the clintons: leftist anti-Semitic chic avant garde

LATimes ^ | 2.28.04 | Mia T

[Mia T]

the clintons: leftist anti-Semitic chic avant garde
(Will "dummy" prove more damaging than "bigot" to the missus?)

by Mia T, 2.28.04

 

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

t used to be said that anti-Catholicism was the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. Today anti-Semitism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals.

Not all intellectuals, of course. And the seepage of this ancient poison into the intelligentsia -- always so militantly modern..., which has leaned left for two centuries.

Here the term intellectual is used loosely, to denote not only people who think about ideas -- about thinking -- but also people who think they do....

Today's release of Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" has catalyzed fears of... religiously motivated anti-Semitism..., missing the larger menace -- the upsurge of political anti-Semitism. Like traditional anti-Semitism, but with secular sources and motives, the political version, which condemns Jews as a social element, is becoming mainstream, and chic among political and cultural elites....

The appallingly brief eclipse of anti-Semitism after Auschwitz demonstrates how beguiling is the simplicity of pure stupidity. All of the left's prescriptions for curing what ails society -- socialism, communism, psychoanalysis, "progressive" education, etc. -- have been discarded, so now the left is reduced to... anti-Semitism. This is a new twist to the left's recipe for salvation through elimination: All will be well if we eliminate capitalists, or private property, or the ruling class, or "special interests," or neuroses, or inhibitions. Now, let's try eliminating a people, starting with their nation....

George F. Will,
The Left's Anti-Semitic Chic
February 25, 2004

tesselations of the planet...

"I view Hillary Clinton as a great danger to Jews if she is elected."

former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
Jewish Press, July 2000

I... underestimated the propensity of my people for narrow-mindedness and self-destruction (the Jewish vote for Mrs. Clinton was about 70%)....

Some anti-Semitism is irrational, founded in ignorance, as in Hillary's case....

But other forms of anti-Semitism can be earned, giving folks legitimate grievances against a people because they do crazy things like EXTEND HILLARY CLINTON'S POLITICAL LIFE!

This is not to cast the entire blame on Jewish New Yorkers; they alone couldn't have elected her. In my initial optimism, I equally underestimated the urban pseudo-intellectual's high-mindedness, as well as the Everyman's yearning for celebrity in his midst.

Julia Gorin, Getting used to Hillary
Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2000 / 29 Mar-Cheshvan, 5761

"She might have called him a bastard. I wouldn't rule that out. She's never claimed that she was pure on profanity. But I've never heard her tell a joke with an ethnic connotation. She's so fanatic about it. She can't tell an ethnic joke. It's not in her."

Bill Clinton,
in a call to the New York Daily News
17 July 2000

hillary talks: On Gandhi & Gas Stations
(Why it DOES matter...)

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"Hillary hit him between the eyes. She was angrier than Paul had ever seen her. 'You f---ing Jew bastard!' she screamed."

author Jerry Oppenheimer
quoting campaign aide Paul Fray
State of a Union
(New York: Harper-Collins, 2000) p. 153

hillary talks: On Ethnic Slurs

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clintonism and the theology of contempt

by Mia T, November 2000 (sometime before the-first-Tuesday-after-the-first-Monday)

 

"I view Hillary Clinton as a great danger to Jews if she is elected."

former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
Jewish Press, July 2000

I... underestimated the propensity of my people for narrow-mindedness and self-destruction (the Jewish vote for Mrs. Clinton was about 70%)....

Some anti-Semitism is irrational, founded in ignorance, as in Hillary's case....

But other forms of anti-Semitism can be earned, giving folks legitimate grievances against a people because they do crazy things like EXTEND HILLARY CLINTON'S POLITICAL LIFE!

This is not to cast the entire blame on Jewish New Yorkers; they alone couldn't have elected her. In my initial optimism, I equally underestimated the urban pseudo-intellectual's high-mindedness, as well as the Everyman's yearning for celebrity in his midst.

