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18 Years After 9/11, Jim Carrey Warns Us of the Threat of…Mitch McConnell

Sep 11, 2019 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

A sober and trustworthy commentator on political issues speaks. My latest at FrontPage:

No one in the world, or at least no sane person, thinks that comedian and actor Jim Carrey is a sober and trustworthy commentator on political issues, but since he presents himself as one, like so many other reflexively Leftist entertainers today, his statements warrant scrutiny, if only to show how insane the Left has become these days.

According to the Daily Wire last Thursday, Carrey “tweeted a drawing of a three-fingered hand holding a bloody hundred-dollar bill next to a candle.” Along with this drawing, he wrote: “10,000 gun deaths in 2019 and the year is far from over. What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn’t hold a candle to Mitch McConnell.”

Covering this as if Carrey were sane, the Washington Times noted that McConnell wasn’t really a terrorist: “In 1983, the year before Mr. McConnell was first elected to the U.S. Senate, there were more than 31,000 gun deaths in the U.S.”

Carrey could draw this ridiculous equivalence between Osama bin Laden and Mitch McConnell because for eighteen years now he has been told by people whom he trusts that jihad terror is not a real threat to the United States (and of course that it has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam), and that the real problems confronting America today are “white supremacism” and “Islamophobia.”

In fact, all these years after 9/11 it has become commonplace for Leftists to claim that “white supremacists” and “right-wing extremists” are responsible for more deaths in the United States than are Islamic jihadists, and thus constitute the greater threat. This claim originated with an April 2017 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study that counted 106 people killed in 62 attacks by “far-right violent extremists,” as compared to 119 people killed in 23 attacks by “radical Islamist violent extremists.”

That’s it then, right? 39 more attacks by “far-right violent extremists” than by “radical Islamist violent extremists.” And there have only been more “white supremacist” attacks since April 2017, while Islamic jihadists have been relatively quiet since Donald Trump became President (hmmmm), so case closed, right?

Wrong. The most important major problem with the Government Accountability Office study is plain from page 6 of its report, where you will see that the count of fatalities committed by “far right wing extremists” and “radical Islamist extremists” begins on September 12, 2001.

What an interesting date for the Government Accountability Office to have chosen for the beginning of its survey! And how revealing. It would have made much more sense for the survey to have begun on January 1, 2001 (or January 1, 2000, for those who claim the new millennium began on that day), or five or ten years before the time of the survey itself. Instead, the GAO went with September 12, 2001.

The reason why is obvious: the whole point of this study was not actually to determine what the greatest threat to the United States really was at all, but to provide support, however spurious, for the claim that “white supremacism” was a greater threat than Islamic jihad. For obviously, if the GAO had started its study just one day before it actually did start it, the number of Americans killed by Islamic jihadists would have been several thousand more than those killed by “far-right violent extremists.”

Clearly the GAO began its survey on September 12, 2001 in order to manipulate the results so as to exaggerate the terror threat from the “far-right” and minimize it from Islamic jihadis. And that’s not all: the study doesn’t take failed plots into account. At my site Jihad Watch, I’ve tracked jihad activity in the United States and around the world every day since October 2003. In the course of that nearly sixteen-year span, I’ve posted hundreds of reports on failed jihad plots inside this country. No one was killed or injured in those, and for that we can all be grateful. But if those plots had succeeded, there would have been hundreds and possibly thousands more fatalities of Islamic jihad activity.

Is there a comparable number of failed “white supremacist” plots? Absolutely not. But does Jim Carrey know anything about any of this? Once again, absolutely not. He, like most Leftists, thinks he knows that “white supremacism” is a big threat, as is “Islamophobia.” And how many killings have there been by “Islamophobes” in the United States in recent years? Absolutely none. Go back to 9/11, and there was one instance in which an ignorant yahoo murdered an innocent Sikh because he mistook him for a Muslim. That was an immense tragedy that must not be minimized, but it doesn’t amount to a violent threat from “Islamophobia” that is remotely comparable to the jihad threat.

Jim Carrey provides us with an object lesson: Big Lies breed big idiocy, and big complacency.

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  1. Spiro says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    Why does anybody listen to these people who repeat lines refit ten by someone else that doesn’t make them smarter than the rest of us

  2. FYI says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 4:38 pm

    You know i was wondering what happened to LLoyd Christmas after his starring role in Dumb and Dumber …..or was that “Me,Myself and Mitch McConnell”?

  3. James Lincoln says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    I believe that Jim Carrey has dual citizenship, United States and Canada.

    I would highly recommend that the United States deport him back to Canada. Permanently.

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 11, 2019 at 5:20 pm

      Jim who?

