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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative leader caught on live mic: ‘The Jews are the problem’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/07/conservative-leader-caught-on-live-mic-the-jews-are-the-problem/video/audio at link
Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (retired), the executive vice president of the conservative Family Research Council, was caught on a hot mic on Thursday joking that the Jews are the problem to an Israeli reporter and pitching his theory about President Barack Obama using subliminal messages to signal support for al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, in audio posted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Friday.
If you understand anything about Islam, there are subliminal messages, Boykin can be heard saying. His message, really, I believe was, I understand you, and I support you.
Boykins remarks were captured after an online broadcast of a panel at the National Security Action Summit. The SPLC reported that the event is held as a counter to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and features speakers who, like Boykin, have not been allowed to participate there.
Though the panels video feed shut down, the audio continued broadcasting, enabling Boykin to be heard as he argued that, as a result of the messages, al-Qaeda and the Brotherhood saw that that they have a president that identifies with them, that has been supportive of them inside the United States and is unwilling to go against them.
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Keep them mics hot and these guys will continue to bury themselves in their own bigotry/ignorance and racism, the sooner the better.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)who once announced Shrub was "appointed by God"?
The Boykin who told us that when Jesus comes back, he'll be carrying an AR-15?
That Boykin?
Cha
(297,523 posts)GP6971
(31,201 posts)But that's not news to anyone here
8 track mind
(1,638 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)"If ANYONE was offended ... "
freshwest
(53,661 posts)PCIntern
(25,576 posts)and I mean EVERYWHERE.
When it all comes down to it, we are the favorite whipping boys of mankind: Left, Right, they just cannot stop blaming the Jews and of course, Israel. Oh I know...you can't equate Israel with the Jews...
Wanna-frigging-bet? I can. Lets see: Circumcision, ritual slaughter of animals, Israel 'apartheid', swanky cars, swanky houses, swanky schools for their children who wear swanky clothes. And on and on...it never ever stops. Forget about the fact that some gigantic percentage of the Earth lives under horribly oppressive regimes, all some people have time for is Israel and the Jews. It pisses me off no end.
But if I REALLY were to get started, I'd probably have a significant problem here...so I shall stop now.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)wonder if there's a good media source that will cover it from the Jewish perspective? I mean, c'mon this moron (excuse me, Colonel Moron) was talking to a reporter from Israel and joking or not, said that? If you're aware of a good media source that might cover this please add a link. Thanks.
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)He was asked if he could give a two minute interview to a reporter of INN (doesn't mean he is Israeli or Jewish) and it is unclear to whom he was speaking when he made his remarks, and the laughter may or may not have been in reference to the "joke." There was so much background noise, it is difficult to tell what the chain of events really was. I did check INN and didn't see an interview, but it may be a few days for it to appear.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)It isn't a partisan issue at all; both sides are guilty, though it is the right which is usually more honest about their hate. There are a number of issues, including the ones you raised (and don't forget the blood libel that crops up ever so often), which magically transform from one issue to another when Jews are involved. The best is when non-Jews tell us what is and isn't anti-Semitism.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Watching a thread of non-Jews trying to define anti-semitism and couching their hatred with buzzwords. Not sure who they think they're fooling (other than themselves).
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)or else they will spend an eternity in the mythological hell of the bible.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)right doesn't give 2 shits Israel. The only reason they court them is to bring on the rapture. The right do not care who dies or converts. The end game is their coveted Holy war and rapture. They will do and say anything to keep a divide between the Jews and Muslims.
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)The far Christian right doesn't give a shit about Jews. They do care about Israel, but not for any altruistic reasons, pretty much for the reasons you stated. Well, I guess you could be correct in that they don't really care about Israel in the sense of "caring about" something.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)I should have said Jews instead of Israel. The Christian right are proclaiming the 'merika" was founded on biblical principles and blessed by gawd. I guess just incase the end times involves nuclear weapons.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Their interest pretty much begins and ends with bringing on the rapture. In fact, the centerpiece of their faith depends on it.
There are plenty of RW Christian sites dedicated to nothing but the rapture. Here's but one that defines their "interest" in Israel: https://www.raptureready.com/rr-armageddon.html
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Well done!
Sobriquet
(15 posts)...just in case anybody's curious.