wikileaks site here

The New Republic is a neoconservative magazine where the people gather who made this world into a much bigger mess than it already was. Todd Gitlin wrote an article about WikiLeaks and, as expected of a neocon, it is total rubbish.
Glenn Greenwald pointed that out. Now Todd responds on the website of New Republic. Here is what Greenwald has to say about Todd.

What’s new: ’Whole neocon column grounded in a pure falsehood’

Glenn Greenwald: At The New Republic, Todd Gitlin has now posted what he calls: “A response to Glenn Greenwald.“
I’ll leave it to everyone to decide on their own if what he wrote even remotely constitutes a sufficient or responsible acknowledgment of error, except I’ll just note that his principal excuse — that he wasn’t aware when he filed his piece of the AP article negating his whole premise — doesn’t change the fact that (a) the central premise of his denunciation of WikiLeaks was factually false and (b) all he had to do — and should have done — to know that what he wrote was inaccurate was look at WikiLeaks’ release of cables, which happened to be the topic of his article.
That would have immediately revealed that they were not indiscriminately dumping thousands of cables. By slothfully condemning WikiLeaks for its release of cables that he obviously never even bothered to look at — but instead just repeated what he heard elsewhere — he wrote a whole column grounded in a pure falsehood and now lacks the integrity to acknowledge that clearly.

Met dit soort uitspraken kan ik me niet voorstellen dat de huidige regering lang stand gaat houden. Geert Wilders begint steeds meer trekjes te krijgen van de totaal gefaalde neoconservatieve Amerikaanse politici.

Dutch politician Wilders says West Bank belongs to Israel

The Jerusalem Post - Dutch politician Geert Wilders called on Israel to build more settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international demands for a construction freeze on Sunday.
Wilders stated that building must continue so Israel can create defensible borders — by annexing the West Bank. Wilders is known in the Netherlands and Europe as a staunch critic of Islam and political Islamism. Wilders also said on Sunday in Tel Aviv that neighboring Jordan should take in Palestinians.

WikiLeaks is established to prevent the world’s most powerful factions, which certainly includes the U.S. Government, from continuing to operate in the dark without any restraints. In real democracies the controle is supposed to come from parliaments and the media but certainly in (corporatist) America those institutions not only fail to do so, but are active participants in maintaining the veil of secrecy.
It resulted in attacks on countries that were no threat at all to the U.S. and torturing prisoners to death. WikiLeaks, whatever its flaws, is one of the very few entities exposing all of this.
Glenn Greenwald shines his bright light.

WikiLeaks reveals more than just government secrets

The WikiLeaks disclosure has revealed not only numerous government secrets, but also the driving mentality of major factions in our political and media class. Simply put, there are few countries in the world with citizenries and especially media outlets more devoted to serving, protecting and venerating government authorities than the U.S. Indeed, I don’t quite recall any entity producing as much bipartisan contempt across the American political spectrum as WikiLeaks has: as usual, for authoritarian minds, those who expose secrets are far more hated than those in power who commit heinous acts using secrecy as their principal weapon. [read on] (more…)

Michael Goldfarb is a good example of the complete collapse of norms and mores in American political culture. He was an aide to presidential candididate John McCain and will very likely be aiding another Republican presidential candidate in the future. This deranged individual sent this message on Twitter three days ago:

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Een verhaal van Glenn Greenwald over Amerikanen die onbeschaamd zeggen het toe te juichen als Julian Assange - de oprichter van Wikileaks - zou worden vermoord. Mag allemaal. En in Nederland maken we ons druk om kopvoddentax!?
De vroegere Bush-ambtenaar Christian Witon wil dat Assange wordt bestempeld tot ‘enemy combattant’. U weet wel dat zijn de mensen waarvan Amerika heeft besloten dat ze zonder vorm van proces levenslang mogen worden opgesloten en als dat niet lukt vermoord. Glenn Greenwald vroeg om een interview met Witon hem maar de held bleek helaas verhinderd vandaag en morgen en overmorgen.

