Letters to the Editor
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What was that, anonymoose?
I think we must be witnessing a true Divine intervention, tearing the scales off the eyes of a gullible electorate, who seemed on the verge of embracing a false messiah. Hallelujah!
You mean Senator McCain is being called across the River Styx and will now reside in the Valhalla of his dreams?
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Emanate domain?
Bucky's lair?
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@LWM
said the Jewish "stranglehold" of the media was ruining the United States and must be broken
And this was *before* Roseanne Barr.
Amazing!
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I think there is very little difference...
between preachers and performers. None really, except that the comedians may be joking.
On the account of James Warren in the Chicago Tribune, who has filed excellent stories down the years in Nixon's tapes, media, in this 1972 Oval Office session between Nixon, Haldeman and Graham, the President raises a topic about which "we can't talk about it publicly," namely Jewish influence in Hollywood and the media.
Nixon cites Paul Keyes, a political conservative who is executive producer of the NBC hit, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," as telling him that "11 of the 12 writers are Jewish." "That right?" says Graham, prompting Nixon to claim that Life magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, are "totally dominated by the Jews." Nixon says network TV anchors Howard K. Smith, David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite "front men who may not be of that persuasion," but that their writers are "95 percent Jewish."
"This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain," the nation's best-known preacher declares "You believe that?" Nixon says. "Yes, sir," Graham says. "Oh, boy," replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe it." "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something," Graham replies.
Magnanimously Nixon concedes that this does not mean "that all the Jews are bad" but that most are left-wing radicals who want "peace at any price except where support for Israel is concerned. The best Jews are actually the Israeli Jews." "That's right," agrees Graham, who later concurs with a Nixon assertion that a "powerful bloc" of Jews confronts Nixon in the media. "And they're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff," Graham adds.
Later Graham says that "a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me. Because they know I am friendly to Israel and so forth. They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country." After Graham's departure Nixon says Haldeman, "You know it was good we got this point about the Jews across." "It's a shocking point," Haldeman replies, "Well," says Nixon, "it's also, the Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards."
Within days of these exchanges becoming public the 83-year old Graham was hauled from his semi-dotage, and impelled to express public contrition. "Experts" on Graham were duly cited as expressing their "shock" at Graham's White House table talk.
http://www.counterpunch.org/alexgraham.html
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@Jebbie
BTW, you used to write some good stuff here. What happened? :->
Ouch! Look, man, they can't all be gems.
And, I'm in a scatological frame of mind.
Ba-baba-de-doo-wa ...
We now return you to the serious, earnest and rigorously minded quickstrategy, recently released from his undisclosed location.
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Why & Where
So why did tis story become so important and why did it arise.
While the press and right wing have ascribed much influence on Obama by Rev. Wright. Yet Obama rarely, if ever, mentioned Wright until the media became obsessed with Obama's religious beliefs. It evolved out of the first attack on Obama to try and discredit him, with the arguemnt presented that Obama was a Muslim.
Obama defended his Christian faith by breifly posting the history of the United Church of Christ briefly on his web site, but there was never a mention of Rev. Wright.
Obama has not even written about Rev Wright in his book "The Audacty of Hope". If you look in the index of this book you will find no reference to the Rev Wright, and only a brief reference to Tinity United Church of Christ in the "Faith" chapter in this book. In fact the only pastor mentioned is the book is a Chaplin in the Senate.
There is no importance at all in the Wright Wright story it is simply an orchestrated attack on by someone with a devious purposes. Obama was forced by the media to discuss his personal religious back ground, which has no place in politics. Has anyone asked or dug up Hilary's and McCain's religious pastors? The media ran with it because the news is based mostly on sensation these days. Hillary ran with it because she was losing. McCain ran with when pressured by the GOP.
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Forgot Something
I think early on somebody said that Hagee is less important in terms of the role he played in McCain's life than Wright did in Obama's.
They've both said they don't agree with the respective parties on everything they've said.
But the reason I think Hagee is actually more important in this discussion is that while Obama is -being made- to disagree with specific Wright quotes, McCain never manages to provide details - not that he's ever really been asked.
In fact, one could surmise without much of a stretch that McCain actually agrees with Hagee on the subjects of Israel, Rapture, Iran, etc.
Yglesias addressed it back in March:
"McCain and his staff actively sought out Hagee's endorsement, he appeared and campaigned with Hagee, he said he was proud to be backed by Hagee. Hagee is, in short, part of McCain's political strategy. Now he tells us he doesn't agree with Hagee about everything. Well, which things? Are we supposed to believe that McCain's not into the bigotry, or the foreign policy aimed at apocalypse, but just likes Hagee because of their shared opposition to gay marriage? Is McCain going to be courting Osama bin Laden's endorsement? It's reminiscent of McCain's on-again, off-again quest for the support of "agents of intolerance" like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. McCain's trying to wink with one eye to a segment of the electorate, wink with his other eye at his fans in the media, and somehow maintain a reputation for straight talk throughout all this."
And the SCLM is giving McCain a pass while devoting 24/7 coverage to Obama and Wright. I made the mistake of tuning in Faux News a couple of minutes ago and just like this AM, they're still on it. Fair and Balanced, alright.
One last thing: While he's obviously a very polarizing figure, Wright has said that some of his statements have been taken out of context. Anyone think Hagee can say the same thing? Yet McCain will gladly take his endorsement, and those who rely on the SCLM will never hear the slightest peep about it.