The Israel Firster Brouhaha & Why I Left Media Matters - MJ Rosenberg

[Scurrilous]

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"A day after leaving Media Matters For America, I feel a need for an explanation beyond what I posted at the MMFA site. It was provoked by all the right-wing "pro-Israel" types who don't believe I quit and insist I was fired because I attacked the dual holy of holies: Israeli government policies and the Israel lobby.

They are wrong. I left on my own, despite the protestations of MMFA management. But, in a way, the right-wingers are correct. I left MMFA because I did not want an organization that does such great work exposing Fox News and bringing down Glenn Beck and now leading the anti-Limbaugh effort to be hurt because of my stands on the Middle East.

But, followed to its logical conclusion that means that criticizing Israel and its lobby is, in fact, dangerous and I had to leave to protect an organization I love from people who, in their single-minded devotion to the Israeli government, will go after anyone and anything who stands in their way.

After all, the huge anti-Media Matters onslaught from the right (the one related to me not the incessant right-wing smears against MMFA) came over my use of the term Israel Firsters, by which I meant those people who put the interests of the Netanyahu government over those of the United States, people who wouldn't hesitate to criticize an Obama or a Bush but defend anything and everything that comes out of a right wing Israeli prime minister's mouth. This dynamic did not apply to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for obvious reasons."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/the-israel-firster-brouha_1_b_1409931.html

[MADem]

1. Interesting--never knew there was any issue over there.

I don't look at that site all the time; usually when someone points me that way. I generally like their work product, though.

[shira]

2. Bye MJ! Now you can hate all you want on your own blog! n/t

[JackRiddler]

3. It's pretty clear who here is "hating"

[shira]

4. When MJ constantly uses the term Israel Firster, implying dual loyalty...

...and when he constantly says that AIPAC owns congress and the POTUS, he is bringing up very OLD antisemitic memes. Nearly every article he writes contains these old memes.

[shira]

5. MJ Rosenberg Orders Obama to "Stop Pandering to the Jews"

MJ Rosenberg, competing with Gilad Atzmon for Most Self Hating Jew EVER, seethes and moans:

Someone at the White House just doesn’t “get” American Jews. Take a look at this, one of the many postings from the White House site (they are also emailed) that address us as if we just arrived from Poland or Russia.

Does the Obama team really think Jewish voters (or even those all-important and self-important big donors) are impressed by White House Passover recipes? Does anyone actually turn to the White House for help in preparing matzo ball soup?

Of course not. This is just the Obama administration pandering to a group of voters that it has decided is different from all other groups of voters.

The most ridiculous (and insulting) White House pander came at Hanukkah. This article from the New York Times about how the White House was made kosher for one event has to be read to be believed. Here is an excerpt, enough to cause James Madison to commit suicide if he wasn’t dead.

Read more at MJ Rosenberg's blog, where he freaks out over religious Jews TAKING OVER the Obama White House and "they're not even going to vote for him anyway." Who else said "F* the Jews, they're not voting for us anyway." James Baker, a prominent Republican in the Bush administration.

Why is it "insulting" and "ridiculous" to serve kosher food at a White House event on a Jewish holiday? Oh: because MJ wasn't the guest of honor, we suppose.

Is this really MJ's blog or a spoof blog? Because if it's really his, he is even more of a freaking lame dweeb than anyone could possibly imagine.

http://www.viciousbabushka.com/2012/04/doofus-of-the-day-mj-rosenberg-orders-obama-to-stop-pandering-to-the-jews.html

[Gurgen4]

6. +1

It's clear that Rosenberg is a self-hating Jew and that he has no credibility whatsoever.

His rhetoric is hardly different from Nazis.

[Cherchez la Femme]

8. Triple crown of hate!

self-hating Jew, no credibility,

and a NAZI!


congrats, I guess

[jimmie]

7. Yes MJ... The world revolves around you ..

and your antisemitic shit.

The world will miss you , dumbass.