The wretched mind of the American authoritarian

In The Chicago Tribune today, there is an Op-Ed from Jonah Goldberg — the supreme, living embodiment of a cowardly war cheerleader — headlined: ”Why is Assange still alive?” It begins this way:

I’d like to ask a simple question: Why isn’t Julian Assange dead? . . . WikiLeaks is easily among the most significant and well-publicized breaches of American national security since the Rosenbergs gave the Soviets the bomb…
So again, I ask: Why wasn’t Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?
It’s a serious question.
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Decadent governments often spawn a decadent citizenry. In Nebraska a 22-year-old man was arrested for waterboarding his girlfriend as she was tied to a couch. The man accused her of being a member of Al Qaeda. He wanted to know if she was cheating on him with another man; I wonder where he learned that?
The police told reporters that the girl didn’t admit to cheating on her boyfriend, but she did confess that she was a member of Al Qaeda planning a suicide attack in the nearby shopping mall.

Man Busted For Waterboarding Girlfriend
After accusing his girlfriend of cheating on him, a Nebraska man allegedly tied the woman to a couch in their apartment and waterboarded her, according to police.
Trevor Case, 22, has been charged with domestic assault, false imprisonment, and making terroristic threats in connection with the bizarre incident early Saturday morning at the Lincoln home he shared with the 22-year-old victim.

Didn’t neocons go to war against Iraq to bring Saddam Hussein to justice and bring democracy to that country, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s on the way?
Now neocon John Bolton says democracy is not always the answer.
Make up you mind nitwit!

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that “[m]embers of Pakistan’s spy agency [ISI] are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan.” Referring to the story Thursday night on Fox News, war hawk John Bolton — potential GOP presidential candidate in 2012 — made an astonishing claim regarding the type of government that should be in control of Pakistan: that the country was better off under military authoritarian rule, which (allegedly) would have been easier to “lean” on to prevent the ISI from helping the Taliban: [read on] (more…)

This guy brings to mind the good old days of the build up to the Iraq war. The days of Weapon’s of Mass Destruction and Iraq almost succeeding in getting a nuclear bomb. Roger Noriega (former Bush political appointee) warns us of Hugo Chavez’s supposed plans to develop nuclear weapons with the help of Iran.
Iran? Yes Iran, like they don’t have enough problems with their own nuclear program to get involved with Venezuela. Noriega is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute so that should be enough of a warning that he is just another lying neoconservative.
In conclusion. If Venezuela really would be on the road to develop a nucear weapon, neocons like Roger Noriega certainly are not the ones to bring this to attention of the world.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez admitted last week that his government is “carrying out the first studies” of a nuclear program. He attempted to portray it as an innocuous program designed solely for peaceful purposes.
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On Fox News yesterday BillKkristol was discussing President Obama’s policy on Iran and he gave the neoconservative’s answer to every foreign policy problem: bombing.
Kristol scoffed at President Obama’s continued offers of engagement and claimed that the only way to deal with Iran was to threaten war. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the Iranians do a phony feint toward negotiations to try and buy some more time,” Kristol then explained when he hopes America’s next war will start. “I’m open to the notion that he will end up a year from now using force against Iran, and I guess he feels there’s no point signaling that now.”
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It can take a long time but in the end all will be known. About how the Bush-administration, guided by the neoconservatives, fucked up the world and for what purpose. Slowly more information is getting out about the lies that convinced a majority of Americans that Iraq was a danger to the United States. Again it shows how crucial the role of Tony Blair was in giving a stamp of approval to the agression of the neocons. The National Security Archive published the first of a three-part series on the Bush-government early plans to invade Iraq. Much of it has already been discussed but now there is proof. The series is based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
This is part of the documents. Notes for a discussion how to start a war against Iraq.