Julia Gorin, Getting used to Hillary
Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2000 / 29 Mar-Cheshvan, 5761

 

Let us hope that the rabbi's question was merely rhetorical. . . Let us hope that Rabbi Potasnik, and by extension, New York Jews, are not as credulous and obsequious and passive as they appear. . .

The simple answer to the rabbi's question is that the corrupt, self-serving, anti-Semitic, power-hungry harpy cannot be trusted.

Weren't we to never forget?

The Holocaust must remain, for Jew and Gentile alike, a constant reminder that mass credulity and obsequiousness and passivity are necessary for the demagogue to prevail.

To remember that six million Jews died in the Holocaust is to understand that centuries of anti-Semitic attitudes made this horror possible. We must ask ourselves what role our society played through the centuries that in any way contributed to the atmosphere that made such a genocide even thinkable.

Which brings me to the clintons and clintonism. . .

Senator Patrick Moynihan proffered one of the more incisive operant definitions of clintonism -- "defining deviancy down."

Defining deviancy down, indeed.

clintonism has made personal and public perversions, personal and public predations, not merely thinkable, not merely acceptable, but de rigueur. Watch us spin.

clintonism is the theology of contempt. Not only toward "f___ing Jew-bastards," or "dumb niggers" or "extra-chromosome right-wingers" but toward any of us whose ideas are different from those of the clintons, gore, and their acolytes.

So the real question to be answered is this:

"What fair-minded, clear-thinking person would want to continue

with its theology of contempt?

What fair-minded, clear-thinking person would vote for hillary clinton or al gore?" 

EPILOGUE: November 2003

One has to wonder how much longer
the Democrats
--both the leaders of the party and the rank and file--
will tolerate the clintons,
their corruption,
their ineptitude,
their utter failure to protect America from terrorism,
their hatespin
(the ugly parroting of which is on democrat display today),
their party-decimating, country-decimating self-serving agenda,
their suffocating sense of entitlement,
their rube arrogance rooted in stupidity.

The dysfunctional twofer
has plainly destroyed the Democrat Party;
it has arrogated the Democrat Party as its own
and is now remaking it in its ugly image.
How can there not be multiple coups in the works?

 

 
a senator to Henry Hyde

 

 

 It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth,
and listen to the song of that siren
till she transforms us into beasts.
Is this the part of wise men,
engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Are we disposed to be the number of those
who, having eyes, see not,
and having ears, hear not,
the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,
I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry

 

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke

 

But even as Clinton fails to grasp the scandal's metabolism
he understands all too well its most significant byproduct.
You can see it in his eyes.

 Once reflecting a Machiavellian confidence,
they now dart back and forth reflexively,
searching futilely for approval,
attempting desperately to dispel his own certain knowledge
that his moral authority is gone. . .
forever.
Mia T

 

The Curious Candidacy of Carol Moseley Braun:
an Extension of clinton drag and drop and legacy of lynching

 

by Mia T, 2.20.03

If a white person was walking down the sidewalk, a black person had to get off the sidewalk so the white person could walk by. There were laws which prohibited Blacks to look at white people in the eye, and a black person could be sent to jail for "assault (reckless eyeballing)."

... Blacks who dared to challenge the rules were lynched by the thousands. Men and women were lynched. Lynchings were public events and white men, women and children went to watch Blacks being tortured and burned or hanged... Whites literally got away with murder for killing "uppity" Blacks.

Historical Backdrop to FREEDOM SONG

 

"When 'Queen Hillary' walks down the hall, you're not supposed to look at her. You're actually supposed to go into an office if there is one nearby. She doesn't want staff 'seeing' her. And I know she sure as hell doesn't want to meet you or any other staffer!" "You have to be kidding me!" John replied. "No, we got the word at a staff meeting. It's true. Look around. Do you see anyone else in the hall?" John looked around and sure enough people were starting to emerge, like prarie dogs peeking out of their burrows after a hawk had flown past.

