October 31, 2008
Somewhere in his past, John McCain must have put a Jew in an oven, or tied a black man to the bumper of a Cadillac Escalade and driven through a combination gravel pit and lemonade stand

…Otherwise, there’s just really no explanation for the lengths his campaign is going to talk around the obvious.

– Well, unless we’ve been taking his whole “I’d really like to win this thing” business far too literally.

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  1. Comment by Bob Reed on 10/31 @ 11:20 am #

    Joe Klein and Sully are typically hypocritical…

    They want Goldfard to provide citations for the anti-semitism of O!s supporters…

    Not only would they be outraged! if Wright or Farrakhan were brought into play, since those mere distractions have obviously been discussed enough!, but would also provide the basis for playing the race card again on camp Mav…

    Which, by the way, they would have no problem doing to all who would listen, like the town criers of catastrophe toddling about the town. And remember, when talking about eeeeeevil RAAAAAAACISTS, who needs citations or ,you know, references anyway…

    WE’RE TALKING ‘BOUT EEEEEEVIL RACIST RETHUGLIKKKANS HERE, PEOPLE!…I mean, get with the program already…

  2. Comment by sashal on 10/31 @ 11:29 am #

    great post, jeff.
    We all can see now what a smearing slimy moronic idiot this Goldfarb is( which I knew already, but info be helpful to other readers here).
    Do you think Khalidi has a ground for the law suit? :

    First, Barnett Rubin:

    “I actually find it demeaning, insulting, and depressing to have to defend Rashid. I could say, I know him, he has been a guest in my home in New York and in my rented house in Provence, he bears absolutely no resemblance to the image these despicable people are trying to project of him, and lot’s more. I could point out that I am Jewish and have VISIBLE JEWISH ARTIFACTS IN MY HOME, which did not appear to alarm Rashid, if he even noticed them, but it is all just so ridiculous I don’t know what to say.

    I don’t want to treat these charges with the respect of a refutation. I just want to express my disgust with those who uttered them and my solidarity with my friend, Rashid Khalidi.”

    Second, Scott Horton:

    “In the current issue of National Review, Andrew McCarthy continues his campaign to link the Democratic nominee to various and sundry Hyde Park radicals. This time it is “PLO advisor turned University of Chicago professor Rashid Khalidi,” who now heads the Middle Eastern Studies Department at Columbia University. Khalidi, we learn, makes a habit of justifying and supporting the work of terrorists and is “a former mouthpiece for master terrorist Yasser Arafat.” And then we learn that this same Khalidi knows Obama and that his children even babysat for Obama’s kids!

    This doesn’t sound much like the Rashid Khalidi I know. I’ve followed his career for many years, read his articles and books, listened to his presentations, and engaged him in discussions of politics, the arts, and history. In fact, as McCarthy’s piece ran, I was midway through an advance copy of Khalidi’s new book Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. (I’ll be reviewing it next month–stay tuned.) Rashid Khalidi is an American academic of extraordinary ability and sharp insights. He is also deeply committed to stemming violence in the Middle East, promoting a culture that embraces human rights as a fundamental notion, and building democratic societies. In a sense, Khalidi’s formula for solving the Middle East crisis has not been radically different from George W. Bush’s: both believe in American values and approaches. However, whereas Bush believes these values can be introduced in the wake of bombs and at the barrel of a gun, Khalidi disagrees. He sees education and civic activism as the path to success, and he argues that pervasive military interventionism has historically undermined the Middle East and will continue to do so. Khalidi has also been one of the most articulate critics of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority—calling them repeatedly on their anti-democratic tendencies and their betrayals of their own principles. Khalidi is also a Palestinian American. There is no doubt in my mind that it is solely that last fact that informs McCarthy’s ignorant and malicious rants.

