http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/snub/ en-us Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:57:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100005/posts “I’ve asked them about it. We think it’s because they’re unhappy with our cable programming. But I’m here. I’m waiting,” said Brian Williams to the bastard maker Letterman. Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100005/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:57:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099079/posts Brian Williams is the only network anchor who hasn’t had a shot at interviewing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and the NBC anchor wants the McCain-Palin campaign to know he’s ready to do it –- they just have to say the word. “I have access to the three metropolitan airports,” Williams told David Letterman on Friday night. “I cannot wait to interview Sarah Palin. “You know, Katie’s airing Part 17 tonight,” he joked. “And Sarah Palin and Charlie Gibson are in a pottery class together, so I’ve been shut out so far.” LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099079/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:42:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090391/posts VIDEO: Letterman Not Happy After McCain Snub "We're told the senator has concluded his interview with Katie Couric and is now on Rachel Ray's show making veal piccata." Thursday, September 25, 2008 Campaign 2008: Get the latest news, video, and polls! (UPI) – David Letterman said he was disappointed Sen. John McCain backed out of an appearance on his show so he could be interviewed by Katie Couric. The Republican presidential candidate, who Letterman described as a "real American hero," was scheduled to drop by "The Late Show with David Letterman" Wednesday. But Letterman said McCain personally called him shortly... KFI AM 640 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090391/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:36:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090196/posts I was embarrassed by the cowardice of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (say that fast 3 times) for DISINVITING a candidate for the US Vice Presidency from speaking at what should have been an American United front against the madman Ahmadinejad's appearance at the UN. If you were also, here's a way to COUNTER THE IDIOCY. You can make your voice heard and express your distaste for what happened - even if you don't support Palin but just want to express your disgust - by going to her campaign website and donating just $18 (or $180 or... Atlas Shrugs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090196/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090104/posts 'No Show' Rally Was a Victory by Sammy Benoit We will not be bullied. In 2006, the anti-Ahmadinejad Rally at the United Nations drew 40,000 People. Last year's rally drew 25,000 people. This week's rally drew 2,000 people. This week's rally was the most successful of the three. This week, the supporters of Israel and, most especially, the Jewish People told the world that we will not be We may be blindly liberal as a people, but we are not stupid.This week, the supporters of Israel and, most especially, the Jewish People told the world that we will not be... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090104/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090094/posts ZOA: Some Jewish Groups That Opposed Palin Appearing At Anti-Iran Rally Ignored Urging Attendance At Rally NEWS RELEASE Zionist Organization of America Jacob & Libby Goodman ZOA House, 4 East 34th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016 (212) 481-1500 Fax: (212) 481-1515 email@zoa.org www.zoa.org September 24, 2008 Contact Morton A. Klein at: 917-974-8795 or 212-481-1500 Attn: NEWS EDITOR Left-wing Jewish Groups Subordinated Concern For Israel To Their Domestic Agenda SOME JEWISH GROUPS THAT OPPOSED PALIN APPEARING AT ANTI-IRAN RALLY IGNORED URGING ATTENDANCE AT RALLY The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the National Jewish Democratic Convention (NJDC) and J Street,... IMRA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090094/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:23:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2089104/posts Published in September 24th, 2008 Please see “The Jewish Vote on November 4th,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/ and http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/jewish_organizations_choosing.html.) “Death, do not be proud,” wrote John Donne in the eighteenth century. Today we can say, “American Jewish organizations, do not be proud.” The brouhaha over Governor Sarah Palin’s “disinvite” to the Jewish anti-Iran rally at the U.N. apparently came down to Palin’s commitment to the pro-life movement, and the “disinviters” won. According to Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post, Jewish American “Democrats threatened to bring down the organized Jewish community” over the issue and Israel be damned. The rally was intended to protest... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2089104/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:40:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089096/posts News outlets as diverse as WCBS Radio; Newsday; Agence France-Presse; Fox News; The New York Sun; Russia's state news agency, RIA Novosti; and even the Voice of America elected to report on the anti-Iran rally held yesterday outside the United Nations. The protest against Iran and its president, Ahmadinejad, was sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, UJA/Federation. CAMERA, and a number of other groups. It featured such speakers as Natan Sharansky, Elie Wiesel, and the Speaker of Israel's Knesset. Some of the reporting media included photos of the crowds and their protest signs, including Fox News,... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089096/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:22:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089057/posts <p>Jews, according to both anti-Semites and philo-Semites, are smart folks. Anti-Semites claim that Jews are highly intelligent -- and therefore threaten the world via conspiratorial monetary and political control. Philo-Semites point out that Jews have provided a vastly disproportionate number of Nobel Prize winners, as well as various leading scientists, philosophers, writers and artists. Virtually everyone agrees, then, that Jews are intelligent. And yet for all of our intelligence (I am an Orthodox Jew), large groups of American Jews lack the most basic instinct for self-preservation; they lack the understanding to protect Jews by acting to protect Israel. The non-religious Jewish community demonstrates particular blindness. Most non-religious Jews, who see no special value in Jewish identity, distract themselves with "social justice" policies -- policies like abortion-on-demand and gay marriage -- that directly contravene traditional Jewish values. Meanwhile, they ignore existential threats to Jews worldwide -- threats