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Poison Pen Award: Pat Oliphant For outright demonization of Israel, Pat Oliphant, one of the world's most widely-syndicated cartoonists, wins hands down. The headless, jackbooted, goose-stepping figure holding an outstretched sword pushing a Star of David -- baring its fangs at a Gaza mother and baby -- appeals to the worst Nazi stereotypes. [Cartoon Pic in URL] In a presentation to the Australian Cartoonists Association posted on YouTube, Oliphant replaced the Jewish star with a swastika to emphasize his intended Nazi comparison. Here's Oliphant in his own words: My complaint was that Israel, the Israeli state, was behaving very much...

Minimal intellectual honesty compels us Jews to admit that we live in dangerous times - so dangerous that they cannot but remind us of the noxious atmosphere that led to the incomparable tragedy we will solemnly commemorate this Tuesday. Never in its annals was the phoenix-like Jewish state - literally arisen from the ashes of incinerated Jewish multitudes - so defamed, so unaccepted by the so-called family of nations and so tossed in a howling tempest of ill will. Never since the 1930s have we experienced isolation so suffocating and so ubiquitous. Never since the 1930s did our collective pariah-status...

The controversial cartoon by syndicated cartoonist Pat Oliphant that appeared on the New York Times and the Washington Post websites last month, and was also used by other American newspapers, has since been reproduced on neo-Nazi websites worldwide. Jewish groups and others criticized the March 25 cartoon as “hideously anti-Semitic” and slammed mainstream American papers for running it. Oliphant depicted a woman carrying a baby being pushed off a cliff by a goose-stepping headless figure holding a Star of David with sharp fangs. The cartoon has also now been reproduced, with the caption “Zionist Nazism,” on the website of the Lebanese terrorist...

We are about to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War Two. And after 70 years, and innumerable books and films, it seems as if many people in Western intellectual circles still have great difficulty in understanding what Nazism was. The NY Times cartoon claiming that Israel is equivalent to the Nazis shows this. To speak of the Nazis is not to speak of bad or mean people, or people who killed some civilians by accident. The word is, to say the least, overused today. For me to see this cartoon was especially shocking after just having...

Two Jewish groups have denounced a Pat Oliphant political cartoon on Gaza as anti-Semitic, likening its fanged Star of David to Nazi imagery before the Holocaust. The syndicated cartoon published Wednesday in newspapers across the country depicts a goose-stepping uniformed figure wheeling the Jewish symbol as it menaces a small female figure labeled "Gaza." The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish rights group with more than 400,000 members in the United States, said the cartoon is meant to denigrate and demonize Israel.

After poking fun at George W. Bush for eight years — often drawing him with big ears and a severe overbite, or as a gung-ho Joe College type, or simply as a clueless doofus — political cartoonists are finding Barack Obama a more elusive target. "I had all my villains in place for eight years and they've been taken away," lamented Pulitzer Prize winner Pat Oliphant, one of the most widely syndicated cartoonists. "I don't know that I've ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like. This is an antagonistic art. We're supposed to concentrate on finding...

The cultivated inside-the-Beltway paper suggests we ship all the Cubans back to Fidel. The Washington Post specializes in detecting racism that is undetectable even by the most vigilant Politically Correct Policeman -- then self-righteously denouncing its alleged perpetrator. Let a sports team owner defend his team's name (Redskins) and the Post pounces: "Redskins is not a term fashioned by American Indians." Let Bill Bennet, who has spent a lifetime idolizing Martin Luther King Jr., make an oblique reference to black crime rates and a Post editorial promptly brands him "the poster child for racism." A WaPo editorial even sniffed out:"Yellow-peril...

<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Elections Commission dropped all charges and potential fines Friday against former Broward County elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant, ending a four-year saga stemming from a botched primary.</p> <p>Oliphant was suspended from office by then-Gov. Jeb Bush after the 2002 primary, when nearly two dozen polls opened late.</p>

FORT LAUDERDALE - Former Broward County elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant has won a court decision against the Florida Elections Commission, which had tried to fine her for voting problems during a primary election.Administrative law judge Claude Arrington found state elections officials did not prove Miriam Oliphant had intentionally neglected her duties when dozens of polls opened late and closed early during the 2002 primary. The commission can still reject Arrington's opinion, and it has pressed its case against Oliphant in the past despite unfavorable rulings.The commission had fined Oliphant $10,000 in November. Oliphant has argued that underfunding by the Broward...

