Epic fail: Team McCain won't name Obama's 'anti-Semitic' pals
By David Neiwert Friday Oct 31, 2008 8:30am
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McCain flack Michael Goldfarb gets on CNN with Rick Sanchez and starts smearing Barack Obama for allegedly "hanging out" with anti-Semites. Sanchez does the Journalism Thing and actually tries to pin him down. What transpires is both amusing and terribly telling:
Goldfarb: Look, you're missing the point again, Rick. The point is that Barack Obama has a long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.
Sanchez: Can you name one other person besides Khalidi who he hangs around with who is anti-Semitic?
Goldfarb: He pals around with William Ayers who is a domestic terrorist.
Sanchez: No, no. The question I asked you is, Can you name one other person that he hangs around with who is anti-Semitic? Because that's what you said.
Goldfarb: Look, we all know that there are people who Barack Obama has been in hot water ...
Sanchez: Michael, I asked you to name one person. One.
Goldfarb: [Smiles smugly]
Sanchez: You said he hangs around with people who are anti-Semitic. OK, we got Khalidi on the table. Give me number two. Who's the other anti-Semitic person that he hangs around with that we, quote, all know about.
Goldfarb: Rick, we both know who Number Two is. [Silence]
Sanchez: Who?
Goldfarb: [Smiles, says nothing]
Sanchez: Would you tell us?
Goldfarb: No, Rick, I think we all know who we're talking about here.
Sanchez: Somebody who's anti-Semitic who he hangs around with?
Goldfarb: Absolutely.
Sanchez: Well, say it!
Goldfarb: I think we know who we're talking about, Rick.
At this point Sanchez just has to move on and does so.
But it's interesting how right-wing smearmongers work, isn't it? They'll say Obama hangs out with anti-Semites but won't actually name them. This is straight out of the Joe McCarthy Handbook.
Obviously, Goldfarb realized he had gone too far, probably because he knew that bringing up Louis Farrakhan had been ruled out by his superiors for this campaign, and with good reason: It's a completely specious claim and old news to boot.
That dead air told us everything we need to know about Goldfarb's integrity as a source of information and insight, though.
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These are lower than dirt, and you can see what they've already done to what used to be the Department of Justice.
see http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
they will be very much not missed in D.C.
I'm sure John McCain will repudiate these remarks. He said he has and would repudiate all negative smears against Obama.
I'll just sit here and wait.........
Unreal, This is a spokesperson for Mccain? McCain's staff is a bunch of brain-dead morons. Where the good looking idiot blond he usually uses?
Exactly...can we say a CHICKEN McCarthy...Dishonorable...dispecible....
lIE INNUENDO--STOOP TO NEW LOWS...
Exactly...can we say a CHICKEN McCarthy...Dishonorable...dispecible....
lIE INNUENDO--STOOP TO NEW LOWS...
I think it's so sweet that the McCain campaign allows semi-functional retards the opportunity to become campaign spokespeople. Even though they have no idea what they are talking about.. it does wonders for their self-esteem. Just look at that Nancy Pfotenwhosamawhatever.. you can't wipe that stupid smile off of her face.
it was painful.
Another product of our education system.
This boy needs to have a Twinkie and be put down for a nap.
This boy needs to
have a Twinkie andbe put downfor a nap.This ignorant putz does need to be put down---it must be miserable being such a lying dolt.
They serve and protect.
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Public education couldn't have done that... that has to be private school or home school.
He should have been aborted.
Dumb and Dumber
Note to Mc Cain shill:
After your performance yesterday, change your name to Goldfart; cause a fart has more credibility than you
Credibility, integrity,. morality, intelligence, humanity, insight . . . .
Stick to what you do best, Goldy. Start railing on the Dungeon and Dragons crowd.
If you get outwitted by Rick Sanchez? Jeepers!
...that was. OMFG! This son of a bitch brought NOTHING to that interview. Sanchez went easy on this lying pussy playing high school gossip games.
This is the eleventh hour for the Repukes and the awful nasty shit stain they've left across our nation.
I agree Sanchez totally had him on the hook then released him. The follow up should have been, "So you are unwilling to say who it is because: A, it's not true or B,it is so slanderous you must use innuendo because you don't want to have such a statement attributed to the McCain Campaign for whom you work? Mr, Goldfarb, it sounds to me like you are evading my questions, could you explain why?"
Boom, headshot.
"...this lying pussy playing high school gossip games."
I could not have said it any better.
Qualification 1
Walk upright
Qualification 2
Opposable Thumb
Secondary Qualifications.
Protruding Brow
Blank Stare
Very clever and right on the money!
Nice.