they cannot escape with protestations that they aren't practicing Jews, or that their Judaism only goes as far as the occasional bagel. For many non-religious Jews, political liberalism trumps both Jewish values and Jewish existence. How else to explain the disastrous series of events last week in New York? The United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York scheduled an anti-Iran rally highlighting the blatant Jew-hatred of visiting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Federation invited both Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R-AK). Palin accepted. So, at first, did Clinton -- but when she learned that she would be appearing on the same stage as Palin, she backed out. At that point, the organizers of the rally made a terrible decision: They disinvited Palin. Politico.com reported that the decision was made after Democrats complained that they did not want the rally turned into a partisan event. This is the height of idiocy. In the possibility of a nuclear Iran, Jews face the gravest menace since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. They must mobilize every ally, unearth every friend, in order to create a groundswell of support for a military strike against Iran by Israel -- the only true solution to Iranian nuclear ambition. And yet they turned away Sarah Palin -- perhaps the future vice president of the United States, and at the moment, the most popular female politician in the United States -- because they feared offending Democrats. Only a baseline allegiance to the Democratic Party -- only a deep-rooted leftist partisanship -- can explain such behavior. Any rational group, seeking to draw attention to the Iranian situation, would leap at the opportunity to host Palin, who routinely draws tens of thousands of fans. More than that, any rational group would recognize that if high-ranking Democrats withdraw from anti-Iran rallies simply to avoid being seen in public with high-ranking Republicans, then perhaps Democrats aren't the friends of Israel they purport to be. Any rational group would be suspicious that Hillary Clinton is more concerned with Sarah Palin than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Any rational group would use their anti-Iran rally as a forum for candidates, allowing those with the most pro-Israel message to capitalize politically. Instead, the organizers disinvited Palin. In doing so, they demonstrated a political bias unworthy of a pro-Israel organization. More than that: In rejecting Palin, they demonstrated loyalty to Democrats over loyalty to Jewish causes. That became especially clear when the text of Palin's un-given speech was released. "We gather here today to highlight the Iranian dictator's intentions and to call for action to thwart him," the speech reads. "He must be stopped. The world must awake to the threat this man poses to all of us. Ahmadinejad denies that the Holocaust ever took place. He dreams of being an agent in a 'Final Solution' -- the elimination of the Jewish people. He has called Israel a 'stinking corpse' that is 'on its way to annihilation.' … Iran should not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Period. And in a single voice, we must be loud enough for the whole world to hear: Stop Iran!" This is strong stuff. And it is stuff that the rally organizers abandoned when they kowtowed to Democrats rather than recognizing that support for Israel must be a non-partisan issue. It was foolish. It was dangerous. And most of all, it was dishonorable.</p> Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089057/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:11:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088962/posts Your abortions or your lives! Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST American Jews have good reason to be ashamed and angry today. As Iran moves into the final stages of its nuclear weapons development program - nuclear weapons which it will use to destroy the State of Israel, endanger Jews around the world and cow the United States of America - Democratic American Jewish leaders decided that putting Sen. Barack Obama in the White House is more important than protecting the lives of the Jewish people in Israel and around the worl On Monday, the New York Sun published the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088962/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088754/posts American Jews have good reason to be ashamed and angry today. As Iran moves into the final stages of its nuclear weapons development program - nuclear weapons which it will use to destroy the State of Israel, endanger Jews around the world and cow the United States of America - Democratic American Jewish leaders decided that putting Sen. Barack Obama in the White House is more important than protecting the lives of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world.On Monday, the New York Sun published the speech that Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would... ISRAPUNDIT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088754/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:00:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088524/posts Activists from Jewish organizations demonstrated Monday against Iran at UN headquarters in New York in a rally overshadowed by US domestic politics with Senator Hillary Clinton declining to appear alongside Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Young Jewish demonstrators were brought to the UN by dozens of school buses in the late morning Monday to join a protest that drew hundreds of people. Demonstrators brandished placards that read "Stop Iran Now," "No Nuclear Iran," and "Zero Tolerance: United For Israel." Clinton had been scheduled to speak at the rally, held a day before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Tuesday speech before... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088524/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:21:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088400/posts News has emerged that the organizers of that anti-Iran rally that famously got snarled up in Senator Hillary Clinton's ire at Governor Sarah Palin last week were threatened by New York Democrats with IRS action against their tax-exempt status if they allowed Palin to speak. CBS local NY news reported this little fact and so did NBC but most of the national news has ignored this outrageous threat to use the IRS to silence Governor Palin. Accusing New York Democrats of using "McCarthyism" to shut Palin down, Democrat Assemblyman Dov Hikind was flabbergasted by the behind the scenes threats... publiusforum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088400/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:36:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088387/posts American Jews have good reason to be ashamed and angry today. As Iran moves into the final stages of its nuclear weapons development program - nuclear weapons which it will use to destroy the State of Israel, endanger Jews around the world and cow the United States of America - Democratic American Jewish leaders decided that putting Sen. Barack Obama in the White House is more important than protecting the lives of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world. On Monday, the New York Sun published the speech that Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088387/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:25:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088208/posts American Jews have good reason to be ashamed and angry today. As Iran moves into the final stages of its nuclear weapons development program - nuclear weapons which it will use to destroy the State of Israel, endanger Jews around the world and cow the United States of America - Democratic American Jewish leaders decided that putting Sen. Barack Obama in the White House is more important than protecting the lives of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world. (snip) The rally was co-sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the National Coalition to Stop... