I love when progressives who’ve stood against Israeli settlements and “zionists” suddenly find compassion for Jewish people, even if it’s manufactured compassion to feign straw man outrage at conservatives. Baby steps!
While watching this interview with Frances Fox Piven posted below, I momentarily missed Olbermann. Sure, he was a far-left partisan, but he was an entertaining broadcaster, something from which his socialist views cannot detract.
Here is MSNBC sub Cenk Uygur in a bizarre interview with Piven right after he tries to make Glenn Beck out to be anti-semitic because some of the people he criticizes are or may be Jewish:
Or – do not yet live in the age of which Dr. King spoke, an age where we can be judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character? Progressives can’t have it both ways. Either we’re a society that looks beyond religion and race or we’re a society that caters to it and assigns exceptions because of it – which is, itself, racist.
Piven claims to not have any idea why Glenn Beck “plucked” her out of “thousands.” She distances herself as much as she can from ACORN, her participation in the New Party, and her involvement in the inner circle which ultimately launched the President’s political career.
Glenn Beck merely repeated Piven’s words. Progressives, by way of their hysterical reactions, are only validating what the public already believes: that Piven’s remarks epitomize the “vitriolic rhetoric” progressives say should stop but can’t help but to engage in themselves. It’s the double-standard on full display.
Again, where was this attention when Sarah Palin’s church was burned down? When she was threatened publicly, multiple times on Twitter?
As for Beck, there isn’t any “Jewish problem.” He’s criticizing a woman for her own comments. Can those using this inane narrative prove that he used her religion against her?
Says Jeffery Goldberg in a post with which I partially agree:
That said, Beck has not crossed a certain line, by identifying his targets openly as Jewish. Nevertheless, this, to me, is a classic case of anti-Semitic dog-whistling. Beck is speaking to a certain constituency, and the thought has now crossed my mind that this constituency understands the clear implications of what Beck is saying.If Beck is anti-semitic then all those opposing Sarah Palin hate women and mothers and are sexist as does anyone who disagrees with this post; those who oppose Antonin Scalia hate Italian Catholics – and those who have ever criticized or opposed Andrew Breitbart are also anti-semitic. I guess they didn’t think that through.
Beck isn’t denying her right to exist, sending aid to or defending people to oppose her settlements, or protesting in San Francisco calling for the end of Israel. That’s anti-semitic. But apparently, not in the progressive world.
Big Journalism