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The man who established the popular progressive blog DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas, has written a new book: American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. It examines the similarities between Islamic extremists and the American rightwing. Markos already wasn’t very popular in conservative, neocon circles. Maybe because of his Greek name or because he is a homosexual but certainly because he has served in the US army, which most neocons can’t say. But after publishing this book he’s not that popular in some progressive circles too. Many liberals have strongly condemned the book on the ground that it is offensive and misguided to suggest that American conservatives are comparable to Muslim Terrorists by which they mean the Taliban. Glenn Greenwald finds some of these objections both absurd and revealing.

Rightwing constantly suggesting a liberal sympathy with Islamic Terrorists

In what universe is it “obscene” to compare the architects of the Iraq War, the torture regime, and endless War with Muslims “to killers and terrorists”? The comparison is true by definition. The people who launched the attack on Iraq are guilty of an aggressive war — what the Nuremberg prosecutors condemned as the “kingpin crime” that “holds together” all other war crimes — which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings, turned millions more into refugees, and destroyed an entire nation.
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Heel toepasselijk citeerde president Bush eens in een toespraak Graham Greene’s klassieke Vietnam-boek ‘The Quiet American’. Dat boek gaat over hoe de weg naar de hel geplaveid is met goede bedoelingen. En Irak is niet anders dan Vietnam, meent ook Glenn Greenwald.

De Engelse historicus H. Arthur Scott Trask in 2003.
“Uit het boek blijkt hoe weinig Amerikanen hebben geleerd van de geschiedenis. Hoe hun Messiaanse idee over democratie niet is veranderd in vijftig jaar. Onwetende, arrogante Amerikanen zoals Pyle, in Greene’s boek, storten zich op de wereld om die te verbeteren maar laten slechts een spoor van lijken, verminkte kinderen, verwoeste landen en nieuwe, meer verbeten vijanden achter. Hoe lang moet de wereld dit moorddadige idealisme nog tolereren?

President Bush, die zich heeft gedrukt voor de militaire dienst in Vietnam, zei verder in zijn speech voor de Veterans of Foreign Wars, dat de les van Vietnam is dat ‘we ons niet terug moeten trekken uit Irak’.

Amerikaans historicus Robert Dallek:
Het is niet te bevatten, welke onzin hier door de president wordt uitgekraamd. We zijn tien jaar in Vietnam geweest. We hebben meer bommen op dat land gegooid dan in de hele Tweede Wereldoorlog. Er zijn 58.700 Amerikanen gesneuveld. En we konden de Vietnamezen niet onze wil opleggen.
Wat suggereert Bush? Dat we niet hard genoeg hebben gevochten, niet lang genoeg zijn gebleven, niet genoeg bommen hebben gegooid? Dat is nonsens, een verdraaiing van de werkelijkheid.
Nu zijn we langer in Irak, dan we gevochten hebben in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het is een ramp. Dit is niets anders dan een cynische poging van Bush de schuld bij de tegenstanders van de oorlog te leggen. Maar deze ramp is het gevolg van de invasie, niet van de terugtocht.”

The “nobody-could-have-known” excuse and Iraq

The predominant attribute of American elites is a refusal to take responsibility for any failures. The favored tactic for accomplishing this evasion is the “nobody-could-have-known” excuse. Each time something awful occurs — the 9/11 attack, the Iraq War, the financial crisis, the breaking of levees in New Orleans, the general ineptitude and lawlessness of the Bush administration — one is subjected to an endless stream of excuse-making from those responsible, insisting that there was no way they “could have known” what was to happen: ”I don’t think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile,” Condoleezza Rice infamously said on May 16, 2002, despite multiple FBI and intelligence documents warning of exactly that. One finds identical excuses for each contemporary American disaster. Robert Gibbs just invoked the same false excuse: that “nobody” knew the depth of the financial and unemployment crisis early last year.
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Het is moeilijk te geloven dat de Verenigde Staten van Amerika bij de tussentijdse verkiezingen in november de macht in de gekozen volksvertegenwoordiging zal teruggeven aan de Republikeinen. Toch is het heel goed mogelijk, als je de peilingen moet geloven. En dan ook nog aan een Grand Old Party (GOP) in een van haar meest primitieve vormen, schrijft Glenn Greenwald. De partij die de VS in het laatste decennium vrijwel heeft verwoest door een mengsel van extreme corruptie, roekeloosheid en wetteloosheid. Maar niets is dommer dan het onderschatten van het krachtige mengsel van economische onderdrukking en het opstoken van racistische en etnische haatdragendheid.
Charles Krauthammer, werkzaam voor Fox News, doet daar uiteraard volop aan mee in een column vol leugens in de Washington Post, vroeger een respectabele krant.

