Recently, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch dished up a steaming pile of memes jam-packed with subtly specious assumptions. It revolves around Trump's nominee for America's ambassador to the U.N., Heather Nauert, and her high crime of having a paper trail indicating she knows about (and learns from) Jihad Watch.
Allow me to reproduce it here, with comments interspersed in square brackets. (Bolded parts were added by moi.)
I had to laugh. “Nauert’s relationship with Spencer dates back to 2009, when she hosted him and fellow anti-Muslim activists Frank Gaffney, Tarek Fatah and Nonie Darwish to discuss an hour-long segment on ‘stealth jihad.'”
[There's Tarek Fatah, one of the cleverer of the Better Cops -- functioning here precisely as a Better Cop, standing (or sitting) shoulder to shoulder with his Counter-Jihad Colleagues, sharing with them the brunt of the Mainstream attacks (and sharing with them being listed in a Jihad Watch article conveying subliminally the impression that he too is a Counter-Jihad Colleague with the best of them)]
... I don’t remember this hour-long show about stealth jihad at all. But the Huffington Post and Hamas-linked CAIR, their memories are elephantine, and they would have you believe that this is practically the only show Heather Nauert ever hosted, and one of the few noteworthy things about her.
Otherwise, this hit piece by Rowaida Abedelaziz is chock-full of the usual Leftist propaganda...
[Here, Spencer commits the gaffe of implying that a Muslim (Rowaida Abedelaziz) is a Leftist, and/or is acting as a Leftist by slinging Leftist propaganda. Certainly, a Muslim can exploit Leftist memes to advance the Jihad; but the way Spencer frames this, he's opposing the Huffington Post Leftists along with the Muslim reporter. Other statements he has made in the past indicate a fusion, or confusion, of Leftists and Muslims in his view.]
[Then Spencer details some of the Muslim reporter's "Leftist propaganda" among which is that --]
...Fatah and I are “anti-Muslim activists,” which must mean that foes of the Nazis were “anti-German.”
[Here we have two gaffes for the price of one: 1) including Fatah in with himself as (it is telegraphed) valiant Counter-Jihadsts suffering the attack of "Leftist propaganda"; and 2) still retailing that tired old "Nazi" analogy which years ago, in the summer of 2006, was searingly questioned by Jihad Watch readers (back when they had the balls to dare to question their Fearless Leader). As for #1, even if Spencer might protest (cagily) that it is not he -- but rather the Muslim reporter -- who is including Fatah with him, that doesn't let him off the hook for the failure to provide a quick sentence or two appropriately distancing this Better Cop Muslim from his side. The impression left by the absence of such a clarification, thus, remains]
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