Perhaps Trump will get a boost from gentile Americans if he is not seen as pandering to special interests.
Trump’s national security team is all gentile. Trump said all the right things to AIPAC a couple of weeks ago but nobody believes his heart was in it. He’s an American nationalist, not an Israel-firster.
Chaim Amalek: “One would have to be some sort of delusional neocon to believe, even if only for a moment, that Yidden are going to be lining up to actually vote for Ted Cruz. Torah Jews will vote for Trump, and the secular ones will vote for whichever Democrat is nominated.”
AP: LAS VEGAS — Ted Cruz will have hundreds of influential Republican donors and Jewish leaders all to himself this weekend in Las Vegas as he addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Cruz’s rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump and John Kasich, declined invitations to attend — a puzzling move in particular for Trump as he tries to project himself as a party unifier who deserves the Republican nomination even if he falls short of winning enough delegates in the primaries to clinch it outright.
Trump as of late Thursday did not have any public events scheduled through the weekend.
It’s a “missed opportunity” for Trump to build on a well-received recent speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said Abbie Friedman, an RJC board member who introduced Trump when he spoke to the Republican group in December. “With Cruz coming in, he’ll have the entire platform to himself to win support from an incredibly powerful and important group.”
The RJC is funded by the top political donor of 2012, Sheldon Adelson, and meets at the billionaire’s Venetian casino resort on the Strip.
Trump declined an invitation to attend a private dinner at Adelson’s home Thursday night with the Republican Jewish Coalition’s board, according to people with direct knowledge of the invitation who weren’t authorized to share the details about the event. Trump decided not to attend the dinner even before he canceled a West Coast trip that he’d planned for Thursday and Friday.
Trump’s spokeswoman and his campaign manager did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday.
The Republican front-runner does not appear to be sending surrogates to Las Vegas, either, as onetime presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did last year.
“That, to me, is a real revelation into the weakness of his campaign,” said Ari Fleischer, another RJC board member who has said he would back any GOP nominee in the general election. “There should be someone here on the ground. That’s what good campaigns do.”
In addition to speaking Saturday to more than 500 attendees, Cruz has a separate, smaller event planned with RJC members. His chief Jewish liaison, Nick Muzin, will be there throughout the conference. And pro-Cruz outside groups that can take unlimited contributions are setting up shop in the Venetian this weekend, ready to land donations.
“There’s a lot of interest in hearing from Ted Cruz in light of his win in Wisconsin and the impact that has on re-shaping the race,” said Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks. “It’s all coming together at a crucial juncture.”
Brooks said some of his organization’s members no longer see Trump as the overwhelming front-runner and predict a contested convention this summer.
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Long before Trump’s arrival on the scene, it was conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, the idealogical godfather of “Trumpism,” who galvanized this insurgency. Savage gave it a voice and a powerful narrative, one that proved extremely helpful to those, like iconoclastic Senator Ted Cruz, who rose to prominence taking on the very same GOP beltway insiders that Donald Trump is now making so nervous.
Years before Trump, Savage had already redefined the nature of the American political landscape when he blew up the Republican Party establishment’s hold on its working class base. Trump can come or go, but this insurgency has a depth and breadth that can’t be ignored.
I have been a longtime listener to Savage because I think that, as a journalist, you risk being blindsided if you ignore someone to whom millions of your fellow Americans are tuning in. I saw the rise of Trump coming several months ago precisely because I know how deep the support runs in so much of America for Savage’s nativist mantra, that the very survival of the nation is threatened by the erosion of our “borders, language, and culture.”
Between American multinationals, who do everything and anything to avoid taxes, and American politicians, who so often trade on their office to amass vast fortunes, regular working class Americans feel abandoned. For decades, as businesses have increasingly exploited undocumented immigrants for cheap labor or moved operations out of the country entirely, these voters have become resentful, watching their wages stagnate and full-time jobs with benefits become scarcer by the day.
