Comments on: Washington Post Columnist Gives Private AIPAC Talks on How to Help Israel in ’08 Election http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Martin http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63333 Martin Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63333 <p>Phil,</p> <p>Well I've wondered for a few months whether you were naive, dishonest, of just extra stupid. After your assertion that Peter Beinart "hides" his pro-Israel agenda (and therefore the New Republic does too), I'd have to say you are all three. Is there anyone with an ounce of sense taking you seriously?</p> Phil,

Well I've wondered for a few months whether you were naive, dishonest, of just extra stupid. After your assertion that Peter Beinart "hides" his pro-Israel agenda (and therefore the New Republic does too), I'd have to say you are all three. Is there anyone with an ounce of sense taking you seriously?

]]> By: Tom http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63334 Tom Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63334 <p>Phil, don't let these silly ad homenem attacks get you down. Your blog provides a valuable service. Thank you for your good work.</p> Phil, don't let these silly ad homenem attacks get you down. Your blog provides a valuable service. Thank you for your good work.

]]> By: Jim Haygood http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63335 Jim Haygood Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63335 <p>.</p> <p>Phil, what a find! I'm not sure whether you spotted that after the NYC luncheon, Beinart is headed across the Hudson for a $500 per couple dinner at the Rockleigh (N.J.) country club. Details:</p> <p>"Mike Sachs, [AIPAC] Northeast Regional Director, will moderate a panel with Dan Senor, Fox News Consultant, and Peter Beinart, editor-at-large for the New Republic, on 'Election 2008: Implications for Israel and US Foreign Policy.'"</p> <p>As always, Israel comes first. The ruinous distortion of U.S. foreign policy is only a secondary concern. </p> <p>It's shenanigans like this which produce the corrosive cynicism and distrust of journalists, who masquerade as impartial observers, then show their true colors by shilling for AIPAC. How much do you reckon Beinart is getting paid for this appearance?</p> <p>Disclosure is surely the answer, though I don't how to go about it. Obliging Beinart to byline his columns as "Peter Beinart, Jew" is way too crass. But letting him get away with not disclosing his AIPAC affiliation is equally ugly and distasteful. My personal approach is to make sure that Time, the WaPo, and the New Republic don't receive a penny in subscription revenue from me.</p> .

Phil, what a find! I'm not sure whether you spotted that after the NYC luncheon, Beinart is headed across the Hudson for a $500 per couple dinner at the Rockleigh (N.J.) country club. Details:

"Mike Sachs, [AIPAC] Northeast Regional Director, will moderate a panel with Dan Senor, Fox News Consultant, and Peter Beinart, editor-at-large for the New Republic, on 'Election 2008: Implications for Israel and US Foreign Policy.'"

As always, Israel comes first. The ruinous distortion of U.S. foreign policy is only a secondary concern.

It's shenanigans like this which produce the corrosive cynicism and distrust of journalists, who masquerade as impartial observers, then show their true colors by shilling for AIPAC. How much do you reckon Beinart is getting paid for this appearance?

Disclosure is surely the answer, though I don't how to go about it. Obliging Beinart to byline his columns as "Peter Beinart, Jew" is way too crass. But letting him get away with not disclosing his AIPAC affiliation is equally ugly and distasteful. My personal approach is to make sure that Time, the WaPo, and the New Republic don't receive a penny in subscription revenue from me.

]]> By: LeaNder http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63336 LeaNder Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63336 <p>"My personal approach is to make sure that Time, the WaPo, and the New Republic don't receive a penny in subscription revenue from me."</p> <p>And if I read your comments carefully neither does the Times (I don't like "the slime"; by the way! - Media support for the Iraq war and war drumming had the dimensions of mass psychosis, it seems. ...)</p> "My personal approach is to make sure that Time, the WaPo, and the New Republic don't receive a penny in subscription revenue from me."

And if I read your comments carefully neither does the Times (I don't like "the slime"; by the way! – Media support for the Iraq war and war drumming had the dimensions of mass psychosis, it seems. …)

]]> By: liberal white boy http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63337 liberal white boy Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63337 <p>Why single out Peter Beinart? The dearth of news coverage on the Rosen Weissman AIPAC espionage trial should tell us about everything we need to know about our ethnocentric media. It doesn't matter whether they give pep talks for the benefit of AIPAC or Israel or not. How can you look at facts like these and speculate about objectivity or professionalism of our media. It is just silly. Is It Time To Demand Affirmative Action In America's Mass Media? http://homo-sapien-underground.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-it-time-to-bust-corporate-media.html</p> Why single out Peter Beinart? The dearth of news coverage on the Rosen Weissman AIPAC espionage trial should tell us about everything we need to know about our ethnocentric media. It doesn't matter whether they give pep talks for the benefit of AIPAC or Israel or not. How can you look at facts like these and speculate about objectivity or professionalism of our media. It is just silly. Is It Time To Demand Affirmative Action In America's Mass Media? http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63338 <p>Phil, keep it up. They are getting worried. Thinking Americans think you'd be a great presidential candidate consultant.</p> Phil, keep it up. They are getting worried. Thinking Americans think you'd be a great presidential candidate consultant.

]]> By: edq http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63339 edq Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63339 <p>I went to an AIPAC meeting around 1991-1992 that wanted to organize people to lobby for U.S. support for Soviet Jewish emmigration to Israel. The AIPAC representative would not let me take notes because she did not want her organization to be "misconstrued".</p> I went to an AIPAC meeting around 1991-1992 that wanted to organize people to lobby for U.S. support for Soviet Jewish emmigration to Israel. The AIPAC representative would not let me take notes because she did not want her organization to be "misconstrued".

]]> By: James North http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63340 James North Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63340 <p>Isn't AIPAC in effect bribing Beinart? Why would they need his "advice" on how to lobby the American public -- don't they already know much more than he does?</p> Isn't AIPAC in effect bribing Beinart? Why would they need his "advice" on how to lobby the American public — don't they already know much more than he does?

]]> By: samuel burke http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63341 samuel burke Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63341 <p>"tyranny breeds jihad"<br /> racism breeds jihad.<br /> and in the meanwhile, lives are extinguished slowly, the people suffer and are herded about like cattle, mistreated and diminished in personhood.</p> <p>how much time will it take to finally recognize this crime against humanity in what supposedly is rumored about that it is the only "democracy" in the middle east and this could be true as long as you get to redefine democracy.</p> <p>do only the most enlightened societies achieve this level of sophisticated extremeism, and lean towards an atempt to conquer the known world.</p> "tyranny breeds jihad"
racism breeds jihad.
and in the meanwhile, lives are extinguished slowly, the people suffer and are herded about like cattle, mistreated and diminished in personhood.

how much time will it take to finally recognize this crime against humanity in what supposedly is rumored about that it is the only "democracy" in the middle east and this could be true as long as you get to redefine democracy.

do only the most enlightened societies achieve this level of sophisticated extremeism, and lean towards an atempt to conquer the known world.

]]> By: Montag http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/according-to-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-63342 Montag Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/12/according-to-th.html#comment-63342 <p>Phil, you may have lucked out. From the sound of things if you had attended they would have had to kill you afterwards. AIPAC makes the secretive Skull & Bones Society look like shameless exhibitionists.</p> Phil, you may have lucked out. From the sound of things if you had attended they would have had to kill you afterwards. AIPAC makes the secretive Skull & Bones Society look like shameless exhibitionists.

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