goesh said…
2 tower Rudy, that’s what some farmers over there were calling him – they didn’t cotton to a man having fame attached to him over the misfortune of others. Other farmers saw him as some kind of fancy-schmancy New York lawyer unable to navigate through a common cornfield.

9:33 AM

She isn’t the only one, they are all blindsighted by his whole 9/11 schtick.

AprilOrit on January 16, 2008 at 12:52 PM

Ditto for Mcvain supporters, who have a blind spot for his positions on the issues, focusing solely on his biography.

It just strikes me that she has a huge blind spot as far as Giuliani is concerned-I have tons of conservative, anti-illegal friends who share the same sentimentality about his candidacy, but at least a few of them are forthright in conceding his severe limitations as a candidate.

She isn’t the only one, they are all blindsighted by his whole 9/11 schtick.

I can understand admiring his incredible achievements while in office-I know what it was like to live here during the ignominious Dinkins reign-and I would get behind any run he made at that arrogant imbecile Elliot Spitzer or lens louse Chuck Schumer, but I simply don’t understand why the Giuliani supporters can’t accept the fact that he has some extreme handicaps when it comes to winning a race for the presidency.

Anyway, Debbie’s jeremiad seems to be her last contribution to this thread so I guess I’ll have to accept her silence as an answer to my question for now.

Huckabee might be, too… but his pandering rhetoric could end in a disaster on that.

Mitt?

Just some thoughts… I really just don’t know.

Even the critcism of Thompson and Abraham could theoretically be justified-although I think it’s a pretty thin reed to cling to, in all honesty-if she expressed the same disdain for Giuliani, whose views on immigration/illegal aliens diverge from hers much more sharply than those of Romney or Thompson, and certainly more than Hunter’s or Cox’s-I have yet to see her post any blog entries touting their candidacies, which, when you take into consideration her professed views on this subject, would seem to be a perfect match for her.

It just strikes me that she has a huge blind spot as far as Giuliani is concerned-I have tons of conservative, anti-illegal friends who share the same sentimentality about his candidacy, but at least a few of them are forthright in conceding his severe limitations as a candidate.

But it obviously is there.

Perhaps when McCain gets elected to be the first man on mars, (and report back to us when the temperature drops about 300 degrees) she will come clean and explain.

You can make a legitimate argument that Steve Forbes should endorse Giuliani-notwithstanding the two men’s disagreements on social issues like abortion-because his priority is fiscal/economic issues. However, I don’t see how you can argue, with a straight face, that someone who is vehemently and consistently opposed to illegal immigration as you have professed to be is in tune politically with Rudy Giuliani, as opposed to Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson. Even if you have a personal distaste for Romney or Thompson supporters that doesn’t explain how you can support a candidate who so consistently and stridently opposes the views you hold on illegal aliens/the border.

I can’t wait to hear Medved’s matchup spin.

Well, in fact, I never listen to him. So, someone else will have to be my slave and report back here.

I for one, welcome you all to your new Overlords… the Mittheads.

I tend to believe that stirring the pot never works in these situations.

And why is your article on their page?

That you even admit to working for UJA, the far-left Jewish establishment hopelessly allied with Islamists and terrorism supporters, says all we need to know about you.

A remake that ridiculous and outrageous warrants no futher comment or discussion.

You are a Far Right bomb thrower.

I suppose April is on a different page, but most of the other people commenting on this subject simply have a problem with the way you deal with honest disagreements-take this thread, for example-I don’t think they dislike you or your weblog.

She also has supported Meir Kahan and the JDL which is very radical.

AprilOrit on January 16, 2008 at 1:38 AM

Ahem. That is an absolute lie. (And FYI, it is Kahane–get a clue.) When did I do that? I never supported the JDL, either. People who make up things like this need serious help. The same goes for pretty much the rest of what you wrote. But for someone who seems to dislike me so much, gee, you sure spend a lot of time obsessed with me (ditto for most of the rest of you making comments about me). That you even admit to working for UJA, the far-left Jewish establishment hopelessly allied with Islamists and terrorism supporters, says all we need to know about you.

As for my predictions about Michigan, I’ve addressed them on my site, which you seem to visit quite a bit, so I’ll let you read them, as you read all of my other work you claim to detest so much but can’t seem to get enough of.

Oh, and one other thing, Monica Crowley is a known, documented plagiarist–I provided the links on my site to former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Tim Noah’s two exposes (here and here) on her, as you well know. That’s why the Wall Street Journal had to run an apology when it ran the piece she ripped off from writer Paul Johnson and won’t run her work again. Please explain how she is different than Jayson Blair–other than having gotten away with it and being a “conservative”. Jerome Corsi admitted that he read and ripped off a column I wrote. I documented how it was almost word for word. Not sure where you went to school, but that is, indeed, plagiarism. Ideology does not excuse intellectual property crimes, does it? If ever anyone rips off your work–and, trust me, that will never happen, since you simply lie and fabricate–then, we shall see how you like it. Or at least you shall see. No-one else will care.

There have been public apologies extended to African-Americans who were directly impacted by racist violence, e.g. those who were attacked in the Tulsa riots, but extending that to people whose ancestors were exploited is absurd, IMO.

A more apt analogy would be the federal government, through a congressional resolution, ultimately recognizing the egregious error of the Korematsu decision during the 1980s.