At least he shaved a gap in the unibrow.
I would say here is solid proof of evolution but that would be a knock on apes.
I hope this is a growing trend in the human race for 'these' sorts of people.
I love free speech, I would die to protect it...
However... I really do not like it when scum is allowed to tarnish it the way they try to constantly.
People need to follow this trend... and punish these beasts with the truth...
They hate the truth, don't they...
look at his face when he is confronted with truth..
Egg-beast demon boy... boy oh boy would I like to be in an elevator with that pos...
ok its too early, and I have not had my coffee.. fucking election phone calls...
This person is an insult to idiots.
At least true idiots aren't necessarily lying, craven, hateful, mean, seeping bags of human detritus. Being stupid isn't a crime, while slandering people certainly is.
But this clown? Hooo, boy. I'd say he needs a two or three year time-out to think about how he has shamed his family name with his abject stupidity and horrid debating skills that do nothing to help his agenda.
Voldemort?
Good one.
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wasn't having to blow the candidate to get your position with the campaign, humiliation enough?
He could have demanded proof that he doesn't and then sat back and smiled smugly and said, "And you're asking people to vote for a guy who is a known baby cannibal? We know what the liberal elite media is into, pedastry, baby cannibalism, satan worship. That's why Obama is your man, er, uh, warlock."
Calling someone "Anti-Jewish" is even worse then that..
Seriously.. the words "Anti-Semetic" slide off certain peoples tongues far too easily..
And wait.. They did call OBAMA a baby killer... even if the "Child was born from a botch abortion... " They said that Obama would drop the kid to the cold floor and kick it to a corner to die.
AND bite its head off and laugh maniacally as well! Oh wait, that's Ozzie Osborne.
Notice how that little bitch sat there as if he was in the Principle's Office ready to lie on cue. These people will destroy this country if allowed to.
wow, this guy just doesn't know his head from his ass. some pretty serious claims and he refuses to back them up? what a poor representation of the McCain campaign.
Well, in his defense, they are so similar it could be an honest mistake.
Not knowing his head from his ass would seem to make him the PERFECT representation of the McCain campaign.
oh, he knows all right, he wasn't going to answer because to answer would have made huge waves coming out of the mouth of a McCain spokesman. This is just proof that the McCain campaign is twitching and convulsing as it's life slowly ebbs out into the dry dusty bleached political landscape.
Reminds me of a time when my wife was angry with me and I didn't know why.
"Did I do something?" I would ask.
"Oh, you know what you've done," she would say.
He's NOT anti semitic, as smear mongers imply. He criticizes their actions, which SHOULD be allowed.
He's critical of Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine and the continued efforts of the Israeli State to ethnically cleanse the Levant?
It's spurious, and specious, but it's always been enough for the Zionists, I guess...
Arent Arab's Semetic people as well?..
I mean.. All people who's genetic linage stems from that swath of land are "Semitic" people (which is basically from Morocco to Iraq)
I really rarely get these insults though.
Yes, Semitic refers to a language that flowered into approximately a dozen other languages. Anti-Semitic is a colloquial phrase used to indicate an anti-Jewish feeling; however, it is an incorrect application of the word Semitic. The term has turned into a "code" word for anti-Jewishness rather than actually saying someone is anti-Jewish.
Crazy libs, thinking with your brains
His silence there spoke volumes to me.
"We need to send someone on CNN to spread the whole Obama is a subversive thing."
"Fuck no...I'm not putting my reputation on the line. We got nuttin' here. No connection to anyone else...nothing. Nope, I ain't doin' it. I got a job already lined up, I ain't blowin' it now".
"Well, what the fuck...someone's gotta do it. We told John that someone would be on tv".
"Hey! I got an idea...let's send that kid..you know...the one with the blank look...he knows the lines well enough. What's his name..Gollb...Glubb?"
"Goldfarb?"
"Yeah yeah! Goldfarb. Send him!"
"Yeah! Give 'em an extra six-pack if he does a good job!"
He shan't be receiving that six-pack.
This poor bastard probably lost his job.
The last line should read:
"Yeah, yeah! Goldfarb is one of the smartest we have left. Send him!"
My husband was a construction electrician for many years. He always said that the guy who was seeking the position of foreman was the LAST guy who should be a foreman.
Likewise, when a person of this calibre wants to go out and be a spokesperson, he's probably the last guy who should ever be allowed to open his mouth.
Goldfarb probably thinks Obama hangs out with Farrakhan because, y'know, they're both black.
That's enough connection for me...(/snark)
And you know who else was black. Hitler! Not literally, but my point still stands.
