"Whoa, Colonel Klink's Hot"
Well, it really has come to this: the Bushophobic Left, the burgeoning neoNazis of the American political firmament, have now infiltrated the laughably misnamed "mainstream" media and gotten onto senatorial debate panels:
Was this debate in Tyson’s Corner or Nuremberg? Is Frauline Fox under the misimpression that Allen and Webb are running for the office of Weimar chancellor? Wouldn’t that cast George W. Bush in the role of Paul von Hindenburg? Well, at least she’s easier on the eyes than Joseph Goebbels was, if not easier on the ears.
Was this her question? Was it foisted on her by her editor? Passed along to her by a colleague? Does it matter? And did she even realize how she sounded? Has the woman no grasp, not the slightest notion, of twentieth-century history, much less American political tradition that holds race, creed, ethnicity, gender, etc. to be irrelevant to citizenship? Is she really that historically illiterate?
I tend to think Frauline Fox was just as clueless as she sounded. It’s noteworthy that the WaPo story describes her as "looking a bit frightened," but evidently more at the understandable vehemence and outrage of Senator Allen’s reaction than at the obvious-to-everybody-but-her question that inspired it, which George Lincoln Rockwell couldn’t have phrased any more disgustingly. Indeed, I can’t say which is more despicable, Fox’s anti-Semitism or the anti-Allen spin the WaPo put on it implying that the GOP incumbent was either (1) insulted that somebody would think he was part Jewish or (2) afraid that Virginny voters – yew know, awl those rednecks out theya, ya hea? – would believe he was part Jewish and refuse to vote for him.
You can’t fault Senator Allen’s righteous indignation, but it’s a shame he didn’t turn the Jew-baiting journo’s question back on her and run her through with it. For instance, "That’s an odd question, Ms. Fox, and perhaps a telling one. Do you think Jewish ancestry ought to disqualify one from holding elective office? What do you suppose to be the deleterious consequences of the election of Americans of Jewish background? And, my goodness, don’t we already have a great number of them already, such as my good friend and colleague Joe Lieberman, whose ethnicity, as I’ve been following it, has also come under some unfortunate attacks from members of his own party? Or one of our own congressman from the great state of Virginia, Eric Cantor, who won his last election two years ago with 76% of the vote? Why does this prospect concern you, Ms. Fox?"
Ironically, Jim Webb could have capitalized on this vile ditziness by joining Allen in condemning it – a "Sister Soldjah moment" if ever there was one. Instead he just stood there, silent as a sepulchre and probably enjoying what he took to be Allen’s discomfort. Or perhaps Webb had a hand in the question, given that his own "netroots coordinator" appears to be just as anti-Semitic, and far less abashed by it to boot.
Makes you wonder if any of the Webbies realize they blew the election in the space of two sentences.
UPDATE: Be sure to see today’s Day-by-Day comic on the upper right sidebar. Chris Muir’s punch-line knocks this one out of the park.
UPDATE II: Here's the video of the exchange.
At a debate in Tyson’s Corner [Virginia] yesterday between Republican [incumbent Senator George] Allen and Democrat [challenger James] Webb, WUSA-TV's Peggy Fox asked Allen, the tobacco-chewing, cowboy-boot-wearing son of a pro football coach, if his Tunisian-born mother has Jewish blood.
"It has been reported," said Fox, that "your grandfather Felix, whom you were given your middle name for, was Jewish. Could you please tell us whether your forebears include Jews and, if so, at which point Jewish identity might have ended?"
Allen recoiled as if he had been struck. His supporters in the audience booed and hissed. "To be getting into what religion my mother is, I don't think is relevant," Allen said, furiously. "Why is that relevant - my religion, Jim's religion or the religious beliefs of anyone out there?"
"Honesty, that's all," questioner Fox answered, looking a bit frightened.
"Oh, that's just all? That's just all," the senator mocked, pressing his attack. He directed Fox to "ask questions about issues that really matter to people here in Virginia" and refrain from "making aspersions."
Was this debate in Tyson’s Corner or Nuremberg? Is Frauline Fox under the misimpression that Allen and Webb are running for the office of Weimar chancellor? Wouldn’t that cast George W. Bush in the role of Paul von Hindenburg? Well, at least she’s easier on the eyes than Joseph Goebbels was, if not easier on the ears.
Was this her question? Was it foisted on her by her editor? Passed along to her by a colleague? Does it matter? And did she even realize how she sounded? Has the woman no grasp, not the slightest notion, of twentieth-century history, much less American political tradition that holds race, creed, ethnicity, gender, etc. to be irrelevant to citizenship? Is she really that historically illiterate?
I tend to think Frauline Fox was just as clueless as she sounded. It’s noteworthy that the WaPo story describes her as "looking a bit frightened," but evidently more at the understandable vehemence and outrage of Senator Allen’s reaction than at the obvious-to-everybody-but-her question that inspired it, which George Lincoln Rockwell couldn’t have phrased any more disgustingly. Indeed, I can’t say which is more despicable, Fox’s anti-Semitism or the anti-Allen spin the WaPo put on it implying that the GOP incumbent was either (1) insulted that somebody would think he was part Jewish or (2) afraid that Virginny voters – yew know, awl those rednecks out theya, ya hea? – would believe he was part Jewish and refuse to vote for him.
You can’t fault Senator Allen’s righteous indignation, but it’s a shame he didn’t turn the Jew-baiting journo’s question back on her and run her through with it. For instance, "That’s an odd question, Ms. Fox, and perhaps a telling one. Do you think Jewish ancestry ought to disqualify one from holding elective office? What do you suppose to be the deleterious consequences of the election of Americans of Jewish background? And, my goodness, don’t we already have a great number of them already, such as my good friend and colleague Joe Lieberman, whose ethnicity, as I’ve been following it, has also come under some unfortunate attacks from members of his own party? Or one of our own congressman from the great state of Virginia, Eric Cantor, who won his last election two years ago with 76% of the vote? Why does this prospect concern you, Ms. Fox?"
Ironically, Jim Webb could have capitalized on this vile ditziness by joining Allen in condemning it – a "Sister Soldjah moment" if ever there was one. Instead he just stood there, silent as a sepulchre and probably enjoying what he took to be Allen’s discomfort. Or perhaps Webb had a hand in the question, given that his own "netroots coordinator" appears to be just as anti-Semitic, and far less abashed by it to boot.
Makes you wonder if any of the Webbies realize they blew the election in the space of two sentences.
UPDATE: Be sure to see today’s Day-by-Day comic on the upper right sidebar. Chris Muir’s punch-line knocks this one out of the park.
UPDATE II: Here's the video of the exchange.
posted by JASmius at 11:49 PM
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