Gary Aldrich, "Unlimited Access"

 

"I'm doing my chores for Hillary Clinton."

RON BROWN (ON HIS COMMERCE-DEPT CRIMES) TO NOLANDA HILL

 

"I will not go down alone."

RON BROWN (DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH, ON HIS PLEA AGREEMENT WITH THE DOJ) TO BILL CLINTON

 

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." 

Ironically, the logic of this pronouncement by Martin Luther King would, in short order, be refuted by the sad reality of his own lynching. King's hope was misplaced and his reasoning was circular. The resultant rule of law relied on by King presumed an adherence to the rule of law in the first instance.

Adherence to the rule of law is not something normally associated with the clintons. Moreover, racial and ethnic disrespect, intimidation, exploitation and hate have always been a fundamental clinton tactic and the reflexive use the "N"-word and other racial and ethnic slurs, an essential element in the clinton lexicon. When the "first black president" and his wife ran Arkansas, the NAACP sued them for intimidating black voters at the polls.

But it is the clintons' refinement of the DNC drag and drop that is, arguably, the most insidious and repugnant application of their special brand of race-hate politics.

Drag and drop is a vote fraud technique by which unwitting, unwilling and/or illegal voters -- typically inner-city blacks and other minorities -- are literally dragged into the voting booth and told where to mark the "x" -- often multiple times per election. Drag and drop does not merely undermine and corrupt our system of government. Drag and drop is not merely illegal and exploitive.

Drag and drop is racist and dehumanizing.

Calculating a black man's worth to be 5/3 of a vote is no less racist, and arguably more so, than calculating his worth to be 3/5 of a white man; the latter is demeaning, but the former is dehumanizing.

In the senate race against Rick Lazio, it is widely understood that the drag and drop, (followed by the OLD ANGLE / NEW SQUARE / OVAL OFFICE SCHEME ) was clinton's vote fraud technique of choice used to overcome her low poll numbers, high personal negatives and consistent public failures.

 

"UPPITY" BLACKS AND THE CLINTONS

The Ron Brown death and the clinton legacy of lynching represent the pernicious endpoint, but the history of clinton race-hate politics is replete with a reflexive 'disposal' of 'uppity' blacks from to Marian Wright Edelman to Lani Guanier to Jocelyn Elders to Carl McCall...

To former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. The clintons' anointment of their man, Terry McAuliffe, to the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee didn't merely force Maynard Jackson to the back of the bus. It pushed him off.

 

Two Degrees of Segregation: Al Sharpton, Donna Brazile, Carol Moseley Braun and the clintons

The announcement that intellectual and ethical lightweight, Carol Moseley Braun intends to run for president raises the same fundamental question that hillary clinton's looming presence does: "What the hell is this moribund loser doing in the political arena, anyway?"

In order to better understand the easy entry of Moseley Braun into democrat field, clinton-clinton precedent (president!) and the field's increasingly circus-like quality notwithstanding, one must consider the precipitating acts of Al Sharpton and Donna Brazile.

The Al Sharpton candidacy, by definition, disturbed both the clinton calculus and literati sensibilities, inspiring an immediate if ineffectual Tawana-Brawley deathblow attempt by leftist media. Sharpton's response was swift and sure. He warned that the next time the media asked him about Tawana Brawley, he would invoke the clinton scandals and the media's apparent lack of interest in same when questioning hillary clinton. (Surely the clintons' rapes and other predations would trump this quaint little hoax...)

Sharpton's Harlem office effectively burned to the ground the next day--an accident they say--but he was not deterred. The media, however, apparently were; they quickly buried Tawana Brawley beside Juanita Broaddrick, somewhere in that dark recess of expediency called access journalism.

