Congressman (Max Burns-R) Apologizes for Supporter (anti-Semitic remarks)

[Khephra]

Congressman Apologizes for Supporter
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: October 14, 2003


Filed at 12:40 p.m. ET

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Rep. Max Burns apologized to Jewish leaders three weeks after a supporter made at a fund-raiser for the Georgia Republican.

Burns' phone call to a Jewish community group Monday was in response to a Sept. 20 comment by businessman Jackie Sommers.

Sommers referred to Democrat Tony Center, who is Jewish, as ``that Jew boy down in Savannah'' at a rally for Burns in the freshman congressman's hometown of Sylvania.

more.........

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Congressman-Anti-Semitism.html

[FlashHarry]

1. Jesus. What is this, 1964?

[Khephra]

3. Notice how it took him 3 weeks to apologize

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[Dogmudgeon]

6. He's hoping we wouldn't

--bkl

[damnraddem]

7. Jesus, oh no.

He was that Jew boy from down in Galilee, not Savanah. Republican businessmen may not be too bright, nor tolerant, but they can make that distinction.

But, hey, no matter how anti-semitic the businessman is, I'll bet that he still supports Israel, especially under Sharon.

[denverbill]

2. It's there. Just barely under the surface.

Oh, the rabid right is all Israel's best friend right now. Nothing is too good for Israel while they are killing Muslims. But it's there, waiting. It will be back. The rabid right hates anyone different from themselves.

[joeybee12]

4. Yes, when the Rapture comes, the Jews will disappear!

So use while you can!

[MnFats]

5. the ONLY reason the right-wing fundies...

...support Israel is that Israel's "restoration" to the promised land and the rebuilding of the Temple there is, they believe, key to fulfilling prophecy and ushering in the return of Jesus Christ.
Falwell, for example, has said as much. Thus they are eager to give Israel anything it wants and consider Muslims/Arabs to be tools of Satan.
Ask a fundy if they've ever done so much as sit down over coffee with a Jew. On a personal level, most fundies want nothing to do with their Jewish neighbors.
Of course, they are eager to convert Jews to Christianity (but only their peculiar version of Christianity). Those that do not will be cast into the Lake of Fire when Jesus returns.......
and they call Islam a violent religion....

[ikojo]

9. I brought this issue up to some orthodox Jewish friends of mine

the other night and their collective response was "Israel will take all the friends it can get."

I don't think they really see the underlying Jew hatred in the Christian eschatological message.

[Voltaire99]

10. Realpolitik

It's seemingly ironic that Israel's in bed with US Christian extremists, but maybe not - historically, extremism as the basis of a mutually rewarding relationship isn't exactly unheard of. ;-)

[ikojo]

8. All Max Burns will have to do, in order to appease the mainstream

Jewish community, is go to the Holocaust Museum and make the requisite mea culpas. Speak before the ADL and tell them how horrible he thinks antisemitism is and how Jews have suffered. A contrite look goes a long way too.

It does not matter to mainstream Jews that he is probably an antisemite through and through but as long as he says "I love Israel, Jews have suffered and the Holocaust was horrible." the pug Jews, including the Kristol clan will forgive and donate money to his cause.


Making a trip to Israel and Yad Vashem will definitely endear him to the pug Jews. Eeeewww the mere thought of a JEWISH repugnican makes me ill! I was at daily services a couple of weeks ago and saw a Kit Bond sticker on a car and wanted to puke!