Barack Obama’s antisemitic buddies *UPDATED*
I’m sure you won’t be surprised that many Obama supporters are new-fashioned Moonbat, Leftist antisemites. What you may be surprised to learn is that Obama’s official blog (not some sycophantic blog that an Obama groupie sets up on his own initiative) plays host to some of the worst antisemitic canards out there. LGF provides just one specific example, but discovered that this example is anything but unique. Charles Johnson also quickly bats down the idea that Obama can’t be held responsible for his more loony-toons admirers:
By the way, it is absolutely no excuse to say that “anyone can post a blog there.” Barack Obama isn’t running a Blogspot blog, he’s running for president of the United States, and his official web site is full of hatred and antisemitism.
Incidentally, what do you bet that, by tonight, Obama’s minions will have scoured the website and erased all these hate-filled rants? Considering that these rants apparently have had a long and “honorable” existence at the site, this erasure will arise, not because Team Obama thinks they are wrong (in which case they would have erased them sooner), but simply because of the bad publicity. And of course, if Obama is asked about them, you know what he’ll say, right? “These are not the supporters I thought I knew.”
In the face of Obama’s well-scripted perplexity, people ought to be asking this question: What is it about your message that makes these people think (correctly) that, until caught red-handed, you and your team will be untroubled by this hate-filled garbage? Could it be the antisemitic Pastor, affiliated with an antisemitic church? Could it be the legion of advisers, each jettisoned once scrutiny got too intense, each of whom chose the wrong side in a completely binary, existential debate about Israel’s fundamental right to exist? Or could it be something even bigger, which is the fact that, once you become a member of the far, far Left, the loonies are going to hunt you down and attach themselves to you?
Who knows? All I know is that Obama has a Jewish problem because his mentors, advisers and followers have a problem with Jews.
UPDATE: Hah! Less than two hours since I wrote my prediction above, and Obama’s campaign has activated the memory hole. And just in case, they’re making the memory hole a permanent feature:
They’re also now blocking Google’s cache from saving their pages. And they’ve also removed their pages from the Internet Archive and the Coral archives.
They’re running scared, and they’re trying to make sure that when they throw a post down the memory hole, it stays there.
UPDATE II: Charles Johnson is smoking today. Turns out that Jemaah Islamiyah is also a proud Obama supporter, and has used Obama’s official website to tout that fact. Johnson has started the memory hole countdown on this one too.
UPDATE III: Okay, Johnson isn’t just smoking. He’s on fire. Within the seconds since my last post, he’s come up with another post on Obama’s own website discussing the fact that Israel was, in fact, behind 9/11. (It’s really impressive, when one thinks of it, how Israel got 20 fanatic Muslims from Saudi Arabia to cooperate with it, but you know those sneaky Joos, right?)
UPDATE IV: Turns out that, as Johnson suspected, the Jemaah Islamiyah post was a spoof. However, it revealed something interesting: the powers that be in Obama blog-world were monitoring submissions as they came in. Some — such as Jews Against Obama, which was the spoofers first try — got rejected. Apparently all the other stuff, though, including one that could have been from Jemaah Islamiyah, was okay with them.
UPDATE V: see-dubya, writing at Michelle Malkin, sees the same thing I do: Obama, like a fruit-fly riddled with pheromones, sends out strong signals attracting these loony tunes. It’s also interesting, as see-dubya points out that, at the very least, this “young, savvy” political operative hires technical incompetents who allowed this to happen.
UPDATE VI: Posts are not moderated; groups are. Some of the groups let in were pretty nasty. All have been purged — purged not because they were nasty to begin with but because, the ordinary, unenlightened, non-groupies, discovered their existence.