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088208/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:27:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088205/posts The McCain campaign was not too happy when Hillary Clinton pulled out of a rally next week protesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Clinton pulled out when she found out the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would also be there, lending a political air to the event. After that, organizers disinvited Palin. Palin expressed her disappointment today at a rally in Blaine, Minn.—but she was careful to serve up another helping of praise for Clinton, whose supporters she is courting. “I was scheduled to appear at a rally with Sen. Clinton, whose commitment to this I appreciate,” she said. “It... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088205/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:24:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088190/posts Anti Iran Rally turns into Anti Obama RallyJewish groups dis invite Palin to Anti Iran Rally Everyone in the world would be safer if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was locked up. We all know where he is going to be tomorow. Why don't we just arrest him at the UN???Jenny Hatch The Natural Family BLOG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088190/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:55:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088183/posts Three Jewish Groups Protest Disinviting Palin from Rally by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Three large Jewish groups have protested a decision by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to remove Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin from the list of invitees to the rally against the appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations. She was taken off the list shortly after Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton angrily said the she would not attend because Governor Palin also was invited. The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), National Council of Young Israel and the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088183/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:45:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088112/posts 2,000 strong Weak Eric Shawn is reporting that today's Anti-Ahmadinejad (boycotted) rally drew 2,000 (and that was with the Jewish day schools in attendance). They made spin it but the numbers do not lie. Last year, I reported in my anti-Ahmadinejad post that CBS reported 25,000 attended. In 2006, I reported the number was 40,000. The boycott had an effect. Good! Be there Thursday. Imagine if Palin was there. If she could draw 60,000 in Florida with no poison dwarf, no bread and circuses, or greek columns. Imagine if ..... Photo: A woman holds a "Where is Sarah?" sign at... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088112/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088027/posts Politics and diplomacy were not a good mix at Monday's protest rally against Iran at the United Nations. Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin didn't participate in the "Stop Iran Now" rally and there were a lot of hard feelings about it. It was a simple sign that read "We Want Sarah. Shame On The Rally Organizer." Howard Webber from Brooklyn held it. "As important an event as this is, you needed a unity of Democrats and Republicans to show Ahmadinejad that we're not going to accept a nuclear Iran." Buddy Macy of Little Fells, N.J., felt much the same way.... WCBS-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088027/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087990/posts In the speech which Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was to have delivered at a Monday rally protesting the UN appearance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, she was to have said that the Iranian president "dreams of being an agent in a 'Final Solution' - the elimination of the Jewish people." Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087990/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:58:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087888/posts Despite the Palin disinvite controversy, it was great to see so much support for Israel in NYC! Enjoy the photos! The Neocon Latina http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087888/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:37:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087805/posts It remains to be seen whether this issue will plague Obama as he continues to struggle to establish both his foreign policy credentials and his support for Israel. One supporter of the McCain-Palin ticket on Capitol Hill remarked ruefully, “Has it occurred that the reason that neither Obama nor Biden would show up is maybe that they would rather meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions than protest his presence at the UN?”... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087805/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:32:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087749/posts Libs will probably call this saber rattling, but I would call it honesty. Here's Sarah Palin the New York Sun on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to the United States and the world: Palin on Ahmadinejad: 'He Must Be Stopped' By SARAH PALIN | September 22, 2008 Right Werds, Korrekt Speech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087749/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087669/posts A rally will be held today at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, outside the UN Headquarters in New York City. It is being sponsored by a host of American Jewish groups, amongst which are the National Coalition to Stop Iran Now, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Its purpose is to protest Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN General Assembly, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087669/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:15:40 GMT