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The Senator's Gentile Rebuke (Sen. Allen Angry at Reporter's Question about Jewish Ancestry)
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| 9/19/06
| Dana Milbank
Posted on 09/19/2006 4:16:14 AM PDT by nj26
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To: nj26
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:33:35 AM PDT
by
RayStacy
To: Post-Neolithic
Not probable. Virginia's Muslim population is small compared to its full population, and many Muslims tend to vote Democrat. It could have been used to shore up support for Webb, though.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:34:53 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( Microevolution is real; Macroevolution is not real.)
To: nj26
"Oh, that's just all? That's just all," the senator mocked, pressing his attack. He directed Fox to "ask questions about issues that really matter to people here in Virginia" and refrain from "making aspersions." That last part is troubling. Why would the fact whether someone is Jewish or not be an "aspersion"???
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:36:08 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
To: nj26
What's this about Webb's "horny" comment? Haven't the slightest clue what that's all about.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:36:08 AM PDT
by
RayStacy
To: nj26
At a debate in Tysons Corner yesterday between Republican Allen and Democrat Webb, WUSA-TV's Peggy Fox asked Allen, the tobacco-chewing, cowboy-boot-wearing son of a pro football coach, if his Tunisian-born mother has Jewish blood.
This is meant to be a hit piece on Allen. The above statement makes that plain and also the statement about how the poor anchor person was scared! Allen had every right to be pissed and he is correct: what was the point of asking this question except to stir the pot?
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:36:31 AM PDT
by
calex59
(Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
To: Stallone
Was that called for? (rhetorical).
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:37:57 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( Microevolution is real; Macroevolution is not real.)
To: Post-Neolithic
Muslims don't vote for conservative patriotic Americans anyway. They're more likely to vote Demcorat, since the Dmes seem to support Sharia concepts and are soft on Islam.
Persoanlly, it offends me when people start interrogating Americans about their ethnicity.
The only ehtnicity that counts is that they are Americans and consider themselves such, regardless of where their ancestors came from. At some point one of them decided they wanted to be American and not something else. At that point they did in fact become American.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:38:10 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: Brilliant
Yup... that Felix thing had been used by Webb's people since day-one.
28
posted on
09/19/2006 4:41:58 AM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
No Marquess of Queensbury rules on Free Republic.
When a sycophant raises his Liberal tail, we kick its ass through the uprights.
FREEPER WARRIORS RULE THE EARTH
29
posted on
09/19/2006 4:43:39 AM PDT
by
Stallone
(Dealing with Democrats IS the War on Terror.)
To: calex59
My opinion?
the (liberal) news reporter had been told that if Allen was "exposed" as having Jewish ancestry, then (1) his CHRISTIAN supporters would reject him (since "everybody" knows white religious "Christians" are hate-filled extremists!) and that the (democrat) supporters of his opponent (Muslims and blacks) would more greatly oppose him.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:43:47 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: mdwakeup
So asking if you have Jewish ancestors is "casting aspersions"? What's that about? Yes, I thought that that remark, and Allen's angry reaction, were a graceless way of responding. His response should have been an appearance of polite interest in the question of genealogy. All Virginians are interested in genealogy and he would have offended no one if he said, "Really? How very fascinating. You appear to know more about it than I do, so I can't really give you an accurate answer. And at the moment, I don't have time to do genealogy research. But evidently you do, so why don't you look into it? I give you carte blanche to rsearch my family roots. It's not clear, of course, what possible bearing my ancestry can have on my present character--that seems the kind of idea we gave up here 200 years ago--but I'm sure that no matter what you come up with it will only underline my ability to serve the diverse people of Virginia." Heh heh heh. Turn the tables on the hypocrite questioner and show he's unflappable and more enlightened than she is.
But Allen can't/won't do that kind of thing. No, he won't be the next president. He loses his temper and he's a bull in a china shop.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:43:53 AM PDT
by
Fairview
To: Stallone
George Allen will be the next President of the United States. Nope.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:46:17 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
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To: Post-Neolithic
"My guess is that since Northern VA has a very high Muslim population,"
I don't think the Moos have been using the Republican Party in NOVA as their trojan horse in recent years. They were before 9/11, but that's over now.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:46:45 AM PDT
by
angkor
To: nj26
I do not see how the question is a relevant debate question, unlessss the questioner had foreknowledge it would cause a negative reaction.
Here I thought 'profiling' was a thou shalt not do.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:48:30 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
( The kinder we are to terrorists, the harsher we are to their potential victims.)
To: Fairview
Brilliant response. You should be a speechwriter.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:48:49 AM PDT
by
nj26
(Border Security=Homeland Security... Put Our Military on the Border! (Proud2BNRA))
To: Just mythoughts
It's not a relevant debate question. He was being baited by a biased MSM reported, and he fell for it.
37
posted on
09/19/2006 4:49:28 AM PDT
by
nj26
(Border Security=Homeland Security... Put Our Military on the Border! (Proud2BNRA))
To: Stallone
George Allen will be the next President of the United States.
You got that right!
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:49:31 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(DON'T BELIEVE PESSIMISM: FEELINGS ARE FOR LOVE SONGS. FACTS ARE FOR PREDICTING WHO WINS IN NOV)
To: mdwakeup
I think the "aspersion" was the inference that he would hide his Jewish ancestry. (Like Kerry did when he claimed to be Irish for years.)
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:49:34 AM PDT
by
Jaxter
("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
To: Stallone
You are just a Chappaqua Whore sycophant. My first reaction to reading that reply was that as an Allen supporter you are treating opponents the way the Clinton machine does, attacking and name-calling.
But on closer examination, I concluded that since you're actively pimping for Allen, it should be obvious that, like all pimps, you know your whores.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:49:35 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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