARABIA.
Wondering if he’s related to Palestinian terrorist mastermind Marwan Barghouti, now in prison for planning mass terrorist attacks and homicide bombings, which murdered many Israelis? It’s very likely.
Can you imagine how bizarre it must be to be Debbie Schlussel? To have to deal with what goes through her mind on a daily basis?
Debbie’s brain: That nice Jewish plumber I hired is fixing my sink! On the Palestinian side, nobody’s fixing my sink! I wonder if that no-show plumber is related to Palestinian sink clogging mastermind Clogjam al-Ubend, now blacklisted by the plumbers guild for clogging the sinks of many Israelis? It’s very likely.
jenni said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:11
good job debbie!! instead of shooting useless video and parroting his unimportant opinions on what happened yesterday, that palestinian should have taken the high road(like you did) and falsely accuse muslims of being behind the shootings at VA tech. gosh, what is this world coming to?
Dhalgren said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:15
That is absolutely disgusting.
Mr. Barghouti already explained to the media that he approached the sound of gunfire because he has personally heard it before (he didn’t specify if it was the West bank or Saudi Arabia), and he felt it was necessary to record it (as would I, or certainly a photographer or journalist).
This is worthless, wing-nuttery
El Cid said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:17
Shouldn’t we be fighting the South Koreans over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here?
Candy said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:18
You know, I actually kind of feel sorry for Pammalammadingdong, because I think she’s genuinely messed up in la cabeza and suffering from a bad alcohol and speed problem. But I can’t feel sorry for this Debbie person, because she seems rabid-dog vicious and mean, positively bursting with hate. Even worse than Coulter, because with Coulter you get the impression that she’s just a sociopath selfishly promoting Coulter. She’s got a moneymaking thing going on, and that’s what’s in it for her… This woman…. you get the feeling that both the Pammy nuts-ness and the Coulter sociopathy are elements in her personality, but with an admixture of genuine, sadistic, scary-ass evil.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but she just seems really awful.
Lawnguylander said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:23
I have been checking right wing sites all day and bitches be slippin’. Sure it’s tragic that all those people died but, LGF, HotAir, the Costco Coulter, etc. have failed to point out that a school in Rhode Island got a fresh new coat of paint yesterday. Why aren’t they taking the lamestream media to task for that? Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do in the face of unimaginable carnage if you’re a right wing blogger? Point to trivial good news stories to divert attention from teh horror, teh horror?
norbizness said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:43
One tragic-but-long word can explain the last several of her posts: deinstitutionalization.
tb said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:44
Debbie looks eerily like Reno 911′s slut-cop Clemmie.
whack said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:45
There’s a Muslim “terrist” under every bed, except Debbie’s. Just some dust bunnies there. And in her head, too.
jenni said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:47
ooooo, she should have researched that “Ismail Ax” thing a bit before she accused the shooter of being a muslim because of it. i can’t wait to see how she turns a tattoo about math into a tattoo about terrorism.
dex said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:48
scienticians should drop this global warming thing and get to work on designing pathology-proof-national-tragedies.
legion said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:49
And the amazing thing is, if you have the stomach to peruse her site’s comment threads AND NOT GET DEAFENED BY HER OWN INSERTIONS, she honestly doesn’t consider herself a bigot, and gets offended when anyone suggests she is. What an amazingly oblivious crackhead.
Pabst Blue Ribbon said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:49
But Wait! Somebody reported that the South Korean shooter had an arabic-like name written on his arm.
Yes!
Muslim Angle BITCHEZ!!one11!
Leonard Pierce said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:49
Oh, Debbie. How I remember our golden years of 2001 and 2002, before even Town Hall decided you were too nutty for their tastes. How fondly I recall your days as a sports agent, when you used your alleged familiarity with the NBA to engage in horrible race-baiting. How I look with wistful tears on your claim that living in Michigan made you America’s foremost expert on the evils of Arab immigration, and not just the last white woman in Harlem screaming “Lordy Lord, the coloreds are movin’ in”.
And now, you’re reduced to this? Namechecking Snoop Dogg on your website and desperately trying to cobble together a link to radical Islam? Move with the times, babe! Don’t you know all the respectable wingnuts have moved on to blaming our lax immigration laws, even though the gunman was a legal US citizen who’d lived here since childhood? For the old times, Debbie, get with the program.
“Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them!”
Morbo said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:51
Cho had a green card, meaning he was a legal permanent resident in the US.
No student visa required, meaning Deb’s Rant (Update #526) about student visas is short-sighted, moronic, etc.
