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Title: Mike Huckabee's Revealing Holocaust Gaffe
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/ ... 12whathisholocaustgaffereveals
Published: May 4, 2011
Author: Michelle Goldberg
Post Date: 2011-05-05 17:46:03 by X-15
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New York - The former governor thinks he can get away with comparing higher taxes to the Holocaust because of his “unequalled friendship” with Israel. But is he really an ally of the Jewish community? After all he’s done for Israel, Mike Huckabee does not appreciate being criticized for comparing American debt to the Holocaust. Thus on Tuesday, when the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman chastised him for doing just that, he responded with anger and a hint of menace, saying, “Israel and Jewish people need to make friends, not insult the ones they have.” Such words are unlikely to convince many Jews that Huckabee is their ally. The statement should serve as a reminder that the aggressive Zionism of the Christian right does not translate into sensitivity toward broader Jewish concerns. The contretemps started Saturday, when both Huckabee and Michele Bachmann gave speeches likening the United States’ fiscal future to the Nazi genocide. Speaking at a conservative forum in New Hampshire, Bachmann recalled learning about the Holocaust as a child and wondering whether her mother did anything to stop it. “There is no analogy to that horrific action,” she said, before making an analogy to that horrific action: “We are seeing eclipsed in front of our eyes a similar death and a similar taking away. It is this disenfranchisement that I think we have to answer to.” That same day in Pittsburgh, Huckabee gave a speech to the National Rifle Association. He spoke of how, at Israel’s Holocaust museum, he looked over his 11-year-old daughter’s shoulder as she wrote in the guest book, “Why didn’t somebody do something?” Then he said, “We cannot afford to be a generation that leaves our children with nothing but a huge debt and the very erosion of the freedoms that our founders and our fathers died and gave us so valiantly. And that’s why I say, ‘Let there never be a time in this country where some father has to look over his daughter’s shoulder and see her ask this haunting question: Why didn’t somebody do something?’” Naturally, the ADL, which spends a great deal of time fighting those who would minimize or deny the full scope of the Holocaust, wasn’t happy. “It is highly inappropriate to use America’s mounting debt crisis as another occasion to invoke Nazis and the Holocaust, particularly on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time dedicated to memorializing, not trivializing, the 6 million Jews and millions of others who perished at the hands of the Nazis,” said Foxman. This utterly predictable rebuke appeared to enrage Huckabee. “Governor Mike Huckabee said today, that the demand of ADL Director Abraham Foxman to apologize for his comments regarding the Holocaust were uninformed and misguided and called upon Foxman to apologize to him and retract his totally inappropriate and reckless attack issued recently,” said Huckabee’s team in an oddly ungrammatical statement on his HuckPac website. The rebuttal went on to detail Huckabee’s support for Israel, as if that mooted any other offensive thing he might say. “Foxman’s remarks are not only factually wrong, but they are hurtful to me personally in light of my unequalled friendship with members of the Jewish community, and I ask Foxman to retract his statement as publicly as he issued it, and apologize for his lack of accuracy in issuing it and for the harm done by attacking the very strongest advocates for the Jewish people and Israel,” said Huckabee. Plenty of Jews would blanch at the idea of Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister who says he wants to “take this nation back for Christ,” as one of their strongest advocates. The NRA speech wasn’t the first time he’s made analogies between Nazism and liberal policies—in the past, he’s spoken of the “holocaust of liberalized abortion.” And he seems to find Jews themselves exotic and almost bizarre. Speaking to Politico in February, he described having dinner with a group of Jews in New York this way: “I felt like I was sitting between Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen—it was really interesting; it was surreal.” Huckabee usually gets away with this sort of thing because he is pro-Israel, if by pro-Israel one means unequivocally supporting Israeli irredentism. Unlike the majority of American Jews, he opposes a two-state solution, and in February he said Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem should be resettled in “a territory that [is] in the hands of Muslims, in the hands of Arabs,” which might make him the first modern American presidential aspirant to openly champion ethnic cleansing. Huckabee’s ultra-Zionism is common among conservative evangelicals, many of whom hew to a theology, premillennial dispensationalism, in which the return of the Jews to Israel plays a crucial role in bringing on the rapture and the second coming of Christ. Huckabee even leads group tours of evangelicals to Israel for about $4,500 a person; naturally, one of the stops is Megiddo, or, in Greek, Armageddon. It’s true, as Huckabee says, that conservative Jews welcome evangelical support for Israel, even though the premillennial dispensationalist scenario ends with a catastrophic world war in the Middle East and the consignment of Jews to eternal hellfire. After all, both sides have the same short-term geopolitical ends—a Middle East dominated by a Greater Israel. The alliance is, in the immortal words of Leon Wieseltier, “a grim comedy of mutual condescension.” What it is not is a friendship. And it certainly doesn’t give anyone license to insinuate that higher marginal tax rates and tighter gun control are sort of like the Shoah.
