My latest in PJ Media:
That courageous titan of contemporary journalism, Dana Milbank, has an explosive scoop in Monday’s Washington Post: He has discovered that Rashida Tlaib, far from being the Squad firebrand and unhinged hard-Leftist that everyone takes her to be, is actually a Trump-supporting MAGA redneck who has imbibed anti-Semitism from the source and summit of Jew-hatred himself, Mr. Donald J. Trump. Yes, it sounds fanciful, and it is, but in Dana Milbank’s world, there is just no difference between “evil” and “Trump”; if there is something bad in the world, it must be the fault of the Bad Orange Man. What possible alternative explanation could there be?
In an opinion piece (of course, they’re all opinion pieces in the Post nowadays) entitled “Rashida Tlaib’s bigotry comes from the MAGA handbook, which really ought to be fitted out with a laugh track,” Milbank states: “It’s a classic Trump move: Blame a minority group for a sinister conspiracy, then deny responsibility when your supporters act on your baseless claim. Work ‘em into a lather, rinse and repeat.”
Milbank is just as surprised as everyone else at who is using this playbook: why, it’s one of the Satanic Trump’s most prominent victims! “Few,” he claims, and the laugh track should rise in volume here, “have been victimized by Donald Trump’s hateful tactics more than Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who with other members of ‘the Squad’ were told by Trump to ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.’ So why is Tlaib now using the Trump playbook against others?”
Milbank notes that “Acts of antisemitism rose dramatically during the Trump presidency, reaching a high in 2019 and barely dropping in 2020,” without, of course, providing the slightest shred of evidence that this rise was due to anything said or done by the most pro-Israel president since the founding of the modern state of Israel. “In May 2021,” Milbank continues, without bothering to note the fact that by then Biden’s handlers had supplanted Trump in the Oval Office, “during the fighting between Israel and Hamas (and anti-Israel protests by left-wing demonstrators in the United States), anti-Jewish violence and harassment surged to more than double the previous year’s level.”
As long as we’re assigning blame, which president is more likely to incite anti-Semitism? One who strongly defended and aided the right of Israel to defend itself from genocidal jihadist enemies, or one who has appointed a large number of fierce opponents of Israel to all levels of his administration, abetted the spread of Palestinian jihad propaganda demonizing Israel, and even praised an open anti-Semite and promised to defend her family from alleged Israeli aggression? The claim that Trump was anti-Semitic was one of the principal Big Lies of the Left over the last four years.
There is more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
WaPo’s Dana Milbank Goes Insane with TDS, Blames Trump for Tlaib’s Anti-Semitism
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This is unhinged even by current standards. Firstly, President Trump was no antisemite–he supported his Jewish in-laws and was a great supporter of Israel.
Then, Rashida Tlaib *hates* Trump–the idea that she would be inspired by his views on any subject is just risable.
Just ludicrous calumny of Trump.
bill says
WaPo and NYT must be the most rubbish newspapers on the planet. I admit I do not know them all! How do they remain in business?
Donovan Nuera says
They depend on stupid “sophisticated” subscribers who don’t remember Duranty’s non-reporting of Ukrainian genocide, the glorification of the Soviets, the ignoring of the Holocaust, the useful idiotic support of Castro’s nearly-defeated forces, fetishization/ deification of Woodward/ Bernstein, and the occult fascination of “Religion Writer” Sally Quinn mixed in with arrogant view that “only sooper smart people all read the NYT/WaPo”.
gravenimage says
Too true, Donovan.
b.a. freeman says
thank U, mr. spencer, for the link to the CJV indictment of the lying fascists of the ADL in your article (https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2021/08/07/1500-rabbis-slam-the-adl-as-unable-even-to-identify-much-less-fight-anti-semitism-n1467949) it is VITAL that we pinpoint and expose these lying monsters, and embarrass them every chance we get. we can attack them with words now, and win in the court of public opinion, or we will HAVE to attack them with weapons when they come for us later. fascists this close to victory will NOT give up until everybody is laughing at them.
gravenimage says
Here’s more ludicrous crap from Dana Milbank, from early 2016:
“DANA MILBANK: Trump’s anti-Muslim hostility will make terrorism worse”
WASHINGTON — How long will it be before American Muslims are forced to wear yellow badges with the star and crescent?
https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/opinion/columnists/milbank/dana-milbank-trumps-anti-muslim-hostility-will-make-terrorism-worse/article_c6e15314-59d7-5e9d-ad13-e4c1ea34324f.amp.html
How *dare* Trump have said anything critical about murderous Jihad terror? He must be Hitler…
OLD GUY says
Here is another islamic mouth piece that needs to not be reelected.
gravenimage says
Who? Millbank is not elected.