Dennis Prager

President Obama’s much ballyhooed speech in Cairo today included a mention of Rep. Keith Ellison — albeit not by name. Here’s the pertinent passage:
And when the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers [...]

The so-called “Three Tenors” of talk radio — conservatives Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager — spoke before a crowd of 3,000 at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall in an event attended by Republican candidates Michele Bachmann, Norm Coleman and Erik Paulsen as well as Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

And though embattled Minnesota Republicans have been steering to the center of late, the event was full of right-wing red-meat rhetoric — like Prager’s declaration that “Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value.” Video of Prager’s talk inside.

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt – the watchwords of personalities like Dennis Prager.  In a new piece at Human Events, Prager seems to desire the deepening of cultural divides in America – but gets a bit ahead of himself in doing so.

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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council today disassociated itself from the remarks of one its Council Members, Dennis Prager, a firebrand conservative talk show host, who last month blasted Rep.-elect, Keith Ellison’s plan to swear on the Quran in his ceremonial swearing-in event.

The Council “disassociates itself from Mr. Prager’s statements as being antithetical to the mission [...]

Minnesota Monitor’s Abdi Aynte discusses the Dennis Prager Qu’ran controversy on MSNBC’s The Most with host Alison Stewart, and Prager insists in USA Today that he will

The dish is still hot on the Keith Ellison oath of office story, and we have a few more servings inside.

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In a recent Townhall article Conservative Talk Show Host and Columnist Dennis Prager states that Congressman-elect Keith Ellison (MN 5) should not be allowed to take the oath of office on the Koran because “he will be doing more damage to the unity of America and to the value system that has formed this country [...]