More on NASA for Muslim self-esteem

Examiner's Byron York: The NASA-Muslim Outreach Story 'Has Not Made the Cut'
At the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog

NASA's new mission: Building ties to Muslim world
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in February. (Gerald Herbert/AP) You'd be hard-pressed to find an American who doesn't know that the "S" in NASA stands for "Space." Since the race to The Moon in the 1960s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been one of the most storied agencies in the U.S. government. Now, under President Obama, its mission is changing -- and Space isn't part of the story. "When I became the NASA administrator, [Obama]...

Charlie Bolden: Stealth Middle East Diplomat?
"Bolden: I am here in the region - its sort of the first anniversary of President Barack Obama's visit to Cairo - and his Speech there when he gave what has now become known as Obama's "Cairo Initiative" where he announced that he wanted this to become a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim World. When I became the NASA Administrator - before I became the NASA Administrator - he charged me with three things: One was that he wanted me to re-inspire Children...

Al Jazeera English
For over 50 years the National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) has been a fixture in Science, in Fiction and Science Fiction. Charles Bolden, the NASA administrator, talks to Al Jazeera's Imran Garda about the US relationship with the Middle East after Obama's so-called Cairo initiative, reaching out to the Muslim World, international contribution to the space mission, the constellation project, NASA's challenges, militarisation of space, the US leadership role in space, and...

Worst Person Limbaugh: 'If Obama Weren't Black He'd Be a Tour Guide in Honolulu'
You can view this video Right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! DOWNLOADS: (13) PLAYS: (106) Bigot Rush Limbaugh took Keith's top honors on the Worst Persons list for this bit of blatant Racism. Limbaugh: "If Obama Weren't Black He'd Be a Tour Guide in Honolulu" : Rush Limbaugh joined other Right-wing Media figures in freaking out over a remark by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden during a recent interview with Al Jazeera. In discussing Obama's efforts to improve...

On NASA's Strange Priorities
Barack Obama’s grand speeches in Istanbul and Cairo as well as his repeated insistence on “ respect ” made Americans very aware that he hopes to win Muslim favor. But we did not know how deeply embedded this impulse has become in U.S. policy until this: “ Obama’s new mission for NASA: Reach out to Muslim World .” Byron York of the Washington Examiner uncovered an interview on Al-Jazeera in which the head of the National Aeronautics and Space...

Nasa's Greater Significance
I think the NASA story is actually a pretty big deal because it symbolizes a much larger problem with Obama in particular and Liberalism generally. As I argue in column today , Bolden's stunningly stupid statement reinforces the sense that the Obama White House has an ideological script that it is determined to follow no matter what the facts may be. As hordes of pundits and politicians have already observed ad nauseum, the Democratic leadership is more determined to exploit crises than fix...

White House, NASA, Defend Comments About NASA Outreach to Muslim World Criticized by Conservatives
The White House and NASA today defended comments by National Aeronautic Space Administration administrator Charles Bolden about reaching out to the Muslim World " comments that Conservatives criticized as undermining NASA's mission. A few days ago, in Cairo, Bolden told Al Jazeera  that when he became the NASA administrator, President Obama charged him with three things: "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire Children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand...

Charen: NASA's "Muslim Outreach" is Not Surprising
In her weekly column, Mona Charen argues that it is not surprising that Obama encouraged NASA to focus on outreach to the Muslim World: It's not really surprising that President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden that his highest priority should be "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim World and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science

The Limbaugh Wire for 07/06/2010
Rush Limbaugh joined other Right-wing Media figures in freaking out over a remark by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden during a recent interview with Al Jazeera. In discussing Obama's efforts to improve Muslim outreach, Bolden said that Obama "wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim World and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering." Rush used this noncontroversial...

Limbaugh: "If Obama Weren't Black He'd Be a Tour Guide in Honolulu"
Rush Limbaugh joined other Right-wing Media figures in freaking out over a remark by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden during a recent interview with Al Jazeera. In discussing Obama's efforts to improve Muslim outreach, Bolden said that Obama "wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim World and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering." Rush used this noncontroversial...

NASA's New Mission: Muslim Self-Esteem ?
Though international Diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim World would ultimately advance space travel. “When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire Children to want to get into...