    McCarthy states that Khalidi “founded” the Arab American Action Network (AAAN). In fact, he neither founded it nor has anything to do with it. But AAAN is not, as McCarthy suggests, a political organization. It is a social-services organization, largely funded by the state of Illinois and private foundations, that provides support for English-language training, citizenship classes, after-school and summer programs for schoolchildren, women’s shelters, and child care among Chicago’s sizable Arab community (and for others on the city’s impoverished South Side). Does McCarthy consider this sort of civic activism objectionable? Since it was advocated aggressively by President Bush–this is “compassionate conservativism” in action–such an objection would be interesting. Nor was Khalidi ever a spokesman for the PLO, though that was reported in an erroneous column by the New York Times’s Tom Friedman in 1982. That left me curious about the final and most dramatic accusation laid at Khalidi’s doorstep: that the Khalidis babysat for the Obamas. Was it true? I put the question to Khalidi. “No, it is not true,” came the crisp reply. Somehow that was exactly the answer I expected. (…)

    I have a suggestion for Andy McCarthy and his Hyde Park project. If he really digs down deep enough, he will come up with a Hyde Park figure who stood in constant close contact with Barack Obama and who, unlike Ayers and Khalidi, really did influence Obama’s thinking about law, government, and policy. He is to my way of thinking a genuine radical. His name is Richard Posner, and he appears to be the most frequently and positively cited judge and legal academic in… National Review.”

    h/t hilzoy link/obsidian_wings/2008/10/khalidi.html

    Goldfarb is despickable bigot , I would never shake his dirty hand, never.
    I am so ashamed he is Jewish ..

  3. Comment by David R. Block on 10/31 @ 11:31 am #

    Obsidian Wings? Haven’t been there since Moe Lane left. Now I remember why. Thanks, sashal.

  4. Comment by sashal on 10/31 @ 11:33 am #

    #3.
    it is like talking to a wall, sigh…

  5. Comment by Sdferr on 10/31 @ 11:42 am #

    Andrea Mitchell: “…but he’s a Nobel Laureate…”. How easily it flows off the tongue to excuse…

  6. Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 12:20 pm #

    Newsweek. Hah.

  7. Comment by Aldo on 10/31 @ 12:21 pm #

    Goldfarb could have cited Daily Kos. DKos is the unofficial internet HQ of the Obama movement, and it is rife with anti-semitism. There were well-publicized pleas for Obama to do the right thing and condemn this hatred when he attended the Yearly Kos convention, but Obama ignored these pleas.

  8. Comment by alppuccino on 10/31 @ 12:35 pm #

    You’re one of those self-hating Jews, aren’t you sasha.

  9. Comment by Techie on 10/31 @ 12:40 pm #

    So sashal’s copypastaed defense consistes of “Some of Khalidi’s best friends are Jewish……….”

  10. Comment by JBean on 10/31 @ 12:54 pm #

    McCarthy states that Khalidi “founded” the Arab American Action Network (AAAN). In fact, he neither founded it nor has anything to do with it.
    Oh, my, Scott Horton really should talk to the folks at Wikepedia, where it says, “The Arab American Action Network is a Chicago community center founded in 1995, the brainchild of Columbia University historian and Professor of Arab Studies Rashid Khalidi and Columbia University School of International Affairs Assistant Dean Mona Khalidi.

    He should probably talk to Mona Khalidi, too, since she was president of the AAAN when the Woods Fund, with O and Ayers on the board, gave them those grants in 2001 and 2002.

    And finally he should talk to AAAN itself, since Mona Khalidi is listed as a board member on its website.

    Of course, there is the possibility that Rashid Khalidi has “nothing to do” with his wife, and/or that Khalidi doesn’t have a brain. That would explain everything.

  11. Comment by sashal on 10/31 @ 12:56 pm #

    self -hating, what a fucking utter bullshit.
    You’re clueless much?
    I am proud to represent my people, and ashamed of the small smattaring of assholes and morons who call themselves Jewish but in reality those assholes should not be. I think they may have German blood in them somewhere ( sneaked somehow in in the 1930th)…
    Joe said it well to his friend Goldfarb

  12. Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/31 @ 12:57 pm #

    Sashal’s next comment: My English isn’t very good, second language and all, but fuck you fucking fuckers. Fuckety fuck,fuck. Every good conservative should bow to Zul, er I mean Obama..

