Yes, fine — it’s not really fair to attack New York congressional candidate Charles Barron directly for this, because as far as we know, he didn’t solicit David Duke’s endorsement. But it’s still worth mentioning because of a) The PR disaster this is going to unleash all over the closely watched Barron campaign, and the impact it has on the race; and b) The confounding mystery about how a former KKK Grand Wizard and vocal southern white supremacist could ever bring himself to endorse a pro-Black Panther, pro-reparations black man from New York City (Spoiler alert: it involves the Jews).
Former KKK Grand Wizard and member of the Louisiana Legislature David Duke released a video yesterday endorsing Charles Barron in his race for Brooklyn’s 8th congressional district against Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries. Mr. Barron, a member of the City Council and former member of the Black Panther Party who, over the years, has made a series of controversial statements against Israel and in support of African dictator Muammar Qaddafi. He would seem to be an odd choice for a self-described “white nationalist” like Mr. Duke, but in the video, Mr. Duke explains that he thinks Mr. Jeffries has “sold his soul to the international Zio-bankers” while Mr. Barron’s strong past criticisms of Israel outweigh their other differences.
“In a race for Congress between an anti-Zionist black activist and a black activist who is a bought and paid for Zionist Uncle Tom, I’ll take the anti-Zionist any day,” Mr. Duke says in the video. “In this election of limited choices, I believe that Charles Barron is the best choice. Why? Because I think there’s no greater danger facing the United States of America and facing the world than the unbridled power of Zionist globalism. … Charles Barron stands against that power. If I lived in New York City, I would certainly vote for Charles Barron.”
Mr. Duke begins his video by noting that Mr. Barron has been labeled the “David Duke of New York City” by his political opponents.
As unhinged as David Duke is, you would think he’d still realize that his endorsements do the exact opposite of what endorsements are typically intended to do. Hakeem Jeffries, Barron’s opponent, is already out front denouncing Duke’s cartoonish rant about Zionist treason, Jewish-controlled media, etc.
Notably, Barron has not repudiated Duke’s comments, probably because of the awkward fact that he’s been captured on film saying a lot of similar things. And Barron’s problems don’t end with Duke. He appears to be winning over other hatemongers, including fringe anti-Israel author Norman Finkelstein, who published an approving blog post about him recently.
This is hardly surprising, considering Barron’s history of support for a string of reprehensible figures, from Qaddafi to Mugabe to Malik Zulu Shabazz. The New York Observer, which has covered Barron’s antics as a city council member for years, published a scathing editorial yesterday warning New Yorkers about what they’re going to face if he makes it to Capitol Hill:
The prospect of Charles Barron on Capitol Hill ought to send a shiver down the spine of every decent New Yorker. The man is a hater and a bigot whose only redeeming quality is his candor: The man makes no attempt to hide his loathing of white people, Israel, his colleagues and anybody else who doesn’t share his demented views. …
If Mr. Barron wins, he will have a national forum for his hate-filled rants. To be sure, he will be incapable of turning his views into legislation, but still—he will have greater access to the media and a bigger audience for his insulting rhetoric. And here’s the worst part: He’ll be identified as a Democrat from New York.
Is that what Democrats want? Is that what New York deserves?
The real loser of this is the Democratic Party, which will have to face many more of these embarrassments if Barron actually pulls off a victory. It makes you wonder why President Obama — who seems to have significant clout in the district — still hasn’t intervened to try to forestall this debacle.
makes you wonder why Obama doesn't weigh in? hmmm. do you really have to wonder?
no we don't the primary has no overarching import…. and not only is unlikely to get elected but would be the least influential member of the House, replacing the other crazy-arsed old fool Ron Paul.
