Even as it disappointed on the field, the Super Bowl supplied racial drama. The historical celebration, that a black coach was finally coaching a Super Bowl team—and not just one, but both coaches, both teams—was all over the airwaves. Even ads brought it up. Hooray.
Time to get on my hobbyhorse. I gather that on the McLaughlin Group yesterday, they—warning, here comes Yiddish—kvelled about black advances, black power, and Pat Buchanan said, Talk about power, what about the Jews, 2 percent of the population, 13 members of the Senate. Etc. No big surprise, he didn’t exactly start a conversation.
As a pluralist (I want all races and ethnicities to mingle and disappear in the great liberal bath of Humanity; alas, they haven’t yet), it interests me that Buchanan broke a rule: some ethnicities and races can be openly described in our journalism, others spoken of only in coded ways. Chris Matthews, for instance, regularly welcomes guests named McCain, Kennedy, Murphy, McMillen with jokes about Irish night, or insights about Irish politics. He’s a street smart guy, he loves ethnic politics. Matthews wants to talk about Jews as openly but he finds he can’t go near it.
The other night, telling Ben Ginsberg that his scenarios about Iran “scare the bejesus out of me,” Matthews said that Bush was still surrounded by “ideologues” who support attacking Iran, and that if Bush did attack Iran, Hillary would support him “for political reasons.” All code for Jews. Now that Walt and Mearsheimer have broken the taboo, you’d think Matthews could say what he thinks: Jewish money is essential to Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, Jews by and large support an aggressive response to Iran because of Ahmedinejad’s anti-Israel rhetoric, the neoconservatives are rightwing Jews, many of whom have intimate connections to Israel’s rightwing leaders.
Right now the Jewish press is the only press that will delve into this stuff. Presumably because while black-coaches-in-the-Super-Bowl confound stereotype, Jews-in-high-places confirms them. So the Times ignored Walt-Mearsheimer. I am of course for talking about Jewish power because I think it’s politically significant, and the Mideast is a powder keg. Also, if we openly identify the simple fact that protecting Israel is part of our Middle Eastern policy, Americans will a, almost certainly support the policy, while b, they increase pressure on a centrist (Jimmy-Carter-James-Baker-John-Mearsheimer) agenda: Israel’s hateful occupation of Arab lands is part of our problem.
Pat also said a few weeks ago that the neo cons were scapegoats for Iraq and the true ownership for the endevor is bush, cheney and rumsfeld. so he can be very moderate too.
After hamas won the elections buchanan and mort zuckerman almost got in a fistfight.
also, he once wrote a letter to the new york times in response to something norman podheretz wrote about him. It was I think when he officially left the republican party. but anyway he said that he and other conservatives welcomed the neo con movement after vietnam, but that they had steered the republican party in a different direction than he would have liked.
Phil for a guy who wants the Jewish people to disappear, Has you've stated repeatedly. You really know how to keep count. But lets for the sake of argument say that all The Jewish senators are just an arm of the elders in Jerusalem and bend America to their neferious ways. Would that be Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Boxer, Feinstein. I would say that the only two senators that don't feel the need to prove themselves to the " the neocon zionist jew warmongers are responsible for the evils of the world club" are Schumer and Lieberman. But , again, for a guy who is some sort of universalist, pluarlist, or whatever the fuck you think you are you seem to keep extremely careful count of these things. Has befiting a guy who just made "jew watch"
Bill, would you kindly give me the link for where Phil/MondoWeiss blog appears on 'Jew Watch'?
I've searched that website and done google searches and can find nothing.
Phil – please play out our scenarios for us.
What do you want to see happen?
What do you think will actually happen?
What are you afraid will happen?
What do you not want to happen?
I've looked at that Jewwatch site and didn't find anything on Phil either.
I'm not sure that website would have a problem with Phil. If they link to him it may be in a affiliative fashion, much to Phil's horror.