How dare they think for themselves and not blindly follow Dear Leader!
(Newsbusters) — Obama’s pro-Israel critics are talking “pure crap,” said New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on PBS host Charlie Rose’s show Tuesday night. Rose was hosting a roundtable of Times columnists. Along with Friedman there was David Brooks, neo-liberal economics columnist David Leonhardt, and Roger Cohen, foreign policy columnist and once a stout defender of the authoritarian regime in Iran.
Friedman: You really have, you know, one party, the Palestinians, who are too divided now between Hamas and Fatah to make a big decision. And you have the Israelis who are just too uninterested. I mean, Israel today, I’m sorry, it has the most inbred, unimaginative government I think it’s ever had, you know. And you know, I think, look, we talked about this so many times, there are real issues Israel faces, security, legitimation, whatnot. But there’s one simple thing — you can say what you want and all these American Jews criticizing Obama, he’s anti-Israel — it’s all crap, OK? Can I say that on your show? It is pure crap, all right? The guy is trying to do the right thing.