And as a bonus, this means he could legally buy guns, so it throws a monkeywrench in all the ghoulishly exploitive and opportunistic knee-jerk reactions by gun-control debaters–on BOTH sides. Fuck ‘em–they couldn’t wait 24 hours for facts before piling on the BS.
Pabst Blue Ribbon said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:56
oops jenni beat me to it.
jenni can you tell me what it means? Haven’t seen any coherent explanation elswhere, and none that refers to math.
Dorothy said,
April 17, 2007 at 19:59
I suppose Debbie also can’t see the dichotomy between “professor” (i.e., adult in charge of and responsible for a group of younger adults) and “student” (i.e., younger adult in charge of and responsible for…himself only) in that situation.
In fire drills, the professors are the last ones out of the room. Hey, Debbie, read up on Columbine and other school shootings and you’ll see the same basic pattern: caring about your students is part of being a teacher, you nitwit!
It’s really offensive that she can take this man’s bravery and dedication and pervert it into a slam against some random student, a random student that this manwould have died to protect had he been in the same classroom. Why not slam all of the students who weren’t as heroic as this professor? Maybe because “heroes” are, by definition, better than the average person?
No, no, it’s more important for Debbie to get her racist rocks off, even if she has to cheapen the sacrifice a teacher made for his class to do it. What a self-important, small-minded asshole she is.
D. Aristophanes said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:00
Did jihadi quality management system institutions have some connection to the Virginia Tech massacre? Check this out:
isles AN NNS
islet AK VB
islington AC NN
ism AC NN
ismail Ax NN-NNP
ismeri Dm NNP-NNS
isn AM VBP
iso Bb NN-JJ-NNP
iso14001 AT CD
iso9000 AT CD
isobutane AC NN
isoglucose AB JJ
Coincidence? The mainstream media will never report on this, so who knows?
pch1013 said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:02
“how she turns a tattoo about math into a tattoo about terrorism”
Don’t you Islamomarxofeminomexodhimmis know? Math was invented by Arabs! You think it’s a coincidence that the word “algebra” sounds sort of “al-Jazeera”??? Higher mathematics, what with all its “zeroes” and “Arabic numerals,” is a jihadi plot to turn our children toward dhimmitude and jizya slavery, as surely as XIII is the square root of CLXIX.
DJShay said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:03
I did a google search for Ismail Ax and came up with a bunch of listings for mathmatic sites with references to an Author named Ismail. Anyone else know anything about that?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ismail+Ax&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8
jenni said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:05
i don’t know what it means. i know a guy named Ismail wrote a theorem that included (ax). that’s the only thing i can find on it. i will add that i looked through 5 pages or so, and saw no reference that attributed the term to Islam.
Kathy said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:13
Regan started all these bad things when he closed the mental hospitals after becoming Govenor. Bleah. It was downhill, faster and faster and faster, after that.
dbati said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:20
Since the killer was an English Major, I took Ismail to be another form of Ishmael from Moby Dick, by Melville. There is a particular passage on page 5 that is striking:
And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:
Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States
Whaling Voyage by one Ishmael
BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/moby/moby_001.html
I don’t know about the Ax part, and my knowledge of Melville is limited but…
Let the backlash against literature begin!!!!
Pabst Blue Ribbon said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:21
sweet another chance to roll in the book-burning mobile
DJShay said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:27
Do Debbie and Pam room together or something? Looks like they exchange more than grooming tips.
Ginger Yellow said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:28
It’s a shame really. You’d think there’d be some way to make postive use of that remarkable ability to connect utterly random things in support of her overarching monomania. If only you could be a professional paranoid schizophrenic.
jenni said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:35
dbati, yea, i had to add that the name Ishmael in literature can be a reference to a certain character being orphaned, exiled, or otherwise alone. this seems like a reasonable explanation.
Gus said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:36
I’ve already seen this presented as an Islamist terrorist incident because of that Ismailax. The idiot in question was apparently quoting from a Chicago Tribune article that painted the shooter as an emotionally disturbed loner. But of course he leapfrogged that info to get the the cryptic writing on the kid’s arm. One track minds think alike.
Some Guy said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:41
I find it interesting that she refers to him as “the gunman” and not by name. Maybe that’s just me. I’m sure there’s a fascinating study on human psychology about that, as to the dehumanization of tragedy being preferable to intimate knowledge of the facts.
Irregardless, (yes, i used it. Bwahahaha.) I would venture that the main reason why they are not telling grandiose tales of how bravely and valiantly the victims were gunned down, is that it would be in EXTREMELY POOR TASTE, even for the media. Let the bodies cool first and get buried. Jesus Christ.