/wingnut
I don't know, I might be odd or insane but Michael Goldfarb reminds me of Lennie from Of Mice and Men. I can hear Michael Goldfarb channeling Randy Quaid --- not the funny Randy from Christmas Vacation but rather the Randy that played Lennie opposite Robert Blake --- in this clip.
WTF? I had no idea what this a-hole was talking about until I got to the end.
McLame knows how to gt Bin Laden too but he is not telling. Its a secret. fucking asshats!
....in the face. Goldfart purposely put that tantalizing lie out there and then just left it to spread.
Real Americans, these Republicans.
He was too dumb even to have a 'deer in headlights' look. Also, he made the interviewer look smart, no small feat in itself.
He COULD NOT remember Farrakhan's name!! He just sat there looking like an idiot.
He probably tried to call back in a few minutes when the McCan't group informed him what he was trying to remember. Kind of like when McLame could not remember all the Sec. of State who endorsed him on the Brokaw Meet the Press. In the middle of the next question McGramps yells out "Echleberger. It was Echleberger. Echleberger was his name." Hahahahahahahahha
Why didn't Goldfarb try to disarm the situation with comedy...you know...use the old line..."Well..if I tell you who it is...then I'd have to kill you."
I almost died laughing. 'Tool' is too good a word. At least tools have a purpose. Good Lord! Must Keep Gun From Head . Must keep....Mumumu
My hammer, screwdriver, and pliers have informed me that they are insulted that you would equate this dickhead with perfectly good, useful "tools."
Also, the rockband "Tool" phoned in to say that they too are insulted.
BOOM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ci6i6a421U
Okay, how can an Arab be anti-Semitic? Do Republicans even know what "anti-Semitic" means? I think Rick Sanchez needed to do a better job of confronting that and he only tossed in a little bit challenging the notion that Khalidi actually is anti-Semitic right at the end there.
I half-expected Goldfarb to try the Sarah Palin wink there. Hot totty, have the Republicans become an embarrassment of a political party.
These Repugnant Right-wing shills have no shame. Their lies are more pathetic by the minute. They rely on the worst aspects of the human condition to maintain their boney-fingered stranglehold on the neck of power. Thankfully, they are finally losing their grip. Could it be that the American People are done with their brand of psychopathic "leadership"? They sit in the seats of power, not to serve, but to steal - and they NEED ignorance to pull it off. I CAN'T WAIT to be rid of them for good. Like fleas on the skin of the body-politic, we must shake them off.
Spot on.
They're all sociopaths.
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In my personal fantasy the American people are really paying attention to the tactics and supporters of the Right Wing Fascists in this election. Its right out there to see how close we are to revisiting the McCarthy hearings and black lists. Anyone who pays even a little attention can see that one side is using hate and fear as their primary tactic. Unfortunately if people were really paying attention the polls would be closer to 75% to 25%. The corporate media today is pushing with all of their muster the meme that the race is neck and neck and 14% are undecided.
See, I think they really are paying attention, and they love it. They seriously are afraid, and want to seek out and imprison and/or kill anybody who doesn't think the same way as them. According to the current estimated popular vote percentages on FiveThirtyEight.com, 46.4 percent of Americans would vote for McCain, and I think a large percentage of that segment would be very happy to bring back the McCarthy hearings and blacklists.
Appealing to, and basing your decisions on, the reptilian brain is easy and cathartic to do, and thus it is very appealing to a large segment of the human race. Hell, nearly every human rights disaster in recorded history can be boiled down to "they're different from us, and therefore inferior to us -- let's kill/torture/enslave them!"
is this a signal that mccan't is worrying about the jewish florida vote?
yes, good observation.
You know, a great many rich people are anti-semitic, they just don't talk about it publicly. Behind closed doors is another matter. (I've heard them.)
I don't know WHO #2 is, but I know WHAT #2 is, and this guy is full of it.
clever.
Sanchez did a good job, but I wish, when Goldfarb said something to the effect of, "We all know who I'm referring to", he had said, "Okay, assume that I know who you mean. For those viewers out there who have no idea, please give the name of this person." It would have just been a nice rubbing of salt in the moron's wounds.
Journalism - see how simple it really is. Step 1: Someone makes a statement. Step 2: ask that person to support the statement.
The fact that that has not been done for the last 8 or 9 years is pretty shocking. As evidenced here, it pretty much destroys the Rove/Republican advantage in an instant.
What is left over is a Party (a person in the case of this interview) that needs to go back, do their homework and come up with a reality based argument (platform). So see Journalism, your job is simple yet absolutely essential to a healthy Republic.
