Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’
Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’
This afternoon, CNN’s Rick Sanchez confronted the McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb about its hypocritical criticism of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) links to Rashid Khalidi. After Sanchez noted that McCain, as chairman of the board at the International Republican Institute, had also given Khalidi nearly $500,000, Goldfarb brushed him off, saying that Obama had a “long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric”:
GOLDFARB: Look you’re missing the point again Rick. The point is that Barack Obama has along track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.
SANCHEZ: Can you name one other person that he hangs around with who’s anti-Semitic? … We got Khalidi on the table, give me number two. Who’s the other anti-Semitic person that he hangs around with?
GOLDFARB: Rick, we both know who number two is.
Goldfarb could not or refused to name the individual whom he was referring to, despite Sanchez’s repeated inquiries. Watch it:
Goldfarb may have been dancing around naming Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama, however, has disavowed Wright’s extreme views, and McCain supposedly banned his campaign from using Wright’s record against Obama.
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Well, just like how we know who Al Qaeda’s #2 and #3 and #4 are.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:59 pmI wonder if these guys just turn off their brains and spout whatever bubbles up from the morass of their soulless depths??
October 30th, 2008 at 5:01 pmGoldfarb?
This goy smells a yid…
October 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pmSANCHEZ: Can you name one other person that he hangs around with who’s anti-Semitic? … We got Khalidi on the table, give me number two. Who’s the other anti-Semitic person that he hangs around with?
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Thank you, guy from CNN, for not even bothering to challenge the absolutely ludicrous assumption that Rashid Khalidi (a person of semitic descent, no less), is anti-Semitic.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pmraynman Says:
I wonder if these guys just turn off their brains and spout whatever bubbles up from the morass of their soulless depths??
October 30th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
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No, they just regurgitate whatever message multipliers they received from AIPAC.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pmHow about Scarah’s preacher or JM buddy who said that hitler
October 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pmwas sent by god to smite the jews?
If Obama is such a threat to America how come Home Land security hasn’t arrested him or question him on his affiliations?
October 30th, 2008 at 5:06 pmHow does America let a “terrorist” into the US Senate??
The Republicans are still grasping for straws!
ugotmeinsd_619 Says:
If Obama is such a threat to America how come Home Land security hasn’t arrested him or question him on his affiliations?
October 30th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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Or questioned George Bush on his ties to the bin Laden family.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:07 pmIf it’s not downright smear, then it’s downright innuendo.
Anything but the truth, because they’re afraid of the truth. We all know who “they” are.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:07 pmGOP: The party of fear and smear. Facts mean nothing. Honesty means nothing. Do anything and say anything to win.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:07 pmThere should be laws in this country that prohibit the reckless slandering of innocents and bystanders. This really is McCarthyism all over again.
Who knew 10 days could last so long?
October 30th, 2008 at 5:08 pmI walked by a muslim today. Now all republicans are going to associate me with terrorists.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pmThis guy, Khalidi, is an American, a respected professor of middle eastern studies and now anyone who’s ever spoken to him is a terrorist sympathizer. Republicans are scraping the bottom of the barrel just like the bottom feeders they are.
Goldfarb is not a blogger. If it does not allow public comments, it’s not a blog. Most of the right-wing sites do not have any facility for leaving comments—they don’t want any public discourse that may detract from the propaganda.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:10 pmGoldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’»
– - Khalidi is Palestinian and therefore IS a semite, so the charge of anti-semitism is rings awfully hollow.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:11 pmJust love it that most of those anti-Semitic Middle Easterners happen to be Semites.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:13 pmDidHeJustSayThat Says:
There should be laws in this country that prohibit the reckless slandering of innocents and bystanders. This really is McCarthyism all over again.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
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There are laws in this country that prohibit reckless slandering of innocent people – they’re called slander laws.
Though technically this would be libel, since it’s being done in broadcast and print media. And they normally don’t apply to public figures, such as mudslinging politicians.
But since Mr. Khalidi is not really a public figure and has not willfully injected himself into the public discourse on this issue, and since pundits and pushers on the McCain side are calling Khalidi an anti-Semite in reckless disregard of all facts to the countrary, and since this media assault could potentially damage Mr. Khalidi’s reputation as a professor and scholar, he’d have a pretty good chance of winning a libel suit.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:14 pmThe Repubs are the Al Davis party. Cheating, lieing, stealing, mislead, illegal or unethical behavior does not matter “just win baby“.