Are you kidding "primary has no over arching import". This is a heavily Democratic district and whoever wins the primary will be the next Congressman. Having an anti-semite Israel-hater in Congress spouting hate will do nobody any good. n nmikefoxtrot – you wanted to know what Barron has spewed. Please see below. n n nIn Barron's own words: n n"We are sick and tired of this country supporting dictators, supporting terrorists and then saying they have a homeland security office to stop terrorism. Well you want to stop terrorism? The biggest terrorist in the world is the government of Israel." n- Rally outside of the Israeli Consulate nin New York City, June 1, 2010 n n"It [Gaza] is a concentration camp and you're deliberately causing the death of people and you cannot continue to justify that by saying that you're trying to secure Israel or you're fighting against terrorism." n- Interview with CBS News, June 4, 2010 n n"The young children of Gaza are dying at the hands of the Israeli army and the Israeli government and the United States is accomplice in this murder." n- Rally outside of the Israeli Consulate n in New York City, June 1, 2010 n n "If you really want to do something, then block the military aid to Israel. If you want to sanction somebody, sanction Israel." n- Rally outside of the Israeli Consulate n in New York City, June 1, 2010 n n"Israel has been an enemy to Africa, Israel has been an enemy to the people of Palestine and we no longer want this nation to support the enemy of human rights. We say stop the weapons to Israel and build the nation of Gaza." n- Rally outside of the Israeli Consulate nin New York City, June 1, 2010 n
dave, the speculation is that Barron could win the primary and still lose to jeffries (running as an indie) in the general. n nof more importance, Barron's views on Israel won't matter a sparrow'sfart worth in the US House of Reps……and only someone prone to vapors wouldn't realize that support for Israel is set in about 20 feet of reinforced concrete in that chamber. n nBarron is a marginal mother and his views on Irsael and Jews aren't even the worst part of his crud. …and he would have even less effect on US foreign policy than the offensive, insane and anti-Semitic Cynthia McKinney exerted. n nyou and the lovely Alana can each pop an ammonia capsule and quit worrying about this weasel.
I can't speak to New York election law, but in most states if you run in a party's primary you are bound to that party through the election — in other words, yes you can change parties or run as an Independent, but NOT IN THE SAME ELECTION. n nI would be really REALLY surprised if Jeffries could do this — but exactly who is going to vote in the general who didn't vote in the primary? This is a minority set-aside district which is designed not to "dillute" Black votes.
Ed, you dont know New York, and the district in question is different in fact from what you think it to be. it's becoming younger and whiter and filled with many thousands of not only independent voters but left-leaning folks who wouldn't much bother with voting in primaries.
influence over what exactly? Our clownish, self-interested government? Do you believe that the two party system is anything more than an orchestrated, WWF style political wrestling match? Sheep like you are mesmerized by Fox news' propaganda while a small group of elites enslave our population to banks and destroy the last vestiges of freedom.
Obama is very worried that his endorsement will be meaningless. He has much to lose if Charles Barron wins. Obama has always been a fairly gutless politician! The odds were in his favor in all of his political campaigns. This is the man who voted "present" as much as possible. Obama is not going to stick his neck out.
" It makes you wonder why President Obama — who seems to have significant clout in the district — still hasn’t intervened to try to forestall this debacle." n n nPresident Obama will intervene here right after he refuses the support given to him by the Rev Al Sharpton for Brooklyn’s Crown Heights riots and the subsequent murder of Yankel Rosenbaum as well as the boycott against Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem, New York which subsequently led to the killing of seven people. n nYes, President Obama's courage in the denunciation of antisemitsm is well known though sometimes it might take him 20 years to get there…just ask Rev Jeremiah Wright. n
Labeling Barron an anti-Semite on the basis of the stupid, dirt-ignorant and disgusting remark comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to Nazi treatment of Jews……is just a bit too far. n nThat odious damned comparison is almost a commonplace among the jack-assery of the far left. n nLet's just leave it as Barron is a totally worthless creep, crook, and intellectual unimportant little weasel.
Barron has a long, long history of inappropriate comments about Jews, and a long, long history of associating with more blatant anti-Semites. r nr nEventually, you have to call it like you see it.
