Thursday, April 19, was Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A number of bloggers wrote some very fine pieces on it, but Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit posted Obama Celebrates Holocaust Day By Putting Jew-Bashing Crackpot on Atrocities Board, noting ...
Jeff Dunetz at The Lid reported:
Today the President tried to show he was a friend of the Jews with a beautifully crafted speech at the Holocaust Museum. Showing his words mean nothing, also today Samantha Power began work today as chair of President Barack Obama’s new Atrocities Prevention Board. If you don’t remember Ms Power, she once called for a US force to invade Israel and force through a “peace settlement.” Powers also had some unflattering things to say about about America’s Jewish population during the 2008 campaign
How long do you think it will be before Powers uses that board as a tool to de-legitimize Israel?
Yes, there are a lot of words here in this post that are not mine, but with which I'm in complete agreement, including a comment reprinted in its entirety, in which I emphasized (with bold face), the "money quote" that is the reason for this post in the first place.
Here is that comment ...
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Update - 07:05, Tue, 24 Apr 2012 -
No, here is not that comment. For those who never bother with reading them, the first legitimate (non-spam) comment this post got said ...
What a conundrum.
The attribution to Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez is false.
The claim that it was published in an unnamed Spanish newspaper is false.
But every statement in the article is true.
Further research discloses, as commenter antares suggests, that this may fall into the "fake, but accurate" category (as CBS news so lovingly described the counterfeit documents it promoted in a story about George Bush's Air National Guard experiences).
So, however sympathetic I may be to what it said (and that is precisely the danger there; it appeals to personally held beliefs), being unable (at the moment) to back it up, I've pulled it.
It may be a fine subject for a post, but it should come from words I've conjured up from my own research; not just passed along from an email.
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2 comments:
What a conundrum.
The attribution to Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez is false.
The claim that it was published in an unnamed Spanish newspaper is false.
But every statement in the article is true.
You'll notice, in the update, that I pulled the entire comment I quoted.
If you're curious about it, click on the linked article ("Obama Celebrates ...") and go to comment #6, by Greg.
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