Posted on 02/14/2007 7:01:18 AM PST by SJackson
Why would an American presidential candidate choose to announce his candidacy at a museum dedicated to the memory of America’s most notorious and influential anti-Semite?
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, a friend to the Jewish people and to the State of Israel, opened his campaign in front of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This demands explanation—particularly at a time when anti-Semitism is spreading around the world. Ford was the American patron saint of this oldest of bigotries. His anti-Semitism was not a matter of degree, nor was it disguised by anti-Zionism. It was out and out Jew-hatred.
He published an anti-Semitic screed called the Dearborn Independent, which became the model for the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer. Ford’s newspaper reprinted the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other anti-Semitic propaganda. Ford also wrote a an anti-Semitic treatise called The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem, which was circulated widely throughout America, admired by Hitler and distributed and sold in translation in Nazi Germany. Among the things Ford said about Jews in its pages were the following:
“The Jews are propagandists . . . Few of their leaders even claim a spiritual mission. But the mission idea is still with them in a degenerate form; it represents the grossest materialism of the day; it has become a means of sordid acquisition instead of a channel of service.” (Ch. 2) “Jews have actually invaded, in person and in program, hundreds of American churches, with their subversive and impossible social ideals, and at last became so cocksure of their domination of the situation that they were met with the inevitable check.” (Ch. 2)
“The Jew glories in religious persecution as the American glories in patriotism.” (Ch. 3) “The Jews conceal their strength because Jewish influence at the Capitol has been strong enough to win on all matters affecting Jewish interests, at all times.” (Ch. 4)
“Jewish nature is autocratic. Democracy is all right for the rest of the world, but the Jew wherever he is found forms an aristocracy of one sort or another. Democracy is merely a tool of a word which Jewish agitators use to raise themselves to the ordinary level in places where they are oppressed below it . . .” (Ch. 5) “As soon as the Jew got control of American Liquor, we had a liquor problem with drastic consequences. As soon as the Jew gained control of the ‘movies,’ we had a movie problem, the consequences of which are not yet visible. It is the genius of the race to create problems in whatever business they achieve a majority.” (Ch. 10)
“In America alone most of the big business, the trusts and the banks, the natural resources and the chief agricultural products, especially tobacco, cotton and sugar, are in the control of Jewish financiers or their agents.” (Ch. 12) It would be hard to imagine any Democratic candidate announcing his run for the presidency in front of the homes of notorious segregationists such as Lester Maddox or Bull Connor, or in front of the state house where George Wallace shouted “segregation forever.” Yet Henry Ford is the anti-Jewish equivalent of these anti-black figures.
What could Mitt Romney, a good and decent man, have been thinking? The probable answer is that he wasn’t thinking, nor were his staff people. I can’t imagine that Romney checked the location out with any Jewish supporters or staff members. I believe he owes the Jewish community, indeed all Americans who hate the sort of bigotry represented by Henry Ford, an explanation and an apology.
The probable answer is that he wasn’t thinking, nor were his staff people.
And if Alan hadn't mentioned it, no one would remembers.
It was a missed opportunity though, Ford later recognized the error of his ways.
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Has Alan D. EVER voted for a Republican?
I doubt it.
Mr. D. is a master of outrage, though; and he's in the right state for it.
Henry Ford has been dead fifty years. This is a stretch even by leftie standards. Ridiculous.
I used to drive a Ford.
Forgive me.
So are you saying that Jews do not drive German automobiles?
I am a friend of Jews and a supporter of Israel. If I go to the Henry Ford Museum, am I an anti-Semite?
Isn't this guilt by association, i.e., a pernicious brand of McCarthyism?
Dersh is riding on his high horse; he needs to pick better fights.
Does Dersh go to synagogue? Has he read the Torah? Does he care?
Any comment from Dershowbizwitz about Obama and Abraham Lincoln????????
Buy a Ford, keep Alouette employed.
"This is a stretch even by leftie standards."
You're kidding, right? Are we talking about the same lefties that today sue companies who benefited from slavery over 150 years ago?
Nothing is a stretch to a lefty trying to make some disjointed, asinine attempt at a slur.
You should, it's a great museum.
I don't know that Dershowitz was making any accusations. As I noted, few remember those days.
I never said that. Though my parents wouldn't buy either German or Japanese cars. I've never owned them either, I mostly drive Fords and Jeeps.
I'd like to, but both of my Fords are 7 years old, one pushing 170,000 miles, and no real reason to buy one yet.
And yet, Democrats insist that Robert Byrd's past association with the KKK is not an issue.
These liberal scum Democrats that are liberal and not Jewish are the biggest hypocrates on earth. Romney who gave an amazing speech on Iran in Israel and is a bigger supporter of Israel than any Democrap including the so called Jewish ones, is being attacked for giving a speech in a museum dedicated to a famous American innovator!!
These same bastards had no problem when Hilda beast said at an AIPAC dinner that Israel should negotiate with Iran!!
These same bastards have no problem with a Hezbollah Imam giving the invocation at a major Democrap function!!
These same liberal pieces of vermin have no problem with Jimmey Carter being one of the most prestigious Democraps in recent history!!
These same liberal subhumans have no problem with Al Sharpton (who is a current anti semite that has influence unlike Henry Ford from 80 years ago) being the keynote speaker at the 2004 Democrap convention, while he recieved that loudest applause of the whole convention!!
These same liberal feces have no problem with John Edwards having an anti Israel chief policy advisor (Former Congressman David Bonior) while they trash all of the Republican nominees who have stellar records in regard to Israel. What about Conyers as chairman of the House Judiciary Commitee??
Where the hell where these so called Jewish organizations when the Republican administration and Congress installed the most pro Israel UN ambassador in John Bolton, and the Democrap anti Israel bums hated him so much for his views (on Israel) that they fillibustered his nomination??
These liberal vermin are the biggest self hating anti semites that are nothing but an arm of the Democrap party.
AH HA! Alouette's an anti-semite..just as I suspected. :-)
Now that you have "outed" me, how can I ever show my face at the "Elders of Zion" secret hideout behind the 2nd Ave. Deli ever again?
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