Tom Oliphant: NY Times' Trouble Like Ford's Longtime Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant announced Tuesday morning that he was accepting a buyout package from the Globe's parent company, the New York Times - explaining that newspaper industry layoffs are not unlike what's happening at the embattled Ford Motor Company. "The Ford situation is not unlike the newspaper situation," Oliphant told radio host Don Imus. "The problem, apparently, is not that these companies aren't making money. They make a lot of money. It's that in the view of Wall Street they don't make enough money." Ford shocked the business world on...

Keeping it simple this week, I'll let what is being Left speak for themselves. Because, even in the aftermath of recent savagery, what is being Left has more righteous indignation for the President of these United States, than they have for the instigators of mass murder for the sake of jihad. From The Boston Globe's Thomas Oliphant, on Al Franken's Air America show, Thursday morning: (HT: Hugh Hewitt) Franken: So these are monsters. We are dealing with monsters. Oliphant: Yes we are, but not very well in my opinion. And, um, what I think is so awful, in the short...

If there's one thing the MSM/DNC does well (and goodness knows, reporting and analysis ain't among them), presenting a unified front may be it. Since the London attacks, there's been a concerted effort on the part of their mouthpieces to force-feed the public a new meme. It is simply: "Iraq has made things worse". Echoed by Franken, Oliphant, Reagan, and many, many others, this assertion is so obviously and provaby false it would be utterly laughable were the consequences not so serious...

Spread this one far and wide, folks. Tom is not a rabid twit of a lefty, using Hugh's new definition. He's wrong, but he's not insane. This is the view of the left in America today. Go forth and dissect: HH: For a different take, now, on the war against terror, joined by Tom Oliphant, who is a columnist for the Boston Globe. Long time columnist there, as well as a frequent participant on the PBS News Hour. Yesterday, a guest on Air America. Today, a guest on Hugh Hewitt. Tom, you've covered the waterfront of talk radio in two...

Kerry Loves the Mainstream Media From the March 21, 2005 issue: . . . And has contempt for the American people.by P.J. O'Rourke 03/21/2005, Volume 010, Issue 25 JOHN KERRY EFFECTIVELY ENDED HIS political career on February 28, 2005, during a little-noticed event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. Senator Kerry was being presented with the library's "Distinguished American Award"--a bust of John Kennedy. The artist had portrayed JFK with head slightly tilted. The bust looked puzzled. The award was presented by Senator Ted Kennedy, who phoned it in. Supposedly Kennedy was rushing to catch the...

Monday, February 28, 2005, 5:30-7:00 p.m. Senator Kerry, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States will receive the distinguished American Award from the Kennedy Library Foundation. He will share his thoughts on U.S. policies both home and abroad with Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant.

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Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant (he of the annoying, "heh-heh-heh-heh" laugh) visited the Imus show this morning and lived up to his longstanding prefix, "Ignorant". And if you think I'm being cruel about his laugh, don't worry, it was openly mocked on the program by, if you can believe it, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Or maybe that was an impersonator, I'm not sure. In any event, his comments have defined a high-water mark for ignorance. Allow me to describe what kind of garbage he dispensed this morning...

WASHINGTONPRESIDENT BUSH'S emphasis on loyalty as opposed to stature has met its ultimate test. He has saved the biggest of his choices -- the anemic Treasury Department -- for last. The issue can be defined simply: Does he have the nerve to promote his chief of staff, Andrew Card, to the position Card appears to covet? And does he have the nerve to thumb his nose at the tut-tutters who would fault such an appointment on qualification grounds?Recent history would compel a "yes" to both questions, but in an administration in which secrecy is second only to loyalty, recent history...

NOW THAT virtually all of official conservatism and the Republican legislative juggernaut have opened up on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, with President Bush's winking acquiescence, it's time to explore a simple question: Just what is it that the guy has done? The answer is nada. It turns out there is no evidence that he did anything while the notorious and corrupted oil-for-food humanitarian program was operating in Iraq during the 1990s and beyond. This lack of even a charge comes in the face of Annan's unequivocal denial that he ever had a single thing to do with, or any...