  13. Comment by sashal on 10/31 @ 12:58 pm #

    meant Goldberg instead of Goldfarb in the last link

  14. Comment by BJTexs on 10/31 @ 1:16 pm #

    I can cut and paste too, sashal:

    In 1995 Khalidi and his wife founded the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), noted for its view that Israel’s creation in 1948 was a “catastrophe” for Arab people.

    Khalidi formerly expressed some tepid support for the notion of an Israeli state alongside a Palestinian one. In more recent years, however, he has taken to dismissing such a solution as hopelessly unrealizable. At a February 2005 conference at Columbia, titled “One State or Two? Alternative Proposals for the Middle East,” Khalidi agreed with his Columbia colleague, Joseph Massad, in declaring that the two-state solution was an impractical “utopian vision.” Khalidi further assailed Israel’s very legitimacy, proclaiming it to be “a state that exists today at the expense of the Palestinians,” an existence that “fails to meet the most important requirement: justice.”

    The February 2005 conference was not the first time that Khalidi had dismissed the possibility of a two-state solution. In March 2004, when Israeli forces assassinated Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Khalidi told Newsweek: “I really think that the killing of this individual may well be the last nail in the coffin of the two-state solution.”

  15. Comment by alppuccino on 10/31 @ 1:23 pm #

    I am proud to represent my people, and ashamed of the small smattaring of assholes and morons who call themselves Jewish but in reality those assholes should not be. I think they may have German blood in them somewhere ( sneaked somehow in in the 1930th)…

    I stand corrected sasha. You’re just a hater.

  16. Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/31 @ 1:42 pm #

    He emotes. It’s what he does.

  17. Comment by alppuccino on 10/31 @ 1:45 pm #

    He emotes. It’s what he does

    But do that in the bathroom is all I’m saying.

  18. Comment by sashal on 10/31 @ 1:59 pm #

    so, what your cut and paste showed, BJTex ?

    That Khallidi recieved money from McCain ?
    That he is anti-semite? No, it did not.
    McCainiacks are desperate, throw all shit against the wall, what if something sticks.
    BJ, leave ‘em,please, republican party self immolated, it turned into the party of smears about nothing, BS artists, shameless liars, duped brainwashed morons, proud ignorants etc.
    I love this blog, because it is the island of sanity and intelligence in the sea of wingnut idiotism ( not all commenters of course are sane even here). And I hope you guys will pull yourself from the dark side..

    Love you all, closing the store and off to the Halloween party..

  19. Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/31 @ 2:02 pm #

    sashal == kapo

  20. Comment by Jymn on 10/31 @ 2:27 pm #

    Wow. I just wish right wingers would grow a pair. This Golfarb character is a frickin’ coward. If you are going to accuse someone of something, be man enough to said what you mean.

  21. Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 2:28 pm #

    Baracky is gay and by that I mean he sucks dirty socialist cock.

  22. Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 2:31 pm #

    cajones!

  23. Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/31 @ 2:44 pm #

    If you are going to accuse someone of something, be man enough to said what you mean.

    His boss has instructed him not to mention Pastor Chicken Roost

  24. Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 2:56 pm #

    For reals I mostly take that to mean that McCain is planning on winning and doesn’t want Katie Couric to have a shred of anything she can use to suggest McCain had done anything incitey. Everyone knows already anyway that Baracky went to that America-bashing socialist church what hates them some jews.

  25. Comment by Mossberg500 on 10/31 @ 3:06 pm #

    Everyone knows already anyway that Baracky went to that America-bashing socialist church what hates them some jews.

    Probably seemd like a good hobby to take up in Chicago – well maybe not Skokie!

  26. Comment by Techie on 10/31 @ 3:39 pm #

    Wow, Nazi rape. sashel went there! Burn, aren’t we all shamed of confusing him with facts and research now?

