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Maureen Dowd meets anti-Semitism charge
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Posted on 09/16/2012 5:35:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Maureen Dowd meets anti-Semitism charge

By DYLAN BYERS | 9/16/12 6:42 PM EDT

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd set the Jewish political community on fire today with a column about the Republican ticket's foreign policy proposals that, according to her critics, peddled anti-Semitic imagery.

Dowd fairly observed that neither Mitt Romney nor Paul Ryan are experts in the field of foreign policy, but asserted their strategy was orchestrated by a "neocon puppet master" who was leading the neocon effort to "slither back" into power.

Such language, to say nothing of the questionable legitimacy of her claims, struck experts on American-Israeli relations as an inappropriate (though perhaps unintentional) appeal to anti-Semitic stereotypes, and especially offensive ahead of the first night of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.

"Dowd's use of anti-Semitic imagery is awful," Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote on Twitter.

"Maureen may not know this, but she is peddling an old stereotype, that gentile leaders are dolts unable to resist the machinations and manipulations of clever and snake-like Jews," Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic columnist and leading journalist on Israeli issues, wrote.

"[A]mazing that apparently nobody sat her down and said, this is not OK," Blake Hounshell, the managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, tweeted.

On the right, The Weekly Standard's Daniel Halper called it "outrageous," while Commentary's Jonathan Tobin described it as "particularly creepy."

"Dowd’s column marks yet another step down into the pit of hate-mongering that has become all too common at the Times," Tobin wrote. "This is a tipping point that should alarm even the most stalwart liberal Jewish supporters of the president."

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; dowd; israel; jews; maureendowd; mittromney; racism; romneytruthfile; waronterror
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To: muawiyah
At one time the term NeoCon and Jew were synonymous. Or to be more accurate: a group of liberal Jewish hawks that left the democrat party to become conservative Jewish hawks in the GOP, though a lot of conservatives say they are not very conservative.

That changed when we transitioned from the cold war period into the post cold war period and NeoCon was used to define a foreign policy doctrine and there are numerous gentile NeoCons who subscribe to the NeoCon doctrine.

The cornerstone of the NeoCon doctrine states that the US won the cold war, is the last remaining superpower, and thus is the world hegemon. The world is unipolar and the US is at the top of the pole. NeoCons are also known as Idealists in that humanitarianism and nation building are a major componant of the doctrine.

Whenever any one criticizes the NeoCon doctrine, whether that be Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Maureen Dowd, or anyone else, they are called antisemitic.

41 posted on 09/16/2012 7:00:28 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: rawhide
Anyone that's been in a Mexican bar and walked out without getting stabbed has more foreign policy experience than Zippo and Co.
42 posted on 09/16/2012 7:06:09 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Revolting cat!; Blue Highway
The way I remember the stories is that Douglas hooked up with her to encourage and direct her writings (in the Slimes) towards denouncing the Pubbie presidential candidate at that the time.

Can't remember the time frame, but once the election was over, Douglas dumped her for CZJ.

In order to mark her whoring for Douglas and against the idea of fair and reasonable reporting and commentary, the mention of MoDo requires pictures of CJZ to remind her of the use and personal humiliation she suffered for her scrivenings at the behest of Douglas.

She still hasn't learned from her mistakes, though I will give her credit for being the first to notice then-Senator BHO's elephant ears.

43 posted on 09/16/2012 7:07:03 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: jimbo123

You win! That’s got to be the post of the year! I can’t stop laughing. It’s as good as the one a Freeper posted a few days ago that went, “If you put her out in a field the crows would bring back corn they stole three years ago.”


44 posted on 09/16/2012 7:41:06 PM PDT by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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To: Ben Ficklin
Whenever any one criticizes the NeoCon doctrine, whether that be Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Maureen Dowd, or anyone else, they are called antisemitic.

It has been my experience that every single person I've known who used the word "NeoCon" also happened to have a major problem with Jooos. None of them ever offered a rational argument over policy differences, but every one of them expressed a bitter dislike for those "NeoCons." I don't presume to judge people I've never met, but it's been 100% in my personal experience.

45 posted on 09/16/2012 7:48:51 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine
Do you recall in the spring of 2011 when Obama finally made the decision to intervene in Libya, the NeoCons were pleased and Bill Kristol proclaimed Obama to be a Born Again NeoCon? Was Kristol calling Obama a Jew? No.

As for your phrase "rational argument over policy differences", that would depend on how you lean. If you are a NeoCon, other doctrines or policies are not rational.