Col. Klink said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:42
I’m sure the suspect has closet North Korean ties. If we can link this tragedy to the axis of evil, we’ve got ourselves a story.
Principal Blackman said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:42
She kind of looks like Rachel Dratch when she’s playing the (aptly named in this instance) Debbie Downer character.
Steve said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:44
Eskimo.
Doodle Bean said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:54
That’s not grandma’s eye shadow, that her ‘cool’ aunt’s eyeshadow — you know the one who was the first to get that cool perm in high school in 1977…
emak bakia said,
April 17, 2007 at 20:55
Waltz for Debbie
D. Aristophanes said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:02
Did Cho listen to reggae? To get totally speculative, could ‘Ismail Ax’, apparently scrawled in red ink on his arm, be a misreading of ‘I small Ax’ … which could reference the early Wailers song ‘Small Ax’.
Lyrics: ‘If you are the big tree, I am the small ax, coming to cut you down, coming to cut you down …’
Again, totally speculative. The song is widely interpreted to be Marley’s light threat to the ‘Big Three’ (pronounced ‘t’ree’ in patois) record producers of Jamaica at the time (forget who they were, but one was Coxsone Dodd, I think).
owlbear1 said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:13
Whoever said the wingnuts needed a ‘real’ terrorist attack to feed the fear?
Incontinentia Buttocks said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:16
Tho’ I lurv the name “Costco Coulter,” I feel moved to point out that it’s unfair to Costco, which is best of the buyer’s club stores. Unlike, e.g. Sam’s Club, they famously treat their workforce very well. Some of their stores are unionized. The rest govern their employer-employee relations based on a union-like contract.
All of which is not (NOT NOT NOT) in any way to be read as a call to stop using this name for Schlussel.
owlbear1 said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:18
I can’t help but be struck by the disparity between the very senseless deaths of 33 in Virginia and that same number in Iraq on a nearly a daily basis.
We are a very self-centered culture.
It’s appalling.
Candy said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:23
Yes, IB, it’s a shame that Costco Coulter sounds so perfect.
Dollar General Debbie
Discount Debbie
Five and Dime Debbie
descriptive, but doesn’t get the “Knock-off Coulter” thing across. (How sad would it be to go through life as a poor man’s Ann Coulter?)
Gavin M. said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:23
I and I Small Ax, indeed.
One must also consider the involvement of Emanuel Ax, the concert pianist.
JK47 said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:30
One must also consider the involvement of Emanuel Ax, the concert pianist.
You also can’t rule out Rocket Ismail.
iPundit said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:32
Maybe it’s a misspelling of “I smell Axe,” as in the body spray.
a different brad said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:39
I enjoy Debbie’s overblown ego, I have to admit. Is she still screeching that she’s not Don Imus?
While she’s both mentally and physically repulsive, like Imus, she ain’t, like, famous n shit.
I want Fox to do a conservative version of the view. Pamalama, Michelle, Debbie, Ann Althouse in the Alan Colmes faux-lib position (tho Colmes is a better person than AA, to damn him with faint praise), and Camille Paglia as the wildcard, batshit insane in a slightly different flavor oddball of the group.
Obviously, Debbie would be the runt of the litter, that they all pick on.
cleek said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:43
Let the backlash against literature begin!!!!
by your command
digamma said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:45
By the way, Schlussel’s capslock meltdown has extended to the newer threads on her blog.
Candy said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:45
Diff Brad, you’d have to have Peggy Noonan in the Barbara Walters, elder stateswoman role.
kdaddy said,
April 17, 2007 at 21:55
disgusting and vile. viley disgusting. disgustingly vile. there, that cover that.
RubDMC said,
April 17, 2007 at 22:16
Note to Debbie’s stylist: she definitely looks better with her chin tucked down to her chest.
I mean, with her chin raised…er, tucked down…up.
Well, anyway, she’s got a good face for radio, and the perfect persona for…let’s talk about what she should do with her chin.
Wally Whateley said,
April 17, 2007 at 22:17
Different Brad, you’ve got to get Coulter into the Fox News version of “The View.” I think it’d do a great job of pushing Malkin and Schlussel into fits of jealous rage whenever she one-upped them.
a different brad said,
April 17, 2007 at 22:56
Maybe Fox could take a page from the X-Men back in the early 90s and split the BatshitView into two groups in different time slots. Marie Jon, who cares how she “spells” it, could be the other runt of the litter. With 4 per group that’d give us an even 2 groups. We do need a minority in the other group, tho. There’s gotta be a token batshit black woman out there who could slot in for MJ.
