Posted on 03/28/2013 4:50:10 AM PDT by SJackson
On the network of hysterical opinion known as MSNBC, Morning Joe guest and contributor Mike Barnicle claimed that there was a "level of anti-Semitism" aimed at New York Nanny Michael Bloomberg and his $12 million campaign to push gun control. It's not anti-Semitism. And those who think it is, as my grandmother would say, are mind-numbingly ignorant schumucks.
Barnicle was part of a panel discussing Bloomberg's anti-gun rights ad campaign that included former Romney advisor Dan Senor, and MSNBC Race Baiter-In-Chief Al Sharpton. Senor stated that the mayor of a blue city should not be telling people in red states how to live, saying that it probably "wasn't constructive." Barnicle, then, added his insightful thoughts:
Let’s get down to it, Mike Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City...I mean, there’s a level of anti-Semitism in this thing, directed toward Bloomberg.
No. It's not anti-Semitism. How do I know? Because my brain works. Also, because Al Sharpton agreed with Barnicle. Rule of Thumb: if Sharpton agrees, it’s got to be a bad idea.
Nanny Bloomberg is wrong on many things. When you try to regulate the size of a person's drink, when you regulate the amount of salt that a chef can use, when you want to prevent adults from purchasing and smoking premium cigars, when you attack lawful gun owners for engaging their Second Amendment rights - you're wrong. And none of it has to do with him being Jewish.
A few years ago I popularized the term "Racer." A Racer is someone who decides that because you don't like President Obama's policies, you're a racist. Don't like Obamacare? Then you're a racist. Got a problem with nonstop vacations? Racist. Opposed to raising the debt limit? Racist. Barnicle is a Racer, but gave it his own little twist.
Opposing Bloomberg isn't anti-Semitic. It's the right thing to do. Anti-Semitism is real. Barnicle's assessment is not. Barnicle, like a good "Racer," uses the claim of anti-Semitism to shut down conversation, preventing others from opposing Bloomberg's control agenda. Bloomberg is wrong, and his nanny-esque ways has ended the reign of New York as the greatest city in the world.
The Nanny likes control, and he's trying to gain more of it every way he can. It's not anti-Semitic to point it out. It's common sense.
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Sharpton & Barnicle Agree: Anti-Semitism Explains Opposition To Bloomberg On Gun Control
Reverend Al (which denomination ordained him after what training) certainly knows about antisemitism, having inspired America's only pogrum. Or second if you count the Harlem riots in the 30s. Barnicle, his typical race baiting. Through all this travails over the years, easy to forget that somewhere around 1990 he, or his employer, settled two suits accusing Jews of racism. Perhaps that taught him it's better to accuse large groups of folk of being racists and antisemites rather than focusing on specific individuals. Regardless, Al and Mike can find the bigots in the mirror each morning.
With the Left, any opposition is deconstructed into racism or sexism or some other Leftist-defined “bigotry”.
How about, WE JUST WANNA BE FREE!
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
. C. S. Lewis
. English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963)
Yep this is how they are now dealing with any opposition. I call it racial bullying. They use false accusations of bigotry to stifle debate and shut down opponants. This way they don't have to deal with the merits of opposing arguments and criticisms, they just shout you down with false accusations designed to shut you up. This must be fought.
When my arguments are met with charges of bigotry, I always ask: “So you have no intelligent facts to support your position?”
I guess JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership) hates Jewish folk, since it roundly called Mayor Nany the douchebag that he is.
...claimed that there was a “level of anti-Semitism” aimed at New York Nanny Michael Bloomberg
I didn’t know Bloomberg was Jewish.
Thank you Liberals, for once again, pointing out these “differences”...
From this Jewish perspective, I would agree completely that painting liberty-loving critics of Bloomberg as "antisemitic" is nothing but typical infantile lefty name-calling.
But I'd quibble with with the presumption of New York as "the greatest city in the world" before Bloomberg assumed the mayoralty. After all, the taxes and crime and traffic, among other things, were outrageous decades prior to that, causing New York to lose a good chunk of its middle class population.