I've no objection to calling it that way but would have liked a little more "seeing it" provided….. n nif you've got a link to some other crud from Barron, please post it.
No, let's leave it that a lot of folks on the left are gutless anti-Semites. fair enough?
it's more fair to say that there's always been extensive anti-Semitism in the world and this country, and it's sure as heck not something particular to the left…….it is in vogue these days with the brainless fringe of the left but it's usually to be found among the other wing.
Bull****! Anti-Semitism is NOT on the political right, not the political right I am associated with. And one other little embarrassing fact: Conservatives, particularly Christian Conservatives are actually quite a bit more supportive of Israel than most American Jews are… n nAnd where are people maliciously burning down synagogues? Not Red America (conservative states) and when one inevitably does due to bad wiring or whatnot, the Christian churches inevitably come forward and offer the use of their facilities until the synagogue can get repaired or rebuilt. This is Red America — you betta believe that we are going to have the Christmas Tree on the town common and we really don't want to hear about why we shouldn't — but that doesn't mean that we are anti-Semitic! n nDo not forget that the Torah is — essentially — 2/3 of the Christian Bible.
Barron is only marginally more disreputable than such Black Congressional luminaries as Maxine Waters and Bobby Rush, not to mention "community leaders" like Al Sharpton and Rev. Wright.
Well he can get at least a few guest shots on MSNBC
yeah, resist he much and he will much about that be committed….
Don't be so certain that this is a major disaster for Barron. He's not running in Flatbush or Borough Park, after all.
David Duke's endorsement is a little bit simpler than you might think — with Barron there in Congress mouthing his anti-White diatribes, Duke and his ilk can then ramp up the recruitment of working class white males. The haters on both sides of what they hope is a coming racial war seek to exacerbate things to make the war happen. n nThink Charles Manson and Helter Skelter ….
” he will have greater access to the media and a bigger audience for his insulting rhetoric. And here’s the worst part: He’ll be identified as a Democrat from New York. ”
Do you think that those Jews voting for the Dems will notice?
They didn’t seem to notice when many KKK members were high up in the Democrat’s ratings.
This Barron sounds so like a fringe nut case that no one will take him seriously. I mean no one. But in a era of anti establishment desperation and voter dissatisfaction with status quo, Barron may get an outsider vote, like a sympathy vote. That is the only kind of vote he can appeal to other than a hate vote. nSome insiders in power but outsiders to the CD like Pelosi , Clyburn, Hoyer if not Obama should campaign against Barron's positions. n
Several members of the Black Caucus have said insulting smearing things about conservatives and have made outrageous charges. Barron might fit it there better than the House in general that has more mainstream standards. He is a hater so consumed how can he do anything posiitve. nBarron will not be productive for nuts and bolts issues. Foreign policy is more his thing. He is sort of single issue. n n
First, polls are most unreliable in low turnout elections, as this June primary contest will undoubtedly be, with probably less than 25% of eligible voters showing up at the polls. So, the side that is better organized and has more committed supporters will have the advantage, and endorsements are likely to less consequential than they might otherwise be. n
Second, "As unhinged as David Duke is, you would think he’d still realize that his endorsements do the exact opposite of what endorsements are typically intended to do." n nYou think Duke doesn't know that his endorsement will not help Barron, and if it has any effect at all, it may hurt him? The endorsement is "shocking," which serves Duke's purpose, that being to draw attention to himself and his shtik. If Jeffries prevails, Duke will take the opportunity to decry the election to Congress (whoever wins the primary will go on to win in November) of someone who "sold his soul to the international Zio-bankers;" if Barron prevails, Duke will claim to have helped bring it about because he went with the "anti-Zionist," and then as someone else suggeste, Duke will play off the Black radical rhetoric Barron will be good for once in Washington. There's nothing puzzling about Duke's thinking here.
maybe Duke just wants to be sure he is still in the where-is-he-now category and not the are-they-or-aren't-they club…
Anti semitism remains the strongest glue in the world ; its ability to unite diverse factions peoples and views with the incredible bonding power of jew hatred is undiminished, and in fact it is growing stronger over the years. n
It's for certain alive a nd kicking and you're absolutely correct that it covers the political spectrum.
