Left, Right & Center
US Film Stokes Mideast Violence
US embassies in the Islamic world under siege as an anti-Muslim movie trailer goes viral. Fed goes all-in for mortgage-backed bonds. Striking differences in Chicago.
By Matt Miller • • 29m ListenUS Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his team are assassinated at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in an attack apparently timed to the 9/11 anniversary; US embassies across the Islamic world under siege, the target of violent mobs, incited by...an amateurish attempt at movie-making by anti-Muslim zealots in southern California, depicting the prophet as a womanizer and a charlatan. Reverberations through the presidential campaign with Mitt Romney's slamming President Obama for his handling of events -- and getting slammed right back, not by the Obama camp but by GOP leaders. If high unemployment numbers are a lingering effect of the housing/banking collapse, why does Fed chief Ben Bernanke’s solution involve buying up as many mortgage-backed securities as it takes to bring jobless figures down? And why is Rahm Emanuel spoiling for a fight with municipal labor? (Joining us on the Right is Matthew Continetti, Editor-In-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon.)
Banner image: A protester chants slogans during a protest march to the US embassy in Sana'a, Yemen. September 13, 2012. Photo by Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters
