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		<title>“Nobody’s Gonna Touch Israel”: NRB Interviews Ron Paul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We caught up with Congressman Ron Paul after his speech at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit in Phoenix over the weekend. One of the themes of that speech was that America cannot impose democracy upon the rest of the world. However, unaddressed was whether America ought to protect allies who are free and wish to remain so. Here was our follow-up with the congressman.]]></description>
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<p>We caught up with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/fp/Blog/Readbd4d-2.html?guid=3bffb3a0-1af8-4e10-8753-29130f6a92d3" >Congressman Ron Paul</a> after his speech at the <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/26/vile-racist-fear-mongers-convene-in-phoenix-to-revel-in-hate/" >Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit</a> in Phoenix over the weekend. One of the themes of that speech was that America cannot impose democracy upon the rest of the world. However, unaddressed was whether America ought to protect allies who are free and wish to remain so. Here was our follow-up with the congressman.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>NRB</strong>: David Horowitz and others <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/17/ron-paul-is-a-vicious-anti-semite-and-anti-american-and-conservatives-need-to-wash-their-hands-of-him/" >have been critical</a> of the effect that your foreign policy would have upon Israel&#8230; How would you describe a libertarian vision for alliance that could support democracies where people want to determine their own course while under threat by external forces?</p>
<p><strong>Ron Paul:</strong> We&#8217;ve been involved a long time, since World War II, especially since we&#8217;ve inherited or developed our empire. We strongly supported all the dictators that surround Israel, and sometimes we buy peace and pay for it. But it&#8217;s unstable. And that instability has always been a threat to Israel. Now, when it&#8217;s coming apart, and our financial system&#8217;s coming apart, Israel is in worse shape than ever because of our so-called protection.</p>
<p>I believe in non-intervention. I believe we should treat all other countries alike, and that we should be friends. Israel is very, very powerful. If we weren&#8217;t in there, they could do what they want to protect themselves, and they wouldn&#8217;t have to ask us permission, and we would never have to be dragged in if something happens over there. I think they&#8217;d be much better off, and that would be a constitutional position.</p>
<p><strong>NRB:</strong> Is there a point where the existence of Israel being under threat would compel even a libertarian to take action to protect her?</p>
<p><strong>Paul:</strong> First off, they&#8217;re under threat because we&#8217;re there. We&#8217;re a greater threat to them, and our polices, because they have assumed that we&#8217;ll [intervene] if they don&#8217;t do the right things for themselves.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know of anybody who can militarily threaten them. They have 300 nuclear weapons. Nobody&#8217;s gonna touch them. This notion that we have to support them over the Palestinians &#8211; we shouldn&#8217;t favor one over the other. It&#8217;s a very different problem over there. If you&#8217;re a Palestinian-American, you might not like [America's position on Israel]. I&#8217;m not saying you should support the Palestinian side or the Israeli side. I&#8217;m saying let them work it out.</p>
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		<title>Bill Maher&#8217;s Sad Spin on the Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did the voters really part with Obama because he hasn't been socialist enough?]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1689" target="_blank">Bill Maher</a> <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/10/2010/11/09/leftist-ideologue-bill-maher-befuddled-by-mid-terms/" target="_blank">was befuddled</a> by last week’s election as he discussed the results with his <em>Real Time</em> panel, which included <em>Time</em> magazine editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria. Maher could not understand why voters would cast their ballots for Republicans.</p>
<p>The leftist ideologue stubbornly refused to accept the simplest explanation, that voters parted with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> and his Democratic party on ideology. In fact, the simplest explanation  was so unpalatable to Maher, he conjured up a  nonsensical alternative.</p>
<blockquote><p>[The blue dogs] lost on Tuesday. Those [Democrats] who   said, “You know what? I’m not with Obama. I disavow him, even though   he’s my president in my party.” They lost.</p>
