[tictoc]

But Hart said the line was not directed to Jews, but referring to any ethnic group that exerts a "disproportionate" influence on U.S. foreign policy.

After Hart finished a speech at the Stanford Law School Wednesday, a reporter from ABC News's Internet-based newsletter "The Note" asked him to whom or what he was referring.

ABC's report said Hart was at first reluctant to give specific examples, but then offered up Irish Americans and Cuban Americans as two of many examples of lobbying groups who, in his view, sometimes exercise disproportionate power and skew U.S. policy.

[Gothmog]

Thanks for helping prove my point. The ABC reporter obviously thought Hart's comment needed explanation and then Hart, now caught, hems and haws, 'uhhmmmm let's see, how can I get out of this mess, uhhmmmm, wait a minute, uhhmmmmm, well the Irish and the Cubans are examples.'

Next question -- then which group was he talking about? He was specifically talking about the war against Iraq. Then he says blames "Americans who find it hard to distinguish their loyalties to their original homelands from their loyalties to America and it's national interest." So Ok, Hart, then 'in relation to the topic you were talking about, which Americans' influence are you blaming for pushing the US toward war?'

Could it be...Satan? In case you haven't figured it out yet, the ABC reporter, Hart himself, Tucker Carlson, Paul Begala, me and a bunch of other people on this thread all know what he was talking about, but somehow you don't.

Well, congratulations for being so sensible.