For many of them, Savage’s “Savage Nation” is a kind of sanctuary. In his running commentary, he’s gone after the duopoly of Republican and Democratic elites. While Trump was still playing nice in polite society and donating money to Democrats, Savage was building a huge audience skewering political correctness and going after what he perceived as the excesses of both parties.
Savage calls liberalism “a mental disorder,” and blames it for the disintegration of a national cohesion that gave America the backbone to conquer fascism in the Second World War, and the persistence to outlast the Soviet Union in the Cold War that followed. For Savage, the classical foundations of western civilization are innately superior to whatever else is out there.
Yet, he will go on populist rants denouncing U.S. multinationals for outsourcing tech jobs. He has zeroed in on the bi-partisan tradition of elected officials that go on to enrich themselves by doing the bidding of corporations, and even foreign interests.
Savage is a raconteur of many parts, with roots in New York City, where he grew up. He is a bestselling New York Times author, has a master’s degree in medical anthropology and a Phd from the University of California at Berkeley in epidemiology and nutrition sciences. He says he is an avid conservationist and animal lover, yet dismisses global warming as a hoax.
His extemporaneous musings about his daily comings and goings, his 11-pound poodle Teddy, and about his days growing up in working class New York, are poignant and display a rich emotional arc. Unlike his rightwing colleagues, that rant on politics exclusively, Savage’s dynamic range makes him engaging company.
He can talk to listeners about what he had to eat and drink the night before, and, in the process, share the vicissitudes of growing older with millions intimately. He’s speaking to you and only you, especially if you fit his key demographic, the disaffected white conservative voter. Back in a flattering 2009 New Yorker profile Savage’s show was described as “one of the most addictive programs on radio, and one of the least predictable.”
Although his father was a devout materialist, Savage seems to have spent much of his life searching for the right way to articulate his Jewish heritage. For a time, in the eighties, he attended Friday-night services at the Chabad House in Berkeley. And he loves to talk about his well-worn Hebrew Bible, which is full of annotations and Post-it notes. Despite his alliance with evangelical Christians, he seems untempted by Christianity itself. “You go to a graveyard, and someone’s dead, and they give the mumbo-jumbo,” he told his listeners one afternoon. “You want to believe the Resurrection. Do you actually believe it? Many of you do.” But, on another afternoon, he riffled through the Book of Revelation in an attempt to explain the latest perfidies of the Obama Administration. “We now have a prophecy emerging in front of our eyes,” he said.
When Savage gets really apocalyptic, it can be hard to separate his political observations from his medical complaints, and maybe he’s not quite convinced that they really are separate. Recently, he has had vision problems, which have come to acquire a symbolic significance. “I feel as though, almost, I’m losing my sight from looking every day at such horror,” he says. “I feel as though my eyes are closing on me, because they don’t want to see it anymore.” When he talks on the air about his homes in “hidden locations,” he suggests that he’s worried about some crazed liberal assassinating him. “I have to watch out for them, because they’re all psychopaths,” he says. Listen to Savage long enough and you may be persuaded to think that liberalism is code for all the stupid things we just can’t conquer: weakness and decadence and human frailty and death itself.
Near the end of “Psychological Nudity,” Savage writes, “I’m watching the sands of time fall into the hourglass. There’s more sand on the bottom now than there is on the top.” And he makes reference to his own death with startling frequency: a few times an hour, week after week. Just about anything can set him off. A beautiful pair of Shetland sheepdogs in the mall reminds him of the dogs’ kindly owner, which in turn reminds him of unkind dog owners, which makes him think about Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation, which brings to mind dead dogs, which leads him, inexorably, to a consideration of “the old boxeroo, waiting at the end of the road for all of us.” His thoughts on dying are often informed by Buddhist theories of enlightenment and reincarnation.
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BRUSSELS — We now know that there has been a cover-up by governments and the media in Western Europe about the potential danger of immigration from the Islamic world. It was a conspiracy involving politicians, police officials, and journalists.
The European public was programmed by a relentless media campaign to believe immigration was good; criticism of immigration was racist.
