Monday, December 29, 2003

QUOTE OF THE DAY
No, (Abraham) Foxman is not saying that directly. But there's something mendacious and morally unseemly about what Foxman is saying.

He's placing those who oppose Sharon's policies, even adamantly oppose them, into the realm of crazies, extremists and anti-Semites. He's quite deliberately classifying them all together... The point is that Foxman is trying to put all the tough critics in the camp of the blood libelers.

The column is meant to stifle debate and squelch criticism. It's a subtle slander. And there's a sense of entitlement, which is the subtext of the prose I quoted above, which should not be there.
Josh Marshall

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