They’re being repudiated by those they cited. They’re hypocrites with a double standard:
While we have said many times that Nazi comparisons are offensive and inappropriate when used for political attacks, in my view it is wrongheaded to single out only Fox News on this issue, when both liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, can share equal guilt in making trivializing comparisons to the Holocaust.
Furthermore, the open letter signed by hundreds of rabbis is a trivialization in itself—bizarrely timed for release on United Nations’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. At a time when Holocaust denial is rampant in much of the Arab world, where anti-Semitism remains a serious concern, and where the Iranian leader has openly declared his desire to “wipe Israel off the map,” surely there are greater enemies and threats to the Jewish people than the pro-Israel stalwarts Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes and Glenn Beck.
It’s not about anti-semitism — it’s about shutting down the opposition and anyone who would out and criticize the left, and George Soros, a truly malevolent player on the world stage.
Anyone who nods and thinks “Aha! My beliefs are confirmed!” should click through and read what people said.
Bob-1, I did just what you suggested and clicked through and read what those people said.
“Aha! My beliefs are confirmed!”. Pot, meet kettle!
I have a link for you as well: http://www.marin.edu/~don/study/7read.html
Not a particulary big fan a Beck’s, but you have to love it when a majority of the quoted people/organizations repudiate the ad.
What did Soros think was going to happen, that none of these people/organizations would notice?
Thanks for the reminder, Bob-1. Always best to see for yourself and not take other folks’ word for things., So I read the linked article by “Yid with Lid” and guess what?
Aha! My beliefs are confirmed!
One problem with the blog linked to: It claims that Fox News and Beck were libeled, but no one who repudiated the letter did so because they thought the claims about Beck were untrue.
Pay attention, please: the people making the claims about Beck and Fox News dishonestly included these repudiators’ names to support their claims. The people making the claims are therefore liars, and even people on their own side are saying so.
“Pay attention, please: the people making the claims about Beck and Fox News dishonestly included these repudiators’ names to support their claims. The people making the claims are therefore liars, and even people on their own side are saying so.”
Please read the article, where each one of them says that the claims about Beck were true, but they have other reasons why they disagree with the article. They MAY have lied about other things-though that isn’t the basis for the repudiator’s complaints, but the claim that they libeled Beck or Fox News is untrue.
McGehee, your comment is confused at best. Tom is right. Here is why:
Look at the quote from Tobin. He says he stands by what he said. He doesn’t like the ad, he didn’t want to be quoted in the advertisement, but he stands by his quote about Beck. In his so-called repudiation he repeats his assertion that Beck’s comments are marred by ignorance, innuendo, and he calls Beck’s comments idiotic (but not as idiotic as other people).
Look at the quote from Deborah Lipstadt. She feels the advertisement was one-sided, but in her so-called repudiation, she says she agrees with the advertisement, and calls Beck’s comments dangerous (but not unlike other dangerous comments from other people).
Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld is citing as repudiating the ad, but he wasn’t quoted in the ad in the first place. As for Beck, he says he takes no position — unlike his colleague Steinberg who called Beck’s comments “monstrous”. Wiessenfeild says something odd – he says that neither of them have any right to speak for all holocaust survivors. This is certainly true, but irrelevant — Steinberg can still call Beck’s comments monstrous if he wishes. There is no repudiation here.
Finally, there is Foxman, who also didn’t want to be quoted in the ad. He has various criticisms of the ad (quoted by Rand above) but like the others, his criticism of the advertisement doesn’t extend to repudiating any of the comments about Beck or Soros.
I think the above shows that Tom’s comment is correct.
The blog post wasn’t about what the people quoted think about Beck, it was about the selective outrage focused at Beck and ignoring the numerous examples of similar offenses by people who share the same political ideology as those who made the ad.
Why shouldn’t we know what groups Soros supports? The left always wants to follow the money trail for groups that support the Tea Party or the Chamber of Commerce but never follow the money trail for Code Pink, Organizing for America, ect ect ect.
Expose the Koch brothers support of the Tea Party = hero. Expose Soros support of leftist groups = racist.
To repudiate is to disown. What was not disowned needed to be clarified.
Didn’t former President Carter have an unpleasant run in with a killer Rabbi?