Six months before the deadly Islamic terror attacks in Belgium, left-wing demonstrators were playing dead in the streets of Brussels, protesting for more immigration from the Middle East and against stronger borders in Europe — stronger borders that might have saved the lives of 34 people killed in Brussels last month.
Sold a Bill Goods? The Left’s mantra has been “no walls, no borders.” But many Europeans now realize they were sold a bill of goods about open borders and immigration by the political and media class.
Voices who warned about the threat from open immigration were either branded racist or simply ignored. Belgian Jewish leader Joël Rubinfeld warned CBN News a year and a half ago that the Belgian government was too soft on Muslim extremists, and that more attacks were coming.
“We say you need a very long fork to eat with the devil. I think there is no fork long enough to eat with Islamism,” he said.
And the multicultural charade has now clearly crumbled — in Germany when the city of Cologne was caught trying to cover-up massive New Year’s sex attacks, in Sweden where the public learned that the police and media covered up large scale sexual assaults at a summer music festival in Stockholm last year, and in Brussels, which became a home to some of the most dangerous terrorists in Europe.
In cities across Western Europe, women are now afraid to walk alone at night on the street. Muslims make up almost half of Belgium’s prison population, and Jews everywhere live in fear of anti-Semitic attacks.
This didn’t just happen, but in many cases the information has been suppressed.
Immigration Cover-Up Sweden has been notorious for censoring the problems of immigration. Newspapers obscured the faces and changed the skin tone of crime suspects with immigrant backgrounds, while showing their faces as if they were white native Swedes.
The Swedish police even had a special code when handling immigrant crime: code 291.
“Code 291 — and this is in all the Swedish newspapers now — the police were told to cover up any crime related to the refugees. Do not tell the media. Do not leave a paper trail,” Swedish policy analyst Tino Sanandaji told CBN News.
“Apparently now we’re finding out there were hundreds of violent crimes,” he said.
Some Swedes have become so frustrated with the censorship that they go to social media to get the truth out themselves. For instance, one YouTube video posted by “The Angry Foreigner” begins with, “Hey, welcome to Sweden. This is the number one rape capital of Europe.”
A lot of Swedes now realize they’ve been lied to, and they’re wondering what else the government and media have been hiding from them.
A Muzzled Media “You have a lot of problems that were never reported until literally days ago,” Sanandaji said. “It was factually true, but they decided that it was against their ideological agenda. They covered it up. Now we’re finding it out.”
The man who found evidence that one of Sweden’s largest papers covered up the sex assaults in Stockholm is journalist Chang Frick, who says journalists have been either too afraid or not allowed to report the truth.
“I read books about the Soviet Union and everyone was checking each other. This is the situation we have in Sweden. But it’s more in a soft way,” Frick said. “You don’t get in jail for having the wrong thoughts. You would lose your job. You would get socially stigmatized.”
The paper, Dagens Nyheter, says the claim that it was part of a cover-up is “a lie,” and that it could not confirm the story.
Blood on Their Hands? Ingrid Carlqvist, a distinguished fellow at the Gatestone Institute, has been telling Swedes for years that they were being misled about immigration. Now, she feels vindication.
“I’ve been trying to tell the Swedish people this for five years or something. And everyone said, ‘No, it couldn’t be like that. Politicians don’t lie like that. Journalists are honest. They couldn’t lie about this, no, no, no,’” she said.
“Now everything has exploded, and there is not a living person in this country who can go on (covering their eyes),” she said.
Swedish immigration policy changed. It was forced to because it faced a system-wide collapse. There are now guards on the border, and some Swedish papers have reported more openly about the problems of immigration.
But if you think the European Left has learned its lesson about the danger of open borders, you would be wrong. After the Brussels attack, there were several articles essentially blaming terrorism on racism and calling for continued opened borders.
There are refugees who need help, but Europe’s misplaced generosity has brought war to its doorstep. And some believe that politicians, police officials, and journalists now have blood on their hands.
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* If there weren’t Michelle Goldbergs using their high IQs and verbal facility to spin these events every time they happened, even most liberals would respond to them with a natural, common sense reaction, such as, for example, agreeing with Bill’s comments here. We’d have a much more rational public discourse.
