Andrew Sullivan: 'Israelis Got U.S. Media to Spin Obama's Middle East Speech as an Attack'
You've heard the paranoid, anti-Semitic claim that Jews control the press in this country?
Well, the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan believes the Israelis got United States media representatives to spin President Obama's Middle East speech as an attack on the Jewish state:
The verbal formula that essentially repeats the standard position of every recent US administration on the two-state solution did not strike me as anything new; in fact, it struck me as a minimalist response to Israel's continued aggressive settlement of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. And yet instantly Drudge, Fox, Romney et al. blasted the "stunning" news that Israel had somehow been thrown under the bus.
None of this makes sense until you realize that Netanyahu had been given a heads-up by the administration. So it's pretty obvious that it was the Israelis who immediately got their US media mouthpieces to spin the speech as some sort of attack. So those of you who think Jeffrey Goldberg and Walter Russell Mead and Victor Davis Hanson are a foreign government's favored outlets should think again. These leftist radicals are far too unreliable a channel.
You got that?
Honestly, how can anyone publishing such paranoid conspiracy theories be taken seriously?
Then again, it won't surpise me in the slightest if one or more of MSNBC's prime time drones takes on this same theme Monday.
Stay tuned.
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Andrew Sullivan Believes Hitler Was Unfairly Treated
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:46pm.
What part of Obama's speech was not a bigoted racist attack?
Israel is a country, not a
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 8:16am.
Israel is a country, not a race.
More pretzel logic and racism
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:48pm.
More pretzel logic and racism from the left....
side by side
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:54pm.
They need to do a video back to back of Thursday's statement of the Chairman himself and then the very next day where he was getting schooled by Netanyahu.
I didn't watch it, but I read that the speech today seemed to satisfy the people that were there. So they were satisfied that he lied his ass off to a bunch of people to fool them into thinking he wasn't going to throw Israel under the bus after all? Amazing how people CONTINUE to take what he says at face value despite his background and his glare stare of death he gave Netanyahu on Friday.
-Jon
Typical self-contradictory
Submitted by mattm on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 1:41am.
Typical self-contradictory libtard. The media is spinning Obama's anti-Israel stance as reasonable diplomacy while claiming the media is spinning his attack as an attack....
Already Canceled the F-22, why not go to 1967 aircraft.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 1:58am.
Same thing.... indefensible. but but, Oh its soo green,
Sun Tzu has some additional comments on that issue.
Well hay so does The Corrs... irresistible, your Mineable.
You Didn't Build That.
Answer me this Andrew
Submitted by Boil It Down on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 3:52am.
Did these supposed Israeli operatives also contact the majority of the people commenting across the blogosphere? Do you really think the Israelis have a network that is so huge and completely effective as to perpetrate such a gigantic and sinister operation? Why were there so many instant and reasoned responses? Why are you so paranoid?
Sullivan firmly placed himself in Obama's camp and has to come up with these goofy theories to defend his frequent failures. In this position we cannot attach any real value in what Sullivan says. -bidn-
I have to borrow from PJTV's
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 6:33am.
I have to borrow from PJTV's Stephen Kruiser...
that was the last piece of Andrew Sullivan's mind.
Media spun ObamaCare as a 'Success'
Submitted by ChrisNH on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 6:33am.
So, Sullivan is saying that the media 'spins things.'
I guess we can conclude--without any disagreement from Sullivan himself--that the media spun ObamaCare as a 'Success.' The stimulus, too. Probably our 'growing economy.'
There were no racist code
Submitted by Bhaal on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:21am.
There were no racist code words in that speech, the racism was obvious. Too bad the progressives can't see it.
Hava Nagayla
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:38am.
"The only good Jew is a gay Jew -- and even they're a bit iffy."
Andrew Sullivan (having read what passes for his mind!!)
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
If Netanyahu knew the content of the speech . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 8:06am.
. . . ahead of time, why did he call Hillary Clinton and give her an earful immediately after Obama uttered it?
Obama's Sunday "clarification" to AIPAC leaves me with a big question. When Obama insists that negotiations begin with the pre-1967 borders and then work in "swaps" of territory, what exactly are the Palestinians bringing to the table to swap?
Certainly not the Golan Heights, which were owned by Syria. Syria wants that back.
Not the Gaza Strip, which the Palestinians have already gotten back.
That leaves the West Bank and Jerusalem? But they belonged to Jordan after the 1948 war.
So, what other than empty promises are the Palestinians able to swap?
If someone says Jews control
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 8:20am.
If someone says Jews control the press, you think that's anti-Semitic (which Sullivan didn't say anyway)? Didn't you pull a blog entry the last time you misidentified anti-Semitism? You realize Israel is a country, not a religion, right? Israel does not equal Jew. You are waaaay off the mark again, Noel.