<p>What does that tell you? You know, it tells me that this election was  lost when Obama didn’t back the public option. To me, that was the one  key thing that said to the people  – You know what? This is no different  than the Al Gore Democrats, the  old Al Gore playbook. “Let’s run from  our achievements. And let’s not  stand for what we believe in.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To his credit, Zakaria did not let Maher get away with such cognitive acrobatics.</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s  difficult to imagine independents saying, “I’m  gonna vote for extremely  right-wing Republicans because Obama wasn’t  left-wing enough… I think  it’s more plausible to say that they  perceived, rightly or wrongly, that  he had moved too far left…  Fundamentally, 85% of the country has  healthcare and worries about  cost. 15% [of the country] doesn’t [have  healthcare] and worries about  access. What [Obama] did was, he dealt  with the issue of the 15% before  he dealt with the issue of the 85%.</p></blockquote>
<p>Zakaria is hardly a conservative apologist, but has a capacity Maher   lacks to see beyond his own perspective. Indeed, it strains  credulity  to imagine voters turned out for Republicans in retaliation  for not  getting an explicit public option in <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=180&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">Obamacare</a>. If anything, voters holding to such far left ideology likely stayed home for lack of enthusiasm.</p>
<p>We shouldn’t give Zakaria too much credit though, as he fails to   acknowledge how the cost concerns of those 85% of Americans he cites  have been  exasperated by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=180&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">Obamacare</a>,   while the access worries of the other 15% remain. It is not as though   the minority was seen to at the expense of the majority. No one outside  Washington got what  they wanted, except for insurance companies  who were lured by the  short-term boon of an expanded customer base  into ignoring the long-term  death sentence of unsustainable mandates.</p>
<p>This election was a referendum on <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">socialism</a>.   It was a rejection of elitism, arrogance, and the nanny-state. It   follows that arrogant elitists who fancy themselves our nannies,  like  Maher, would be incapable of understanding that.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://fightinwordsusa.wordpress.com/">Walter Hudson</a> is a political commentator and co-founder of Minnesota’s <a href="http://www.northstartpp.com/" target="_blank">North Star Tea Party Patriots</a>, a statewide educational organization. He runs a <a href="http://fightinwordsusa.wordpress.com/">blog</a> entitled <em><a href="http://fightinwordsusa.wordpress.com/">Fightin Words</a></em>. He also contributes to <em><a href="http://looktruenorth.com/">True North</a></em>, a hub of Minnesotan conservative commentary. Follow his work via <a href="http://twitter.com/fightinwordsusa">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fightin-Words/114373472948">Facebook</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FightinWordsUSA">YouTube</a><em>.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Rosie O’Donnell: Anti-Semite or Psycho?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosie hearts Helen Thomas.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Thomas%20Wants%20White%20House%20Press%20Corps.html" target="_blank">Helen Thomas</a>, now <em>former</em> columnist for Hearst newspapers, has a track record of “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Thomas%20Wants%20White%20House%20Press%20Corps.html" target="_blank">utter detachment from reality</a>.” In a 2006 column, Thomas characterized her colleagues in the White House press corp as “lap dogs” for the Bush administration leading up to the Iraq war. With axiomatic confidence she wrote,</p>
<blockquote><p>“They lapped up everything the Pentagon and White House could dish out — no questions asked.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This raised the eyebrow of <em>National Review Online</em> author Stephen Spruiell, who <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Thomas%20Wants%20White%20House%20Press%20Corps.html" target="_blank">called Thomas to task</a>. Citing a March 2003 transcript of a White House press conference, Spruiell proved journalists had piled on the administration. He concluded that Thomas’s assertion was “nonsense.”</p>
<p>There is a word for the inability to discern reality from delusion. It is psychosis. It goes a long way toward accounting for Thomas’s expressed political beliefs.</p>