* “Right-wing outlets like the Daily Caller and the Weekly Standard rushed, naturally, to post video of Bill’s hectoring.”
Those evil “right-wing outlets”. Publicizing the public comments of a former President on a matter of public policy. How despicable.
Michelle Goldberg doesn’t seem to realize that criticizing BLM protestors might actually be popular among a lot of voters – even Democratic voters. Probably, a lot of white and oriental Democrats have as much black-fatigue as do Republican voters, even though they might not say it. Perhaps Bill is providing a “Sister Soulja” sound-bite for his wifes’ campaigns’ benefit. Who knows – if he could still fly back to Little Rock and sign a death-warrant for a retarded black murderer, he might have done that too.
* Bubba should know by now that he cannot say that which cannot be said – be it true to the facts or not. He should know that #BlackLivesMatter is satire at its best – and give the group a comedic welcome.
* “Then, Bill Clinton aped”. An article about POC and they reference “apes”? It’s 2016!
* Realpolitik guess: the Southern primaries are over, so Clinton doesn’t need the black vote any more (she knows she has them for the general). She needs to recapture the ethnic white / union white vote that is going over to Bernie or Trump.
* That’s plausible. I think another thing is that Bill Clinton is known for being a bit of a hot head, and he lost his temper. He’s almost surely proud of how crime rates dropped hard under his presidency, and he’s proud of his crime bill for making that happen*. He’s probably sick of having feign regret.
A few years ago, Stephen Pinker specifically, if a bit wryly, praised Clinton for causing crime rates to drop. There’s a lot to dislike about Bill Clinton, but he did buck the soft-on-crime tendencies of the 1960s Democrats and worked with Republicans to increase law enforcement. In contrast, BLM is a truly evil movement, built on top of and fueled by deceit, hysteria and mass violence. Good for Bill Clinton to denounce BLM.
*I doubt his policies alone caused the drop, but Clinton is an egomaniac so he likely believes he was the main reason why crime rates went down.
* Black leadership (such as it it) pisses outside the tent. Not inside because this would require some real world self-refection and honesty plus there is lots of money to be made in mau-mauing stupid whites in gov’t. When you come right down to it American blacks want to get the same never ending paycheck as casino Indians.
* Black people are more likely to commit crime in general than white people , and this is particularity true of violent crimes, crimes that demand a police response. So because blacks are more likely to commit crime in general than whites, blacks are more likely to encounter police officers than whites. And because blacks are more likely to encounter police officers than whites, they are more likely to get booked for drug use than whites.
* I’m more inclined to ascribe Bill Clinton’s remarks to Elderly Tourette Syndrome than to cold rational political calculations–it just seemed too spontaneous. Bill is, after all, from the South and grew up in close proximity to blacks. He’s not at all surprised that a “get tough on crime bill,” put a lot more blacks in prison: that was a feature, not a bug.
* Blacks have a cultural need to publicly flout whitey’s rules. Thus they commit crime more flagrantly than do whites. Going to prison now functions as a male initiation rite in the black community.
* A Jewish male does not become a real man until he has a Bar Mitzvah. A Black male does not become a real man until he goes to prison.
Prison is Bar Mitzvah for male Negroes.
* Blacks I’ve known are generally interested in four things: getting laid, getting high, watching sports on TV and fried chicken. A drug induced stupor is their default state. Their mental ability is unimpaired by their doping because there isn’t much there to impair to begin with. A black man’s creativity and his unique contribution to wider culture is in concocting and brewing new highs, which is why they are disproportionately arrested for drug use.
Because they aren’t needed as workers and have a surfeit of leisure time with which to pursue their agenda of staying buzzed, blacks once again (as in Rap) are showing us the way forward. Increasingly, the problem in the future will be what to do with surplus humanity that has no useful purpose. Keeping them stoned zombies is as good a solution as any. Huxley may not have foreseen that people won’t need to be forced to take drugs to quell their restiveness, they may demand drugs to silence the torment that is the human condition. They will willingly choose to stay buzzed right up to the grave, oblivious to the demands that teleological individuality imposes on us.