If the clintons wanted Sharpton out because of the sheer embarrassment of him before his salvo, they now would be satisfied with no less than Sharpton's head. Donna Brazile was to neutralize (decolorize?) Sharpton by creating black favorite son candidates in every state of the union. It seems that Brazile ultimately thought the better of it, warning that dem dissing was demonstrably dumb, that Sharpton could, a la Jesse Jackson, lure crucial black voters back into the democrat fold.

So how then to siphon off the black votes that will go to Sharpton? Enter clinton lackey, Carol Moseley Braun, nothing more than a cynical extension of clinton drag and drop and legacy of lynching.

 

[Mia T]

ping

[Redcoat LI]

My hats off to you.

I could not possibly put that much time into the study of evil.

Nice work,and important work it is.

[Leisler]

Let us see post 9/11 and this election. However, I suspect few Jews will leave the Democrat socialist camp.

[Mia T]

 

pen
your eyes
Q ERTY6
ping.

"I view Hillary Clinton as a great danger to Jews if she is elected."

Yitzhak Shamir
former Israeli Prime Minister
Jewish Press, July 2000

I... underestimated the propensity of my people for narrow-mindedness and self-destruction (the Jewish vote for Mrs. Clinton was about 70%)....

Some anti-Semitism is irrational, founded in ignorance, as in Hillary's case....

But other forms of anti-Semitism can be earned, giving folks legitimate grievances against a people because they do crazy things like EXTEND HILLARY CLINTON'S POLITICAL LIFE!

This is not to cast the entire blame on Jewish New Yorkers; they alone couldn't have elected her. In my initial optimism, I equally underestimated the urban pseudo-intellectual's high-mindedness, as well as the Everyman's yearning for celebrity in his midst.

Julia Gorin
Getting used to Hillary
Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2000 / 29 Mar-Cheshvan, 5761

 

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth,
and listen to the song of that siren
till she transforms us into beasts.
Is this the part of wise men,
engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Are we disposed to be the number of those
who, having eyes, see not,
and having ears, hear not,
the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,
I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry

 

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke

 

But even as Clinton fails to grasp the scandal's metabolism
he understands all too well its most significant byproduct.
You can see it in his eyes.

 Once reflecting a Machiavellian confidence,
they now dart back and forth reflexively,
searching futilely for approval,
attempting desperately to dispel his own certain knowledge
that his moral authority is gone. . .
forever.
Mia T

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Hear Christopher Shays:
"The bottom line: HE DID RAPE BROADDRICK."

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thanx to Wolverine for the audio

 

 

View the Juanita Broaddrick
clintonRAPE interview NOW

thanx to WorkingClassFilth for the video
special thanx to Jim Robinson

Lib Author Regrets Voting (TWICE!) for clinton
"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism

MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
How clintons' Failures Unleashed Global Terror
(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)  

The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)

UDAY: "The end is near… this time I think the… Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."

"Free Republic is one of those groups obsessed with the Clinton era."

Word's out: Protest at Hillary's tonight
U.S. News & World Report (Washington Whispers) |
March 11, 2003 | Paul Bedard

 

 

 

I'll bet that Mr. Bedard is a member of "one of those groups" so "obsessed" with voting in -- and having access to -- the clintons that they--ooops-- failed to notice the obvious danger of the lovely couple.

hillary talks: ON TERROR
(reinstalling the clintons in White House has 1 advantage over suicide)

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Thanx for 9/11, Paul...

Mia T
"ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OBSESSED WITH THE CLINTONS"

 

[Mia T]

I'm a New-York-born-and-bred Jew.

Younger, informed Jews--secular as well as religious--do get it. Many are voting Republican.

But you are right. Too many older Jews--the older New York émigré is the quintessential example--have an irrational (ultimately self-defeating) fear of the right. The left will lose them to attrition eventually, but the question is the rate. We no longer have the luxury of time….

I have an older relative who was actually in the WTC in 1993, at the time of the first attack by al Qaeda. Yet he continues to support the feckless, corrupt, self-serving clintons, who did nothing for 8 years other than amass their power, tweak their legacy and line their pockets as they aided and abetted the terrorists.. No amount of evidence and rational argument will move this person even to rethink his position.

