…But who’s counting?
Plus there were show tunes! From Fiddler on the Roof! Cause it’s kind of Jewishy.
No doubt, the cowardly Israeli people were buoyed today by Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Courage” rally near the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Glenn who? Some guy who used to be on TV here in the U.S. At one point, it seems, he actually mattered to some people in this country. Those were the days, eh?
UPDATE: Though Beck’s folks said the event was sold out, Ami Kaufman, who covered it for Israeli oulet +972 offers coverage and photos suggesting otherwise. Writes Kaufman: “It must have been pretty rough for Glenn Beck to see this”…
Kaufman adds: “After months of preparations, hours of television and radio talk all geared up for the big day, tons of merchandise manufactured, Glenn Beck could just about muster over a thousand people at his ‘Restoring Courage’ last night in Jerusalem. … I can’t help but think that this flop might be a lethal blow for this guy.”
Sitting in for Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word, Chris Hayes’ coverage tonight (video posted below) highlights another hilarious passage from Beck’s rally in the Holy Land: “O, Israel, hear the words of my mouth!” 🙂 …
Okay. We’re done piling on. Sue us. It’s Summer.
He might get a audience of 81 at least.
AIPAC Pays For 81 US Lawmakers Vacation In Israel
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He had “10” of people. LOL
Chris Hayes is Rachel Maddow’s doppelganger.
It was a stretch to discern any real meaning from Beck’s word salad. It’s like he’s taking lessons from Sarah Palin. But the evangelical tone remains consistently disturbing.
Frankly, I don’t know how he could get 1700 people to show up. Was it an Israeli audience, or did he import them?
Beck will probably say that those seats were being used by the angels.
Yep – those Israelis really need a courage boost from beckerooni. Thanks for posting the silliness Brad, but being a left-wing kind of blog you’re going to get inundated with the jew haters now. All it takes it mentioning “israel.”
So, there I was… cruising the infobahn when I hit this link… veered left… landed in a quagmire called Brad Bog… figured wtf so I watched a free video of a guy making fun of this other guy because he has a bigger… audience… wtf… click go back one page… whew!
Nancy Tobi said:
Odd comment. Even if I accept your “left-wing kind of blog” description (which I don’t), are you suggestion that “mentioning ‘Israel'” would have a better reception on “right-wing kind of blogs”? If so, the folks at places like Stormfront might take issue with that.
In any case, with the exception of Mick, who is always reliable for showing up and figuring out how to tie all the worlds woes to Israel somehow, this post has been up for 24 hours, and hasn’t been “inundated” at all as you’ve suggested.
So I’ll hope you continue to be wrong in this case 🙂
So are you saying that its perfectly normal for 81 of your elected lawmakers to be on a free tour of a foreign country during a time when you are engaged in two wars and your whole economy is in the toilet ?
Israel has a population of about 8 million ,what other country are your Lawmakers visiting en-mass this holiday period ?
Some say that you are in the war in Iraq at the behest of the “Office of Special Plans” that worked out of the Pentagon .Oddly enough it had a disproportionate amount of Jewish/Israeli firsters.
And Afghanistan ,you know the war of revenge for the events of 911 ,allegedly masterminded by Usama Bin Laden .You know Tim Osman ,wink ,wink ! And of course how can we forget the hundred plus ISRAELI spies arrested in the days after 911 .Some celebrating the event and latter admitting prior knowledge and saying on Israeli National TV “they were only there to document the event”!
And lets not talk of Dr. Alan Sabrosky and his opinion on 911 (google will inform anyone not familiar with him).
I’ve visited this site since day one and cannot help but notice the lack of results with regard to achieving election integrity in your great country . So rather than “showing up and figuring out how to tie all the worlds woes to Israel somehow” I’ll leave it to you and hope that before America drags us all down the toilet you actually get some positive results regarding your electoral system and that your blind acceptance of all things Israeli doesn’t lead us all into WW3 .
Actually, Brad, I can think of another cliche from a town near your home that ALSO has a very large Jewish Community, Hollywood.
“People Stayed Away in DROVES!”
As for only 1700 or so attendees, the explanation ia perfectly simple. The Koch Bros. MAY be able to supply busloads of paid shills in THIS country, but springing for transatlantic airline fares for similar numbers would actually hit their bottom line. I DO think that Beck’s failure to attract even the most rabid members of the settler movement to his “event” also speaks volumes.
A.I.P.A.C. needs to be registered as an organization that lobbies on behalf of a foreign government, just as the Turkish lobby is registered, the German lobby, the Armenian lobby and so on. The only reason it isn’t is because as soon as anyone suggests it they are immediately tarred as an “anti-Semite”, a term that has practically lost all meaning nowadays from misuse by the Zionist lobby to smear anyone who dares criticize their shitty little apartheid state.
On another topic, how about the Brad Blog doing an exposé on 9/11 for the tenth anniversary? How about laying out the numerous impossibilities and “coincidences” that show the official “nineteen hijackers” myth for what it is, a giant pack of lies? I realize that election fraud is the main focus of this blog but how about for the tenth anniversary of the most important issue of our time you guys do a story showing how it was clearly an inside job carried out to provide the pretext for a series of wars for energy resources, sold to the public as a “War on Terror”? What other issue comes close to it in importance? None, considering 9/11 is repeatedly used as the excuse for any foreign adventure and domestic repression since then. So how about it Brad?