Posted on 06/13/2010 9:35:41 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rabbi Who Outed Helen Thomas is 'Liberal' Who Agreed w/ Her on Iraq War, 'Reevaluating' His Views By Brad Wilmouth Created 06/13/2010 - 12:09
During an interview on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, Rabbi David Nesenoff, known for exposing Helen Thomas’s anti-Semitic views, informed viewers that, up until now, he has considered himself to be a liberal Democrat – who even opposed the Iraq War and supported Barack Obama – but now asserts that "I have to really reevaluate liberal and conservative and really find out where I stand because I think I've been a little blind."
As Nesenoff recounted that he had previously agreed with Thomas in her opposition to the war in Iraq, and her challenging of President Bush on the matter, he now sees himself as unknowingly being allied with people who think that "Israel and the Jewish people don't have a connection." Before being interrupted by host Howard Kurtz, Nesenoff began to explain his evolution of thought:
They’re accusing me of being some right-wing ambusher, and it really rocked my world because I have to reevaluate my life and my standing in the agendas because, yeah, I’m a New York Democrat Jewish liberal supporter of Obama, donated to his candidacy for a year, said give him a chance ... defended, watched all these liberal media, and now I have to reevaluate ... I have to now speak to people with all different agendas because if I was part of a team where their agenda was that Israel and the Jewish people don’t have a connection – which is exactly what Helen Thomas said – there’s no connection, why are they even there-
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Sunday, June 13, Reliable Sources on CNN:
HOWARD KURTZ: Did you have any idea when you took out that video camera and asked Helen Thomas that question that she was hostile toward Israel?
RABBI DAVID NESENOFF, RABBILIVE.COM: I didn’t approach her thinking that. Now that I see a lot of things in the news, I certainly can review and see that she’s had a lot of different thoughts, but, of course, there might be anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian. That’s very different than anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish and wanting to cleanse a piece of land, so, up until this point, this is just an individual who is pro-Palestinian. People should look out for the Palestinian rights. Everybody should look out for everybody’s rights, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
KURTZ: As you know, Helen Thomas has been a longtime institution here in the capital, she’s been a heroine to many female journalists, and some people are blaming you for ending her career.
NESENOFF: Yeah, you know, I received about 25,000 hate mail, you know, emails, and, more shocking than even that, is the hate media I’m beginning to learn about – you know, from TV and newspapers and blogs and talk shows and entertainers, and they’re accusing me of being some right-wing ambusher, and it really rocked my world because I have to reevaluate my life and my standing in the agendas because, yeah, I’m a New York Democrat Jewish liberal supporter of Obama, donated to his candidacy for a year, said give him a chance, give him a chance, defended, watched all these liberal media, and now I have to reevaluate, I have to speak, I have to now speak to people with all different agendas because if I was part of a team where their agenda was that Israel and the Jewish people don’t have a connection – which is exactly what Helen Thomas said – there’s no connection, why are they even there-
KURTZ: Well, let me interrupt you. What do you mean when you say "hate media"? I mean, obviously, you find yourself in the middle of this firestorm. Do you feel that journalists, programs, commentators have been personally unfair to you? And can you explain how?
NESENOFF: You know, I find that people that don’t cover the story or people that cover the story are so upset that they don’t know what to do, so they have to attack me, maybe we’ll say he did something on purpose or he filmed it a certain way, or we’ll find out what he did in his past. I mean, they don’t know what to do with it, but why don’t they actually ask me and find out maybe I liked Helen Thomas and I was actually for the fact that she went ahead and spoke to President Bush and said watch it with the Iraq War, although now I understand – and we have to reevaluate – that maybe when she was protesting the Iraq War, I was saying that because I didn’t want our soldiers to be in harm’s way. It turns out she didn’t want the Iraqis to be in harm’s way. So we have to, kind of, I have to really reevaluate liberal and conservative and really find out where I stand because I think I’ve been a little blind.
God’s will at work, for all to see.
To paraphrase...”From God’s Mouth to his ears...” finally.
Just another confused liberal. Savage is right. Liberal is a mental disorder.
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He’s not a well spoken Rabbi. Perhaps he received a liberal education, really, you know.
The myth of superior Jewish intelligence died with the hanging chad in West Palm Beach, now were seeing that they may have been wrong about who really supports them...I think I need to do a Timothy Leary, bring on the acid, I really want to hallucinate. It can’t be happening even on this small scale. I thought they would all wait until Israel was nuked. A Rabbi no less. My world is being shaken at the roots. Maybe we can win in November.
A real teachable moment if you will. Mark Levin tried to bring this guy to his senses last week. Sounds like he might have been listening.
Someone should warn the Rabbi, in the words of Van Ruysbrook,”the eye the light of God hath clarified remains open, and we may close it nevermore.”
One lefty down......millions more to go.
>>”I have to really reevaluate liberal and conservative and really find out where I stand because I think I’ve been a little blind.” <<
Ya think?
Even Balaams donkey is smarter than a democrat/liberal...
Hmm it might make things way worse. You might never come back. At times I think I am hallucinating without any drugs. I think we are in for a long strange trip.....
Uh, yes. Liberal Democrats tend to rethink their views when other Liberal Democrats come for them with machetes and machine guns. One Liberal Democratic Jew that has seen the error of his ways, several million more to go.
>>>>>>>>One lefty down......millions more to go.<<<<<<<<<
For every one who gets their eyes opened there are thousands still walking around supporting the bama-boy.
This ont too will return to his liberal speak in time.
I think it;s a cultural thing in their genes to go with the underdog, no matter how wrong the underdog is.
I believe that in their hearts the Jews are for the Palestinians.
Wow!
Scales falling from eyes?
And there is a good cure for the 'little blind' disease. I PRAY that cure comes from God, directly, to the ears of those kljwho need to hear it most. We need to pray that all of those ears are opened a bit more, including our own.
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