Two personal notes before I begin.
(1) I’m under the weather and off the radio till Monday. My lungs decided to go on strike. My schedule these past couple of months has been a bit burdensome and my lungs finally went on strike. I’m actually doing a lot better but spent a long while in the ER on Wednesday night just trying to breathe.
(2) This is all hands on deck for those of you who get this for free. For reasons I’ll go into next week, I need every subscriber I can get. I really do need to boost the subscribers here and I’ll talk to you about it all next week.
In August of 2017, a bunch of white dudes with tiki torches marched through Charlottesville, VA chanting, among other things, “Jews will not replace us.”
The media coverage was intense and tied to Donald Trump.
Two days ago, Palestinian supporters in Los Angeles attacked Jewish people dining outdoors. It happened yesterday in New York when Palestinians attacked Jewish residents with fireworks. Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s synagogue was vandalized. It happened in Illinois too.
Why is it that anti-Semitism caught on tape is barely mentioned without Donald Trump in the White House?
This is a pretty damning indictment on the mainstream American press corps. Without an anti-Trump angle, they just can't seem to bring themselves to cover it.
It also pretty thoroughly should debunk the idea that Jews control the media. The absence of meaningful coverage, particularly given the coverage of anti-Semitism when Trump was President, see e.g. Charlottesville, is notable.
All I can do is add my prayers to the rest. The heavens are under sedge by us listeners. God bless you and your wife. Dan
I'm old enough to remember the 1960s. Back then, a favorite tactic of Northern Democrats (I'm originally from Massachusetts) was to loudly condemn the Klan and all the savagery visited on Southern African-Americans whole ignoring the fact that the Klan was in so many ways, to use Rush's phrase, "the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party." Then, they would be equally repressive towards Northern blacks by opposing school busing, etc. It took near unanimity among Congressional Republicans to secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, folks such as Joe Biden's mentor, former Klan recruiter Robert Byrd conspicuously opposing any reasonable to see that all Americans received equal treatment.
Now, the Great American Leftmedia has adopted a variant of this tactic, selectively condemning bigotry when it benefits them, i.e., when Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular can be tarred with the brush. As for the bigotry of prominent Democrats such as Al Sharpton. Louis Farrakhan, Ilham Omar, Rashida Tlaib et al, the sound of crickets fills the air.
African-Americans are figuring this out, it seems, and the mini-Kristalnacht of the last few days makes it abundantly clear that the real bigoits aren't those who want equal, free, and fair elections with all the wrongdoers punished, but rather those who want to distort that goal and rig the system to their advantage - which in and of itself is an act of bigotry and hatred against all Americans.