THE 111TH US CONGRESS & 44THE US PRESIDENT IN big TROUBLE:
IN REMEMBERING OF THE COOPER-CHURCH AMENDMENT IN 1970, WHEN THE DEMOCRATE PARTY
WAS SUPPORTING THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS IN THE WAR IN CAMBODIA.
TODAY ?
LIKE BOSS LIKE STAFF.
THRILL IS GONE
WHERE'S RAHM?
Hill Democrats are demanding that Obama’s brain trust — especially senior
adviser David Axelrod and chief of staff Rahm Emanuel — shelve their grand
legislative ambitions to focus on the economic issues that will determine the
fates of shaky Democratic majorities in both houses.
“I haven’t seen Rahm Emanuel except on television. We used to see him a lot;
I’d like him to come out from behind his desk and meet with the common folk,”
added Pascrell.
WHY ?
Earlier this week, I posed a political question in the process and in the
context of trying to help a friend and my audience understand the concept that
people ask me about a lot: "Why are so many Jewish people liberal?" And a
friend of mine -- a good friend of mine, Norman Podhoretz -- has written a
book, an excellent book to explain it. Mr. Podhoretz is himself Jewish. He is
the husband of Midge Decter and the father of John Podhoretz, and I know all of
them very well and have socialized with them on a number of occasions, and in
the process of... Let me just read you this. Podhoretz has written a response
to Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, who is demanding that I
apologize for "borderline anti-Semitism." Now, anybody who listens to this
program even marginally knows that this program is and has consistently been
one of the most outspoken supporters of the Jewish people and of Israel in
particular.
And Mr. Foxman knows this as well. What I suspect is the usual thing that
happened. Somebody took a few words that I said in a pretty long monologue,
cut them up, and published them in a way to make it appear I said something
that I didn't say, and rather than check it out... And by now I would think
anybody in the mainstream media or in any mainstream American endeavor, after
20 years of these types of attacks -- me being taken out of context and every
one of them being shown to be wrong, every one of these attacks being shown to
be fallacious -- I would think that by now some people would realize what's
going on. But I don't think that they do. I think they want these attacks to
be real. I think they want the out-of-context quotes to be real. It's just
like during this NFL controversy, when there were purely fabricated quotes of
me that were plastered all over the American media: Newspapers, websites,
television.
The Reverend Jackson repeated them. They said that I supposedly supported
slavery because it kept the streets safe at night and that I wanted a
congressional medal given to the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King. And
people knew that I didn't say it but they wanted to believe I'd said it,
because they would love to get rid of me. Folks, the left has never been
angrier at me than they are this week because of what I myself said this week
only yesterday. Back when Obama was inaugurated, even prior to him being
inaugurated, everybody was inside the celebrity bubble. "Oh, we must not
criticize our brand-new president. He's so young and he's so historical. This
means so much to America. We must hope and we must pray that he succeeds."
Well, I didn't join any of that. I didn't want him to succeed. I don't want
socialism in this country. I do not want the government running car companies,
the banks, the student loan program.
I don't want the government telling banks how they can and can't operate. I
don't want Obama being everybody's boss. I don't want the government being able
to hire and fire people and set salaries. That's all happened. I don't want
that kind of thing. I wanted him to fail. I was the only person to say so,
and that changed the political dynamic. It got rid of it. It burst the
celebrity bubble that everybody was in treating Obama not as a politician but
something much larger: "Transformational, postpartisan, postracial," and now we
know post-achievement: He hasn't achieved anything. So this year has
transpired and everything he's fought for, the big things, have crashed and
burned. And it all came to a culmination this week.
So the sheer hatred of me crystallized and compacted this week. You know, I
totally understand people trying to damage me and my credibility so that I'm no
longer a factor. The thing is when they do this they only amplify me and add
to my supposed importance. But you don't have to be anything other than a
liberal to lie about me and attack me and so forth, and this is silly. This
"borderline anti-Semitic" charge from the Anti-Defamation League is just silly,
and here is what Mr. Podhoretz himself has written in response. He titled
this: "It's Not Rush Limbaugh Who Should Apologize -- In my new book, 'Why Are
Jews Liberals?', I argue that it no longer makes any sense for so many of my
fellow Jews to go on aligning themselves with the forces of the Left.
"I also try to show that our interests and our ideals, both as Americans and as
Jews, have come in recent decades to be better served by the forces of the
Right. In the course of describing and agreeing with the book the other day,
Rush Limbaugh cited a few of the numerous reasons for the widespread puzzlement
over the persistence of liberalism within the American Jewish community. And
while discussing those reasons, he pointed to the undeniable fact that for 'a
lot of people' -- 'prejudiced people,' as he called them twice -- he was not
referring to himself; he was referring to bigots, prejudiced people..." I was
refer to Jew haters -- and, Mr. Foxman, this is what's been omitted from what
you read that I said. I was alluding to what you know exists. You know that
there are Jew haters out there and I know there are Jew haters out there, and
many of them are in the Obama administration or in his circle of friends.
And Mr. Foxman, if you really want to go after anti-Semitism you should first
start looking at it on the left and within the Obama administration and within
his circle of friends, because that's why you're going to find it. You're not
going to find anti-Semitism on this radio show. You're going to find nothing
but love and respect and admiration for the Jewish people and an unwavering
support for Israel that has not ever shaken. I was referring to the Jew
haters, the bigots. Twice I referred to "prejudiced people." Let me read the
paragraph over here again: "And while discussing those reasons, he pointed to
the undeniable fact that for 'a lot of people' -- 'prejudiced people,' as he
called them twice -- he was not referring to himself; he was referring to
bigots, prejudiced people the words 'banker' and 'Wall Street' are code words
for 'Jewish.'