  27. Comment by Mossberg500 on 10/31 @ 3:43 pm #

    Wow, Nazi rape. sashel went there! Burn, aren’t we all shamed of confusing him with facts and research now?

    Yeah, sashal went zero-to-Godwin in record time!

  28. Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/31 @ 5:35 pm #

    LOL, jymn. You have pink underwear on right now, don’t you?

  29. Comment by alppuccino on 10/31 @ 5:48 pm #

    Baracky is gay and by that I mean he sucks dirty socialist cock.

    The fact that he cups the balls is what makes him gay.

  30. Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/31 @ 5:51 pm #

    Hey, Al. What part of Ohio are you in? I’m in Cleveland {shudders}…

  31. Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 5:52 pm #

    oh. Peggy Noonan does that too.

  32. Comment by pdbuttons on 10/31 @ 7:41 pm #

    did u say jews in the oven?
    or pews in the coven?
    or beers for mclovin
    or jennifer hewitt loven
    cuz i’m up for the jen-jen
    i mean-really up for the jen-jen
    tangents be cool..
    and so say all of us..
    and so say all of us…

  33. Comment by J. Peden on 10/31 @ 9:46 pm #

    On OReilly tonight, Dick Morris reported that some independent entity – I didn’t catch the name – is going to go all Wright to the tune of $6 million in advertising this weekend, “twice” what Obama paid for His infomercial.

  34. Comment by Topsecretk9 on 10/31 @ 10:19 pm #

    test

  35. Comment by alppuccino on 11/1 @ 5:07 am #

    Hey, Al. What part of Ohio are you in? I’m in Cleveland {shudders}…

    I’m in Morrow County and hour and a half south of you on I71. We will go 75% for McCain.

    And it’s not because of race either.

    *straight face*

    *straight face*

    hee

  36. Comment by alppuccino on 11/1 @ 5:10 am #

    We use “and” for “an” in Morrow County.

  37. Comment by Carin on 11/1 @ 6:03 am #

    I was down in the city yesterday. It’s abuzz with Obama love. My neighbor- who I’ve admired for years- went off on how stupid Sarah Palin was.

    I get the Obama love, I do. What they don’t get is that it’s not Obama’s color . It’s his views. If Obama doesn’t lose, though, there will be a lot of anger because the message has been that those who resist The One are racist.

  38. Comment by Pablo on 11/1 @ 7:00 am #

    On OReilly tonight, Dick Morris reported that some independent entity – I didn’t catch the name – is going to go all Wright to the tune of $6 million in advertising this weekend, “twice” what Obama paid for His infomercial.

    GOP Trust Pac. Here’s the ad. A big, fat, racist chicken is coming HOME…. to rooooooooooost.

  39. Comment by J. Peden on 11/1 @ 9:37 am #

    It’s abuzz with Obama love. My neighbor- who I’ve admired for years- went off on how stupid Sarah Palin was.

    Bigotry, self hate, a deathly fear of life and reality – they all sure aren’t very pretty when the mask comes off. I’ve got some very close “neighbors” like this, too, and have learned the hard way to not trust them at any time. Because their disease is truely progressive. My neighbors are always scheming and cloaking. It’s amazing to watch them, experience and parry off their strange initiatives, and feel their “love”.

  40. Comment by Carin on 11/1 @ 10:01 am #

    J. Peden – my neighbors are all black, so the hatin’ on Palin isn’t a self-hate. It’s not even bigotry. It’s the media. The Palin smears are full-out frontal assault by just about every media venue available.

    FTR – my neighbor and I have really NEVER spoken politics, outside of local politics. I found his Palin attack really out of character. I think he just assumed – since everyone he knows hates Palin – that I must feel the same. He prolly thought that I’d be like Noonan and Buckley or something. I’m sure the outlets he listens to have been drumming the “even the conservatives hate her” meme.

  41. Comment by McGehee on 11/1 @ 10:21 am #

    I have been almost waiting for someone to bash Palin in my presence so I could whip out the “I used to live in Alaska” card and denounce every single solitary thing they’ve heard about her as pure-dee 100% unadulterated bullshit.

