Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who was a key supporter of Obama in 2008, told WOR710 today that he could not vote for President Obama’s re-election unless the president cuts ties with the controversial anti-Israel group Media Matters. He also warned that Obama’s association with Media Matters – which was raised by the Daily Caller in an investigative series this week – will lose him support in the pro-Israel community:
Let’s have a full and open debate on this, but to the extent that the Obama administration associates with these bigots [at Media Matters], they’re going to lose a lot of support among Christians, Jews and others who think that American support for Israel is in the best interest of the United States…So don’t confuse these bigots with liberals. They’re not. They’re extremists, they’re way, way beyond the pale. And any association with the Obama administration is going to hurt the Obama administration. There is not enough room under the big tent for people like me…and the bigots of Media Matters. The Obama administration is going to have to choose. …
I could not vote for anyone who has anything to do with Media Matters, that’s clear. That’s just clear as can be. I will take an oath here that I will not vote for a candidate that has any direct association with Media Matters. That’s like asking me to vote for Hezbollah or asking me to vote for Hamas or asking me to vote for the Fascist Party. I won’t do it…That association has to stop. Just in the same way that President Obama totally terminated his association with the Reverend Wright, he has to terminate any association with Media Matters and with the intellectual thugs who are behind it.
Click the last link over to BreitbartTV for the full audio to hear Dershowitz give the history of the Jewish dual-loyalty charge that’s now being used by Media Matters writers. As an interesting aside, Dershowitz also explains that he discovered Media Matters was using anti-Semitic tropes after he saw them quoted by a Holocaust denial group that regularly spams his email box.
Could Media Matters become as toxic for Obama as his association with Rev. Wright was in 2008? As far as I recall, Dershowitz is the first to make that comparison. In many ways, Media Matters’ rhetoric is just as offensive as the garbage Wright was preaching. The difference is Media Matters has extensive ties within the Democratic Party. Even if Obama disassociates from the group, he can’t count on his fellow Democrats to follow suit. He also can’t discount the fact that Media Matters has a lot of sway with the progressive left. His re-election campaign will require support, and potentially even coordination, with the group.
Dershowitz has every right to become a single issue voter. I think less of him, but so what.
Interesting. It is unusual that someone gives up a strongly held partisan connection for principle. Good for him. n nAlthough I have to note that Alan Dershowitz may be late in noticing that Obama is a Leftist and that the Left is not exactly Zionism or Judaism BFF. Alan Dershowitz supports a "Two State Solution" to what he calls a conflict and I call a war. n nThis is the idea that another terrorist state in the Middle East will reduce violence and bring peace. What makes this even less likely is that this state is Judenrein, and, probably, Christianrein, as well, and that it will be a Radical Islamic Hamas controlled state contiguous to Israel insisting on Israel's destruction and the phony Right of Return. It does seem to me that this will achieve Alan Dershowitz's goal of peaceful co existence. n nJews occupying Judea does not seem to me to be an unreasonable idea. the new terrorist state requires the eviction of Jews from Judea which seems unnecessary, unwise and a security risk. n nI don't know Alan Dershowitz's answers to these objections but it is good that he has noticed Media Matters is Leftist anti-Zionist organization more than sympathetic to the Obama Administration. This should tell us something.
I've noticed that scales have been falling from Dersh's eyes the past couple of years. n nFaster please.®
Good for Dershowitz though I doubt strongly that there will be anything like the Wright embroglio.
But where's the beef? This story needs more context. n nAs for Dershowitz — he's an ego maniac and a credit to no cause. This is the loud mouth who, in front of the whole world, bamboozled a black jury with statistical fallacies to get OJ off. That was one of the most racially inflammatory episodes in memory. The guy is a jerk.
O is staying with the ladies what brung him to the dance.
Hey Allen, don't let the screen door hit ya' where the good lord split ya'.
” As an interesting aside, Dershowitz also explains that he discovered Media Matters was using anti-Semitic tropes after he saw them quoted by a Holocaust denial group “r nr nSeeing Soros funds it I supposed it is to be expected.r nA Holocaust denial group using them for quotes especially since Mr Soros had such an interesting time during the Holocaust makes it sort of oxy-moronic,no?
Alan, take off your blindfold. You could forgive Obama's association with the anti-Semitic Rev Wright? That's real Chutzpa, who do you forgive next Mel Gibson or Pat Buchanan?
Obama seems to have a lot of ties to anti Jewish people. He secretly loves the black panthers. They backed him. He was friends with the anti Jew nutcake professor Derrick Bell. He loved Jeremiah Right c'mon Jewish people wake up. No Jew should ever vote for Obama. “Our lessons talk about the bloodsuckers of the poor… . It’s that old no-good Jew, that old imposter Jew, that old hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating, Johnny-come-lately, perpetrating-a-fraud, just-crawled-out-of-the-caves-and-hills-of-Europe, so-called damn Jew … and I feel everything I’m saying up here is kosher.” n— Khalid Abdul Muhammad, one of the party’s future leaders, Baltimore, Md., Feb. 19, 1994