Richard Goldberg speaks for Kirk’s family after stroke Jan.2012, Dr. Richard Fessler (photo: couriernews.suntimes)
Illinois Senator Mark Kirk’s chief of staff has his hands full. Richard Goldberg is said to be manning the unofficial headquarters of the campaign to knock out Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of Defense.
Kirk has been a huge beneficiary of Israel lobby donations, and while the leading lobby group AIPAC is reportedly staying out of the Hagel fight, nightflowers bloom in the dark (as a former AIPAC aide once bragged), and who better at the helm than Kirk aide Goldberg with his “undying commitment to the safety and security of the State of Israel.”
Roll Call: Has Kirk’s Office Been Running a Secret Anti-Hagel Campaign?
A top aide to Sen. Mark S. Kirk, R-Ill., has been distributing anti-Chuck Hagel emails to a large, undisclosed listserv of staffers — including Democrats — beginning as early as Dec. 20, according to the more than a dozen emails obtained by CQ Roll Call.
Richard Goldberg, a deputy chief of staff in Kirk’s office who also focuses on foreign policy issues, has been sending as many as three emails a day to the list, which CQ Roll Call confirmed includes reporters, Republican policy staffers and some Democrats. The emails typically include links or text of articles that cast Hagel — a former Republican senator from Nebraska and President Barack Obama’s secretary of Defense nominee — in a negative light.
Kirk served for 10 years in the House before winning President Obama’s old Senate seat in 2011 with the help of wads of pro-Israel cash. Kirk suffered a stroke a year ago and only returned to the Capitol a few days ago. Last year, when Kirk’s office originated legislation to curb Palestinian rights, we took a look at who was running his office in his absence; and Goldberg’s pro-Israel bona fides jumped out. Then weeks later it was revealed that Goldberg was the go between in a scheme in which an Israeli Knesset member seeded anti-Palestinian legislation in Congress. The bill required the State Department to count Palestinian refugees, with the goal of stripping Palestinians of their refugee status, and it became law last spring.
In April [Knesset member Einat] Wilf and Rosen met with Kirk’s deputy chief of staff, Richard Goldberg. Kirk is recovering from a stroke he suffered a few months ago, and Goldberg is promoting the senator’s legislative efforts.
After a preliminary draft of the bill was worded, AIPAC officials went on board in an attempt to pass it, holding meeting with many of the senators on the appropriations committee in an attempt to sway them into supporting the legislation.
These days Goldberg’s twitter feed appears to be myopically dedicated to slamming Chuck Hagel, for instance publicizing a Commentary piece that highlights Hagel’s “anti-Israel positions,” including his understanding of Palestinian desperation under occupation.
Yes indeed. Been sending my faxes all morning to the I-Firsters identified so far as opposing and smearing Hagel on Israel. Feel free to join in. Some of you will probably want to be more polite about it than I am. I personally don’t believe in showing any respect to these people…they deserve none. Kill all the taboos, tell the truth.
The Guilty:
Fax Numbers as of Jan. 1, 2013
Kirk – Goldberg 202 228 4611
Lindsey Graham – 202 224 3808
Tom Coburn – 202 224 6008
Mitch McConnell- 202 224 2499
Chuck Schumer 202 228 3027
Bill Nelson – 202 228 2183
Saxley Chambliss 202 224 0103
Robert Menendez 202 228 2197
Ted Cruz—no fax yet—Ph 202 224 5922
Pat Roberts – 202 224 3514
John Cornyn 202 228 2856
Mark Rubio 202 228 0285
Rob Portman – 202 224 9075
John McCain 202 228 2862
For good measure:
Harry Reid- 202 224 7327
John Kerry – 202 224 8525
Paul Rand – 202 228 6917
For this….
“SENATE AIDE: SEND US HAGEL AND WE WILL MAKE SURE EVERY AMERICAN KNOWS HE IS AN ANTI SEMITE”"…Bill Kristol – Jewish Lobby – Kirk’s Goldberg -Weekly Standard Headline
You will get this..