Racial and ethnic exploitation of economic insecurity

Charles Krauthammer (Fox News), The Washington Post, today:

Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities — often lopsided majorities — oppose President Obama’s social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage and reject a mosque near Ground Zero.

Yahoo! News, August 12, 2010:

A new CNN poll has found that most Americans think gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right to get married. . . . As polling-statistics blogger Nate Silver points out, the margin of error [as well as the poll’s status as the first to find majority approval] means we can’t assume that a majority of Americans support gay marriage, but it is “no longer safe to say that opposition to same-sex marriage is the majority position . . . . “

That particular factual inaccuracy, which I am 100% certain will never be corrected by the Post, is the least of the problems with Krauthammer’s column today.
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Nu de Verenigde Staten van Amerika ook Jemen aan het clusterbombarderen is, zit er misschien wel een tweede Nobelprijs voor de Vrede in voor Barack Obama.
Glenn Greenwald ontgaat totaal de logica van het Amerikaanse veiligheidsbeleid van het laatste decennium. Ach, welk normaal mens niet eigenlijk. Het anti-Amerikaanse sentiment en radicalisme groeit in Jemen en om dat probleem aan te pakken, gaat de VS ze bombarderen met vliegende killer robots? Want niets helpt zo goed om anti-Amerikaanse sentimenten te verminderen als het afslachten van burgers met clusterbommen. Je hoeft alleen maar naar het laatste decennium te kijken om te zien hoe goed dat werkt.

An exciting new Muslim country to drone attack

Could Barack Obama become the first person in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize two consecutive years? It is hard to dispute the premise that awarding him the Prize this year would be every bit as justifiable as last year’s award. Fresh off his Nobel-winning escalation of the war in Afghanistan, we now have this monument to world peace:

Amnesty International, June 7, 2010:

Amnesty International has released images of a US-manufactured cruise missile that carried cluster munitions, apparently taken following an attack on an alleged al-Qa’ida training camp in Yemen that killed 41 local residents, including 14 women and 21 children.
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Wat er in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika gebeurt is van belang voor de hele wereld. Niet alleen omdat de VS het belangrijkste land ter wereld is en de Amerikaanse president ook een beetje de president is van de Westerse wereld, maar ook omdat de VS vaak een voorloper is op ideologisch gebied. De uit Amerika afkomstige neoconservatieve denkwereld mag dan gefaald hebben op alle fronten, nu lijkt er iets voor in de plaats te komen dat nog erger is. Teabaggers, proto-fascisten, hebben het hoogste woord in de VS en dringen naar voren in de Republikeinse Partij. Het is meer dan een strijd tussen conservatief en progressief, tussen religieus en verlicht. Het gaat tussen rede en angst, tusen chaos en anarchie. Tussen de leugens van de Rush Limbaugh’s (de BP ramp is het gevolg van ‘eco-terrorists’) en de Glenn Beck’s (’Obama has a deep seated hatred for white people’) van Fox News en de werkelijkheid van de redelijke rest. Zie dit verhaal op Daily Kos. Hannibal staat voor de poort!

