Spirits In The Material World
Published February 15, 2007
Brent Budowsky, former Legislative Assistant to the late U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, notes a certain inequality in the media's political spectrum:
"Conservative media, conservative politics, and conservative money have megabillion dollar machines. Liberal money people are stingier than Scrooge with liberal media. Liberal politicians view the progressive Internet and radio as colonial powers view colonies, as a source of money extracted from average Americans to finance overpaid consultants. And now liberal hosts feud with each other."
A portion of the conservative media (ABC) points to what appears to be a related fact: Few Jews Vote for Republicans.
"Commentators in the Jewish community and party pollsters debate endlessly why Jews are not more favorably disposed toward the GOP. Jews are wealthier and more educated than the average American, generally oppose affirmative action and favor strong support of Israel. On these counts the GOP should, many say, have greater appeal."
[Before anyone goes there, I am not - REPEAT: NOT - implying that wealthy Jews are living down to the slanderous anti-Semitic stereotypes so familiar to those whose politics make Hitler look like a Commie when it comes to funding more progressive media outlets. Instead, I believe that wealthy and liberal Jews aren't supporting Air America and other progressive media outlets, even though they share compatible political views, because they are putting their money to what they believe to be a better cause: defending Israel from all enemies real and imagined.]
And yet, when it comes to Jews, the Republicans tend to shoot themselves in the foot in most unattractive ways. A great example is the gross sensitivity mistake made by Latter Day Republican Saint Mitt Romney in his choice of location to announce his presidential candidacy: "a museum named after the most premier anti-Semite and xenophobe in American history." The National Jewish Democratic Council traded media broadsides with The Republican Jewish Coalition over Romney's soft historical education, yet neither organization appears to believe that Romney himself is anti-Semitic, just oblivious to Jewish sensitivities.
Jennifer Rubin, who penned the ABC article, tries to show some sensitivity herself as she explains why Jews aren't very favorable toward the Republican Party, but she falls a bit short:
"The GOP has become a rural, overwhelmingly Christian and Southern party. It is not populated by urban ethnics who, even if they aren't Jewish, understand Jews' cultural references and sensibilities.... In short, the Republicans are not just our kind of people, many Jews say. They don't sound like us, they don't talk like us and they don't understand us."
Ms. Rubin, that is the sort of talk one might expect from the automaking WASP author of The International Jew to justify its publication. Allow me to quote a short passage to illustrate my point:
- Spirits In The Material World
- Published: February 15, 2007
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Politics
- Filed Under: Books: Religion, Politics: Government, Politics: Local and Regional, Politics: U.S.
- Writer: Realist
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A portion of the conservative media (ABC)
(picks self up off floor)
Have you ever actually watched ABC's 'conservative' news coverage?
Dave
Dave,
Jennifer Rubin is a conservative hack; if she writes for ABC, then the charge is justified--stupid is as stupid does. Maybe she works for their Entertainment division?













Then I believe Republicans will lose the War.