Poster Comment: Poor Huckabee, being demonized by the jews.....and to think that he supports releasing Jonathan Pollard!! That'll teach the stupid goy.......
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Poor Huckabee, being demonized by the jews.....and to think that he supports releasing Jonathan Pollard!! That'll teach the stupid goy....... Those were called "death camps" because of typhus epidemics, and nothing more. Typhus was carried by fleas. The allies refused to sell Germany DDT to kill the fleas, so the epidemics continued. Pollard should sit and rot.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
If anyone cannot see that we're in a jew conceived, Osama Ben Bernake, Alan Greenspan, et al, jew-holocost; they are beyond help.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
A rarity but I agree. Is the only historical epoch that people in this country can recall or think about that business with Nazis and Holocaust? It's downright bizarre that somehow everything in politics and policy can somehow be explained by Nazis and Holocaust. People seem to invoke it as a Rosetta Stone to unlocking all that history has to offer. We end up with the tortured and bizarre analogies. And they're moronic to boot. This is a grasp of history so shallow it really should disqualify presidential candidates that they have try to invoke it over and over. And do so ineptly. Why would they even think that Jews would be comfortable with such comparisons? It would be like using some really lame analogy about Joseph Smith's many wives and then expecting Mormons to sit there and just take it. This stuff shouldn't be a central part of any pol's stump speech. WW II was over 65 years ago; it's overdue for it to recede a bit from living memory and into ordinary history.
the "Christian" Right can be turned.
"Whatever we do, it doesn't matter - they are animals," he cried in Spanish, when asked why the peacekeepers were not trying to explain anything in French or Creole. I got all the dominoes and you ain't got none I'm trying to picture an apoplectic, spittle-spraying Mormon. No luck so far.
"Whatever we do, it doesn't matter - they are animals," he cried in Spanish, when asked why the peacekeepers were not trying to explain anything in French or Creole. I got all the dominoes and you ain't got none It is also unlikely to convince many real Christians that Huckabee is anything but an Israeli butt kisser. Huckabee is hurt by this statement on all sides, the dumb, dumb should have kept his mouth shut.
God is always good!
Which also raged across the general populace in Germany, not just the prison camps. But at least in the camps they were protected somewhat by Zyklon B gas used to delouse their clothes.
God is always good!
It's those bicycles and blue suits. They've lulled us into complacency for the last 150 years and that's when they finally strike. LOL.
Well, all the Jews in the U.S. could have joined the military...but they didn't.
They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. - G.K. Chesterton
I agree. You recall pictures of bulldozers pushing piles of corpses into ditches? That was a result of this epidemic.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Huck is such a booger-roller. Why does he get air-time?
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
Beats me. Must be luck.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
It would appear that AIPAC, with prodding from the ADL, has run his sorry Scofield-ass out the kitchen exit.
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#3. To: X-15 (#0)
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ADL: “It is highly inappropriate to use America’s mounting debt crisis as another occasion to invoke Nazis and the Holocaust...
#4. To: X-15 (#0)
The statement should serve as a reminder that
Frisk'im sergeant Deo frisk'im
#5. To: TooConservative (#3)
It would be like using some really lame analogy about Joseph Smith's many wives and then expecting Mormons to sit there and just take it.
Frisk'im sergeant Deo frisk'im
#6. To: X-15 (#0)
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“Israel and Jewish people need to make friends, not insult the ones they have.” Such words are unlikely to convince many Jews that Huckabee is their ally.
#7. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
Those were called "death camps" because of typhus epidemics, and nothing more. Typhus was carried by fleas. The allies refused to sell Germany DDT to kill the fleas, so the epidemics continued.
#8. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#5)
I'm trying to picture an apoplectic, spittle-spraying Mormon.
#9. To: X-15 (#0)
, “Why didn’t somebody do something?”
#10. To: RickyJ (#7)
Which also raged across the general populace in Germany, not just the prison camps. But at least in the camps they were protected somewhat by Zyklon B gas used to delouse their clothes.
#11. To: BTP Holdings, 4 (#10)
#12. To: Lod (#11)
Why does he get air-time?
#13. To: X-15 (#0)
#14. To: TwentyTwelve, *The hook-nosed Jew* (#13)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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