Maybe this idiot can join 'Joe' and his PR team on a tour singing country music? Like people would pay to see these two douchebags.
Moron was trying to make a funny... it didn't work.
This right wing assh**e was simply trying to spread unfounded gosssip about Obama, and of course, offered zero proof to back his claims, becaaue there was no proof.
...We're talking about whomever engenders the most fear in the people listening to us. See, we won't actually name one individual, because the listener might be thinking of somebody else. But by playing coy and letting our vict-- erm, constituents -- fill in the blanks, the person can be everybody's worst bogeyman simultaneously! He is Ayers, Marx, Farrakhan, Rezko, Bush, Bin Laden, all at once!
When you want to control a population through fear, innuendo works way better than actual facts. Always has, always will.
Rick Sanchez not only jumped into this idiot's ass, but, on the way out Rick pulled out his knife and carved his initials into the morons rectum! WAY TO GO MR SANCHEZ!
Folks are gonna think that Rick Santorum did that.
Santorum may have violated him first. That might explain his lack of response.
or are most of McCain's people young and/or stupid? Also, if you look behind McCain and Palin at rallies, the people behind them are either kids or miscreant-looking goofballs.
I caught that too.
Of course, it's always Cindy McCain standing there - but I think that description still fits
So all the footage of the palin 'white power' rallies is A-OK but reslugs can whisper 'anti-Semite' out of the corners of their crooked mouths in a pathetic attempt to smear Obama again and the world should quake?
Honestly, is the word 'republican' a synonym for some kind of mental illness?
It's a disease known as Conservatism.
They're Sociopaths.
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...that he loves the smell of his own farts. I think Tuesday is going to be the day that will wipe these smirks off their faces for at least the next 4 years.
How many letters? Sounds like? C'mon, tell us please, the suspense is killing me!
Is it animal, mineral, or vegetable?
Is he bigger than a bread-box?
Does he weigh more than a duck and/or float?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
a jackal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN6NevoWXcM
If they keep it up Barack will get Arizona, too. These guys are digging the campaign grave deeper and deeper. Nothing like going out with class.
I wasn't at all surprised when he opened his mouth and "Number 2" came out.
Sanchez let him get away with it.
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He called him on it three times. He shot down the Bill Ayers point, and left this guy with nothing. He did a good job given the fact this tool was there just to be a douchefag.
He let him get away with it.
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Because calling him out three times let him get away with it. I'm sure you wanted him to say "Hey, asshole, you're being a complete douchebag", because that's how the world works for you, doesn't it?
Fucking retard.
I think it would have been nice if Ricky said, "Douchebag, are you going to answer the question or just sit there with that stupid look on her face. You basically accused Obama of being an anti-semite. Don't decent human beings at least have a rational for throwing around names like that?"
But, I suppose the media is too refined for that much honesty.
NAILED IT!
(ahem)
McCain has had the worst that I ever remember. Fiorina, Bounds, the strange female Republican rep. with the K-Mart wardrobe, this guy....
His campaign staff would have been drawn and quartered in a less progressive country.
This Republican spokesperson is a wortheless, lying piece of sh*t- clearly he is trying to generate baseless gossip...
This is not the first time I have seen this during tihs campaign. I can't believe anyone takes this person seriously. How on earth did he get this job?
I'm VERY afraid if this is the best McCain can do. This alone would sway an undecided vote... REEEEEKS of desperateness.
Hey Goldfarb, how does it feel to be handed a tray of your own ass?
All he has to do is put Goldfarb, Tucker Bounds and Nancy Pfotenhauer in his ads and promise that 'In John McCain's America ANYBODY will be able to get a high paying job - regardless of skills or abilities.'
WTF (I mean about this guy)? I see today at C&L is the right wing comes unhinged day; which I applaud. Living overseas, I don't get this kind of coverage (thankfully). I get CNN International and the BBC, and we don't see these losers: no one oustside the USA would watch. It's really quite shocking.
I guess this #2 is so secret we'll never know. I haven't a clue who he's referring to. Not really a clever strategy.
I'm sure he can also name plenty of Obama friends and associates who, well, YOU know.
*wink wink*
What more needs to be said?
Can America tolerate a president who engages in such outlandish You-Know-What?? I think not.
In the words of Lois Griffin: "Are you serious? ARE YOU SERIOUS? (Chuckles)"
First off, Goldfarb, you're fired.
Second, this is what happens when you confront a liar. He can no longer lie.
Goldfarb: "You know who I'm talking about..."
What is he in grade school? Pretty weak McCain.
Of course you know the anti-semite that Barrack pals around with! Its Hitler, man! Hitler! Oh, and Hannity. Everybody knows that!