We really need to “put down” the Repubs for the benefit of our nation.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:16 pmMr. Evil Says:
I walked by a muslim today. Now all republicans are going to associate me with terrorists.
This guy, Khalidi, is an American, a respected professor of middle eastern studies and now anyone who’s ever spoken to him is a terrorist sympathizer. Republicans are scraping the bottom of the barrel just like the bottom feeders they are.
Just more of the right’s assault against academia. This is to be expected, they want to portray academia as full of terrorist sympathizers and elitist, smug know-it-alls…
October 30th, 2008 at 5:16 pmAren’t these people setting themselves up for libel and slander charges? Khalidi isn’t running for anything, he’s a private citizen. Other people running around lying about him is likely going to be damaging to his life and career. They should be held liable.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:17 pmWHO.. DOES.. NUMBER TWO… WORK… FOR?!?!
October 30th, 2008 at 5:18 pmDoesn’t Mikey have a jewelry store somwhere to run?
Why does McIIIrd hate Poles, Czechs, Russians, Ukrainians and Slovaks??
October 30th, 2008 at 5:18 pm“Barack Obama has along (sic) track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.”
This Crusty Old Bastard has a long track record of being around many piles of dog poop scattered about my back yard. The key word here is “around.” I am quite sure that President Obama is as adept at going “around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric” as I have become in going around my own piles of doggie doo. My shoes are clean and so are President Obama’s policies.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:19 pmTwenty percent of Israeli citizens are Arabs, both Muslim and Christian. They are Semetic, according to definition.
Where do they fit on the anti-Semtic, anti-Israel, anti-American diatribe scale?
October 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pmBarack also has a history of being around Jewish people. The neighborhood he lives in and the district he represented have more Jewish voters that most parts of the city these days.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pmRapture Ready Says:
Number 2., Louis Farrakhan. Come on Goldfarb, you have got to be on your game against these leftwing nuts.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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Living in the same city as someone is not the same as “hanging around with them.” And Farrakhan is a loudmouth, but he’s no anti-Semite or anti-American.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:22 pmRapture Ready Says:
Blacks and liberals.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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Why do you hate black people?
October 30th, 2008 at 5:22 pmSe·mit·ic (s-mtk)
October 30th, 2008 at 5:22 pmadj.
1. Of or relating to the Semites or their languages or cultures.
2. Of, relating to, or constituting a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language group that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic.
n.
1. The Semitic languages.
2. Any one of the Semitic languages.
WHO.. DOES.. NUMBER TWO… WORK… FOR?!?!
Parodarryl,
This was a comedic, rhetorical question, which flew way above your tiny little head.
As a younger man I bet you used to try to “wash” the black off, you stupid self-hating African American idiot…
October 30th, 2008 at 5:23 pmRapture Ready:
October 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pmHaven’t you flown off nude with no snacks or camera or anything yet? Damn it must get old waiting for the party that never happens. That blacks and liberals thing makes you sound sort of like a racist. Are you a racist Rapture Ready?
I guess Goldfarb left his Webster’s at home. Khalidi is Semitic, so how can he be against himself?
He can be anti-Israel or anti-American, but not anti-Semitic.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:25 pmDaryll, the Jerusalem Post indicated Iran is at the same stage as Iraq in the 1980’s.
We know what they did last time, launched a preemptive attack. Olmert and Bush are lame ducks, with horrible approval ratings. What could an attack hurt?
Intel from IAEA state says Iran weighing secret nuke work
October 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pmRapture Ready Says:
Blacks and liberals.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Are you still black Daryll? Your preacher spouts some pretty wacked out stuff, gives Rev. Wright a real run for the collection plate….
October 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pmHey Rupture Ready can I have your computer and all your
October 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pmmoney when god wisks you away?
Obama DOES NOT hang around with Louis Farrakhan. Nice try though. I guest you righties will just link him to everybody who lives in the City of Chicago though. Why don’t you link him to our last Gorvernor that he actually did spend time with in Springfield. The Republican, George Ryan, he’s sitting in a federal prison right now. I’m sure you can find lots of pictures of him and Obama.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pmHey Darryl,
Drink the kool aid, put the paper sack over your head, and lay down for a long, peaceful nap…
October 30th, 2008 at 5:31 pmThe only thing black about Daryll is his soul.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:32 pmBut since Mr. Khalidi is not really a public figure and has not willfully injected himself into the public discourse on this issue, and since pundits and pushers on the McCain side are calling Khalidi an anti-Semite in reckless disregard of all facts to the countrary, and since this media assault could potentially damage Mr. Khalidi’s reputation as a professor and scholar, he’d have a pretty good chance of winning a libel suit.