” AND WE WILL MAKE SURE EVERY AMERICAN KNOWS THAT YOU ARE TRAITORS TO THIS COUNTRY AND ANTI AMERICAN PAID AGENTS FOR THE JEWISH LOBBY AND THE FOREIGN COUNTRY OF ISRAEL WHO SELL OUT AMERICANS FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL POLITICAL CAREERS.
# Chuck Hagel attackers who are also Jewish nationalists and pro-Israel activists
1. Abraham Foxman
2. Adam Kredo
3. Alana Goodman
4. Ari Morgenstern
5. Barney Frank
6. Bret Stephens
7. Caroline Glick
8. Chuck Schumer
9. Daniel Greenfield
10. Danielle Pletka
11. David Brog
12. Debbie Schlussel
13. Ed Koch
14. Eliot Engel
15. Elliot Abrams
16. Eric Cantor
17. Frank Gaffney
18. Fred Hiatt
19. Gil Troy
20. Ira Forman
21. Jeff Dunetz
22. Jennifer Rubin
23. Joe Lieberman
24. Jonathan Tobin
25. Josh Block
26. Malcolm Hoenlein
27. Matt Brooks
28. Michael Rubin
29. Morris Amitay
30. Morton Klein
31. Noah Silverman
32. Pamela Geller
33. Paul Wolfowitz
34. Philip Klein
35. Richard Goldberg
36. Ron Radosh
37. William Kristol
Do they really think that the world doesn’t see what is going on?
Notice how the above anti-Hagel lobbyists cut across traditional Republican and Democratic Party lines — for them, it’s all about Israel, period. The last thing that is on their minds is the American interest.
Particularly take note of the liberal Zionists who are making common cause with neoconservatives — two arms of a single Israel lobby.
Phone number for Nelson is screwy. Weird sound, no answer. But go to his web site and you can call on another number and email him. Plus, even the weird number allows you to leave a pro-bagel message, which I did.
Wake up America….
the enemy is right in front of you
as far as I can see annie there is not even a glimmer of hope to confront the jewish lobby in this country…
I have been saying ..Wake up America since 2000 ..regarding the lobby in this country…
most was posted on Yahoo boards…
the is no media to confront them…
is it any wonder that the US is in debt to the tune of $16T…
I did a survey over at Newsmax today..
vote yes kerry 78% said vote not
vote yes hagle 82% said vote no
filbuster them 69% said filbuster them both
that is the mind set of the gop/tp
absolutely sad
lol! you crack me up jimmy, lefties don’t frequent newsmax. it’s not an msm site.it’s radical right, of course their surveys will reflect that. maybe you could let us know what gellars audience are into also.
as far as I can see annie there is not even a glimmer of hope to confront the jewish lobby in this country…
i guess you can’t see very far than. itmay surprise you to know there’s a difference between the people and the msm. i think we already know the msm is biased. if you want to believe everything they tell you go for it. me, i watch trends in the news. it doesn’t surprise me a few days after wapo informs us the anti hagels are turning this into a campaign the msm floods us with negative news stories. that’s what people do in campaigns. it doesn’t mean it speaks for the people. chill,everybody said obama wouldn’t nominate him and they were all proven wrong.
the way i look at it, we’ve got a win win on our hands. if hagel goes down it will reflect poorly on the lobby, people are already sick of them. if anyone thinks obama will respond to a defeat of hagel by appointing someone less contentious iv’e got a bridge to sell you. this fight works for us no matter which way it goes because it exposes power.
Citizen,
Those numbers are their fax numbers…probably why you got the funny sound.
Save this site for future reference….it’s up to date as of Jan 10 2013.
