Wednesday, May 19, 2004
SOMEONE FINALLY CAUGHT ON...
A while back, I was taking apart the latest screed by Senator Fritz Hollings on the show. In his editorial earlier this month, he blamed the whole Iraq and terrorism problem on President Bush's eye toward the Jewish vote. It inspired a few calls from people that seemed normal to the screener at first, but after a while on the air with me, I sensed they were a little nuts. I even got a few complaints that I was too mean to the guy by asking him whether or not he believed the Holocaust happened. I did that as a test to his current sanity. The caller failed.
Michael Rubin at the American Enterprise Institute (right wing think tank) has a piece today highlighting a concern of his...increased Anti-Semitism as it relates to some weird conspiracy theories.
Here's how Fritz put it in his editorial...
"...Led by Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there has been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel's security is to spread democracy in the area...He (Bush) came to office imbued with one thought -- re-election. Bush felt tax cuts would hold his crowd together and spreading democracy in the Mideast to secure Israel would take the Jewish vote from the Democrats..."
As Mr Rubin points out in his article (also available on National Review Online)...
"...Several scholars have addressed the creeping anti-Semitism in the current discourse. Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, published an excellent essay in the January/February 2004 edition of Foreign Policy in which he called the charge 'a malicious myth' the argument that neoconservatives were 'Jews who serve the interests of Israel.' Boot explained, 'With varying degrees of delicacy, everyone from fringe U.S. presidential candidates Lyndon LaRouche and Patrick Buchanan to European news outlets such as the BBC and Le Monde have used neocon as a synonym for Jew, focusing on Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Eliot Cohen, and others with obvious Jewish names..."
I wondered where ole Fritz got the brains to put that piece of trash he printed in the local papers together...Lyndon LaRouche. It happens to be the same website that the nutty Anti-Jewish caller referenced.
An article today in the State newspaper is the first article I've seen criticizing Hollings for being anti-semitic. Too bad his last name wasn't something like Gingrich, DeLay, or Lott...he might have had to leave the Senate earlier than he planned...
A while back, I was taking apart the latest screed by Senator Fritz Hollings on the show. In his editorial earlier this month, he blamed the whole Iraq and terrorism problem on President Bush's eye toward the Jewish vote. It inspired a few calls from people that seemed normal to the screener at first, but after a while on the air with me, I sensed they were a little nuts. I even got a few complaints that I was too mean to the guy by asking him whether or not he believed the Holocaust happened. I did that as a test to his current sanity. The caller failed.
Michael Rubin at the American Enterprise Institute (right wing think tank) has a piece today highlighting a concern of his...increased Anti-Semitism as it relates to some weird conspiracy theories.
Here's how Fritz put it in his editorial...
"...Led by Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there has been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel's security is to spread democracy in the area...He (Bush) came to office imbued with one thought -- re-election. Bush felt tax cuts would hold his crowd together and spreading democracy in the Mideast to secure Israel would take the Jewish vote from the Democrats..."
As Mr Rubin points out in his article (also available on National Review Online)...
"...Several scholars have addressed the creeping anti-Semitism in the current discourse. Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, published an excellent essay in the January/February 2004 edition of Foreign Policy in which he called the charge 'a malicious myth' the argument that neoconservatives were 'Jews who serve the interests of Israel.' Boot explained, 'With varying degrees of delicacy, everyone from fringe U.S. presidential candidates Lyndon LaRouche and Patrick Buchanan to European news outlets such as the BBC and Le Monde have used neocon as a synonym for Jew, focusing on Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Eliot Cohen, and others with obvious Jewish names..."
I wondered where ole Fritz got the brains to put that piece of trash he printed in the local papers together...Lyndon LaRouche. It happens to be the same website that the nutty Anti-Jewish caller referenced.
An article today in the State newspaper is the first article I've seen criticizing Hollings for being anti-semitic. Too bad his last name wasn't something like Gingrich, DeLay, or Lott...he might have had to leave the Senate earlier than he planned...
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