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FadeTheButcher
08-17-2004, 01:26 AM
LOL even leftists can get it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1192046/posts

Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's national director, fired back at Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Friday in what has become an ongoing sparring match over Nader's assertion that Israel and American Jews are "puppeteers" who control Congress and the White House.

Foxman replied to a letter from Nader, in which the candidate stood by his original assertion. Nader's August 5 letter to Foxman said, "The Israelis have a joke for the obvious – that the United States is the second state of Israel."

"How often, if ever, has the United States – either the Congress of the White House – pursued a course of action, since 1956, that contradicted the Israeli government's position?"

Foxman wrote in reply: "I was disappointed to read your letter of August 5 because it merely confirmed my concerns about your original comments Rather than allay our concerns, your letter only furthers conspiracy theories about Jews and borders on bigotry."

Foxman said Nader had ignored the fact that "there are many examples of US disagreement with Israeli policies." And he described Nader's accusation about Jewish power as "false and offensive." Nader is so far only on fewer than a dozen states' ballots in the November election.

manny
08-17-2004, 01:38 AM
LOL even leftists can get it.

Not only that, but "leftists" get it more often than "rightists" do.

otto_von_bismarck
08-17-2004, 02:34 AM
If leftists "get it" its all the more evidence the theory is wrong. Nader's followers ain't exactly "inner party" members of the left wing movement( Nader probably isn't either despite being a rather skilled swindler)... 99.9999% of what they say is wrong.

In the 2000 election I thought of Nader as a useful spoiler to the rat party, but given my lack of enthusiasm for the Bush administration now I really have no reason to hold my tongue about the limosine commie.