Decline and Fall

Via Art of the Possible: Jewish voters are stupid and insufficiently tribal because they voted for Obama, according to conservative columnist Don Feder. This article is all kinds of wrong, and someone needs to fisk the whole thing, but here are a few highlights:

That McCain had an unblemished, 20-year record of support for Israel, Obama is surrounded by advisors who are hostile to Israel, and Iranian Television described the latter as “highly educated” and “eloquent,” mattered not in the least.

Yeah, that Rahm Emanuel is an anti-zionist of the first order. And anything Iranian Television says must be false. If they say the sky is blue, they're wrong and deserve to be militarily occupied.

Even though Iran is led by a raving anti-Semite and Holocaust-denier – who’s said Israel “should be wiped off the face of the Earth” – even though Iran was voted most likely to commit nuclear suicide if it could take Israel with it, a plurality of Jews still said they’d oppose U.S. military action to forestall a second Holocaust.

Poor Iran. They so wanted to win "Most Likely to Create a Death Star," but that award went to Japan. There, there, it's just a popularity contest. Oh, and Ahmedinejad didn't say that.

As Jewish author Dennis Prager notes, if there was a connection between Judaism and liberalism, those Jews grounded in Torah and most committed to living a Jewish life, would be the most liberal.

Right. Because the more Orthodox you are, the more Jewish you are. And Dennis Prager is definitely the go-to guy for impartial analysis.

[Obama] attended Farrakhan’s 1995 Million Man March, and later lauded the neo-Nuremberg rally as an event that brought African-American men together and showed they were ready “to make a commitment to bring about change in our communities and our lives”

"Neo-Nuremberg rally"? WTF? Nothing hyperbolic there, Godwin.

[Obama] said the “legitimate claims” of Hezbollah are “weakened” by its violence

You mean to tell me there's absolutely nothing legitimate about Hezbollah's claims, which in turn aren't weakened by their use of violence? How on earth is that even a controversial statement?

[Obama] said the terrorist attacks of 9/11 grew out of “a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair” – to which we must not overreact

I don't know of any actual scholar in the field who denies that "poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair" are at least part of the root causes of terrorism. It's clearly an extremist position, taken only by those who truly hate the Judeo-Christian faith, and Israel is as good as incinerated now that Barack Hussein is in charge.

Those Jews also reject the Judeo-Christian ethic and the historic mission of the Jewish people – to repair the world under the rule of God.

Because there's only one way of interpreting the injunction to "repair the world," and that's to "vote Republican." After all, the world is in much better shape now than it was eight years ago. But Jews are too stupid to that..

How this bigoted, jingoistic moron has been allowed to write a sydicated column for a quarter century is beyond me. But he's certainly at home in today's conservative movement.

Labels: conservatism, politics, religion