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A Conservative Provocateur,
Using a Blowtorch as His Pen
New York Times, by Jim Rutenberg
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Posted By:mikkins2, 2/24/2013 10:05:43 AM
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| At 11:42 a.m. on Feb. 14, a conservative online magazine called The Washington Free Beacon posted a dispatch about a speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2007 in which it said he called the State Department “an adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister’s office.” The report was based on “contemporaneous” notes an attendee posted online. An hour later on the floor of the United States Senate, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina urgently cited that statement as another reason to delay Mr. Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary.
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This article will look good on Goldfarb´s resume. Also shows that often articles written by both conservative and liberal authors are sometimes done at the bidding of behind the scenes interests.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 2/24/2013 10:19:11 AM (No. 9193434)
Lindsey Graham is a loud talker but ultimately a wimp. He will cave on Hagel. Graham is as predictable as McCain is looney.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Reality, 2/24/2013 10:37:15 AM (No. 9193462)
Amazing article by the ultra liberal NYTimes.
Maybe Jim will be able to get a job at the DNC or the LATimes after the paper is sold.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 2/24/2013 11:47:40 AM (No. 9193579)
Thank you, Reply 1, for delivering the obligatory kick in the teeth to anyone on our side who has done something we want him to do. There have been times in the past when we thought Graham fell short. No tolerance or leeway when that happens. Our way or the highway.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Pam, 2/24/2013 11:57:36 AM (No. 9193592)
Wonder if he and Breitbart were friends
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DocH, 2/24/2013 1:25:03 PM (No. 9193707)
When liberals savage conservatives, it´s only fair and just.
When conservatives savage liberals, it´s a well-financed conspiracy by the Koch brothers and oil companies.
If liberals didn´t have a double standard, they would have no standards at all.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/24/2013 1:38:59 PM (No. 9193731)
When Graham stabs his party and constituents in the back, sooner or later they refuse to present their back for stabbing. Always one of the first to become one of the "gang" screwing us at any given time. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
Sorry, but Graham "just ain´t right in the head". Neither is McCain.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bumblebee, 2/24/2013 1:48:37 PM (No. 9193748)
We should be aware that there is a thing in the human brain that becomes stuck there. One such thing is "racial" bias. I try to fight this in myself sometimes. Another thing is "illegal immigrant Mexican" bias and then the Anti Semitic , meaning Jewish bias. Hagel apparently has the latter.
I have seen the latter in some radical Republican groups like the John Birch Society, and in some church groups, like the UM church that favor the Palestinians.
The true Christian usually favors Israel, in my opinion. It is not, therefore , surprising that Obama knew this about Hagel and that is why he picked him.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
xdemo, 2/24/2013 2:20:09 PM (No. 9193769)
Hmmmm. The Noo Yawk Times just introduced us to the new left-wing mot du jour, "provocateur."
Bet that word starts showing up more and more in the "elite" media to refer to any conservative who dares point out that the Emperor has no clothes.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
flatwater, 2/24/2013 3:01:06 PM (No. 9193819)
Chuck Hagel´s hatred for Jews knows no bounds. When will the New York Times explain why we should have an anti-Semite heading the Department of Defense?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
dman, 2/24/2013 3:56:49 PM (No. 9193875)
As I read it, article is a NYT hit piece on Goldfarb - painting him with the McCarthyite brush - not so much about Graham. The "Slimes" will throw Miss Lindsey under the bus another time - when it is right.
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