The constituency is provincial, self-referential, inbred, dysfunctional and completely delusional. Rational discourse does not apply there. America does not exist there. In other words, it's New York. One could just as well be talking about San Francisco. Or Cairo. Thus, Barron has a real chance of winning. n nBy the way, when are we going to stop letting anti-Semites get away with using "Zionist" as a proxy for "Jew"? Substitute Jew(s) for Zionist(s), and you get speech as loathsome as anything Goebbels could dish out.
Instead of asking why Obama hasn't intervened in this primary a better person to ask is Wasserperson-Schmutz. Will she, as DNC "Chairperson" raise money for him? Will she, as DNC Chairperson" support his election? How will she explain him away? n nThat Congressional district is a total wasteland populated by beasts in human form. In Florida we have an impeached and removed Federal District Court Judge (even Upchuck Schumer as a House member voted to impeach him) serving in one of those Bantustan districts in the House of Representatives and now he'll be joined by this sickening excuse for a human being. n nThis is what you can expect from the Democ-rat primary in Bantustan districts.
extreme radicalism makes for strange bedfellows
Father Coughlin?!?! n nAnd Old Man Joe Kennedy was an isolationist too. n nAnd George Soros is your HERO? n nWhiskey Tango Foxtrot…..
BTW — Ron Paul is a Libertarian not a Conservative. nAnd there is a really really big difference between the two….
I disagree — and it is important to note here that Ms. Goodman is using claws, not fists, and I really don't think she pulled them in — at all — in this article. An intelligent woman, she could have written some rabid diatribe that would have made people feel good (and likely would have made her feel good too) but it would otherwise be ignored. And what would that accomplish? n nAnd as to the line "as far as we know, he didn’t solicit David Duke’s endorsement." – oh, no, she is not being anything nice to Barron with that line. Far from it! (Think about what she is implying — which of course she could never, ever, actually state in a direct sentence…) n nI disagree with her (and hence you blackparrot as well) as to if Barron represents just anti-Semitism or something larger, and I would argue the latter and that it is an attack on the Judeo/Christian tradition, Western liberal (small 'l') values and a whole bunch more. I would argue that Barron's anti-Semitism — while scary — is only an indication of something far more scary but I have a differing take on this whole matter. But you are condemning her… n nHence, if you read Ms. Goodman's article carefully, if you look at things like her parenthetical "spoiler alert" line, you have to admit that she clearly isn't giving Barron any breaks. She has identified the schmuck for what he is and is telling the world — what more can you ask of her? n nAccordingly, I think it is incredibly unfair to state that Alana Goodman is the "'parents' of today's Jew-hatred." She may be petite but it is incredibly unfair to imply (or state) that she backed down because of political correctness or anything else, I don't think she knows how to — back "in the day", there were two students who truly terrified the (quite corrupt) UMass administration because they knew that neither one of us would *ever* back down and she was the other one. I really do not see her running away from a confrontation here — she never did before — instead I see her writing an article that people are going to want to read and which says everything that the rabid diatribe could, except that it says it to people who wouldn't read the rabid diatribe. n nI also will challenge your assumption that one must always attack to be strong. No. Think in terms of barfights — the strongest and most respected guy is not the one who puts the obnoxious drunk into the hospital but the one who doesn't — who only uses the force which is necessary to protect himself and his, but otherwise steps out of the way and lets the drunk swing and fall over on his face. So too here — one does not need to be a bully to be strong. n nAnd what no one — absolutely no one — is saying is that we have problems like Barron because of the Voting Rights Act and these minority set-aside districts. A lot of Liberal Jews supported the latest incarnation of the Voting Rights Act when it passed in 2006 and perhaps those folk, and not Ms. Goodman, are the people to whom criticism should be directed.