"Ich Bin Ein Israel Guy." (Noonan: Perry Looked Like 'Cheap Buffoon' Giving Israel Speech)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Noonan: Perry Looked Like 'Cheap Buffoon' Giving Israel Speech

http://www.businessinsider.com/noonan-perry-looked-like-cheap-buffoon-giving-israel-speech-2011-9?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29



Former Ronald Reagan speechwriter and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan had only harsh words to share about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's speech on Israel Tuesday, saying he looked like a "cheap, base-playing buffoon."


Noonan criticized the GOP presidential front-runner for undermining President Barack Obama when the United States was in a particularly tough spot at the United Nations, saying Perry shallowly tried to exploit the Palestinian statehood threat for personal political gain.

Perry accused the Obama administration of "appeasement," a loaded word in international diplomacy, and of being "arrogant, misguided and dangerous."

[ixion]

1. isn't it a bit tacky to (try and fail to) speak German giving a speech in Israel?

:shrug:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. No, he didn't do that. I goofed with the subject line. n/t

[Scurrilous]

3. Perry embraces violent Jewish extremists

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"Yesterday, I attended Rick Perry's press conference at the W Hotel in New York City, where the Texas Governor and Republican presidential frontrunner denounced President Barack Obama for supposedly "appeasing" America's enemies in the Middle East and failing to sufficiently support Israel. The Perry appearance was timed to pre-empt Obama's speech at the UN in which the President would reject Palestinian demands for statehood.

The most remarkable aspect of Perry's press conference was the cast of characters that assembled behind the Governor while he spoke. To Perry's immediate right was Assemblyman Dov Hikind, the former leader of the Jewish Defense League, a terrorist group responsible for bombing attacks on numerous Arab-American targets and a conspiracy to murder Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. While Hikind's collaborator Victor Vancier spent ten years in jail for firebomb attacks, Hikind was suspected by the FBI of numerous terror attacks of his own. After issuing numerous stentorian condemnations of terror, Perry handed the mic over to Hikind, who exclaimed, "I heard the Governor's speeches and I said to myself, 'He sounds like me!'" The two engaged in a sustained hug before a giant media gaggle."

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/perry-embraces-violent-jewish-extremists-politicos-ben-smith-calls-him-moderate.html

[indepat]

4. Glory be to God in the highest: Peggy Noonan, after some 30+ years, has finally made a pronouncement

with which I wholly agree. I'm dumbfounded, speechless, and star-struck. :patriot:

[Hoosier Daddy]

5. I'm erect!

Wantin' to give Noonan some nookie! Oh YEAH, baby!

;-)

[Fumesucker]

6. An insult to cheap buffoons everywhere... n/t