He has turned my life and those of thousands of city employees into sheer hell. I can now fully sympathize with innocent Chinese or Russian citizens who have had their liberties capriciously taken away from them, their "rug pulled out from under them" without a second thought. You never think it can happen to you, a U.S. citizen, but Bloombutt has done just that to us, turning education into edu-biz. His zillionaire buddies are now raking in millions of dollars from edu-biz enterprises while NYC schools suffer and fail, robbed of resources or deliberately set up to fail. I know right now of a very small high school, consisting of a single hallway, where Bloombutt edu-minions want to take FOUR of their classrooms over to co-locate a middle school. Ridiculous! And this is commonly done now to set up schools to fail.
You are no longer in charge of your class; the students have been empowered, just as the Nazi youth were similarly empowered, indeed encouraged, to submit utterly false charges against you if you fail them. They don't study for exams (and proudly tell you so), they don't turn in homework or projects, but will tell you to your face, "You betta pass me bitch or I gonna get you fired." Passing statistics and the acts of fraud to get them, from students who refuse to do any work or even come to class, are the new religion in schools. As is informing on your fellow teachers. It used to be a rarity for a teacher to inform on a colleague. People would be mature and work out any conflicts between themselves by themselves. With the influx of very young, extremely self-absorbed new teachers (after forcing out the veterans by whatever means available), you don't see the comradery or solidarity which has been in place for generations and which has resulted in a very productive sharing of ideas and information. You see "everyone for themselves", especially if it leads to a pat on the head by administration, translating into better classes or plum assignments.
No wonder 82% of these kids are NOT college-ready. Not in a million years, thanks to Bloombutt policies over the last 12 years.
Bloomberg isn't that awful, and doesn't arouse much hatred. People just disagree with his policies. But the cardinal rule for commentators is they have to say something and baseless charges are always available for the taking.
I believe both his parents were Jewish. So he is a Jew in name only (JINO). His attitude toward Israel is negatively influenced by his company's financial interests in the Arab world.
Speaking of the NYC public school system, I'm no Bloombutt fan, but there are other factors involved in the schools aside from him and his lackeys. The pupils are in large percentage uneducable, because of the destruction of the American family unit that has been getting ever worse since the onset of LBJ's Great Society in the 1960s. It's going on just about everywhere in public schools, especially in big cities where so-called "minorities" and immigrants tend to form the bulk of the kids in attendance. New York public schools are probably no worse than, maybe even better than those in cities like Washington, Detroit, Newark, and Chicago, to name a few. Kids raised in dysfunctional families will not have any desire to get anything out of their schools until and unless some mentoring figure gets tough with them and lays down the proper approach to learning. Public school teachers can only do so much in that regard without help from others who can be positive influences on the kids.
Of course, liberals like Bloomberg can be legitimately blamed for the public school mess in the sense that they brought about massive social programs which helped to debase the culture in which the kids are living.
What you say certainly is true. However, Bloombutt and his minions most assuredly hold TEACHERS responsible for every failure.
People really don't like him because he is short.
He has elevated his national profile with the MSM almost entirely because of his tyrannical, anti-liberty, nanny-state initiatives, one after another. That's sure way to arouse hatred (in the political sense) among those Americans who detest overbearing government on any level.
But it's inane for anyone to claim that dislike of Bloomberg's policies is motivated by antisemitism. There are many Jewish libertarians out there who share negative views of Bloomberg's policies.
No, I don't think he's religious either. I believe he tries to downplay his Jewishness because of his company's investments in the Arab world.
It was Guiliani who saved our city. When Bloomberg took over, the homeless were back all over the place menacing mid-town population. When Guiliani was mayor, he was constantly called "Mussolini" and other anti-Italian-American slurs. Morons like Barnicle had nothing to say about that.
Bloomberg, Eagle Scout, electrical engineer and helicopter pilot, belongs to Reform Temple Emau-El in Manhattan.
Like most Reform Jews, the mother of his children is not Jewish.
I’m short and even I don’t like him ‘cause he’s short. Oh yes, and whiny, hypochondrical, nervous, hysterical, controlling....oh well, you get my drift.
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