Just exactly what I was thinking. A cease and desist order wouldn’t hurt either (as was done against Lizzy Dole’s ad against her opponent).
October 30th, 2008 at 5:32 pmJust another example of the poor judgment Flippy McSpin has exercised in choosing, or more likely accepting, campaign members. Assuming he is even consulted about these choices, it’s an insult to the voters in this country. And if he isn’t part of the decision process he has no right to hold ANY public office.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:32 pmHey Daryl,
I think we all know who is number two. WINK!
October 30th, 2008 at 5:34 pmHaven’t you heard, Shayne? According to the Reichwhiners it’s “anti-American” to be from, or spend time in, Chicago.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:36 pmcRapture Ready Says:
Blacks and liberals
Parodyll thinks his own race is anti-American and anti-Israel?
October 30th, 2008 at 5:37 pmWhatever.
Now come over here and gimme some faux brown sugar!
Why on Earth would Daryll give a rip about anyone who isn’t a slave to Jebus? Or anyone who doesn’t give him worldly wealth for that matter.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:39 pmPoor delusional St D. His sad devotion to the ancient neocon circus will not get him the rebel tapes.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:40 pmDarlyy, why aren’t you busy blasting away and mowing down baby deer?
Isn’t it just about that season?
Admit it, you see them as liberal whitetails, don’t you!
October 30th, 2008 at 5:41 pmNevar Says:
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Rapture Ready Says:
Blacks and liberals.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Are you still black Daryll?
Like most right-wing extremists, Daryll suffers from acute self loathing. That is why he is a member of a political party which despises him.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:44 pmAll joking aside Daryll. Are you still ripping it up at the Latin King’s place? I really dug some of your work there.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:47 pmAvoidance and projection…and Ashley Todd. This is truely the party of the mentally handicapped.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:47 pmcRapture Ready says:
(ummmm, nothing really related to the topic of the thread)
Parodyll, I promise to “spoon” ya when I’m done stirring up that faux brown sugar.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:48 pmRapture Ready Says:
I support my background, but I refuse to be considered as a black person. It is degrading. Therefore, I consider myself a dark-skinned person.
Real black people don’t think there is anything degrading about being Black, Daryll. You need professional help.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:50 pmParodyll,
You are NOT dark skinned. You’ve NEVER been dark skinned. You’ll never BE dark skinned.
But by all means, keep using words you’ve learned from the “Urban dictionary”.
I’ll sum up your life, paraphrasing the great sarcastic song from the Offspring.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:54 pm“Pretty fly for a white guy”!!!
But Daryll. St. McCain, and his Chippy, are going to tax Exxon so they won’t earn record profits anymore. He wants their money to “help those who can’t help themselves”. Ya really should learn to keep up.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:55 pmReal Americans don’t think there is anything degrading about being Black, Daryll. You need professional help.
Fixed it for you gummitch.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:57 pmRapture Ready Says:
Number 2., Louis Farrakhan. Come on Goldfarb, you have got to be on your game against these leftwing nuts.
And your game is pretending to be a Christian, when you are just a bigoted, hypocritical, lying loser.
Let me give you a hint Daryll: Your game is down by 10 points, its the last inning and you are still striking out.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:58 pmSANCHEZ: “We got Khalidi on the table, give me number two.”
Khalidi is not antisemitic, neither is Reverend Wright. Neither of them is very fond of Zionism and Israels treatment of the Palestinians but thats not even remotely the same thing as being antisemitic.
Pathetic CNN
October 30th, 2008 at 6:09 pmThese are the same morons that called Edward Said antisemetic.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:11 pmRapture Ready Says:
I support my background, but I refuse to be considered as a black person. It is degrading. Therefore, I consider myself a dark-skinned person.
The rest of us here consider you mentally ill.
No wonder you hate so much, you hate yourself.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:12 pmRapture Ready Says:
Also, why do people in Sudan support Hussein?
October 30th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Probably because they think Obama might actually do something to help them.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:20 pmApparently, the McCain/Palin camp is willing to smear just about anyone in their quest to win the White House. Just Shameful.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pmMichael Goldfarb, your insults, your baseless attacks towards Sen. Obama will NEVER prevail ! Sen. Obama has always been a friend and strong advocate of Israel and that will certainly continue when he is president.