Evolution designed us to live with a certain amount of worry and anxiousness, which purposeful behavior relieves. But this also causes discomfort and blacks like being free from worry, hence their drug use. This is the way forward for those made irrelevant by robots etc. Once again, the wise, magical Negro has shown us the way.
* Ordinarily, I’d say Bill’s instincts are correct for moving towards the center for the general election, but the Dems are still in the primaries, and this looks like a big mistake to do it so early. White liberals are so brainwashed that blacks have become magic unicorns to them, and if you criticize blacks in any way, shape, or form, liberals think you’re evil–and that you’re an old fogey who needs to be put out to pasture, much the same way liberals in the 1960s used to view elderly white Southerners. Liberals are only going to back Bernie in even greater numbers after this.
White liberals aren’t voting for Bernie because of his stance on race. They’re voting for Bernie because he’s not Hillary. They think Hillary is appalling. This is the blind spot in the Clinton polling. Heck, I’ve heard many liberals froth at the mouth about what Hillary has done in Honduras as SoS, and Republicans are so out of it they haven’t even heard about that issue.
The problem is, for many liberals, the Clintons are too old, too set in their ways, too 1980s, too greedy, too corrupt, too status quo, and with race signaling like this, liberals won’t tolerate it. They have made themselves into an Inquisition. We are living in an age of left-wing McCarthyism, with a bizarre mind-set that has taken over the levers and controls of society. As noted in the other article about the female broadcaster, liberals think it’s normal to fire employees for saying the same stuff that Bill just said. This is a very different era from the 1980s.
If lefties go even farther, they’ll begin to morph into the sort of extreme nut-jobism that took over in communist societies like Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Mao’s China, and Stalin’s Russia. The only thing protecting our basic rights are our present laws, which the left keeps encroaching on and trying to alter to suit their crazy ideology.
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Talese went to some kind of seminar in Boston recently. When asked which women journalists inspired him in his pioneering New Journalism in the 1960s, he answered: “None.”
Of course, the reason was that everybody knows, deep down, that women tend not to be pioneers. But that just makes it more scandalous for an old man to mention it.
Looking in Wolfe’s canonical 1973 anthology, T he New Journalism, I see that women writers made 2 of the 23 contributions. The most famous female New Journalist is Joan Didion, but the less well-known Barbara Goldsmith is also represented. Male New Journalists, besides Wolfe and Talese, include Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joe McGinnis, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and Michael Herr.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Old liberals are going to have to stop writing articles or giving interviews if they want to stay out of trouble. The politically correct line changes so quickly it’s impossible for them to keep up. For example, on yesterday’s All Things Considered I learned that the stalwart liberal Calvin Trillin, 80, wrote a humorous poem about the cuisine of different Chinese provinces. It was published in the New Yorker, gatekeeper of the pc line. Nevertheless, it offended some Chinese. Timothy Yu, associate professor of English and Asian-American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said, “The major feeling I was getting from people was exasperation, like, can you believe this is happening again? . . . What’s bothersome to a lot of Asian-American readers about it is not the satire; it’s the fact that Chinese things are kind of being used as the punch line or the prop.”
* There is an insatiable Orwellian urge among the modern Left to retcon the past. “The past is a different country” and they just can’t accept that in that country, women, blacks, etc. figured prominently in very few areas. So there is a constant urge to dig up some obscure figure – a black scientist, a female journalist, and retroactively promote him/her to the pinnacle of their profession. And young people are constantly bombarded with the images of these Heroes of Socialism to the point where they begin to think that ALL of the prominent people of the past must have been colorful/female. So when a lying liar like Talese who was actually there tells the truth, it is shocking.
* Following the link to the Times article, I scrolled down to the comments. Most of the comments I read were siding with Mr Talese and against the Times. It’s becoming evident to most how forced this whole shtick is.
* Obama said in speech or QandA session that he’s sorry the newly appointed supreme court justice is a white guy, and that even though he is white, he is a good jurist.
Isn’t that indictable? How is that not hate speech?
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