CBS 2 Chicago: Blagojevich "breaks silence" over hate crimes panel controversy
Crossposted on Marathon Pundit.
Mike Parker of CBS 2 Chicago made that claim tonight. Here's what he wrote:
Gov. Rod Blagojevich briefly broke his silence on the hate crime commission controversy Wednesday night.
One member’s ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have resulted in the resignation of five members.
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But as he arrived for a $250 a ticket fundraiser Wednesday night in a downtown high rise, the governor would not talk about the issue or those resignations.
“Things are going forward, and we’re all about encouraging people to work together,” he said, but did not respond when the fifth resignation was brought up.
That's what Parker calls breaking silence? It's not as if Francisco Franco made those comments.
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Notice how our posts on this bring out the crack pot anon comments?
That's where Blagojevich (and I'm afraid others) are taking the party.
Democrats would have us believe Blagojevich can't speak out because he would lose the African American vote.
I don't believe it.
There is a growing tide hatred of jews and it comes not from African Americans but from the swamp left taking over the Democratic Party.
It's happened in Britian already and as Shalom Lappin writes here, the left is impresario.
Perhaps the greatest difficulty that the Jewish Community encounters in the current situation is its comparative isolation. It has no obvious allies in the political domain. Much of the left now serves as an impresario for the hostility that it faces. The centre and the moderate conservatives are largely indifferent, and the far right is a deadly threat. Islamist groups are shaping opinion within Muslim communities, while non-Muslim immigrants that share common concerns with Jews, like Indian Hindus and Sikhs are not in a position to offer substantive assistance, given their own vulnerable position in the cross fire between Islamism and anti-immigrant racism. Jews continue to be seen as privileged, excessively influential, and so in no need of assistance on one side, but irreparably foreign on the other. The unwillingness of major public figures to take up the issue of rising hostility to collective Jewish concerns leaves the Community quietly under siege.
more, from Nick Cohen, on left anti semitism,
But the liberal left has been corrupted by defeat and doesn't know much about anything these days. Marxist-Leninism is so deep in the dustbin of history, it is composting, while social democracy is everywhere on the defensive. Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Christian fundamentalism are beating it in the struggle for working-class and peasant minds. An invigorated capitalism is threatening its European strongholds. There's an awful realisation that Tony Blair and Bill Clinton may be as good as it gets. The temptation in times of defeat is to believe in everything rather than nothing; to go along with whichever cause sounds radical, even if the radicalism on offer is the radicalism of the far right. [my emphasis]
In 1878, George Eliot wrote that it was "difficult to find a form of bad reasoning about [Jews] which had not been heard in conversation or been admitted to the dignity of print". So it is again today. Outside the movies of Mel Gibson, Jews aren't Christ killers any longer, but they can't relax, because now they are Nazis, blood-soaked imperialists, the secret movers of neoconservatism, the root cause of every atrocity from 9/11 to 7/7.
It's not that the left as a whole is anti-Semitic, although there are racists who need confronting. Rather, it has been maddened by the direction history has taken. Deracinated and demoralised, its partisans aren't thinking hard enough about where they came from or - and more pertinently - where they are going.
Blagojevich and much of the party save Pat Quinn aren't thinking much about where they're taking Illinois.
Excellent comments, Bill.
thanks
appreciate it...really... I feel awfully alone sometimes on this one.
I have a question, one that often plagued me in college.
Do you agree or disagree that anti-Israeli thoughts are anti-semitic?
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