Posted on 05/14/2010 6:48:19 PM PDT by Pope Pius XII
New York, NY, May 15, 2010 � The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called Pat Buchanan "a recidivist anti-Semite who doesn't miss an opportunity to show his fangs," in response to remarks he made about the Jewish faith of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and the religious makeup of the current court.
Buchanan wrote in his May 14 syndicated column, "If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?"
Buchanan continued, "Not in living memory has a Democratic president nominated an Irish, Italian, or Polish Catholic � What happened to the party of the Daleys, Rizzos and Rostenkowskis?"
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
Pat Buchanan is a recidivist anti-Semite who never misses an opportunity to show his fangs. His remarks about the Jewish background of Elena Kagan and the religious makeup of the Supreme Court are bigoted and unacceptable in a pluralistic society such as ours.
Kagan's nomination for the Supreme Court should be considered on its merits. She is a highly qualified candidate for the judiciary, an exemplary Solicitor General and a great legal mind.
As the nomination process for Kagan moves forward, we hope that all Americans will reject appeals to bigotry and anti-Semitism.
(Excerpt) Read more at adl.org ...
Episcopalians are Protestant? Huh, who knew?
The ADL and Buchanan are both right and very wrong here.
Buchanan is an antisemite, but the ADL is being hypocritic. They would be screaming bloody murder if the last Jew on the Supreme Court were replaced by a non-Jew.
Buchanan’s point that the left is anti-WASP is quite true. The Democrats have since the 1880s been a collection of those with grievances against the majority. The preacher, who cost Republican James Blaine (himself half-Catholic with a nun for a sister) the election in 1884 with the line that the Democrats were the party of Rum (urban poor, many of whom were alcoholics), Romanism (a derisive term for Catholics) and Rebellion (Southerners), was quite correct if impolitic. The FDR coalition of Southerners, white ethnics (Catholics and Jews), labor, and Northern Blacks was an extension of this. And it has re-invented itself with every generation. The only difference today is that the Scotch Irish (ironically the first group reached out to in this manner) are now lumped in with WASPs.
A majority of Americans are Protestants and it is wrong that no member of the founding population of the US is on the court. The American political tradition was founded by dissenting Protestants. A court without one shows just how far we have gone from out heritage and founding principles in an increasing krytocratic court that thinks it writes the Constitution.
Of course, while Jews certainly are over-represented, but 2/3 of this court is now Catholic. I don’t see the German-Irish Catholic Buchanan complaining about this now or back when President Bush nominated Alito. Buchanan reaffirms himself as a antisemitic hypocrite. But don’t think that the issue of the US Supreme Court being Protestant-less is irrelevant.
Kagan is a communist and Obama would like nothing more than useful idiots to make this a Jewish issue so that the man protecting Iran’s nuclear program from Israel can scream “antisemitism”.
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Buchanan objects to Kagan for the WRONG REASON!
I wouldn’t care if they were all Druids, If they were STRICT CONSTITUTIONALISTS! LOL!
And Jews, in general. He really went 'round the bend during the first Gulf War, blaming the war on Israel and the eeeeeevil Joooooooos.
I knew he was vile in 1991.
On behalf of us Jews (conservative and otherwise), while we're extremely relieved that you are not one of us, would you please do it anyway?
Foxman’s ADL is a joke, but Pat is a pathetic bigot and his comments were bigoted.
As an aside, Kagan is not legally Jewish, I suspect. She certainly is not observant.
“Abe isn’t that picky when it comes to Christians. He hates ‘em all.”
Only fair, as he hates Orthodox Jewish folk, too.
I think he just hates religion.
“I’d want to crawl under a rock if I were a conservative Jew.”
I’d want to crawl under a rock if I was a non-racist Roman Catholic, as Pat certainly make them look like Jooo-haters.
Perhaps unfortunately, Elena Kagan is indeed Jewish, raised in the famous Lincoln Square Orthodox synagogue under the tutelage of the estimable Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.
Ah, the Joel Osteen of Judaism.
LOL
My favorite post of the year!
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