TPM says that neocon Dan Senor, the commentator and Israel lobbyist (I’ve seen him at AIPAC) who recently published a book about how Israel is the great miraculous startup nation, is thinking of running for the Republican Senate nomination in NY and maybe taking on Mort Zuckerman, from the right. I didn’t know there was a right of Mort Zuckerman!
I find Senor frightening, and it’s weird that he just did a book on Israel being the startup economy for the world just before he might be raising money to run for Senate. Coincidence? TPM quotes a poll that it says Senor has commissioned that asks:
If you knew that the candidate had served the country in Iraq, would that change your opinion of them?
This is a reference to Senor being the mouthpiece for the Coalition Provisional Authority for a year. Jeez. Oh and what would a soldier say about that claim? Look at Iraq veteran Jon Soltz, taking apart Senor on Hannity & Colmes no less, for misrepresentations about Iraq. At 5:15 the fur flies.
The Thomas Friedman camp will love this. Friedman prates on about Israel being the only democracy in the Middle East and also about the wonders of Israel’s tech sector, etc. With Senor and Zuckerman in the mix, the Dems should be pretty happy. Gillibrand has turned out to be pretty good on most issues. Will be interesting to see where Joe Lieberman (effectively New York City’s third senator), Charles Schumer and Michael Bloomberg will come down on this.
Could be quite a race, a real test of the New York electorate. It would tempt Kirsten to really play the anti-neocon, anti-Iraq war card –which would help her in the city, plus she’s from upstate. So she should win. I have no idea how good or not good a candidate she is.
About a year ago, Kirsten got a fairly public nod from the administration, so I doubt she will get her rogue on (anti-Iraq is acceptable because it is irrelevant; anti-neocon? are we even allowed to say neocon anymore or is that anti-semitic?).
Wow. With Zuckerman and Danny both making noises (not sure if Ford counts), someone smells blood. What the hell did Obama do wrong? Refuse to invade Iran by October? Nuke Pakistan?
Phil: “I find Senor frightening.” I’m with you; actually, I find him slimey as well. It’s worse than that, though: he’s CNN political reporter Campbell Brown’s husband. Think she would quit? Or recuse herself from discussions of the race? It wouldn’t matter. Wolf Blitzer and recently-converted Jew John King would take up the slack.
Watch Robert Greenwald’s four-minute clip from his “Iraq For Sale” documentary that was banned from viewing during his appearance before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense about war profiteering. Dan Senor was in charge of those appropriations. It is devastating.
The first video (scroll down) is the 4-minute video banned from Congress testimony.
link to examiner.com
Correction: in charge of managing and administering those appropriations in Iraq for whatsisname, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
RE: “whatsisname, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority” – MRW
UPI: When then-viceroy Paul Bremer took over the civilian administration of Iraq in 2003, he had an intricate plan to transform the state-owned socialist economy into a beacon of free enterprise in the heart of the Middle East. Central to his plan was the sale of some 200 state-owned enterprises to the highest bidder to bring in fresh capital, streamline operations and boost profits….
SOURCE – link to spacewar.com
In 1993 Senor did an internship[9] at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful pro-Israel lobby organization which some regard as being affiliated to the Likud party. AIPAC’s website quotes him as saying: “Whether I was learning the ins and outs of Washington with my fellow interns or attending briefings on Capitol Hill, my internship at AIPAC prepared me for my work in politics”. His sister, Wendy Senor Singer, heads AIPAC’s office in Jerusalem. His brother-in-law, Saul Singer, is the very right-wing opinion editor of the Jerusalem Post.
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good old dan, i remember him well from his pr days in iraq. didn’t he used to work for SAIC also?
nix that re saic. he’s so slick. he’s a narrative man.
Dan Senor is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The more I think about it, I think opp research for a Gillenbrand campaign against Senor is the most fun job ever.
It reminds me of David Brooks’ Hasbara Op-Ed column ”The Tel Aviv Cluster’ in the New York Times in which he boasted about many Jewish achievements considering they make-up only 0.2% of world’s population.
Jewish or Israeli Achievements
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