In 1971, then-President Richard Nixon was convinced that too many Jews held high-ranking posts in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). He dispatched an aide, Fred Malek, to count the Jews and, thanks to Nixon's paranoia, some were subsequently demoted.
Four decades later, the right apparently hasn't gotten over these concerns. President Obama nominated Erica Groshen in February to head the BLS, which wouldn't be especially interesting were it not for conservatives' newfound interest in the summer camp Groshen's kids attended. Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller has what it might call a "story" on this.
A forthcoming report from the conservative organization Americans for Limited Government (ALG) details how President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) sent her children to a politically left-wing Jewish summer camp with Communist roots.
Obama nominated Erica Groshen to be the BLS commissioner in February, but this new report -- obtained by The Daily Caller and set to be released on Thursday -- reveals for the first time publicly that she sent her children to Camp Kinderland. The ALG report reveals how "Groshen and her husband are listed in the Kinderland Directory 2011-2012, which indicates that they sent children to the camp during the 1990s and 2000s."
"Camp Kinderland was founded in the 1923 as a place for the children of radical Jewish activists," the report continues. According to New York University, some of the camp's founders were "activists in the Communist Party," and all "were associated with the left wing of the Workermen's Circle."
Yes, conservative media is now interested in the historical roots of summer camps where obscure administration nominees used to send their kids. We can only hope a lengthy congressional hearings begin immediately.
And the right wonders why it's so difficult to take conservative media outlets seriously.
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By this rationale, I am to be associated with bribes of federal officials since I attended Warren G. Harding high school. I watched Gomer Pyle so must be gay and have read and enjoyed Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves so must be an Arab sympathizer.
Ï have reported you to Michele Bachmann and Louie Gohmert.
lol.
Calling Tucker, and his chain saw: I have a Red Bud tree, and I'm pretty sure it has "Communist roots."
you left out the best part -- where the Caller actually cites to the records of the House Un-American Activities Committee to support the article. Oh for the good-old-days of McCarthyism. Now that was America at her finest!
This is an important issue and certainly need to be drawn out. But what is important is not only the political right's proclivity for fanning the flames of bigotry.
It's also the fact that throughout Western history, anti-Semitism is so easily stirred---and to horrific ends. I think that reality also needs to be mentioned in those instances in which anti-Semitism is named.
But we can't pass the DISCLOSE Act, because then rich political donors might see this sort of spotlight directed at them.
You'll never live like common people...
Maybe in addition to your Mitt's LIES posting every week, you should do a 'Cranky White Christian's' post...
so the "good" Jews are those that give the GOP/TP billions and the "bad" Jews send their kids to camp.
Since it is likely that Jesus was Jewish, antisemitism seems either horribly hypocritical, or a way to keep that pesky Jesus and his liberal teaching, from taking all the fun out of right wing Christianity.
Now you've got us back to the old songs. Next we'll be following James Joyce saying - "If the man in the moon was a jew, jew, jew and a slut shouts out of her:
--Eh, mister! Your fly is open, mister!
And says he:
--Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza.
And the Saviour was a jew and his father was a jew. Your God.
--He had no father, says Martin. That'll do now. Drive ahead.
--Whose God? says the citizen.
--Well, his uncle was a jew, says he. Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew
like me." Ulysses Ch 12
Ugh. Does anyone see shades of Norway in the right wing's fear?
Oh yes, definitely.
Not just Norway. In the 1960s a Birchite group called the Minutemen plotted violent attacks on several left-leaning summer camps in the New York area, following much the same logic. Fortunately their tactical incompetence was even greater than their fanaticism.
Sounds like they are hoping a Breivik imitator will swoop down ...