Goldfarb, I rebuke all of your insults and attacks towards Sen. Obama in the name and blood of Jesus and send all of them back to the pit of hell where they belong ! I plead the blood of Jesus for Barack, Joe, their family, his presidency, and his campaign this day and forever !
No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me,” declares the LORD. – Isaiah 54:17
” I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run.” – Exodus 23:27
They will fight against you [ Barack Obama] but will not overcome you, for I [God ] am with you [ Barack Obama] and will rescue you,” declares the LORD. – Jeremiah 1:19
The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. – 2 Timothy 4:18
11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. – Psalm 91:11-13
I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. – Luke 10:19
It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !
Amen.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:40 pmRapture Ready = Hypocrite
Mark 7:6
Matthew 23:14-15
Read your scripture Daryll. Jesus is sad because of you.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:43 pmObamaIsOur44thpres Says:
Seek professional help.
Really.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:46 pmGoldfarb would make a great press secretary in a McPalin administration. What a loser.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:55 pmKhalidi cannot be anti-Semitic when his roots are Arabic Semites.
All Arabs are Semites,because they are descended from Sam son of Noah.
Goldfarb is dead wrong.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:56 pmI refuse to be considered as a black person. It is degrading.
I rest my case regarding the self-hating African American.
You’re beginning to remind me of the Chappelle skit about the blind, black, white-supremecist who upon accepting the fact he was black, divorced his wife for being a “n*gger lover.”
Life indeed imitates art.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:15 pmThe problem here is that this crap works. Create one impression that Obama in anti-Semitic and you might never get the chance to assert the truth. I saw, today, that a quarter of Texas voters think that Obama is a Muslim.
I am Jewish. My only concern is that Obama is going to lose this race. I am becoming more nervous by the minute. By Tuesday, I will be a raving lunatic.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:19 pmGoldfarb: coward & liar. And pretty stupid, too, apparently, if he believes this crap. What a dolt.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:30 pm# 8. When did the Department of Homeland Surveillance acquire the authority to arrest anyone? Just because those jerks in the airport wear a uniform with a “badge” on it does not mean that DHS can arrest.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:34 pm.
… And Sarah Palin slept with a separatist!
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October 31st, 2008 at 12:33 amDoes Goldfarb realize McCain lived with the enemy (at his own choice) for 5 years.???
The vietnamese wanted to release him but McCain says he said no, that he wanted to stay…….So they sent another prisoner home and McCain stayed on with his pals in Vietnam.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:47 amGosh, if the McCain campaign gets any classier, I just don’t know what I’ll do!
October 31st, 2008 at 9:23 amRapture Ready Says:
Number 2., Louis Farrakhan. Come on Goldfarb, you have got to be on your game against these leftwing nuts.
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And you weigh in with your usual ignorant hivemind talking point. Obama has denounced Farrakhan he denounced his church giving him an award and he has NEVER palled around with Farrakhan you are a liar and a fool. You dont even care if what you say is true you are a liar. You will lie anytime if it pushes your propaganda. You just admitted it. You are saying he was on top of his game by NOT saying Farrakhan directly and THAT would be because its a LIE and easily shown to be a lie and he would have been slapped upside his head with reality if he HAD said it. So instead he sent out the code to brainwashed morons like YOU so YOU could say it. You are a pathetic lying piece of garbage
October 31st, 2008 at 9:38 pmRapture Ready Says:
lefty Says:
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WHO.. DOES.. NUMBER TWO… WORK… FOR?!?!
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Blacks and liberals.
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You are also a racist piece of garbage
October 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pmRapture Ready Says:
No, what’s not American, is you leftwing nuts and Hussein stealing from others and taking away jobs by increasing taxes on companies. Also, why do people in Sudan support Hussein?
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No what is disgusting, and makes you a scum sucking punk is ignorant, braiwashed, braindead morons like YOU thinking God put you on a pedestal to judge for us mere mortals who is and isnt American. Your arrogance is a sickness. Your ignorance is a disease. Your putrid essence must sicken any actual human being unfortunate enough to ever be in your presence you sick, perverted, embarassment to humanity.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:48 pmi would love to see some evidence of khalidi being an anti-semite.
that is a despicable charge, and i hope khalidi sues the hell out of everyone who says it.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 ami would love to see some evidence of khalidi being an anti-semite.
that is a despicable charge, and i hope khalidi sues the hell out of everyone who says it.
mirc
February 16th, 2009 at 8:25 amsohbet