Posted on 01/12/2006 5:21:45 PM PST by infoguy
According to Eric Alterman, conservative Christians don’t really like the Jews. The left-wing writer suggested this in the Thursday edition of his MSNBC blog, despite admitting that he knows "darn few" right-wing Christians. (Alterman is known for writing books such as "What Liberal Media?" and others.) He came to this conclusion while expounding on the perceived anti-Semitism of some Europeans:
"I wouldn’t argue that the French are not anti-Semitic and that American right-wing Christians are not philo-Semitic, but it’s not that simple. France had Jewish prime ministers in both the thirties and fifties and might get another one soon. No way that could happen in the United States even today. So what does that say? Here’s what I think, though it’s not provable. In France, they don’t like "the Jews" but they have no problem with Jews. I lived in Paris for a bit and it was never an issue and I’ve never heard of it being an issue for any of my friends. Among Christian right-wingers, however—of whom I know darn few, I’ll admit—I get the feeling they love "the Jews" but don’t have much use for Jews, as individuals. It’s just a thought."(Emphasis added by writer and here also)
In addition to his MSNBC.com gig, Alterman is also a writer at the far-left The Nation magazine and a "senior fellow" at the Center for American Progress.
He's a horse's ass........and an incredibly uninformed, stupid one at that.
Conservative Christians are the best friends that the Jews have on this earth. That is a fact. Period. End of discussion.
Yeah, that's why this conservative Christian goes to synagogues on occasion to worship alongside Jews.
It's just because I like them but don't have much use for them. They are really just taking up space in my synagogue.
These clowns keep taking more and more intellectually indefensible positions. They really do sound like the Commies toward the end of the Soviet Union. You'd feel sorry for them if they weren't so vicious.
I didn't have much use for Jews either....untill I started tacking conservative.
Mr. Alterman, I'll tell you who are Jew haters, Muslim terrorists, you know, the ones you and your Democrat liberal Jew vermin are trying to protect. You need not fear Christians, but you better damn well fear these killers, for it is your head and the heads of all Jews that they want and will get. You dumb idiots are laying the groundwork for you own departure from this world. Buffoons!!! Thank God for Israel and the IDF. American Jews are plowing their way to the hereafter by their own Democrat liberal traitor hands..
Disregard every word Alterman writes. Including AND and THE.
Hey Eric!
BOO!!
>>>"Can you imagine the "outrage" in the MSM if a conservative had said this?!?"<<<
Let me be the first, I don't have much use for NY Jews that vote for Hilliary.
TT
After all, who's been agitating for sex, race, class for decades? Those evil Christians - or those degenerate, hypocritical swine on the Left?
I get the feeling they love "the Jews" but don’t have much use for Jews, as individuals. It’s just a thought."
That is a total crock. I am a Jew on my father's side of the family but I am also a Conservative Christian. I like Jews!
Gee, and I always thought that ALL Christians worshipped a Jew...Jesus Christ!
We admire Jews except for those whose name ends in Alterman.
He's more full of shite' than a Christmas Turkey BUMP!
I wonder how much use Eric Alterman has for Jews, at least ones of the conservative persuasion?
Remember this spoof song from the 60's? It has a good line about the Jews.
National Brotherhood Week
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.
Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.
But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand,
You can tolerate him if you try!
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.
But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-Hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear;
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
-- Tom Lehrer
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