Jewish groups praise, defend Rush Limbaugh
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Jewish groups praised Rush Limbaugh for his “outspoken support for Israel” after he was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League for making controversial remarks on Jews and the banking industry.
“There has been controversy recently over statements made by radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh about Jewish voting patterns, political ties and the recent Massachusetts election. We are deeply dismayed by the unfounded criticism of the talk show commentator’s observations,” read a statement issued Jan. 27 by several Jewish organizations, including American Friends of Likud, the news monitoring group CAMERA, Emunah of America, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, National Council of Young Israel, Religious Zionists of America and Z Street.
During a Jan. 20 broadcast following Republican Scott Brown’s upset victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, Limbaugh wondered if Jews — nearly 80 percent of whom backed Barack Obama in 2008 — were having second thoughts about the president.
“There are a lot of people, when you say banker, people think Jewish. People who have prejudice, people who have, you know — what’s the best way to say — a little prejudice about them,” Limbaugh said, according to the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters.
“To some people, ‘banker’ is code word for Jewish; and guess who Obama is assaulting? He’s assaulting bankers. He’s assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there’s — if there’s starting to be some buyer’s remorse there.”
Limbaugh’s remarks were criticized by the ADL last week, which called them “offensive and inappropriate.”
The Zionist Organization of America issued a statement directly slamming the ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman, for his criticisms of Limbaugh.
The ZOA accused Foxman of holding Limbaugh to a tougher standard than several virulent critics of Israel, and called on the ADL leader to retract his comments and apologize to Limbaugh. — jta
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02/04/2010 at 06:30 PM
Funny, I thought the words “Goldman Sachs” were the code words for Jewish. Quite frankly, I am disappointed with both major political parties. They have brought this country to the brink of financial ruin. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are becoming as dysfunctional as the German political parties of the Wiemar Republic. If our politicians allow the US$ to collapse and repeat the mistakes of Wiemar Germany, it will certainly not be good for the Jews. Don’t forget, we live in a country where a majority of voters in a majority of the states have already voted to deny basic civil rights to their gay neighbors. It wouldn’t take much for disgruntled Americans to adopt the old Julius Streicher mantra, which I won’t repeat here. Never again? Not necessarily. In 2004, after Bush’s State of the Union Address in which he called for a Federal Marriage Amendment, I dreamed that I had been interred on Treasure Island, not for being Jewish, but for being gay. Maybe I am due for another nightmare, in which I am interred for being Jewish instead. If you have never read William Shirer’s book “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, may I suggest that you read at least pages 59 to 62 , the section called “A House Divided”. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
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