If you click on your state it shows all Senators and Reps and displays their phone and fax numbers. Really time saving if you’re looking just for numbers.
link to contactingthecongress.org
In that vein, please sign this petition against dual citizens in the WH:
link to petitions.whitehouse.gov
Need 25000 votes for WH response. About 80 votes so far.
O.K…..I agree.
done
Thanks, Annie. Great work exposing the mechanisms. One thing I’ve realized over the years on Mondoweiss is how banal everything looks when it is finally exposed to the light of day, in this case, Richard Goldberg.
annie they are trying to get Hagel to quit before he even gets started
that worked on that Chas Freeman ….now they are trying it again
these right wing zionists absolutely hate obama they are the new KKK with a Z somewhere in there I beleive I read somewhere that the nuttys govern is trying to kick out the black jews tooo
whenever the zionists come to DC they go right to the republicans now…act as if obama isnt even there…
telling
Using a guy named “Goldberg” to do this … makes you wonder if they just couldn’t *find* anyone with a non-jewish name to be the point-person. It sure as hell ain’t gonna go unnoticed.
Great piece. Kirk is a fanatical supporter of continuing insane Israeli colonisation programme in the West Bank, no matter how many hundreds of billions of dollars this insane programme costs the American people.
You can bet Schumer is working behind the scenes to take Hagel down. Let’s hope Frank does not get Kerry’s seat even for three months (and I would put money on it that if Frank gets that spot for three months he will flip and run for the seat) he could be a another vote against Hagel.
RE: “Illinois Senator Mark Kirk’s chief of staff has his hands full. Richard Goldberg is said to be manning the unofficial headquarters of the campaign to knock out Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of Defense.” ~ Annie Robbins
MY OBSERVATION: Judging from the photo, Richard Goldberg certainly has perfected the über-preppy look that is so popular with the young neocons. Doug Feith is another nice example of how they seem determined to out-WASP the WASPs, at least as to their appearance.
What we need is a list of all chiefs of staff for all senators and congressmen. And a list of the chief fundraisers inside their offices.
Sean?
MRW,
What we need is a Wikipedia-style reference tool that lays out the entire structure of the worldwide Israel lobby in minute detail — including the kind of details you mention.
It would be especially useful to have instant access to all the key quotes by and about the leading players in the Israel lobby — including the founding fathers of Zionism.
All of this information is currently available in scattered and disorganized form in mainstream Jewish publications.
“What we need is a Wikipedia-style reference tool that lays out the entire structure of the worldwide Israel lobby in minute detail — including the kind of details you mention.”
Be quite a job keeping it updated, since things change all the time. Still, it might be of some use even if it can’t be updated, I mean, look at the Protocols. Accuracy isn’t as important as making a very threatening presentation. Don’t forget about background ambient noise/music. Video and slide shows help. This could be a real coup for an enterprising web designer.
Mooser,
Are you trying to suggest that collecting, organizing and analyzing the truthful and well-documented facts about the structure and operations of the Israel lobby would be equivalent to composing and circulating the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
How do you feel about Walt’s and Mearsheimer’s book on the Israel lobby? Many pro-Israel activists and militants smeared it with the Protocols line.
A Wikipedia-style reference guide to the Israel lobby would be easy to update — there are thousands of people around the world who are well-informed about the subject and who would be eager to share their knowledge. How do you think Wikipedia itself remains updated? — through voluntary input from many thousands of people who contribute their efforts for free.
Mooser,
What topics/entries do you think would be appropriate for a Wikipedia-style reference tool on the Israel lobby?
@sean……you will find this to be useful
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AND ALSO THIS…….link to senate.gov…….for records and statements that aren’t covered on thomas.gov
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But the catalogue of Hagel’s crimes is much more extensive.
Many years ago he called the pro-Israeli lobby in Washington (would you believe it?) the “Jewish lobby”. Until then, it was understood that AIPAC is mainly composed of Buddhists and financed by Arab billionaires like Abu Sheldon and Abel al-Adelson.
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