<p>The same could be said of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2036" target="_blank">Rosie O’Donnell</a>. In the wake of calling for <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/06/08/rosie-odonnell-wants-bps-assets-seized-we-broke-freakin-womb-mother-eart" target="_blank">the government seizure of British Petroleum by executive order</a>, O’Donnell demonstrated <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2036" target="_blank">willful ignorance of fact</a>, while excusing Thomas’s anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, Thomas <a href="http://fightinwordsusa.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/was-apology-for-get-out-of-palestine-genuine/" target="_blank">resigned in disgrace</a> amid controversy surrounding an off-the-cuff remark calling for Jews to “get the hell out of Palestine.” On Wednesday, during her satellite radio show, O’Donnell defended Thomas with blatant disregard for Israel’s sovereignty.</p>
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<p>Here’s the exact quote of what [Thomas] said: “… Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember these people [the Palestinians] are occupied. It’s their land, not Germany’s, not Poland’s.” She was asked where they should go, and she answered, “They should go home, to Poland, to Germany, to America.”</p>
<p><strong>Guest 1:</strong> How could that be construed as hate-speech?</p>
<p><strong>O’Donnell:</strong> I don’t know.</p>
<p><strong>Guest 1:</strong> I don’t see any way that could be construed as hate speech.</p>
<p><strong>Guest 2:</strong> What if [Thomas said] Black people should go back to Africa?</p>
<p><strong>O’Donnell:</strong> Black people are not occupying a country.</p>
<p>This concept of “occupation,” which O’Donnell shares with Thomas, is indicative of the same <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Thomas%20Wants%20White%20House%20Press%20Corps.html" target="_blank">detachment from reality</a> which underlays Thomas’ perception of Bush-era “lap dogs.” These women see the world, not as it is, but as their politics require it.</p>
<p>Is O’Donnell prepared to out herself, and every other American not directly descended from “natives,” as an occupier? Is she prepared to “go back” to her country of ethnic origin? If not, she is employing a double-standard. Such hypocrisy can only be explained by anti-Semitism or psychosis.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, either possibility seems as likely as the other. As the exchange between O’Donnell and her guests continued, she dismissed the anti-Semitism underlying Thomas’s call for Jews to return to the scene of the Holocaust. O’Donnell argued the lack of active death camps in Europe negates any Jewish claim to Israel.</p>
<p>O’Donnell went on to wholly reinterpret Thomas’s remarks:</p>
<blockquote><p>What [Thomas] was saying was the homeland was originally Palestinians’… and that it’s now occupied by Israel, and that Palestinians should be afforded, you know, human and civil rights. That’s what I think that she was saying.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here again, O’Donnell demonstrates utter detachment from reality. Israel never belonged to “Palestinians,” as <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=38" target="_blank">there has never been a state of Palestine.</a></p>
<p>Civil rights are <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=40&amp;type=group" target="_blank">created by states</a>. O’Donnell’s reinterpretation of Thomas has her calling for civil rights from a state whose existence she opposes. This is blatantly nonsensical. O’Donnell is either ignorant of what civil rights are or unable to reconcile disparate ideas.</p>
<p>No matter which way you cut it, O’Donnell proves incredible. Whether she joins Thomas in anti-Semitism, psychosis, or a potent mixture of both, O’Donnell’s distorted perspective inhibits critical thought.</p>
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<p><a href="http://fightinwordsusa.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Walter Hudson</a> is a political commentator, activist, and Tea Party coordinator from the Twin Cities. He runs a <a href="http://fightinwordsusa.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> and <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/profile.aspx?userurl=sentinel_radio" target="_blank">internet radio show</a>, both entitled <em><a href="http://fightinwordsusa.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Fightin Words</a></em>. He also contributes to <em><a href="http://looktruenorth.com/" target="_blank">True North</a></em>, a hub of Minnesotan conservative commentary. Follow his work via <a href="http://twitter.com/fightinwordsusa" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fightin-Words/114373472948" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FightinWordsUSA" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.<em><br />
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