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By: Eunomia » Some Concluding Thoughts

Eunomia » Some Concluding Thoughts — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:58:47 +0000

[...] was not nearly so crucial or influential as his critics made it out to be. Indeed, as Ackerman has argued, the chairman of NIC had become relatively less important under the previous administration than [...]

By: Eunomia » Some Concluding Thoughts

Eunomia » Some Concluding Thoughts — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:58:47 +0000

By: Bob D

Bob D — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:21:36 +0000

YES YES YES. Spencer has it right. It was the powerful Chinatown lobby that did Specer in, not the Zionist Lobby. After all, Chuck Schumer (D- ISRAEL) has always been a champion of China's rights, what would he be doing defending the Foxman-Rosen kabal?

Give me a break!

By: Bob D

Bob D — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:32:59 +0000

Yes, but you have to be a Zionist or a Hagee Zealot to look squarely at Israel's American compliant butchery of Palestinians and NOT have “alarm bells ringing”.

By: Nell

Nell — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:06:03 +0000

A pretty decent editorial from the L.A. Times, 'An Open Debate on Israel', and one from the WaPo that is in stinky Weekly Standard territory.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:17:52 +0000

Why is it important as to which “lobby” exposed this guy. From his views, he sounds like someone who loves megalomaniacs, who'll apologize for a Saudi regime in which woman are treated as serfs and gay people are treated like murderers. When someone has as little respect for human rights, he should cause alarm bells to be ringing for all honest Americans. You don't have to be Jewish or Chinese American to worry about this guy. You should just have a little heart.

By: Alan Kent

Alan Kent — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:32:01 +0000

That “pound of flesh” comment isattrocious antisemitism!

By: blackton

blackton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:35:39 +0000

Chinatown bit? Do you think Tiananmen was a show? Nancy Pelosi, who represents a great, great many Chinese Americans was livid at some of the things Freeman said. Are you claiming all the Chinese in San Francisco are in the jewish lobby now?

By: blackton

blackton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:05:40 +0000

I am still waiting for some Freeman supporter to defend his statements about China:

For example here he is talking about Mao: "Mao Zedong had a force and energy which none but men of equally great spiritual conviction could withstand. His animal appetites, we now know, matched his intellectual vigor. He was an object of adulation to his subjects and of mingled admiration and dread to his subordinates and intimates. While Mao lived, the brilliance of his personality illuminated the farthest corners of his country and inspired many would-be revolutionaries and romantics beyond it.

Few indeed loved Chairman Mao's style of governance, but all but a few of those who despised it most loved the People's Republic he had founded more and hated him less than they feared him."

Go ahead, put this in context. And before you claim it is descriptive, Mao did not possess intellectual vigor, and while he was charismatic did not possess such a brilliant personality. What there was was manufactured by the party machinery, akin to what we see in North Korea, and no one says Kim Il Jung has a brilliant personality. This article looks like it could have been drafted by the Chinese Communist party. And most importantly, whatever caused him to say this? I lived in China for 7 years and never came close to uttering such dreck whenever I spoke with other Chinese people.

It is a sad day when a man like Freeman, who is in thrall of third world dictators, could even be considered for a posting.

By: Wonk Room » The WonkLine: March 11, 2009

Wonk Room » The WonkLine: March 11, 2009 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:02:20 +0000

[...] the news that Chas Freeman had withdrawn as head of the National Intelligence Council, Joe Klein writes “Barack Obama should take [...]