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To: combjelly who wrote (365355)	1/3/2008 9:57:24 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572107

He probably was and that was terrible. But given there are so many conservative talk shows and so few liberal ones, why didn't Rush or someone similar make such a comment?

To: combjelly who wrote (365355)	7/4/2008 9:42:28 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572107

Jesse Helms wasn't joking when he threatened Clinton. AP says: Jesse Helms: a polarizer, not a compromiser news.yahoo.com Reality: Jesse Helms, craven and easily compromisable politician <<< ... In 1984, however, Senator Helms made the most astonishing turnaround in American politics. The occasion was the closest election in Jesse Helms’ already long career. Prior to his run for re-election Jesse Helms had been described by the Israel lobby as the most dangerous opponent of Israel in the United States. In fact, his record on Israel was the most negative of any member of the Senate, he had the lowest rating of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of any senator. As a result, the Israel lobby invested perhaps one of the country’s biggest campaign contributions per capita in an attempt to unseat Jesse Helms. Pro-Israel political action committees poured an astonishing $222,342 into the campaign of Helms’ opponent, North Carolina Governor James Hunt. Hunt’s campaign secretary proclaimed that “Senator Helms has the worst anti-Israel record in the United States Senate and supporters of Israel throughout the country know it.” After squeaking by with the narrowest of margins, Jesse Helms promptly “saw the light.” The senator gathered together as many of his North Carolina Jewish constituents as he could, and together they set out on a pilgrimage to Israel. There he had himself photographed wearing a yarmulke and kissing the Western Wall. Upon his return, the reborn Jesse Helms bombarded the media with a series of pro-Israel statements. From that time on there was virtually no electoral trick to which Jesse Helms did not resort to increase the appropriations for Israel from the Defense Department, the State Department and perhaps half a dozen other different federal agency budgets. Although, given his earlier predilections, Senator Helms may have been holding his nose, friends of Israel received a warm response for anything the Israeli government wanted. The “new Jesse Helms” never again wavered on behalf of Israel. Helms announced that he would exempt from cuts the more than one-third of total U.S. foreign aid that goes to Israel because such aid is “in the strategic interest of the U.S.” This was doubly ironic because, in the 1984 campaign, Helms’ defense against charges that he was anti-Israel was that since entering the Senate in 1973 he had been against all foreign aid ... >>> washington-report.org Tom