Huffington Post: Palin Quoted Anti-Semite In Convention Speech

[The Night Owl]

From Huffinton Post...

Palin Quoted Anti-Semite In Convention Speech

Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal:

It tells us something about Sarah Palin's homage to small-town America, delivered to an enthusiastic GOP convention last week, that she chose to fire it up with an unsourced quotation from the all-time champion of fake populism, the belligerent right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler.

"We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," the vice-presidential candidate said, quoting an anonymous "writer," which is to say, Pegler, who must have penned that mellifluous line when not writing his more controversial stuff. As the New York Times pointed out in its obituary of him in 1969, Pegler once lamented that a would-be assassin "hit the wrong man" when gunning for Franklin Roosevelt.

The Politico's Ben Smith notes that, beyond supporting FDR's assassination, Pegler was an anti-Semite:

He was also known for what Philip Roth described as his "casual distaste for Jews," which had become so evident by the end that he was bounced from the journal of the John Birch Society in 1964 for alleged anti-semitism. According to his obituary, he'd advanced the theory that American Jews of Eastern European descent were "instinctively sympathetic to Communism, however outwardly respectable they appeared."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/palin-quoted-anti-semite_n_125429.html

[nyccitizen]

1. Forward this to every Jewish voter in FL that you know. nt

[Samantha]

2. I am already on this

I relayed the story of the visiting minister to Sarah's church to my Jewish boss and his wife yesterday. I quoted the part about the Jews in Israel deserving to be bombed because they don't recognize Jesus. I said I did not understand how McCain expects to carry Florida with such a controversial running mate.

I don't he will. Couple this with his wanting to privatize Social Security, I think he will be kissing Florida good-by (or vice versa).

[The Night Owl]

4. Hopefully, the ADL will have something to say about Palin's quote. {EOM}

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Oddly enough, I'm not surprised

Not surprised that Pegler was an anti-semite, since it was fascists (including the Bush Crime Family) who wanted FDR killed, and the same bunch funded Hitler. And some, including Grandpa Prescott Bush were big fans of eugenics (systematic race "purification")

Also not surprised that a domionist secessionist extremist like Moosealini would quote this fucking Nazi. Fascism is fascism, after all.