Bonus QOTW: Why NASA belongs on the FAIL blog
Consider this a Bonus Quote of the Week, but since it’s not Climate/science/weather related I didn’t give it top billing for QOTW this week. That honor went to a study from the Max Planck Institute. No, it's not about this or the crashed Mars Probe English-Metric FAIL either You are probably thinking though that I’m going to write about something related to satellite sensing or NASA GISS. Maybe with Jim Hansen or Gavin Schmidt as topics? No, there’s even more FAIL...

Meredith Jessup: Obama New Policy for NASA: Make Muslims 'Feel Good'
Charles Bolden , Obama's NASA administrator, sat down for an interview with Al Jazeera to explain NASA's new role in U.S. diplomatic relations with the Middle East.  He describes Obama's new "foremost" role for the space agency as one dedicated to more outreach with Muslim nations to make them "feel good." Bolden: I am here in the region " its sort of the first anniversary of President Barack Obama's visit to Cairo " and his Speech there when he gave what has now become known as...

NASA Does Muslim Outreach
t’s not really surprising that President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden that his highest priority should be “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim World and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science . . . and math and engineering.” It fits with so much that we already knew about the president. It is consistent with his wildly exaggerated concept of governmental and...

Mainstream Media NASA Blackout
During re-entry, as our space vehicles come crashing back into the atmosphere, there's a period of several minutes during which the intense heat surrounding the vehicle completely blocks out any communication from the Astronauts. As the Obama Administration comes crashing back to Earth a similar black-out is underway concerning NASA and the mission they've been assigned to make Muslims feel better about themselves . This black-out is being facilitated by the Mainstream Media which is also...

The Latest Poutrage
I can’t believe Sarah Palin hasn’t tweeted about this yet: The backstory is that the NASA administrator was interviewed on Al Jazeera and said this : When I became the NASA Administrator - before I became the NASA Administrator - he charged me with three things: One was that he wanted me to re-inspire Children to want to get into science and math, that he wanted me to expand our International relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a...

President Dogbert
Mission statements and vision statements were all the rage a few years ago.  Maybe they still are.  (It's good to be retired.)  For those of you lucky enough to avoid such Dilbertesque exercises, it went roughly like this:  Your boss or your boss's boss wanted each work group to come up with its own mission statement -- a statement that summarizes what you do.  And "what you do" must go above the commonplace; your mission statement should get to the essence of...

Obama's NASA
So, President Obama has decreed that a top goal of NASA will be to “engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science . . .” So says NASA administrator Charles Bolden. Isn’t that wonderful? Trace the arc of the Democratic party from JFK to BHO: “We will go to The Moon”; “We will help Muslims feel good about their historic contribution to science.” (By the way, is it...

NASA: From Space Exploration To Muslim Outreach
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s Space Exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim World. Though international Diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim World would ultimately advance Space travel. I...

The Empty Suit is Turning NASA Into an Empty Shell
Obama's mandate to the head of NASA to use the Space agency to make Muslims feel better about themselves is drawing fire from the former administrator : The former head of NASA on Tuesday described as "deeply flawed" the idea that the Space Exploration agency's priority should be outreach to Muslim countries, after current Administrator Charles Bolden made that assertion in an interview last month. "NASA ... represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other...

U.S. Space Program Bows To Mecca
Job One for NASA Administrator Charles Bolden: "Find a way to reach out to the Muslim World and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to...  View Enlarged Image Priorities: NASA's chief says his mission is not to return us to space but to help the Muslim World feel good about its scientific contributions. The Moon we should be landing on should not be crescent-shaped. At a time when the only missile programs in the Arab World, namely in Syria and Iran, are aimed at...

NASA: Heavenly bodies go behind the veil?
Playing with the Muslim practice - as we understand it: correct us if we're wrong - of covering up women's bodies to avoid having to deal with men's inconvenient impulses, Fred Fry put NASA's current logo behind the veil, a brilliant metaphor for the Obama Administration's " New Arabic Sensitivity Administration ." By Sissy Willis of sisu Blogger Fred Fry's design (above) for Michelle Malkin's NASA logo makeover competition is a...

Arab World Losing Patience with Iran
On July 6th, Yousef Al-Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said that the benefits of bombing Iran's Nuclear program outweigh the short term costs of such an attack. Ambassador Al-Otaiba’s startling

NASA's mission may not be to make Muslim nations "feel good," but it's always been about diplomacy.
Washington, we have a problem.