Hannibal ad portas
‘ The ideas put forward by men like Glenn Beck are not “just like fascism,” they simply are fascism’

DailyKos - There is a clash of civilizations going on, and it has nothing to do with the Burlington Coat Factory Community Center. It’s more fundamental than Christian vs. Muslim. It’s reason vs. fear. Civilization vs. anarchy.
That clash is happening right here in America.
Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t believe that being a conservative equates with being evil. Over the course of our nation’s history, many conservative figures have raised questions deserving of an answer. They framed their issues with ideas that were testable. They contributed to the national conversation in a meaningful, beneficial way. They acted not just out of raw self-interest, but with sincere desire to do what they believed best for our nation and its people. [read on] (more…)

Special attention please for this very funny cartoon by almost US president John McCain.

by john mccain, usa

Think Progress - The right-wing group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) has announced that it will be hosting a rally against the proposed Cordoba House Islamic community center on September 11.
The confirmed list of speakers includes former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Andrew Breitbart, and, notably, the far-right Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders. “Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology,” Wilders told the Guardian in 2009, “the ideology of a retarded culture.”
In the past, Wilders’ extremism has been condemned by conservatives such as Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and even Glenn Beck, who called Wilders “fascist.” It’s a clear sign of how far the Republicans have shifted to the right and embraced Islamophobia as a political tool that movement figures like Gingrich, Bolton, and Breitbart now have no problem sharing a stage with Wilders.

Ik wil u dit commentaar op bovenstaand stukje op het blog Think Progress niet onthouden. Van Leftside Annie:

“I’ve never been harmed by a Muslim – and yet, I have literally been harmed several times by conservative “Christians;” I’ve received death threats, I’ve been told I should commit suicide, my car was vandalized, several times they tried to run me off the road, one of them threatened to send me “a surprise” and told me that I should be afraid to open my door, they reported me to DHS, and they tried to cause me to lose my job.
I’m not scared of Muslims. I’m scared of these conservative teabagging fascists.”

Toen Glenn Greenwald vijf jaar geleden begon te bloggen, kwam ik per toeval een artikel van deze voormalige advocaat tegen. Ik vond hem gelijk briljant. Toen was ik één van de weinige lezers van zijn blog Unclaimed Territory. Nu is hij beroemd in de VS. En terecht. Greenwald is van zijn eigen blog naar een betaalde baan op de bekende internetsite Salon gegaan. Hier maakt hij gehakt van een neoconservatieve ‘journalist’ die zoals een echte neocon betaamt oproept om een ander land te bombarderen. In dit geval betreft het Iran dat, net als het land dat twee buurlanden bezet houdt, atoombommen wil.

Does the past record of journalists matter?

The Atlantic’s James Fallows, whose analysis I often find worthwhile, yesterday defended Jeffrey Goldberg and his Iran article from unidentified critics (emphasis added):

Is this article warmongering? Or to put it more delicately, is it meant to condition the American public and politicians to the prospect of an attack on Iran? Many people have portrayed it as such. I disagree. I think that those reading the piece as a case for bombing Iran are mainly reacting to arguments about the preceding war.
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“Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President. One hopes it is the same half.” - Gore Vidal

US cable network Fox News has the oldest audience of all networks. The average viewer last season of Fox News was 65 years old, according to Nielsen. Heck, it’s viewers are even older than viewers of Hallmark Channel, Military Channel and Golf Channel.
Perhaps the reason why viewers tend to leave Fox News on all day racking up hours of big viewing numbers is because they can’t actually change the channel?

According to conservative Christians in the United States Einstein’s theory of relativity is a mathematical system that is heavily promoted by liberals. And it’s not true. The anti-science position of the American right - no evolution, no global warming - is going to extremes.

The Onion: The second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental scientific principle stating that entropy increases over time as organized forms decay into greater states of randomness, has come under fire from conservative Christian groups, who are demanding that the law be repealed.

However, as this entry in Conservapedia shows, you can only out-crazy the right for so long. For people who don’t know the American Christians well … this is not a joke, Conservatives believe this.

The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.
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Liz Cheney asked president Obama on Fox News to do what her family knows best: bombing. This time it is Wikileaks that should be obliterated because it released 92,000 files on the Afghan war. Dick Cheney’s daughter also suggested that Australian founder Julian Assange of Wikileaks has ‘blood on his hands’ and should be waterboarded until he confesses to his leaking.

