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angelatc
02-20-2012, 04:10 PM
I missed this article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/center-for-america-progress-group-tied-to-obama-accused-of-anti-semitic-language/2012/01/17/gIQAcrHXAQ_story.html?hpid=z3
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/center-for-america-progress-group-tied-to-obama-accused-of-anti-semitic-language/2012/01/17/gIQAcrHXAQ_story.html?hpid=z3)
The focus is the Israeli lobby's efforts to force out anybody that isn't sufficiently pro-Israel from the Democratic think-tanks. (I assume the GOP population was successfully cleansed long ago.) From the article,



Among the points of contention are Twitter posts by one CAP writer on his personal account referring to “Israel-firsters.” Some experts say the phrase has roots in the anti-Semitic charge that American Jews are more loyal to a foreign country, Israel, than to the United States. In another case, a staffer described a U.S. senator as showing more fealty to the prime U.S. pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, than to his own constituents. The first writer has since left the staff.





According to this BigGovernment blog, (http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/19/washington-post-center-for-american-progress-group-tied-to-obama-accused-of-anti-semitic-language/#idc-cover)which essentially only rehashes the WaPo article and collects a bunch of silly "the lefties hate Israel!" comments, the afore-mentioned Senator is Illinois' own Mark Kirk, who changed his Twitter account to read, "Mark Kirk (R-AIPAC.)

(The best article about it is from Justin Rainmondo, here. (http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/19/the-return-of-the-smear-bund/) )

Excuse me? The voters aren't allowed to find that offensive? Screw it - maybe all the Senators should start using that to tell us who they're really representing. John McCain (R-Goldman Sachs). Barack Obama (D-Goldman Sachs).

eduardo89
02-20-2012, 04:13 PM
Didn't Kirk suffer a stroke a short time ago?

Austrian Econ Disciple
02-20-2012, 04:18 PM
Glenn Greenwald had a great piece on this issue not too long ago. Should check it out. AIPAC is more a threat than Iran, Iraq, Al-Qaeda, and the whole lot of the boogeyman they hash up. Foreign Government has essentially hi-jacked our foreign policy along with the Industrial interests that run the MIC. It's insane.

Pisces
02-20-2012, 04:20 PM
Didn't Kirk suffer a stroke a short time ago?

Yes, his stroke was reported on the same day that Rand was detained by the TSA

Kylie
02-20-2012, 04:21 PM
He's my senator. Yeah, he had a stroke. I told my husband that I kind of felt bad about it, but since I hadnt actually wished anything bad upon him(bad form and karma), but not too badly.

angelatc
02-20-2012, 05:32 PM
Didn't Kirk suffer a stroke a short time ago?

He did. I feel less bad about that now.