Pernicious Attempt To Brand Protest as Anti-Semitic GOP Tries To Raise Campaign Bucks by Tarring Occupy Wall Street
Submitted by Bob-45 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 20:33Pernicious Attempt To Brand Protest as Anti-Semitic
GOP Tries To Raise Campaign Bucks by Tarring Occupy Wall Street
By Eric Alterman
Published October 28, 2011, issue of November 04, 2011.
Is the Jewish congressional representative from heavily Jewish Long Island, Steve Israel, “standing with those calling for the killing of Jews”? Does the Jewish representative from heavily Jewish Florida, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, “agree with various calls for Jews to be ‘run out of the country’ and to oppose and ‘destroy’ the State of Israel”?
Sean Spicer, who holds the title of communications director of the Republican National Committee, apparently thinks these are reasonable questions. Or perhaps he merely thinks that some Jews are sufficiently stupid to think that they might be. But most likely, he thinks that if he can tar the protesters at Occupy Wall Street with the taint of these anti-Semitic statements, and condemn certain Democrats as guilty by association, he can gin up contributions to the Republican Party as he simultaneously weakens Jews’ instinctive identification with the Democratic Party.
Spicer is joined in this effort by something called the Emergency Committee for Israel, a group co-founded by neoconservative William Kristol, conservative Christian agitator Gary Bauer and Rachel Abrams, wife of disgraced neoconservative politico Elliott Abrams (convicted of lying to Congress during the Reagan administration), daughter of neoconservative activist Midge Decter and stepdaughter of Decter’s husband, former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz. They have produced and distributed a video that asks, “What is happening at the Occupy Wall Street protests?” only to cut to a gentleman who is holding a “Hitler’s Bankers” sign and can be seen screaming, “Jews control Wall Street.” This is followed by a shot of a nasty kid shouting at a Jewish man, “You’re a bum, Jew,” with another protester explaining that “the small ethnic Jewish population in this country, they have a firm grip on America’s media.
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beware the rent a mob
Pelosi and the Dems support OWS, it was started by libs and they own it.
many of the commie hippies are Anti-Semitic.
there are jewish conspirators but not all jews are conspirators nor are all conspirators jews.
many of the OWS dupes can be saved but the movement can't be, it is the creation of the marxists and they own it.
P.S. Glenn Beck is controlled opposition.