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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

Discussing Israel/Gaza on right-wing talk radio

I had an unexpectedly substantive discussion of the Middle East and the "Islamic threat" on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" last night.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 07:59 PM

@Zoltan

that killing was absolutely intential.

First or second degree "intential"?

And truly, the delicacy with which you express yourself! Inspiring!

You sound pretty drunk, fella. You're a schvitzer Newberry.

When you are too drunk to even hit the spel-chek, you ought to stop. Go practice your Greek.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:00 PM

Totallybase & Moosie...Jeepers, Noam Chomsky Tossed At Bob Kaplan..?

Lefties, you are sooooooooo silly.

Now, back to the prophetic "The Coming Anarchy".

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:02 PM

Doosh Bag Looser?

Zoltan Newsberry (you can't make this stuff up) does a bang-up joke (bad eyes? trembling fingers? misfiring syanpses?) and struts his stuff: "I'm a very vibrant sexy 60+ year old, whist you can't remember the last time someone stroked your sweet spots, my dear. You are a nasty, dried up and bitter possy if there ever was one."

Whist?? A game for possies, errr, pussies??

Sad, really. Doosh Bag Looser?? Are you making a very lame, feeble reference to someone?? Those poor British scientist . . .

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:06 PM

Indeed Walter M

Nicely put and well consolidated.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:06 PM

RedState Refugee

Oh, do rave on zoltan, you sap-sorry-for-yourself, displaced neo-con. You're probably even a member of RedState's vaunted Strike Force. Do you sport one of those cute little fabricated unit insignias sewn next to your real service unit insignia?

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=
057977FB108230E27F4EDEEFD51B1693?diaryId=2338

Please, do give us a break. We are a good deal more at risk now, and will be for sometime in the future, thanks to all the calamitous adventures those you admire have foisted on us.

You toss insults pretending they're rockets at least as effective as those lobbed by Hamas. You make yourself appear pitiful. Positively, pitiful.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:09 PM

@RMP

Putting the number of Pakistani detainees at five (though he could not name the fifth), Farhatullah Babar, spokesman for the ruling Pakistan People's Party, told IPS over phone from Islamabad: "We have urged the U.S. government to return these detainees. This has been our consistent demand."

The fifth isn't at Guantanamo, but rather at Carswell Prison in Texas. Her name is Aafia Siddiqui. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Gillani asked for their return in a meeting this week in Washington. The article you cite must be the reason her sister Fauzia was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad Friday.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:12 PM

@ Derbig

I second what flashheart said. Thank you.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:14 PM

Zoltan

Get help! You're gonna die, dude. That shit'll kill ya.

<<shudder>>

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:17 PM

Sorry, correction

Richard Boucher is in Pakistan, the meeting was there, not Washington.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:19 PM

I saw Bebop-o

here for 5 seconds today.

In my opinion, one of his letters is richer than an infinity of them from neoconzoltanwallabycabalofhollywoodetal.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:22 PM

ondelette

I appreciate how informed and passionate you are.

Good night, all.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:26 PM

@Walter M

Yup, it's guys like you who do the real work around here. I would thank you by name, but unless I could thank everybody else I will be leaving somebody out, and I don't want to do that.

But for all of you: I can't say how many times I've thought to myself "I know there is a fact to refute that Hasbara" and before I could even hit the Google, here it comes, well put and dispassionately stated, with links.

And I hate, just hate the symbiotic relationship between anti-semitism and Zionism. I don't care what anti-Semites say or do, I will never allow anti-Semites to define who I am, as a Jew. They can kill me, but I will not allow them to define me.

Neither will I revel in the Holocaust, as Zionists do. Since God has granted me a respite from the type of persecution Jews have suffered, I will take it! I'm sure if God thought I needed a Holocaust to teach me about reality, He could arrange it. If He hasn't, it would be a monstrous sin to pretend otherwise. A terrible and unseemly pretension. Besides, if all these big machers are so right, and the world hates us Jews, I'm sure I'll get my share. In the meantime, I will revel in the freedom from fear that God has given me, and use it to live with my fellow man. It is a gift from God, and I have no intention of throwing it back in His face.

In case no-one has noticed, Zionists revel in antisemitism, it's like mother's milk laced with cocaine to them. And at the same time, I really doubt if they've actually been subjected to any. First you complain about anti-semitism, and then you threaten to report us to the authorities? If there is one thing I noticed about my relatives, who have suffered from anti-semitism I never will, (some of them camp survivors) it's that they were always ready to seek the protection of the Goyische authorities. Not! And they were always ready to brag about how smart and powerful Jews are, and threaten others with the power of the Jews. Not!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:36 PM

@Harpie

Thanks.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:48 PM

G'night, Derbig

Thanks for being here today. I've got a couple of your comments from this thread bookmarked. I claim no god, and it remains to be seen whether any god will claim me. But if anything could resurrect that space where might soul might have been, your words today would have done it. You are amazing, and a credit to your religious affiliation. I'm glad to know you.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:57 PM

Zoltan Oldfart

From your blog: "Since I am almost 70, I tend to think of death too much of the time."

"Well into my seventh decade, I do not enjoy heated arguments with so many nice people, including family members,who, except for their politics, I otherwise adore."

So what are you Zoltan? liar, or hypocrite?

www.zoltannewberry.blogspot.com

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 08:59 PM

Thank you Derbig

I too would like to second the general opinion; after reading these threads these last few days, I have to say that Derbig Mooser is consistently a joy to read; enlightened, funny, cutting, clever, self-depreciating, right, and most of all, paradigm shiftingly insightful: everything a goy dreams of in a Jewish guy.

Seriously, thankyou. You have said some things about god and humanity that I am going to have to take away and mull over for a few days, at least. Thank you for that in particular.

I would have thought him a fake, or a sock puppet of some kind, if I did not know four or five Jewish dudes who pretty much share his attitude, if less articulately; meeting them was a real eye-opener for me. One of the most wonderful things about Judaism is how it consistently produces a thoughtful deeply contrarian streak; in spite of the Zionist claims to the title (you know, I don't think I have ever used the Z word before), sometimes it seems to me that the real consciences of the world, the real chosen people, are people like Derbig.

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