    • Justin says

      Sep 12, 2019 at 4:07 pm

      Will gladly take Jim and in the unfair trade we currently have with the us. Will send you our dummist. Most hated person justin I’m a fool trudum. He can share stupid sock stories with don..

  4. robert_k says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    Jim Carrey is known for his flexible facial features. But besides that a no-talent. He has a thick beard now. If he shaves his mustache he can pass as a American Taliban.

    • underbed cat says

      Sep 12, 2019 at 12:15 am

      You read my mind….if he thinks Mitch McConnell is a terrorist, well what can you say, half of Hollywood has never read a authentic Quran, and the 100 plus verses that call for jihad against nonbelievers, Christian and Jews, and got sold hook line and sinker the peaceful face, not knowing about keeping a hard heart or the obligations it commands, he would be shocked that his favorite administration spread the fibs of peace and tolerance and opened the door wide open and spread the dawah to the youth. When Isis chased the non Islamic Yazidi men, woman and children to the mountains most did not survive isis. I will never forget the young panicked girl looking for her father.

  5. Gary Moseley says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 5:39 pm

    Dumb,Dumber,Dumbest Dumbass!

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 6:02 pm

    Quote: “No one in the world, or at least no sane person, thinks that comedian and actor Jim Carrey is a sober and trustworthy commentator on political issues.”

    Yeah, ‘sober’ is the last thing that someone would call him.

    Drugs turn people into intellectual simpletons.

  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 6:27 pm

    18 Years After 9/11, Jim Carrey Warns Us of the Threat of…Mitch McConnell
    …………………

    What a stooge.

  8. Gork says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    I don’t care what some celebrity thinks about politics. It’s not as if I go in to the polling booth at election time and think to myself, “I wonder who Jim Carrey would vote for?”

    He’s a nobody. Unless he has some interesting insight on an issue regarding acting, I don’t care what he has to say about anything.

    • Trick_or_Treat says

      Sep 12, 2019 at 6:45 am

      What would ‘J C ‘ do?! 😂😂

  9. Dapto says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    Notice his Islamist style beard ? might explain his stance.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 11, 2019 at 8:31 pm

      Actually, dapto, the Islamic mustache is ‘clipped’.

      Ibn Umar said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be opon him) said: Act against the polytheists, trim closely the moustache and grow beard. – Sahih Muslim 2:500, See also: Sahih Muslim 2:501

      Mohammedans are required to look differently from Christians, so they will not accidently kill other Muslims in jihad.

  10. Voytek Gagalka says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    By doing similar statistical gimmick in the case of the Auschwitz concentration camp and attempting to count number of victims since January 28, 1945, while ignoring anything before that date, one could easily “prove” that Nazis did not commit ANY crime against humanity there at all. And the reason is simple: Auschwitz was liberated a day before, on January 27. Eh, clever statisticians!

    • mortimer says

      Sep 12, 2019 at 10:00 am

      Very good analogy. The Leftards ignore whatever facts don’t fit their narratives. They use ‘selective data’ to slant their study to achieve a pre-determined, desired conclusion.

      That isn’t a valid study ab initio, and a peer review would laugh it out of the ‘court’ of peer statisticians.

      What is disgusting about it is that it is quoted by so many people who are clueless about how a valid study is conducted and no one in the media has corrected them.

      Our journalists are no longer doing their job of protecting society from con artists. Those journalists should take a shower.

  11. Westman says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 1:52 am

    Maybe it should be renamed the Government False Accounting Office. It released these numbers as pure propaganda, knowing full well that raw numbers cause false conclusions.

    HOW MANY TERTORIST ACTS ARE COMMITTED BY A PARTICULAR GROUP MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR COMPARISONS UNLESS THE POPULATIONS OF THE GROUPS ARE INCLUDED.

    Put another way, ONLY THE TERRORIST RATE PER POPULATION CAN BE COMPARED.

    106 killed by non-Muslims.

    119 killed by Muslims.

    Ratio of non-Muslims to Muslims in US population 99:1

    Rate of killing by non-Muslims = 106/99 = 1.07 (1.07 per 1% of US population)

    Rate of killing by Muslims = 119/1 = 119 (119 per 1% of US population)

    The chance you will be killed by a Muslim rather than a non-Muslim, then, is 111:1 (119/1.07)

    Number of Non-Muslim attacks = 62

    Number of Muslim attacks = 23

    Rate of Non-Muslim attacks = 62/99 = .63

    Rate of Muslim attacks = 23/1 = 23

    Ratio of chance of attack by Muslims to chance of attack by non-Muslims = 23/.63 = 36:1

    So you are 111 times more likely, in the US, to be killed by a Muslim than by the rest of the population and 36 times more likely to be attacked by a Muslim than by the rest of the population, in which “the rest of population” also includes the Right Wing Radicals.

