Posted on 09/19/2006 4:16:14 AM PDT by nj26
Allen wasn't suggesting that calling someone a decendant of a Jew was "casting aspersions" because he thinks there's something bad about jewish blood.
He was nailing the reporter's motive for bringing up jewish ancestry. She was the one whose frame of mind was at issue. Not the Senator, who was the innocent, intended victim of her totally inappropriate question.
That is so obvious at least to me, that I'm shocked that anyone attributes wrong attitudes about jews to Senator Allen.
And not much can shock me anymore, so that is saying something...
Correctamundo.
Imagine a black candidate being asked if it was true that he was his grandmother was an octaroon.
It is race baiting at its worst.
I do think that the question was dumb and out of line and the Post story is slanted, but I can't help but agree with others that Allen could have handled it better.
Sycophants congregate.
Locked. Loaded.
Incoming...
LOL!
In one particularly shocking passage in the book, Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack by Hillary in which she screams at him, "You fucking Jew bastard!"
Two sourced eyewitnesses confirmed to Oppenheimer that they heard the verbal assault.
Cohan is Irish.
Hillary, Biden, it goes on and on.
The hypocrisy of the 'Rat traitors knows no bounds.
Enemy No. 1 in the War on Terror is the Democrats and Liberal Media.
Didn't Dick Morris also make that claim about her as well? (I realize I should know this since I'm, well, you know ... one of her sycophants and all, but that seems to ring a bell with me)
I will admit I only heard the sound bit but I took it as a rebuke to the reporter not a anger tantrum.
"Cohan is Irish."
There are some indications that the tribes of Dan and Levi settled in SW England and Wales. That the tribe of Dan settled in Ireland (Tuatha de Dannan) and Denmark (Dan Mark) is also accepted, by the people of those countries at least. My own paternal surname had ancient origins in Ireland, but they apparently went to England sometime prior to the 10th century, and then back to Ireland in the 1600's. The Irish are very clued in to preserving "tribal" descent, and so I would not be at all surprised to find that the Irish Cohan and the Jewish Kohn/Cohen are connected. I know an Irish business associate, who knew his name and mine were regarded as having the same origin (but I didn't know), took me up to Glendalough in County Wicklow. to show me around and to tell me about it.
Which no doubt had to be cleaned up by poor immigrants forced to take the jobs that American's won't.
Nice sidestep, but we are not discussing that vile Stalinist, HRC. We are discussing Allen and whether he can hold up to the scutiny of being the '08 nominee. Of the 4 choices we seem to be looking at (Rudy, Newt, Romney, and Allen) I'm pulling for Allen- but he has to stop being baited into the lib's traps.
I listened/watched the debate on my computer yesterday...and you description is absolutely dead on.
The questioner was the one that came out the FOOL on this..not Sen. Allen.
AND, this is yet another hit piece by Dana Milbank..he completely mischaracterized the whole episode.
PING
No one in that room liked the disgusting question from that woman and Allen won the debate, hands down. If the WaPo actually wanted to be a decent newspaper, they would not have Dana Milbank writing for them.
I pinged you mostly to see how totally FALSE Dana Milbank's article was.
I guess these guys let their hate make them forget that WE actually DO watch these debates and know the true story.
And then Allen went on to win the whole damned debate.
The WAPO then went on to re-caste it as a loss somehow for Allen. They are really in to try to unseat them. You can't PAY for this kind of political support from the WAPO to the Webb campaign.
Notice Webb's dead silence when asked by Allen to respect women and take off the air the ads he is running (as per Nancy Reagan's request!!), which imply endorsement from the dead President Reagan... Webb as as silent as a doorknob. What a schmuck.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.