For example, I think that Bob Gates, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, and other foreign policy Realists made a much better argument to not intervene in Libya but the NeoCon Republicans and Liberal Interventionist Democrats carried the argument and and Obama intervened. This doesn't mean Gates, Kissinger, and Baker are antisemitic, although they have been called that. Especially Kissinger since he is a Jew..

Which brings you to the next issue. In the USA there are many, many, many more Jews that aren't NeoCons than there are Jews that are NeoCons. When Non-NeoCon Jews criticize NeoCons, they are always called self-loathing or self-hating Jews by the NeoCons.

46 posted on 09/16/2012 8:19:51 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

I’m sure there are some who find the “neocon” description meaningful, but those disreputable people I have known have so poisoned the word “neocon” for me that I turn away when I hear it. I do not in any way ascribe anti-Semitic motives to you for using it; I just have a visceral dislike for the word.


47 posted on 09/16/2012 8:35:15 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine
I just have a visceral dislike for the word.

Well, try using "neo-COM" on a RAT.

48 posted on 09/16/2012 8:38:43 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Now that, my friend, is FUNNY! By the way, your screen name is great - I have a friend with a Hunter/Jumper horse named Rock Lobster. Now let’s vote!


49 posted on 09/16/2012 8:44:45 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine; Ben Ficklin
"I'm getting a little tired of these media people speaking in their own code language.

A case in point is their use of the term 'neo-conservative.' Whether they choose to hyphenate the label or not, it's a pejorative code word for 'Jews.'

Anti-Semites Use "Neo-Con" Code Word, By Rush Limbaugh
Rushlimbaugh.com, April 22, 2003

50 posted on 09/16/2012 8:45:26 PM PDT by trekdown
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To: Ben Ficklin

Gee, and here I thought “neocon” was another simple new pejorative against conservatives by trying to make it sound even more NAZI.


51 posted on 09/16/2012 8:50:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Always A Marine
As you may or may not know, when the liberal Jewish hawks left the democrat party for the GOP, the dems coined the word neoconservative to call this group. It was a word of contempt and ridicule, but Irving Kristol accepted the term and wore it as a badge.

It is just a name, but more than anything else, it is a doctrine and as such it can be defined and criticised(or praised if you lean that way). Or as Obama has done, the neocons can be apologized for.

52 posted on 09/16/2012 8:53:10 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Always A Marine

Thanks.

As Rush says, for satire to be funny, there has to be an element of truth to it, and progressives are communists.

And thank you sir, for your service to our country.


53 posted on 09/16/2012 9:01:31 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: jazusamo

oh, come on, Mo tries!

54 posted on 09/16/2012 9:04:35 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Ben Ficklin
At the same time Leftwingtard's use it as a term for Jew.

Not at all unusual for a single word to carry a variety of meanings.

55 posted on 09/17/2012 4:46:58 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: kcvl

LOL! That’s a hoot, she needs to try harder.


56 posted on 09/17/2012 8:37:31 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: Ben Ficklin

Neocons are delusional fools allied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda in encircling Israel. The claim to be Zionists and supporters of American power. They are actually clueless ideologues on the same level as the leftists who support them in the Democracy Jihad.


57 posted on 09/19/2012 11:37:34 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: muawiyah

Well....I heard Mark Levin use it yesterday to describe Bush folks..it is an accurate word and not all are Jews

Fred Barnes........Rove......most of Fox and WSJ and NRO

And yes some are Jews...Kristol .....Krauthammer

All are light on culture war

Saying one shouldn’t criticize them since many well known are Jews is stupid

Democrat identity logic to shut people up

I detest the lack of a moral compass or realism in NeoCons in their lack of cultural conservatism and love of nation building and open borders

So shoot me...


58 posted on 09/19/2012 11:52:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (this is a perfect window for Netanyahu to bomb Iran..I hereby give my go ahead..thanks Muzzie idiots)
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To: Sub-Driver

Freepers acting like PC dems is a sad carnival


59 posted on 09/19/2012 11:54:30 PM PDT by wardaddy (this is a perfect window for Netanyahu to bomb Iran..I hereby give my go ahead..thanks Muzzie idiots)
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To: wardaddy
This is based on normal usage patterns observable in the hardcopy and the digital press ~ Leftwingtards use the term NEOCON to mean "Evil Joooooos" ~ how a Republican, or a Republican toady uses the term can be entirely different.

An "Evil Jooooo" is a Jewish person who has jumped the reservation and no longer works as a Leftwingtard lackey.

60 posted on 09/20/2012 4:19:05 AM PDT by muawiyah
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