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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGingrich to white trash voters "Don't pay attention to anything else, all you need to know is
media Jews are after me!"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)are "white trash voters," and did he say those words or did you?
In fact, did the he say "media Jews are after me"?
Response to ProSense (Reply #2)
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Voters that are white trash. Pretty simple. And I'm paraphrasing his message."
...you decided to criticize a racist by using an offensive language?
Mosaic
(1,451 posts)I see it all the time on liberal sites. Stop it or don't call yourself a liberal. Liberals are cool, fake liberals are assholes.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Adelson is an ardent Zionist. Since 2007 the Adelson Family Foundation has made contributions totaling $100 million to Birthright Israel, which finances Jewish youth trips to Israel, Adelson is such a hard-line Zionist that he even stopped supporting AIPAC when it appeared to support a 2007 peace initiative championed by Olmert, President Bush, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
In 2009, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which is a hard-line Zionist group that wants Israel to retain the occupied territories and expand the Jewish settlements, presented Adelson its most distinguished and historic award, the Theodor Herzl Gold Medallion for outstanding achievement in Zionism. His wife received the Louis D. Brandeis Award. The couple now have their names on one of ZOAs major awards, the Dr. Miriam & Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award.
Adelson is intimately involved in Israeli politics. Since 2007, Adelson has owned a daily newspaper in Israel called Israel Hayom, which distributed free of charge, has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the country. The newspaper is ultra-supportive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to whom Adelson is a close ideological ally and personal friend. The newspaper also has been doing much to promote Gingrich.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/sheldon-adelson-newt-gingrich-israel_n_1195867.html
If Israel is the central value of Adelsons life (which certainly appears to be true), he is one Jewish American who cannot be accused of having a dual loyalty. His loyalty is truly singular!
Like most American conservatives, Gingrich purports to identify with the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, but catering to a person with a view such as Adelsons puts Gingrich in a position completely opposite to that of George Washington, who, in his Farewell Address of 1796, warned Americans of the grave danger of those who had a passionate attachment to a foreign country.
While the mainstream media has focused on the negative effects of big money super pacs, and shows no particular fondness for Gingrich, it makes little reference to his major patrons identification with Israel. In fact, Rachel Maddow and Michael Isikoff even managed to offer a critical presentation of Adelsons financing of Gingrich without any reference to Israel.
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/israel-is-the-elephant-in-the-studio-during-msnbc-discussion-of-adelsons-giving.html