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Rabbi Who Interviewed Helen Thomas Says He Voted for Obama; Says “I’ve Been a Little Blind” - Video
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | June 13, 2010 | Brian

Posted on 06/13/2010 1:11:54 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of Rabbi David Nesenoff talking with “Reliable Sources” Howard Kurtz about his interview with longtime White House Correspondent Helen Thomas, in which she destroyed herself by making anti-Semitic remarks, saying Jewish people should “get the hell out of Palestine.”

Nesenoff shocked Kurtz by saying his encounter with Thomas and the reaction by the “hate media” has caused him to have to re-evaluate his assumptions. Nesenoff said he voted for Obama, and has always seen himself as a liberal, Jewish Democrat. But the way the liberal media has tried to brand him as a right-winger with an agenda to trap Helen Thomas has caused him to look at their anti-Israel bias and re-evaluate his political beliefs about “liberal” and “conservative.” “I think I’ve been a little blind.”

Rabbi Nesenoff has posted some of the 25,000 hate mails/emails he has received as a result of the whole Helen Thomas encounter at his website – RabbiLive.com (CAUTION: Very Offensive Messages).

(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.net ...


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To: Federalist Patriot

“I think I’ve been a little blind.”

Well Rabbi, you are not alone in the American Jewish community. You have a lot of company.


21 posted on 06/13/2010 2:50:36 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: donhunt

Hey if someone is waking up, don’t stand over them with a bat.... What if the spiritual blinders are coming off? and they can now see the truth? Do not call him stupid.


22 posted on 06/13/2010 2:53:00 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Federalist Patriot
I just e-mailed the Rabbi some words of Encouragement.
I am sure he could use some. He is made of sterner stuff then I am, with his ability to read all of that crap.
23 posted on 06/13/2010 2:57:22 PM PDT by Colvin (Proud Owner '66 Binder PU, '66 Binder Travelall,)
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To: Walkingfeather

“Don’t Stand over them with a bat”

I have to agree. If you are fed the same line your entire life, and pretty much hang with people that agree with you, that is going to be the extent of your knowledge.
If you ONLY drive an Automatic, not knowing how cool a stick shift is does not mean your stupid. It means you are ignorant.

Give the guy a break, he lives on the East Coast fer cryin out loud.


24 posted on 06/13/2010 3:03:28 PM PDT by Colvin (Proud Owner '66 Binder PU, '66 Binder Travelall,)
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To: Colvin

If the outcome is for their to be truth you have to give enough space, grace so they can save face....so you are not being smug and holding it over their heads. No one likes that....


25 posted on 06/13/2010 3:07:52 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Federalist Patriot

“I think I’ve been a little blind.”

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Wow! C’mon, Reb, you’ve been a bit slow, as well. But welcome to the light.


26 posted on 06/13/2010 3:41:54 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: ripley

Why do Jews continue to vote Democrat?

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It is a conundrum, isn’t it? Not any sort of expert, but I think many American Jews got locked into the Rat party way back during the times that they were discriminated against in the workplace and in housing. Jews often played a big part in protesting racial segregation against blacks, and part of that was probably due to empathy engendered by their own experience as targets of bigotry. Many of these activists got started in urban areas, where Rats organized on a much larger scale than Republicans. Somehow, they came to link the Rats with more social equality.


27 posted on 06/13/2010 3:50:04 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: ripley
Why do Jews continue to vote Democrat?

They're bigots. They believe Republicans are anti semites and their minds won't be changed apparently.
28 posted on 06/13/2010 3:54:02 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Colvin; Walkingfeather

“Don’t Stand over them with a bat”

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I most definitely agree. I will criticize him here,but I would not do so where he would see it. Any time I see a glimmer of hope for a leftist to wake up, I will be happy to gently fan that flame with kindness.


29 posted on 06/13/2010 3:54:44 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Better late than never, i suppose.


30 posted on 06/13/2010 4:00:00 PM PDT by Gapplega
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To: Federalist Patriot

On another forum I frequent, the non-Jewish Lefties are virulently anti-Israel.

I foresee a split in the Dem party.


31 posted on 06/13/2010 4:40:11 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

The comment that struck me the most was when he said something like ‘I was against the Iraq war and so was Helen. But I was concerned about the soldiers in harms way and she was concerned about the Iraqis.’

He has been awakened.


32 posted on 06/13/2010 4:59:01 PM PDT by this is my country
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To: ripley

I live in NYC and it makes me c r a z y.
The short answer is that it’s Russian-Polsih anti czarist pro-Bolshevik sentiment that they can’t outgrow.


33 posted on 06/13/2010 8:17:02 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Bigg Red

It wasn’t EMPATHY — it was a TACTIC — stgraight out of the commie playbook.


34 posted on 06/13/2010 8:18:15 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Quoth kabumpo: It makes me c r a z y .
Same here. Chronic condition. More than 25 years,
when I realize that it makes it worse. I mean,
Jimmmy Carter didn’t do it.
Part, but only part of it is the liberal mindset that
intentions, even only professed intentions are what
count and not disastrous, predictable results.


35 posted on 06/13/2010 11:41:34 PM PDT by cycjec
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