CAIR: Save us Audrey Hudson! You're Our Only Hope!
OOOOH is this rich. Like the richest, supplest, most Corinthianist of leathers.
Background: CAIR frickin' hates Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson with an incandescent, incoherent, Yosemite-Sam-like fury, because she tells the truth about them. They throw her out of their press conferences that she shows up to cover. They call her racist and whine about her to the Times editors. So do their buddies.
In June, Hudson ran a little expose about how CAIR's membership numbers have plummeted. CAIR responded with, and I'm paraphrasing slightly, "OOOOOOOOH Ratzlefraggin dagnab hargenflargin' varmint!" Hudson hates Muslims, and, they insisted, she "cooked" those numbers!!!!
"We are also concerned that Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson has apparently had a vendetta against our organization and the American Muslim community since she was barred from a recent CAIR news conference because of her history of sloppy and agenda-driven reporting. It is unfortunate that her apparent bias leads her to 'cook' CAIR's membership figures and to tarnish the journalistic reputation of the Washington Times."I screencapped that, by the way, in case it disappears. And by the way, they weren't being honest then.
That's the background. So now CAIR finds itself named as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial. (Today, LGF reports, they're linked explicitly with Hamas by the prosecution in that case.) CAIR does not like that. They are complaining and have petitioned to have their name removed as a co-conspirator.
They claim that being named an unindicted co-conspirator has hurt their membership. And they even offer to prove it, by citing...
Audrey Hudson's June 11, 2007 article.
Ha.
Ha ha ha.
That's going to be part of a sworn affidavit, by the way. If they continue to claim Audrey Hudson's figures are false, CAIR will have committed perjury.
I think they should probably apologize to her in a nice letter to the Wash Times and say something like "We're sorry, Ms. Hudson, you were right all along. Our numbers have dwindled into insignificance and we lack the political clout that politicians and the rest of the mainstream media pretend we have. We're just a bunch of cranky bitter-enders creeping by on large donations from a few rich anonymous sources we'd rather not disclose."
P.S. I see Powerline's Scott Johnson caught this the day after CAIR pled it, during my recent absence, and points out that CAIR's pleading is BS anyway:
The government named CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation this year during the first week of June. Hudson’s Washington Times story was based on data covering the period 2000-2006, before CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator. CAIR’s citation of Hudson’s story in support of the argument made in its brief piles one convenient falsehood on top of another.
P.P.S. I guess this got around the days I was off e-mail. Here's Hudson's end-zone dance.