I don’t know the context for this explosion, but Gawker published it in 2011:
Check out what Commentary’s John Podhoretz said to Max Blumenthal on Twitter yesterday! “Whatever their flaws, they don’t suck the cocks of Jew-haters and murderers, Maxie boy.” He later apologized and deleted that tweet. Still, the point is that John Podhoretz likes to talk about the cocks of Jew-haters.
Podhoretz later apologized. But the tweet is preserved here:
RT @jpodhoretz @MaxBlumenthal Whatever their flaws, they don’t suck the cocks of Jew-haters and murderers, Maxie boy.
— Jesse Taylor (@jesseltaylor) August 23, 2011
People have been recirculating the tweet because Podhoretz will be speaking at the 92d Street Y next week, alongside Jane Eisner of the Forward. “Jewish Leaders to Engage on What It Means to Be Pro-Israel.”
Jeremy Ben-Ami, David Harris, John Podhoretz will discuss Israel, Iran, Jewish communal politics December 16, at 8:15PM at 92Y
NEW YORK—With the spotlight on Israeli-Palestinian and Iranian negotiations—two areas in which the US and Israel have common stake, if not always shared vision—four leading American Jewish voices from across the political spectrum will come together to discuss what it means to be pro-Israel in America.
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami will join American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris and Commentary Magazine editor John Podhoretz for a community conversation moderated by Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward. The event will take place on Monday, December 16 at 8:15pm at 92Y.
Note that the 92d Street Y cancelled an appearance by Gaza doctor/author Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose three daughters were killed by Israeli onslaught but somehow forgave the act, because a Jewish counterpart bowed out and it couldn’t have a Palestinian solo-ing on the main stage. (So much for Jewish IQ.)
And here’s a question for Podhoretz: Commentary’s mission statement, on its website, states its dedication to “the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards.” And neoconservatism has historically decried the fall of civility, blaming the vulgarity of popular culture on a decline in religious faith and the growth of government. Now Podhoretz is Exhibit A in degradation, coarseness and contempt for civility. What happened on the way to the forum?
Update: Original post left the impression that Podhoretz had just tweeted that abuse to Blumenthal. He did so in 2011. It’s getting fresh life because of Podhoretz’s role as a Jewish leader.
i noticed a bunch of tweets about this last night. these rgtwg people who are continually promoted as speakers representing the jewish community, they can say anything and be forgiven. nobody kicks them out. they merely utter faux paxes and get recycled back into the discourse.
And here’s a question for Podhoretz: Commentary’s mission statement, on its website, states its dedication to “the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards.” And neoconservatism has historically decried the fall of civility, blaming the vulgarity of popular culture on a decline in religious faith and the growth of government. Now Podhoretz is Exhibit A in degradation, coarseness and contempt for civility. What happened on the way to the forum?
So says ‘Holier than’ thou Philip Weiss – but wait!
Could this new sanctimonious Weiss be the same one who saw fit to include this on his website?
Who applauded SNL on their vulgar ‘comedy routines’ accusing pro Israel folk of being ‘donkey fellators’?
https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2013/02/donkey-fellator-semitic.html
https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2013/02/fellate-donkey-israel.html/comment-page-1
Podheratz is evidently not the first to lower the tone of political / and specifically M.E discourse into the base language of the gutter.
Philly Weiss and SNL got there FIRST!
Podhoretz is notorious for many things. Just a few months ago he was the MC of an event honoring Dick Cheney “for his services to the nation”.
He has a habit of attacking everyone and anyone as “anti-Semitic [insert vulgar word here]”. That tweet he sent to Max was not an aberration, it was the norm.
Yet I can’t say I think he’s really influential. Even within the GOP, the neocons are losing ground. Sites like Daily Caller are opposing the Israel lobby, publishing articles by Jack Ross(“Rabbi Outcast” who writes frankly about AIPAC and the role of the neocons.
The problem is that, fundamentally, Podhoretz is a liberal New York Jew who is far-right on Israel. That’s his only issue. On everything else he is a liberal. Sure, on government’s size etc he’s basically a Reagan democrat, but the neocons have always argues for a larger role for the welfare state within the GOP. This was one of their foundational traits.
Why? Because they were essentially left-wing Jews who wanted to carve out a home for Zionism in the GOP. The problem is that these people have no roots in the Republican party. This was again evidenced when Erick Erickson tweeted that Jennifer Rubin(blogger at WaPo) was only in the GOP to promote Israel – which was true.
She attacked him as an anti-Semite and he retracted his (truthful) statement but the fact remains, most of the senior conservatives know these people only care about Israel and have tried to hijack the GOP to serve the cause of Zionism. True, there are genuine conservative Jews like Mark Levin who are also strong Zionists, but their Zionism is secondary or even tertiary to their political identity.
>> RT @jpodhoretz @Max Blumenthal Whatever their flaws, they don’t suck the cocks of Jew-haters and murderers, Maxie boy.
Now get over here and fellate this donkey!
John Podhoretz is no liberal. He is a neo-con who opposes affirmative action (like German Righty) and trade union ascendancy.