    • Vann Boseman says

      Sep 12, 2019 at 6:12 am

      @Westman Thank you very much for this analysis. The number of ways that Jim Carrey is wrong boggles the mind. A reasonably informed person could probably write and explain many of the ways in maybe a day. But your argument is better than any I would have been likely to come up with. I very much appreciate your use of comparison and scale in making your argument. I tend to be very suspicious of statistics even to the point of throwing out that aspect of one’s argument right from the beginning. But here, you are precise, relatively simple, and produce an outstanding case.

      • Westman says

        Sep 12, 2019 at 10:13 am

        Vann, I should have also pointed out that this analysis excludes 9/11. If it was included, the total killed by Muslims would be 2977 + 119 = 3096, and the number of Muslim attacks, 36 +1 = 37.

        Counting 9/11 makes the chance of being killed, in the US, by Muslims, 2893 times more likely than by the rest of the US population. It seems likely that the GAO justified leaving out 9/11 because the terrorists were not US citizens. It still doesn’t hide the high rates of Muslim violence.

        As can be shown through comparing the RATES of violence, the population of every Western nation that has taken in a significant number of Muslims is more at risk of violence than before: France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, etc. This should be no surprise since the Quran divides the world into the supremist “best of peoples” and the unbelievers “worst of peoples”, the latter being compared to animals. Verses that include directives such as, “kill them wherever you find them”, even if out of historical context, will be taken as literal instruction by some dimwits, outcasts, and rebels, needing a cause. It would be impossible for Muslims, who are given full permission by the Quran to hate Jews, to somehow also love the unbelievers.

        Islam can’t even create peace within itself and has been in Islamic Civil War since the death of Muhammad.

        • Wellington says

          Sep 12, 2019 at 12:47 pm

          Thanks for those calculations, Westman.

  12. NotALibNoMo says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 8:00 am

    Didn’t he cause the death of his girlfriend?

    • Angemon says

      Sep 12, 2019 at 4:51 pm

      IIRC, he was accused of supplying the drugs she used to kill herself. Can’t remember it making to court though.

  13. Dr. Doom says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 9:45 am

    Assuming that Mr. Carey is sane is a huge assumption.

  14. Rarely says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 10:15 am

    Clearly muslims proportionately commit more murders in the U.S. than the overall population.
    and more, proportionately, than white supremacists.
    It would be foolish, however, to ignore or underplay the danger white supremacists bring to the table.
    “We aren’t as bad as those guys” is not much of an argument or defence. BOTH have to be addressed but not necessarily with the same urgency.
    Isn’t this obvious?

  15. Horseman says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 10:34 am

    Carey is a clown. Hope he’s made his money cause he’s not getting anymore of mine.

    • Sam Mccarthy says

      Sep 12, 2019 at 3:19 pm

      I love clowns, carreys a good one 🖕

  16. AFVet says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 10:48 am

    This guy is an ass. Like the rest of Hollywood. Stick to being a Jerry Lewis wannabe

  17. Billy Chickens says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 11:52 am

    Jim Carey – a cipher in the realm of the brain.

  18. TKF says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 12:24 pm

    Carrie is both dumb and dumber. I think he is probably straight up insane. Cue breakdown.

  19. infidel says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 12:54 pm

    Another Hollywood loonie… And we in India have our share of Bollywood loonies. I often wonder as to what is it with films and Islam??

  20. OLD GUY says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 2:49 pm

    Send him a message, don’t watch any of his films or shows that he appears in. Jim who?

  21. Sam Mccarthy says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    Yea whatever people, I still think Jim Carrey rocks!!!!!!!

  22. E T says

    Sep 12, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    James Lincoln, I do appreciate your comments always, however as far as Crackhead Carrie, we have enough crazies in Canada, so I think it best he remains in the USA. Best always to you and keep smiling. E T

  23. Mel says

    Sep 13, 2019 at 9:57 pm

    Like most of the old guard, McConnell’s a crook, made crooked by a broken political system that gives career US senators way too much power. It’s no longer about public service, but about private power and greed. Carey may be out there artistically, but he stands for common sense, decency, and most importantly, REALITY. Sheeples lack the smarts and sagacity to see this smug, duplicitous and dangerous wolf for what he really is: a cruel, conniving and corrupted public servant in their own bloodstained clothing.

  24. D Richards says

    Sep 14, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    Thank God for Robert Spencer and his helpers.

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