→ I don't know Satch
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 8:23am.
So we're not allowed to call Jews "children of Israel"?
Again, that's religion, not
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 8:55am.
Again, that's religion, not country. Children of Israel = Children of Jacob.
What are you trying to say Satc
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:06am.
That Bibi did turn the media against Obama? I dont understand what you find so offensive here. Do you seriously believe Sullivan?
I'm not offended by anything
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:15am.
I'm not offended by anything here. I'm pointing out that once again, Noel cannot correctly identify anti-Semitism. The last time he did so, he pulled his blog entry. Apparently, he's a bit prejudiced and thinks Israel, a political entity and the subject of the discussion he is blogging about = Judaism, a religion.
You are not addressing the nature of the blog
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:28am.
Do you believe Sullivan or not? Do you honestly think Bibi has any sway over our media?
→ Of course he does, Boudin
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:37am.
He's switching to the Jeremiah Wright school of debate where it slips out that "them Jews" control access to the President. (Of course he's talking about a country, and a not a race or religion, right?)
And before the thread is over, he's going to quote Churchill (Ward, not Winston) that George Washington cursed God because he didn't believe God existed anyway.
Then he'll move on to prove that unprotected homosexual rape results in pregnancy every single time.
What is it about Libs
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 8:57pm.
He makes a direct accusation toward Noel, then has Jack to support it?
Just as obstinate yesterday,
→ I get it
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:09am.
Israel is a country, a religion, and a race. And for the sake of argument, one can divorce himself from any one of them to to avoid the real issue.
Brilliant!
So if some skinhead says African-Americans are ignorant, his fallback position might logically be "I was talking about Charlize Theron?
Brilliant!
No.
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:15am.
No.
Stop picking on Charlize!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:33am.
She may be ignorant, but she's still HOT!
→ Yes, she is
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:38am.
Lots of African-American women are hot.
"Israel does not equal Jew"??????
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:32am.
You realize "Jew" is more than a religion.............don't you?
No it isn't. A Jew is a
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 2:24pm.
No it isn't. A Jew is a follower of Judaism. An Israeli is a citizen of Israel. Israel is a country, not a religion. Judaism is a religion, not a country.
→ Tell that to Bill Maher
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 2:33pm.
Now Satchmo tells us that a person has to act Jewish to be Jewish?
No surprise there. Satchmo, are you equally willing to tell Justice Thomas that he can't be Black because he doesn't act like you think a Black man should act?
You're just being a racist bigot.
Why do you constantly make
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 3:14pm.
Why do you constantly make things up?
→ Satchmo loses again
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 2:34pm.
So you're saying Hitler exterminated Jews based on their religion? Can you possibly be so absolutely ignorant?
Why,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:44pm.
yes.
He can.
MD
Satchmo, The Debating Retard Liberal
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:31pm.
I hate Africans.
And no, that doesn't "necessarily" mean black people, so don't you dare call me racist.
/sarc
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It wasn't that many years ago that the MSM . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:18am.
. . . billed Andrew Sullivan as a conservative. Many probably still do.
He billed himself as a
Submitted by redfish on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:30am.
He billed himself as a conservative, starting out, like libertarians, by saying that social conservativism wasn't real conservativism. But he also supports a public health care plan and defended Sotomayor's use of identity politics in defining her judicial philosophy.
So it quickly became clear that he's just very dishonest and willing to spin terminology to make himself look like he has the positive virtues of every ideological position, and the vices of none of them.
No wonder the world is so
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:21am.
No wonder the world is so screwed up., with nuts like this thinking they are intelligent enough to have an opinion. You shure he doesn't work for PBS or NPR? Sounds like their reasoning.
I agree
Submitted by ohio granny on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:47am.
I am a 60 something grandmother w/o a college degree and even I know Andrew Sullivan is full of it. Willfully ignorant. It is scary that anyone even listens to him or anyone in the so called MSM.
Meanwhile, Palestinian
Submitted by redfish on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:20am.
Meanwhile, Palestinian leaders have also said this is an endorsement of their position, and Obama's administration themselves in retrospect said "we knew this was going to be controversial."
Obama did hedge enough in his speech to give him the leeway to back off --- "with mutually agreed upon land swaps..." --- but at the same time the speech seemed to be pandering to Palestinians with an attempt to bring pressure on Israel , since he knew his language wouldn't appeal to them.
What else do you expect from Sullivan?
Submitted by lgeubank on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 2:36pm.
He's a degenerate puke, and everything he says is deeply, sickeningly corrupt.