“Julian Assange’s effort was to change course for the US policy in Afghanistan. He was unsuccessful in that. He does clearly have blood on his hands potentially for the people whose names were in those documents who helped the US and I think that’s something he will have to live with now,” Cheney told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday.
“I would really like to see President Obama to move to ask the government of Iceland to shut that website down. I would like to see him move to shut it down ourselves if Iceland won’t do it. I would like to see them move aggressively to prosecute Mr. Assange and certainly ensure that he never again gets a visa to enter the United States,” said Cheney.

In a recent interview with the right-wing Christian Zionist Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, neoconservative pundit Daniel Pipes shared his view that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should threaten to use nuclear weapons against Iran as a means of “applying pressure” on the United States.
“I think it’s realistic for the Israelis to attack and do real damage,” Pipes said. “Now, what constitutes success, I’m not exactly sure. There are many, many questions“:
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Bush-enabler Jay Bybee regrets he authorised the torture of thousands because of all the horrible things it did to his family. ”It has imposed enormous pressures on me both professionally and personally. It has had an impact on my family.”
Remember… What Jay Bybee did caused countless detainees to be subjected to systematized, medieval torture techniques designed to permanently break their mind and spirit. Innocent men spent years wasting away in a cage, with no due process of any kind, subjected to horrific and life-destroying abuse because of what Bybee authorized. But the only victim Bybee recognizes in all of this is himself, and the only “regret” he has is the self-pitying objection that the dark, ugly and destructive work he did caused him to be subjected to some criticisms. Glenn Greenwald:

Jay Bybee’s sociopathic self-absorption

The New York Times has an article today on Jay Bybee, the torture-authorizing Bush OLC lawyer and current judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The focus of the article is Bybee’s recent Congressional testimony that several of the torture tactics used by the CIA were never approved by the Justice Department — which means they should fall outside the scope of the Obama DOJ’s immunity shield from prosecution — but it was the last passage that I think is most noteworthy (h/t reader rg):
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Nog weer eens een voorbeeld van de doorzichtige en leugenachtige wijze van een neocon aan het werk. Nu legt een supporter van Bush uit dat Amerikaanse Joden het zogenaamd niet meer in president Obama zien zitten vanwege zijn onafhankelijkere politiek ten opzichte van Israel. Nonsens! Onbegrijpelijk dat deze gefaalde ideologen nog steeds een forum hebben in de Verenigde Staten waarop ze hun leugens kunnen spuien, meent Glenn Greenwald.

Marc Thiessen and the myth of the American Jewish voter

When The Washington Post hired torture advocate and low-level Bush propagandist Marc Thiessen as an Op-Ed columnist, it got exactly what it apparently wanted: a regular dose of falsehood-filled neoconservative tripe. But even by his own lowly standards, Thiessen outdoes himself today by hauling out one of the neocon Right’s most disproven though still-favorite myths: that Jewish American voters are about to abandon Democratic politicians en masse because of their supposed lack of devotion to Israel. The Right spent all of 2008 spreading the myth that Obama had a “Jewish problem” because of his perceived unreliability on Israel, only for Obama to receive close to 8 out of 10 Jewish votes, even more than John Kerry received in 2004. That’s because the dirty little secret of neocons is that the vast majority of Jewish American voters reject their worldview. Undeterred, Thiessen today goes back to that discredited well, blaming Obama’s alleged hostility toward Israel and Netanyahu for this claimed development:
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On Sunday, Octavia Nasr — CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs — acknowledged the death of Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah by tweeting:

Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot..

Fadlallah was well known for a number of relatively liberal views, such as his support for women’s rights and fatwas against the brutal practices of female circumcision and honor killings. But Nasr’s comment was enough to spark fierce outrage from the various precincts of the neocon blog/twittersphere, who went after Nasr for her egregious failure to reduce Fadlallah to an anti-Israel, anti-American terrorist bogeyman.

Responding to the uproar, Nasr wrote, “It was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I’m sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah’s life’s work. That’s not the case at all”:
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