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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Did you say this, uh, thing had been dropped by Kirk Douglas in his prime?
As I pointed out above, for me, NeoCon is a foreign policy doctrine.
Like in the GOP there are Realists, NeoCons, and Isolationists.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“inappropriate (though perhaps unintentional) appeal to anti-Semitic stereotypes”
Comes from wearing Freudian slips and letting them show.
“The Obama campaign, which tweeted a link to Dowd’s column on Sunday afternoon with the message, “Why Romney and Ryan’s foreign policy sounds ‘ominously familiar,’ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
Obama’s slip is Freudian, too? Or is it just the people he runs with?
A few dozen years ago, Mona Charen noted that Pat Buchanan was using the term Neocon to refer specifically to Jews. He stopped using it, but the phrase got entered into libtard anti-Jooo! code books, where it has abided ever since.
Oh, we dood it. We dood it. We dood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XrRyqses5U
Hurricane Katrina? That was...neocons, too.
Not everyone who says “neocon” is anti-Semitic, but when the term is used with “tentacles” and “slithering back into power,” all standard fare in crude anti-Semitic cartoons and diatribes, the scales are tipped, and the term “neocon” is then understood to its anti-Semitic meaning.
I really don’t get it. It’s impossible for a Democrat to say or think anything anti-Semitic or racist. Alignment with the Democrat Party frees them of this accusation. Saying otherwise is like Hitler.
Hilarious.
Irving Kristol was one of the first to use the term “Neoconservative” and he applied to himself and those like him who had been on the Left.
He even titled a collection of his essays “The Neoconservative Persuasion”.
I guess no one bothered to tell him that it was antisemitic to use that phrase. But since he’s Jewish he probably would have regarded that PC charge as utterly foolish, which it is.
It's like the poor Romneyite who thought up the term Bushbot ~ only to see that turned into Mittbot later on.
Oh the humanity!
I see zeppelins bursting in air.
I went to a gun show today in Indiana, which was attended by huge crowds. But I was disheartened to see that there were no signs urging patrons to vote for Romney, or at least signs stressing how Obama will be bad for our country. I remember in 2008 how many signs were posted throughout the gun show on how Obama would be a disaster for us.
I talked with some of the senior citizen gun owners there and many told me that they could not vote for either Romney or Obama and intended to stay home on election day. The NRA is ‘all in’ for this election but apparently it does not matter to these seniors. I was told such things as: “Romney will tax the middle class. Romney will cut our benefits - All of the usual Obama scare the seniors propaganda talking points, which are working even better now that Obama is using the line about how Romney does not care about the 47 percent.
Sadly, I fear that it does not look good for us voting Obama out office. There will be no going back after he is re-elected.
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