Sunday, June 05, 2005

mamas don't let your pilots grow up to be jewboys: "Oh, so now Republicans are blocking investigations into anti-Semitism and harrassment of Jews and other non-Christians at the Air Force Academy.    Why?  Because right-wing evangelicals are their voting base, and they'd rather tolerate some anti-Semitism than annoy their base.  But you knew that.   

We get this info from the Forward*, which my grandfather read every day from the 1920's until his death in the late 1960's.  Back then it was called the 'Jewish Daily Forward.'   A highly recommended book is 'A Bintel Brief:  Letters to the Editors of the Jewish Daily Forward.'  But I digress.  (*via Daou Report and Mark A. R. Kleiman)

Republicans won't even permit an investigation.  In the Newspeak world of today's GOP,  Rep. Duncan Hunter describes the idea of investigating possible bias and prejudice as 'a move toward one religion and against another.'   Wow.  So I guess that, by that logic, Republicans would say that integrating those bus stations in the South was 'a move toward one race and against another.'    Oh, yeah, they probably did say that."

(Via Night Light.)