People like this relative of mine made the Holocaust possible.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I need to see numbers, but I know what Mia says is true - to some degree. Like the increasing defection of the minority vote, particularly blacks, a slow trickle is bleeding from the RAT bloc. What the numbers are and what will it mean in the future - who knows. One thing is certain, the RAT lock on minorities and their moral leadership is gone.

Imagine the party that supported slavery, crafted Jim Crow laws and voted more heavily as a percentage (in spite of being the majority party) against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 being declared as the party of love, tolerance and opportunity for disenfranchised minorities. A total erasure of their past (well, Sheets Byrd is under cover these days) in less than 40 years. In fact, the zenith of their hypocritical act was at the very time they were voting against the CRA in '64.

That should tell the observant something about the power of media to shape public perceptions and, thus, opinion.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Thinking about it a little more...

I'm not so sure that the RAT's ever did have a moral lock on the minority votes. The key to their entrance to power was the desperation of the depression. As the alternative party (the ones not on watch in 1929), FDR spoke glowingly of future promises of prosperity. What he did give, right out of the gate, was the right to drink legally again, so who really noticed if he got things right.

Of course, most of his federal plans to restart the economy were little more than the make-do welfare of the time. The spending for lend-lease and the preparations for the war were the real engines that increased the GDP until the entry into the war in late 1941.

World domination and the massive industrial installations at the end the war propelled us onward economically. Ups and downs of recession have followed WWII, Korea and Vietnam and ever increasing budgets for social spending have evened out the roller coaster since.

It was with the advent of the Great Society, that the RAT's lost all restraint in the domestic spending side. With the fawning collusion of an allied, socialist press, the license of lax social standards and an ever-increasing domestic give away program, they've managed to keep their grip on power for the whole ride - until now. The lowest common denominator has undeniable appeal.

Of course, the final result is that the RAT party today is totally bankrupt morally as the RAT king and queen demonstrate. The good will of principled, and INFORMED, people left them long ago. The remainder of their constituents are the desperate dependants, the graft grifters and the morally diseased that seek no cure. Oh yeah, I forgot the drug-addled, but that is kind of redundant.

In sum, hillary's comments shouldn't really raise any surprise or ire. After all, isn't the pirate queen is expected to address her crew of cut-throats in the coarse vernacular they understand?

[firewalk]

Hello Mia
thanks for the ping
& bttt

[shaggy eel]

BUMP

[Leisler]

Well, that's a little harsh. By and large, no one could conceive, let alone know what the Nazis were planning. Now however, the risk to this country, Israel, Jews and any westerners is so clear, and what with the history of the Holocaust in living memory...speaks even worse for Democrat supporters.

[Mia T]

I seem to recall that the number is 30%-- 30% of younger Jews are voting Republican.

The moral leadership is gone, but so is a semblance of reality, of rationality. The delusions of the clintons have become the reality of the dems. That is why the dems now appear, for all intents and purposes, quite insane.

[Mia T]

Well, that's a little harsh. By and large, no one could conceive, let alone know what the Nazis were planning. Now however, the risk to this country, Israel, Jews and any westerners is so clear, and what with the history of the Holocaust in living memory...speaks even worse for Democrat supporters.

 

 

 

There is a body of evidence that suggests otherwise, that at some point Jews knew about the death camps even as they dutifully marched into the cattle cars.

The Holocaust must remain, for Jew and Gentile alike, a constant reminder that mass credulity and obsequiousness and passivity are necessary for the demagogue to prevail.

 

The very fact that so many of my fellow Jews still support the the Liberal left in America when the risks, as you state, are so clear, suggests to me a cultural defect, a naivete, at a minimum.

 

 

[Mia T]

Is it ignorance, low self-esteem, self-hate, ego, cupidity, stupidity... or what?

