This is crazy. The Wall Street Journal runs a long piece on Mortimer Zuckerman’s disaffection with Barack Obama and goes on and on about Obama’s economic policies, but says not a word about Israel. This is irresponsible and deceptive.
The record is clear. Zuckerman is a giant Israel lobbyist who fell out with Obama over Israel. Here he attacked Obama for his “betrayal” of Israel. Here he attacked Obama for playing the Middle East “game” all wrong by pushing on settlements. In this screed, Zuckerman wrote of “the hostility President Obama has shown to Israel from the start,” praised Netanyahu as a peacemaker and bashed Obama for even mentioning the ’67 borders. WSJ’s James Freeman:
A longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, Mr. Zuckerman wrote in these pages two months ago that the entire business community was “pleading for some kind of adult supervision” in Washington and “desperate for strong leadership.” Writing soon after the historic downgrade of U.S. Treasury debt by Standard & Poor’s, he wrote, “I long for a triple-A president to run a triple-A country.”
His words struck a chord. When I visit Mr. Zuckerman this week in his midtown Manhattan office, he reports that three people approached him at dinner the previous evening to discuss his August op-ed. Among business executives who supported Barack Obama in 2008, he says, “there is enormously widespread anxiety over the political leadership of the country.” Mr. Zuckerman reports that among Democrats, “The sense is that the policies of this government have failed. . . . What they say about [Mr. Obama] when he’s not in the room, so to speak, is astonishing.”
i’m sick of these neocons being provided such a platform in our msm. it’s disgusting.
Unbelieveablely outrageous. This is the kind of journalism that any responsible citizen should loathe: they know their omissions distort the reality beyond all recognition, but they don’t care because it’s part of their agenda.
It’s only in the last twenty years, although much more aggressively in the last five years, that it has been assumed that the US is so weak and easily manipulated that it can be railroaded into anything a small, bullying state like Israel wants. Now it is assumed the status of a holy duty, and anyone who can think for themselves is a heretic and should be dragged through the witch-burning of the MSM. It is so weird that it is considered beyond the pale to even question the transfer of enormous funds and know-how to this unstable, warmongering entity, which is happy to put American lives in the way of their paranoid aggression towards just about everybody in their region. One day America will wake up and wonder how did they ever get into a situation where they are the submissive partner to a dominating psycho.
You should have seen him this morning on the Mclaughin group this morning when Iran was brought up – he was literally sitting on one butt cheek waiting for someone to mention Israel – Eleanor Clift did – saying that if Iran even thought about a nuclear attack on anyone – the Israeli’s or the US would “obliterate” them – Morty IMMEDIATELY started talking over her
Odd though, the complaining lacks specificity. If the Republicans gridlock government what do the these embryonic war criminals want, rule by dictate? For Wall Street and Bank Street it really is only about Zionism.