More Proof She Just Doesn't Get It

Sarah Palin simply doesn't get it.

Cantor's Admissions About Jews And Underdogs Fast Becoming Par For The Course For Right Wing

Some things are stunning, even for our friends on the far right (Rep. Eric Cantor included).

This was published on Think Progress:

But during the interview, which was conducted by the paper’s conservative columnist Steve Moore, Cantor made a startling admission:

Mr. Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in the House and Senate (there are more than 40 Jewish Democrats), and we discuss why. “First of all,” he laughs, “I’m looking for some company in Randy Altschuler,” who is running in the first congressional district of New York. “Randy’s looking good in his race, so we are hoping to double the Jewish Republican caucus.”

Mr. Cantor believes the American-Jewish community is overwhelmingly Democratic because Jews “are prone to want to help the underdog.”

Jed Lewison at Daily Kos remarks, “As one of those American Jews, I’d like to thank Mr. Cantor for pointing out why so many of us vote Democratic.”

That is just a stunning set of remarks supposedly made by Cantor. It's disturbing that something like that would come out of his mouth. It's not stunning so much because it's offensive, but rather because of the remarkable insensitivity on the part of Cantor and so many others on the right.

Is helping the underdog really such a bad thing?

To Eric Cantor, apparently so.

Fox News Asks: Why Are Jews Liberal?

Obviously, the far-right nuts on Fox and Friends did not seem very happy about the overwhelming support Democrats, in general, and Barack Obama, in specific, have been getting from Jews. The graphic header reads, “Why Are Jews Liberal” and the subheadline reads “JEWISH CONSERVATIVE ANSWERS IN NEW BOOK.” So, already the stage is set for three right wingers (Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy and author Norman Podhoretz) to engage in an unbalanced and biased conversation. Doocy then comes in and uses the guest to attack President Obama by talking some garbage about buyer’s remorse. This is nothing more than trying to eat away at President Obama’s base by trying to smear him in the eyes of Jews. He is using this guest to try and brainwash Jewish people into coming over to the GOP. Then, Kilmeade comes on and predictably tries to rehabilitate George W. Bush and smear President Obama … as you would expect from a far-right extremist masquerading himself on a network that lies about being fair and balanced. There is no counterpoint or anything to balance these three right wingers blasting Jews for supporting Democrats. By the numbers that Fox News flashed earlier in the segment, that would indicate that this man (Podhoretz) is outside the mainstream.

Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909090006

Leave It To Far-Right Nuts To Come Up With Something So Stupid

Perhaps only the far-right nuts in our society could possibly bring themselves to qualify a gay Jewish man (Rep. Barney Frank) and a biracial man (President Obama) as Nazis.

Thanks to Jon Stewart for pointing that out and giving us a glimpse of what the less-than-stellar Fox News person Griff Jenkins is all about.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/jon-sterwart-gives-props_n_263878.html

Crooks And Liars Blog Mentions Far-Right Nut Who Went After Rep. Barney Frank

This is an excerpt from a blog entry on the site Crooks and Liars (referencing the political activist who invoked hateful rhetoric and hateful images of President Obama to make a pointless point).

Bill O’Reilly did an interesting thing last night when he reran that footage of Barney Frank castigating that woman carrying an Obama-as-Hitler sign at his town-hall meeting on health care: He completely omitted the fact that the woman who Frank was castigating was in fact a member of the far-right Lyndon Larouche cult.

All O’Reilly could muster was to mention that the woman was “a political activist.” But that’s like calling a Great White Shark a fish.

No, right-wingers like O’Reilly have been eagerly airbrushing out the existence of right-wing extremists from their worldviewfor some time now, embodied by their reaction to that DHS bulletin. But it’s getting harder and harder to do all the time now.

Because, as we’ve noted, the far-right extremists are bubbling up everywhere in supposedly mainstream conservative circles these days — particularly at the tea parties and their associated health-care protests.