'Alarming clue'
"An emblematic presence [in the American Left] is the financier George Soros, a major figure in Democratic-party politics who in 2004 donated $15 million to defeat George W. Bush. Soros is also the chief underwriter of the Web-based pressure group Moveon.org, which, in the 2006 political season, poured heavy resources into the effort to dislodge Joseph Lieberman from the U.S. Senate. ...
"As is well known, this effort scored an early success by wresting the Democratic nomination from Lieberman and gaining it for [Ned] Lamont. Thereupon, an undeterred Lieberman announced that he would stay in the race as an independent candidate. At this point the Left's anti-Lieberman campaign, already a model of personal vilification, grew still more vicious, as postings on the Moveon.org Web site began to refer caustically to the long-serving Connecticut Senator as 'the Jew Lieberman,' providing yet another alarming clue, if one were needed, to attitudes within a segment of today's American Left."
-- Gabriel Schoenfeld, writing on "Jews, Muslims, and the Democrats," in the January issue of Commentary |
