Posted on 07/21/2006 5:53:01 AM PDT by SJackson
> Pat's not an anti-Semite. He just plays one on TV (and in print).
He is a good actor. He had me fooled.
Might make for an interesting BBQ. You won't be invited.
How do you mean? By airing his commercials??
It's particularly troubling because not only is Brooklyn Heights' city councilman, Dave Yassky, Jewish - but he's currently dealing with anti-Semitic and anti-white taunts and insults from fellow Democrats in his primary race.
Yes, there have been a couple threads about that.
Your "?" is stuckkkkkkkkkkk
I haven't seen that, you'd have to point me to the articles.
Double diddly dog ditto! (Ned Flanders is wearing off on me.)
What's most galling to me is that the more Buchanan loses it, the more insane and anti-semetic he gets, the more people like Chris Mathiews and Don Imus cozy up to him.
That's because the media still portrays him as a typical denizen of the "right", a mainstream Republican thinker. Republicans hate religious and racial minorities you know.
You nailed it. The extremist zealot kooks on the left and on the right are merely flip sides of the same coin. bttt
Here's Jerry Pournelle [!]
comparing the Middle East
to Los Angeles:
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Suppose a coalition of Crips and Bloods kidnaps two Beverly Hills policemen, claims credit, and carries them off to South Los Angeles, to the politically independent city of, say, Bell Gardens.
Beverly Hills then bombs the freeways to cut off all imports of weapons and cut off the chance of transporting their hostages to Mexico. The Los Angeles Police Department and the Hawthorne Police Department send in patrol cares to evacuate LA and Hawthorne citizens. Beverly Hills bombards the community center and bus stations. A hundred people are killed. When the citizens protest they are told that since 40% of their people are gang bangers, it's time to do something about it to protect Beverly Hills. Crips and Bloods from Los Angeles throw firebombs at homes in Beverly Hills, but they don't do a lot of damage. In retaliation, BHPD patrol cars drive through Bell Gardens firing at public housing projects they are pretty certain are centers of Crip and Blood and other anti-BeverlyHillistic citizens.
Defenders of Beverly Hills Police Department point out that no one has been able to control the Crips and the Bloods and the Columbian gangs, and BHPD has no choice but to end this nonsense once and for all. There will be collateral damage, and we're all sorry. Meanwhile, BHPD is asking for Federal Funds to buy F-15's to complete the job, because they need to cut all the roads and other ways in and out of Bell Gardens to prevent Columbian gangs from reinforcing the Crips and Bloods. And anyone driving in a car is subject to attack by BHPD helicopters.
We firebombed Japan. We need national determination to end the reign of terror of the Crips and Bloods. Do what is necessary.
I never wanted to believe it, but I think that Pat Buchanan has a real problem with Isreal.
Tom Roeser's blog nailed it, not me. He's a local Chicago commentator, but worth a read if you're not familiar with him.
About Tom
Thomas F. Roeser, president of his own corporate relations firm, and Op Ed contributor to the Chicago Tribune, is radio talk show host, writer, lecturer, teacher, and former vice president of The Quaker Oats Company of Chicago, whose newspaper columns have appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wall Street Journal. A former John F. Kennedy Fellow, Harvard, and Woodrow Wilson International Fellow, Princeton, New Jersey, he has served as Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Roosevelt University, Chicago. He is a Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute, the Chicago-based free market research center. He is the author of the book, Father Mac: The Life and Times of Ignatius D. McDermott, Co-Founder of Chicago’s Famed Haymarket Center (McDermott Foundation, 2002), and Chicago correspondent of The Wanderer, the nation’s oldest Catholic newspaper. He writes daily for his own blog, www.tomroeser.com.
Roeser is a former assistant to the Secretary of Commerce who formed the nation's first program to assist minority entrepreneurs (now the Minority Business Development Agency) and later served as Director-Public Affairs for the Peace Corps. For 27 years he formed and operated the government relations department for The Quaker Oats Company--serving for many of them as Vice President. He has been Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania; the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Loyola University of Chicago; DePaul University, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and St. Johns College, Oxford.
He was born in Evanston, Illinois and attended elementary and secondary schools in Chicago, graduating from St. John's University at Collegeville, Minnesota. After an extensive experience covering politics in Minnesota, he became a research-publicist to the Minnesota Republican Party; then an aide to two U.S. congressmen and a governor. He returned to Chicago to launch The Quaker Oats Company's government relations department in 1964 and continued his education with post-graduate studies at DePaul and Loyola Universities.
He took a leave of absence from Quaker in 1969 to form the nation's first unit of government dedicated to fostering minority enterprise. Roeser gave President Richard Nixon a strategy that coordinated the 116 government programs which could be utilized for minority entrepreneurs. He then recommended the abolition of his own federal agency. This controversial challenge to the permanent bureaucracy led to Roeser's reassignment as Director-Public Affairs for the Peace Corps.
He returned to Quaker in 1971 and served as vice president until retirement in 1991, and since that time has been representing a variety of clients on public policy issues.
As the first corporate government relations executive to become a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard, he designed the course "Influencing the System" which shows how nine constituencies intersect to produce public policy. He later received a Woodrow Wilson International Fellowship at Princeton, NJ, and in addition to his work at Quaker took the course to many private colleges across the nation.
On radio, Roeser (a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL-CIO) hosts his own program of talk which airs on WLS-AM (ABC) Sunday. He has been a senior correspondent and talk show host for Catholic Family Radio, a network with outlets in Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee. He is an occasional commentator on "Chicago Tonight" which is seen on WTTW-TV, Chicagoland public television.
Long active in Chicago civic organizations, he was a founder of Project LEAP (Legal Elections in All Precincts), Chicago's anti-vote fraud organization, and is chairman of the City Club of Chicago, one of the city's oldest civic reform organizations. He is a director of the Better Government Association, and the United Republican Fund of Illinois, serves on the Chicago Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Board member of Haymarket Center of Chicago. He has been program chairman for Rotary One, the founding chapter of Rotary International, the first service club in the world. In addition, he is a director of The Rockford Institute and serves as member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. He serves as program chairman of the Chicago Legatus chapter (an organization of Chicago area Catholic CEOs and senior business executives). He is married to the former Lillian Prescott, the father of four grown children and grandfather of thirteen.
In 1988, he and Mrs. Roeser were named by John Paul II as Knight and Lady of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.
The Vatican, which has an unsavory record in regard to the periodic slaughters of the Jews has thrown its moral weight (such as it is these days) onto the scales against the Jews.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/index.asp
Such an uncharacteristically sloppy misrepresentation of the Pope's position seems deliberately malicious to me.
The fact that a Pope is worried about the Catholic Maronites of Lebanon (many of whom fought and died as Israel's allies during the Lebanon operation) hardly means that he has taken sides against the Jews or Israel.
I don't see why it's helpful for Horowitz to say stuff that seems designed to offend conservative American Catholics - a group that represents millions of staunch GOP defenders of Israel.
Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard of him before (that I know of).
Buchanan has fallen down and can't get up.
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