    No takers so far, but there may still be time.

  42. Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/1 @ 10:28 am #

    Another oddity: our buddies over on the left have spent over a half decade deriding the Bush tax cuts, but they’re mysteriously silent on Obama’s promise of tax cuts for 95% of America.

    There’s got to be some bodies buried somewhere, and some folks who know where they are.

  43. Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/1 @ 10:29 am #

    Oh, holy shit: Tucker Carlson not in a bow tie.

  44. Comment by B Moe on 11/1 @ 10:35 am #

    Bush’s tax cuts were for the rich, silly.

    And companies that send jobs overseas.

  45. Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/1 @ 10:40 am #

    Well, he slipped and gave me a tax cut, too.

    Of course, the ever-changing liberal threshold of “rich” may slip under my feet from time to time. Depending on the day, of course.

  46. Comment by Rusty on 11/1 @ 10:49 am #

    #29
    Comment by alppuccino on 10/31 @ 5:48 pm #

    Baracky is gay and by that I mean he sucks dirty socialist cock.

    The fact that he cups the balls is what makes him gay.

    No. The fact his wife keeps his balls in a cup is what makes him gay.Pow! Zoom! To the moon barak!

  47. Comment by guinsPen on 11/1 @ 11:57 am #

    Tucker Carlson not in a bow tie.

    Did he remember his pants this time?

  48. Comment by guinsPen on 11/1 @ 12:01 pm #

    No wait, I’m thinking of George Will.

    Sorry, TC.

    Carry on.

  49. Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 11/1 @ 12:59 pm #

    not all commenters of course are sane even here

    Sashal finally got something right.

  50. Comment by pdbuttons on 11/1 @ 1:17 pm #

    i’m gay
    gay 4 change
    and not sippy-cup change
    the change u can fold..

    aside-i love askin peeps who’s on a 20 dollah bill-
    the look at me crazy like when i say-he wasn’t a prez-who was he?
    confused look ensues…
    u been punk’d

  51. Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/1 @ 8:34 pm #

    Of course, the ever-changing liberal threshold of “rich” may slip under my feet from time to time. Depending on the day, of course.

    Algore once defined anyone making $50,000 or more a year as “millionaires”. Because, of course, in 20 years they’ll have brought in a million dollars or more.

  52. Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/1 @ 9:16 pm #

    That there’s pharmaceutical-grade stupid, that is.

  53. Comment by a on 11/2 @ 1:26 am #

    Tell your friends, and show them the proof.

    Adolf Hitler was well-known to have used hypnosis on crowds to gain power in Germany. (Just Google it if you doubt it.) So why cant this happen in America? It is happening.

    Now, this document, An Examination of Obama’s Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches is really spreading. Many people, including young people, are starting to wake up.

    Young people have come up with a saying, “Don’t drink the kool-aid Obama is pushing on you.”

    Obama has no accomplishments, we don’t know him, he wrote a memoir, he has racist connections, he is using hypnosis, and he thinks he’s the Messiah and that he should be in control of the world. We’ve seen this story before in Germany in the 1930’s, haven’t we? We know what happened there.

    Obama’s use of hypnosis in speeches is why:
    -nothing sticks to him
    -the huge crowds
    -the huge money contributions
    -the mesmerized effect, especially in young people, who, because of their imaginations are more susceptible to hypnosis (read the document)
    -the exorbitant election fraud, rule-breaking and bias in the media
    -he gets away with changing every position
    -people are calling him the “greatest leader of a generation” with no accomplishments

    You have to read this document to understand how his hypnosis works. Logically and rationally, why not get to know this guy a little more before handing the world over to him? Why not wait?

    An Examination of Obama’s use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches can be found at
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/7470439/Obamas-Use-of-Hidden-Hypnosis-Techniques-in-His-Speeches

    PS – “Dont drink Obama’s Kool-Aid”

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