Goodness knows, I loathe Debbie Schlussel, BUT she's got the goods on Issa & it's sad that media has dubbed Issa as the "official go-to-guy-of-the-moment", and no one asks him about his own issues..
You may want to wash after this, but it's worth a read, just to find out the goods on Crybaby Darrel
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6215/jihad-darrells-thuggery-v-rahms-way-pot-kettle-very-black/August 6, 2009, - 5:30 am
Jihad Darrell’s Thuggery v. Rahm’s Way: Mega-Pot, Kettle, Black; Issa’s Criminal Past
By Debbie Schlussel
It’s a pretty telling sign how desperate conservatives and Republicans have gotten. Willing to take any red meat scrap thrown their way no matter how poisonous, they’ve now embraced Jihad Darrell a/k/a Congressman Darrell Issa as their moral standard-bearer.
Darrell Issa w/Fave Constituent, Syria’s Assad
For the last couple of days, a number of talking points conservatives with little investigative or critical thinking have gullibly embraced a hypocritical letter by Issa (and accompanying press release). The letter–accusing Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and the Obama administration of “scare tactics,” “intimidat
,” and “the playbook of the Chicago political machine”–is five pages of the Jihad Darrell pot calling the Obama-nik kettle, “black.”
Issa has made a career of being a shill, cheerleader, and personal representative in Congress for Hezbollah, Arafat, Syria, and the global Islamic terror machine. He has a track record of anti-Semitic statements–dismissing critics (like myself) because they are “Jews”–and of using his Congressional office to try to intimidate others, mostly conservatives and many political enemies. And then there’s his long criminal record. During his life–he stole at least three cars, stole his multi-million dollar business, stole patents, fired an employee at gunpoint, committed arson and insurance fraud, at a plant (and then the detective investigating it mysteriously “died”), lied about his military record, was caught carrying a concealed weapon and ammunition including tear gas (believed to be for the purpose of committing armed robbery), and even stealing one of his fellow soldier’s cars.
Self-styled conservatives like Sean Vannity (who gushed over Issa on his show and licked, er . . . “interviewed” Issa) and Michelle Malkin (who did the same on her site . . . twice)–who constantly tout their investigative skills–didn’t do even the tiniest bit of investigation, research, or basic homework on (Malkin could have looked in her own site archives, where she cited my 2007 New York Post column about him) into Issa, and instead larded on the praise for this pan-terrorist, criminal thug. (Hmmm. . . writing a book decrying a “Culture of Corruption,” but then looking the other way at the King Corruption on your side of the aisle?)
And in that laughable choice of Issa by desperate conservatives and Republicans lies another sign of someone far too lazy: Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. If I were Emanuel, I would not have ignored Issa’s hypocritical attack. Don’t get me wrong–I despise Emanuel and Issa and my archives serve as a seminal body of info against both of them. But Darrell Issa is far worse. Issa accuses Emanuel of things of which Issa’s skill and perpetration would make the Obama and Chicago political machines blush.
They needed a group of people and a city to do it. He did it with just one person–himself–and a bunch of blind, foolish, ignoramus conservatives enabling him.
It’s not just Issa’s history of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews (myself, pro-Israel Congressman Elliot Engel, and, yes, Rahm Emanuel). It’s not just Issa’s tactics of intimidation and threats to silence his critics. Issa demanded–and ultimately succeeded, via his pan-Arabist friend Grover Norquist–in getting TownHall.com editor Jon Garthwaite to remove me and my columns, which were then its most popular (at the time, I had twice the readers of Ann Coulter, their page-views stats showed).
snip for the rest of this Issa-assault:)