At Politico, here is a Ben Smith profile of Jennifer Rubin, the intolerant neoconservative blogger at the Washington Post. She is 49 and never worked in journalism till 2007. Fast track. Before then she worked for Hollywood studios. And then, of course, she worked for Commentary. Smith doesn’t mention that part. He does have this. Helpful:
She planned to be the perfect suburban PTA mom, if with an intense and combative interest in foreign affairs and politics in general, and in Israel in particular – the sole bumper sticker on her gray Honda Pilot reads, “JERUSALEM IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. It’s Israel’s Eternal And Undivided Capital.” …
She emerged as a leading voice, in particular, of pro-Israel Republicans like Standard editor Bill Kristol and his protegés who view the interests of the United States and of Israel’s hawkish government as almost identical and who view any public suggestion of difference between them as a dangerous.
Here’s a question: how many non-Jewish graduates of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism get columns in the Washington Post?
Baloney. The Jews invading Arab East Jerusalem are settlers and they are trying to create a settlement.
Rubin is a bad conservative act, and it only illustrates how sad Neo-cons are in reality. She poses for the ‘right’ cause, but she really doesn’t know what side she is on (when we know it’s the one that is more supportive of Israel). And leaving Hollywood to go and blog for Israel makes many realize the nefarious relationship of the two. I think Dan Reihl, below, captures the essense why she is blogging.
from article:
“I don’t have time to waste bytes on someone not in the conservative movement,” RedState’s Erick Erickson, who broke with Rubin over her support for the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, told POLITICO when asked about her in an email.
Dan Riehl, another conservative blogger, described her as an “establishment Republican” and a “neocon” and said he suspected the Post uses her as a kind of foil, to define the rightward limit of the debate as relatively close to the center.
The dominant feature of Rubin’s politics, of course, is her ultra-hawkish Greater Israel Zionism. … While she is quick to accuse Israel’s critics of anti-Semitism, Rubin is not so fond of actually existing American Jews, whom she views as unpatriotic and insufficiently supportive of Israel.”[11]
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/rubin_jennifer
Fast track…sounds like you hit the nail on the head… Phil