Nearly every Israeli government for the past decade and a half has courted avaricious haredi rabbis like Ovadia Yosef, who also want to institute halachic law, and as far as I know no one-with perhaps the exception of some columnists at Ha’aretz-has expressed any qualms over that arrangement.

What “terrorism” was committed by Meir Kahane, just out of curiosity?

Not an act committed by his followers, or members of the JDL, or some schismatic offshoot of his former political party, but by Kahane himself?

When Henry Kissinger was trying to do his best to appease the USSR at the height of its empire Kahane was punching it in its ugly, totalitarian face, figuratively speaking.

Look, I’m not here to post a brief for Meir Kahane-he had many deep and troubling flaws, and his vision of a religious state was misguided-but I think his views deserve a fair airing, especially when so many people are willing to yield to the 21st century’s answer to the Evil Empire.

Correction, Meir Kahane was backed the JDL, which I meant to write, not the ADL. And the last time I checked – we do not need another ADL. They are alive and well and doing whatever needs to be done.

We do not need a NAAJP.

Millions of people on that continent profited from the extermination and exploitation of European Jewry and never admitted any complicity in the atrocities they excused until confronted with the damning evidence in court. And many people living today-including former members of the NSDAP and its affiliated organs-are responsible for Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. That’s precisely the point.

I disagree with you, we will have to leave it at that. I don’t believe in taking handouts for the past sins of ghosts, sorry.

Many African Americans were victimized for years after Lincoln freed them, so what’s the difference?

I worked at UJA partime for many years – in high school and college. And one of the things we did not support was any kind of terrorism of any sort, we believed in rescuing those in harm’s way and that does not happen by using bombs.

And the cases are not simply about financial restitution-although some of the more ravenous lawyers such as that parasite on our body politic, Burt Neuborne, would probably disagree-but about setting the record straight.

Millions of people on that continent profited from the extermination and exploitation of European Jewry and never admitted any complicity in the atrocities they excused until confronted with the damning evidence in court. And many people living today-including former members of the NSDAP and its affiliated organs-are responsible for Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. That’s precisely the point.

There aren’t any African-Americans alive today who were victimized by slavery, unless you buy into the argument that an abbhorent practice that was abolished nearly a century and a half ago is responsible for the current socio-economic problems among segments of the black community, which I don’t.

1. There are SURVIVING victims of the Holocaust, and the entities/individuals who tried to exterminate them are still around. As far I know, the last person who was a victim of legally-sanctioned chattel slavery in the United States died quite some time ago.

See I disagree with you on this – Liberals believe it throwing money at victims, not Conservatives. I do not believe the ancestors of slaves deserve money, nor do I believe the ancestors of the Holocaust deserve money. It is not anyone living today’s fault that Adolf Hitler rose into power nor is it anyone living today’s fault that slavery was an accepted practice.

There were surviving slaves and I think there maybe a few left. And we could say the same thing about blacks – the same entities/individuals who tried to exterminate jews also choose to exterminate blacks.

And they are still around. They are in Stormfront and they contributed to Ron Paul.

2. I’m not going to claim that everything Meir Kahane said or did was correct, but he was prescient in his warnings about the looming threat Islam posed to both the United States and Israel. Kach was banned, and its leader prohibited from participating in elections to the Knesset, not because its espoused values contradict the Israeli constitution-the fact that there are Arab-Moslem parties that explicitly call for the dissolution of the Jewish state negates the claim that the Israeli government has any interest in suppressing racism or religious hatred-but because Meir Kahane posed the greatest threat to the existing, appeasement-minded political structure in that country.

Update: Don’t look now, but if this trend holds up it’ll be the second consecutive primary where Huckabee hasn’t done any better with evangelicals than his opponents. He’d better turn that around fast in SC or he’s finished.

Wait a minute, this cant be true. I read all the comments here at HotAir and they said Evangelicals are stupid, they voted for Carter. The Evangelicals F’ everything up in Iowa. They are useless and there votes do not matter.

She is not well liked and that is coming from me, a FORMER fan of hers. She turned me off after a couple of one on ones and her constant belittling of those who don’t agree with absolutely everything she writes.

She is the first one to yell anti-semitism in a crowded theater also, as a jew I take issue with her approach – which is very much akin to the way the NAACP approaches race with regards to blacks – or the Black Panthers actually. She does the same for jews – feels they need and deserve special treatment – which makes me uncomfortable. And I cannot figure out why she gets a pass in Conservative circles for her behavior.

What’s the difference between believeing Holocaust survivors and their ancestors should be compensated monetarily and that the ancestors of former slaves deserve the same?

She also has supported Meir Kahan and the JDL which is very radical. His political party was eventually banned in Israel.

Bottomline, you are correct, you cannot agree with Debbie without the personal attacks. Several years ago she attacked a female Right Wing blogger for no reason. I think the blogger’s name was Beth.

Aside from Sean Hannity she has called Monica Crowley a Jayson Blair in a skirt in one of her blogs posts. She claims Jerome Corsi also stole from her and that she was told to “take one for the team” because it was for the Conservative cause.

She has a serious bone to pick with a ton of people, but she defended Ann Coulter here on HA when DonnyDuestchgate broke. I think she responded to Allah personally, maybe it was Bryon’s post.

I don’t care from her attitude, I find it too caustic and as a jew I don’t subscribe to affirmative action for jews. If someone attacks Judaism or me and my loved ones for my faith, only then I feel it is necessary to strike back – like a definitive anti-semitic act.

And her movie reviews are terrible.