Krauthammer, Tucker Carlson, Rev Wright & Other Racial Paranoids

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Krauthammer, Tucker Carlson, Rev Wright & Other Racial Paranoids
By M.J. Rosenberg - March 21, 2008, 11:01AM

It's no secret to any of my readers that I despise Charles Krauthammer. I never liked his writing. He is a neocon. He's vicious (he ridiculed Christopher Reeve for giving seriously disabled people "false hope). And his views of the Israeli-Palestinian are repulsive. He hates the Palestinians and would fight to the last Israeli to defeat them.

And then there was that experience with him in my synagogue in 2001. It was Yom Kippur. The rabbi was giving his sermon only to be interrupted by a bellowing obnoxious Krauthammer who was shouting him down for expressing a hope for peace between Israelis and Arabs.

So today's column comes as no surprise.

In it he bellows at Obama for tolerating (Kraut's view) the racism of Rev. Wright, Obama's pastor.

The irony here is that Krauthammer is every bit as racially paranoid as Wright. He hates the Arabs and says so publicly and privately. He believes that Israel must triumph in every situation because it is innately right while the Arabs are innately wrong.. He views the world as divided between Jews and gentiles and it is us Jews who are always the victims.

In short, he sees the world much as Wright does. It is just that with Krauthammer the actors assigned to the role of oppressed and oppressor are different.

The only difference between the two is that Krauthammer's worldview is based on some kind of cultural or historic memory rather than personal experience. Wright experienced racism all his life. Krauthammer, who grew up in Canada and was educated at McGill and Harvard, has never experienced systematic racism or anti-semitism although he did read about it. That's it.

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http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/21/krauthammer_tucker_carlson_rev/

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1. I absolutely despise Krauthammer. n/t