Morbo said,
April 17, 2007 at 23:06
Good lord, her commenters are still yammering on about student visas. Don’t they even watch any news before ranting about it??
MrWonderful said,
April 17, 2007 at 23:25
Schlussel? Wondering if she’s related to Ernst Schlussel, notorious Nazi camp commandant, sadist, pedophile, pervert, putter-of-ketchup-on-frankfurters, and person-of-interest who did absolutely nothing to assist the side of democracy at the Battle of Hastings (1018 C.E.). Not caring if he never existed. It’s very likely.
SamFromUtah said,
April 18, 2007 at 0:16
D. Aristophanes: ismail Ax NN-NNP
That page looks like an automatically-generated lexicon for a machine translation package (similar to Babelfish or Google’s language tools, hinted at by the “Dutch-MT/tools/EnglishTags” in the URL.) I think the Ax means that this word was extracted automatically from some large corpus of stuff, and the NN-NNP means that whatever did the extracting believes it to be a proper noun. That probably means the program just never saw the term before, because often programs like that assume that never-before-seen words are names of people or places (which is often the case).
FWIW.
Larry said,
April 18, 2007 at 1:01
Not surprising that Debbie Schlussel sees a Jewish side and a Palestinian side to the school shooting.
I wonder why that Palestinian grew up in Saudi Arabia, Debbie? Just askin’. Could it possibly be because Zionist propagandists in the US helped obfuscate the horrors that US giveaways to Israel fund?
Interesting meanwhile that the professor is an “Israeli” with no mention that he’s actually Romanian, but the Debster’s all over the the Saudi upbringing of the Palestinian guy.
I’d love to know what the professor and the student would have to say about Strudel’s “analysis.”. I think they’d first hug over their shared sorrow, then together punch Debbie in the face.
AkaDad said,
April 18, 2007 at 1:27
There’s gotta be a token batshit black woman out there who could slot in for MJ.
Starr
JonesParkerEric Dondero said,
April 18, 2007 at 2:57
I’m not a great fan of Debbie Schlussel, but she’s on to something here. If you all don’t think that the Ismail Axe scrawled on the gunman’s arm is a connection to Islam, than what’s y’all’s theory?
I mean why not Spike? Or some Korean word? Or “Go to Hell American bastards”?
No, the guy chose to scrawl an Arabic phrase on his arm.
You gotta admit that’s kind of wierd?
Eric Dondero, Chairman
Libertarian Defense Caucus
Hysterical Woman said,
April 18, 2007 at 3:03
Maybe he got it from a Beetle’s song?
N.C. said,
April 18, 2007 at 3:49
Hell, I think it’s possible that “ISMAIL AX” was a misreading or only part of what was on his arm. Without a picture of it, it’s all especially groundless speculation.
Otto Man said,
April 18, 2007 at 3:53
I saw Jamal Al-Barghouti interviewed on CNN, and he made three things clear: (1) how sorry he and the rest of the student body was for the victims, (2) what a peaceful and wonderful community he thought VT and Blacksburg was, and (3) that Debbie Stussel is a raging fucking idiot.
J— said,
April 18, 2007 at 4:45
Come on now, Eric. Don’t be so humble. Tell us what “Ismail Ax” means. You’re the one who speaks over 10-15 languages.
sonic said,
April 18, 2007 at 4:46
“an Arabic phrase”
Just a tip Columbo, Arabic phrases are normally written in a language called “Arabic” which has a different alphabet from the proper one used by good christians like yourself.
Therefore this could not have been an ‘arabic” phrase as, by definition, it was not written in Arbic.
EdsAppliance said,
April 18, 2007 at 5:33
I think all this points up the fact the mentally ill among us are not getting the help they need.
Seek it out, Debbie.
MrWonderful said,
April 18, 2007 at 17:19
J–
Laffin’ at “over 10-15 languages.” My tweak:
“as many as over 10-15 languages–and more!”
birdseatbugs said,
April 18, 2007 at 19:35
I too speak 10-15 languages… For all values of ‘speak’ defined as ‘knowing at least one word or phrase, usually ‘where is the library?’ *Snerk*
Who knows what ‘Ismail Ax’ means? Maybe Cho wrote a note in code, reminding him to feed the cats before his crime. Maybe it was the name of someone he admired, or maybe it means absolutely nothing and he wrote it to further inflame the nitwit brigades… I’m inclined to think it’s probably the latter.
Also, Clogjam al-Ubend is brilliant. I’m still giggling at that.
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