"Was it possible, he wondered, that Obama's attacks on bankers and Wall Street
were triggering a certain amount of buyer's remorse within the American Jewish
community, which gave him 78% of its vote? Finally, taking off from my
observation that many Jewish liberals like to call themselves independents,"
this is Mr. Podhoretz speaking, "[Limbaugh] wondered whether a fair number of
the self-described independents who deserted Obama and voted for Scott Brown
might actually have been Jewish liberals. If so, [Limbaugh] concluded, Brown's
'victory could be even more indicative of an even bigger change in the
political temper of the country than has so far been recognized.' For this,
Rush Limbaugh has been subjected to a vile attack by Abraham Foxman, the
national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
"Of course, Mr. Foxman has a long history of seeing an anti-Semite under every
conservative bed while blinding himself to the blatant fact that anti-Semitism
has largely been banished from the Right in the past forty years, and that it
has found a hospitable new home on the Left, especially where Israel is
concerned." The left is where the anti-Israel forces exist, including in this
administration, Mr. Foxman! "This makes Foxman a perfect embodiment of the
phenomenon I analyze in 'Why Are Jews Liberals?' Now Foxman has the chutzpah to
denounce Rush Limbaugh as an anti-Semite and to demand an apology from him to
boot. Well, if an apology is owed here, it is the national director of the
Anti-Defamation League who should apologize for the defamatory accusation of
anti-Semitism that he himself has hurled against so loyal a friend of Israel as
Rush Limbaugh."
Michael Ledeen... By the way, we've put Mr. Podhoretz's statement on my
website. It's also at the Commentary blog. Michael Ledeen weighed in on this
with a post at the National Review Online Corner blog. "Norman Podhoretz quite
properly takes Anti-Defamation League czar Abe Foxman to task for insinuating
that Rush is somehow a Jew-hater for wondering if Jewish voters are having
buyer's remorse regarding Obama. They certainly should, both because of Obama's
striking nastiness to Israel and of his attacks on 'greedy bankers' (which Rush
mentioned), free broadcasting, and of course the crusade against American
medicine, all enterprises in which Jews have long flourished. Rush should be a
hero to Foxman and American Jews, but they are so blindly partisan that they
can no longer distinguish between their friends and their enemies.
"Foxman has relentlessly attacked American Evangelicals -- arguably the most
pro-Jewish and pro-Israel people in America -- but conveniently disappears when
the government goes after real Jews for presumed 'dual loyalty.' Which, one
might say, is the core principle of the ADL. Foxman wants Rush to apologize.
Nuts. I want Foxman retired and replaced by somebody who fights for Jews and
our friends." That's Michael Ledeen. You know, I have to tell you, folks, one
of my closest friends is Mark Levin. Everybody knows this. Mark Levin is
Jewish. Mark Levin is disgusted with Abraham Foxman. What I've come to learn
through this episode is how many Jewish people are disgusted with Abraham
Foxman and have been for many years. I guess, basically... I really don't want
to do this because Mr. Podhoretz' book is great (Why Are Jews Liberal?) and if
you've ever wondered that, you need to read his book.
I know a lot of you do because it's been a question that I've received a lot,
particularly since the Obama administration. It was obvious from the early
days of this administration that Israel was in the crosshairs of this
administration. The Hollywood left supports Obama, and Jewish people on the
left support Obama, and there are some people who said, "I don't understand. I
thought Israel was a key thing to all Jewish people," and I say, "Read Mr.
Podhoretz's book: Why Are Jews Liberal?" Basically... It's more complicated
than this but I synthesize it down to one thing: Liberals are liberals first.
They're partisans first, whatever else they are. If they're feminists, they're
still liberals first. If they're animal rights nuts, they're liberals first.
If they are the hoaxers of climate change and global warming, they are liberals
or socialists first -- and the issues that they attach themselves to are simply
their spring boards, their jumping-off points for advancing liberalism and
statism.
That's what the Democrat Party has become: A coalition of all these disparate
groups -- the civil rights coalitions, the animal rights groups, feminism, the
Hollywood left, all this stuff -- and they all have one mission, and that is
they hate conservatives and Republicans and they love government, and they have
big problems with capitalism. So they're all united in trying to destroy
capitalism -- or limit it, or blame it -- and make America more like a Western
European, socialist democracy. Anyway, thanks to Mr. Podhoretz for his reply,
also to Michael Ledeen. But Mr. Foxman, not only am I not going to apologize,
I'm going to say you should be embarrassed and next time call me if you think
I've said something anti-Semitic or call somebody that knows me and find out
what I actually said rather than trusting your friends on the left to
accurately report what I said. I was in the midst of promoting, because I
think it was worthwhile, the work of a celebrated and brilliant American Jew:
Norman Podhoretz, and you refer to me as "borderline anti-Semitic." That
doesn't compute, Mr. Foxman.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material...
• RushLimbaugh.com: A Statement from Norman Podhoretz, Author of "Why Are Jews
Liberals?"
• National Review: Rush and the ADL -Michael Ledeen
• Norman Podhoretz's Book: "Why Are Jews Liberals?"
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S FOREIGN POLICY WAS ANTI COMMUNISTS AND FREEDOM FOR AMERICA.
On April 28, 1984, Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, meets U.S. President Ronald
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FROM AMERICA WITH LOVE.
VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA continues 1979-2009.
US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INSISTS ON
CAMBODIA INDEPENDENCE 1988
"Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou
En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter
would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the
"Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . Wilfred Burchett book "The China
Cambodia Vietnam triangle " P-176-177
UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
5. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by
vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese
forces from Cambodia.
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
BURY
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