March 2, 2004 -- 'NICKY ARNSTEIN is a gentleman, Mama. A gentleman fits in any where."

"Darling, a sponge fits in anywhere."

So went the exchange between Barbra Streisand and the late great Kay Medford in "Funny Girl."

BARBRA STREISAND'S admiration for Bill Clinton hasn't wavered, despite the fact that he is no longer president. Streisand was like a giddy school girl at a chi-chi dinner for California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, last week in L.A. (At the Pacific Palisades home of venture capitalist David Fisher.) Clinton, still wildly popular with Democrats, attended, and Barbra was starry-eyed, protective and affectionate with him.

She was minus hubby James Brolin. Clinton was not accompanied by Hillary. One partygoer quipped, "Dare anyone ask, 'Where's James?' Are you kidding?"

Besides being a bit on the frisky side, Barbra was uncharacteristically cooperative and in great spirits with two photographers. Shutterbugs sometimes bug the star, who prefers - like most celebs - to put her best face forward. But these two had signed hefty confidentiality agreements before being allowed to click. So Barbra posed freely.

The ritzy affair was chaired by longtime Clinton friend and former Ambassador Sim Farar and his wife Debra. They are known for getting the cash cows out to play and pay. This party raised $750,000 for Boxer, a record for a single-state senator's re-election effort. (She will need it. As a 12-year veteran politico, she faces off with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's heavily endorsed mate, Bill Jones, in the run for the California senate.)

To say that many in Hollywood miss Bill Clinton in the White House would be an understatement. Before the dinner, folks had to be turned away at the more-than-capacity $1,000 a person reception. This was held at "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Larry David's sprawling French Normandy estate. People were swinging from the rafters for a spot in Clinton's limelight. Among the gawkers were songwriters Marilyn and Alan Bergman, former King World honcho Michael King, producer Daphna Edwards Ziman and her real estate magnate hubby Richard Ziman.

The effervescent and elegant realtor to the stars, Joyce Rey mused, "Look, Coldwell is having a convention in Las Vegas, but I told them, 'No way am I missing Bill Clinton and Barbara Boxer. Also I have seven escrows . . ."

Clinton, escorted by Farar, arrived a tad late for David's cocktails, but his legendary charm won out over his tendency to be late. (At the dinner later, patrons waited on Clinton four hours for rack of lamb costing $5,000 a plate.) Clinton shook Larry David's hand saying he never missed an episode of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm." David asked, "Oh, you watch it?" Clinton said, "Of course, and I'm happy for your success."

Later, at the Fisher bash, Nancy Sinatra, accompanied by her hairstylist, arrived in head-to-toe black leather. "They said dress was business casual," the pop legend explained, "This is my business dress."

There was a sweetly intimate moment between Streisand and her former beau, ice cream heir Richard Baskin, alone in a corner. These two have remained friends and devout Democrats through the years. (Although she has sometimes played the girl who loses the guy, in real life, Barbra hasn't missed much, and her men stay platonically fascinated.)

When Clinton finally took the stage, the audience was as inspired and sentimental as in any political scene from "The Way We Were."

"If you guys don't send Barbara Boxer to the senate, I'm never coming back to California," Clinton crowed. His delivery was passionate and contained a soundbite-a-minute: "We want our country back!" . . . "When we think, we win. When we emote, they win" . . . "Decisions have consequences."

One guest observed, "Clinton has said all this before, but it's still inspiring and exhilarating. He makes effortless sense about what's going on in the world. He really felt Saddam should have been taken out. Period. That said, he's not into the arrogance of the current administration. He stresses cohesiveness and not more strife."

Personal comment: If we can get into a big GOP fund-raising party, we'll give it equal space.

Liz Smith
CLINTON PACK$ A PUNCH FOR DEMS
3.2.04

[Mia T]

THE STREISAND SYNDROME:
Is it ignorance, low self-esteem, self-hate, ego, raw sex, cupidity, stupidity... or what?