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ROWLEY DEFENDS ELLISON; IGNORES DOCUMENTED ANTI-SEMITIC RECORD
By Michael B. Brodkorb | September 20, 2006
This is from Coleen Rowley's website:
"Even though they cannot point to a single anti-Semitic word Keith Ellison has written or spoken, even though Ellison is endorsed by the American Jewish World, they call him an anti-Semite — because Keith Ellison is a Muslim." Source: Coleen Rowley for Congress
Apparently Rowley hasn't read the article written by Ellison where he defends Louis Farrakahn. The editor called Ellison's article "a genuine threat to the long-term safety and well-being of the Jewish people…"
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September 20th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Shows you difference between serious candidates like Hatch & Klobuchar, who ignore Ellison and fear being linked with him; and Coleen Rowley, who calls him a great uniter.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Doesn’t Rowley worship at the feet of another well known anti-semite Cindy Sheehan?
It seems there might be a bit of a pattern here.
Gotta love the new DFL.
September 20th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
DIDFTL – good point. I find it odd that Rowley claims she used to be a Republican – she must have really had some trama happen to her to get from that point to embracing extremists like Sheehan/Ellison/Murtha.
September 20th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
DIDFTL, aren’t you worried that boy from MN Campaign report is going to devote his whole blog again for you posting so closely to MDE’s post. I mean that some investigative reporting analyzing the time that you post. I hope Mary Lanhammer picks it up because she is hurting for news stories as well.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Meredith,
Even funnier is the fact that “Roving Reporter” is the first commenter almost EVERY time Michael puts up a new post.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
What is amazing about Rowley is that she is actual attempting to undermine the party that is actually trying to DO something about TERRORISM !
SHE HAS BECOME THE ULTMATE “USEFUL IDIOT” !!
September 20th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
That guy who writes Campaign Report (Jon somethingorother) has a 45 minute threshold to determine whether or not I comment too close to MDE.
You will notice, Meredith, that my comment was 56 minutes after MDE’s post. That is outside of Jon’s window, so it didn’t set of any red flags this time.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
FRANK, Rowley has become the political version of
Phineas Gage !
September 20th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
I do question her association with Cindy Sheehan. Even before her son was killed, Cindy was making paranoid anti-semetic speeches.
Bill O’Reilly showed a videotape of one she did in San Francisco. (God bless Fox News)
September 20th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
So, has anyone printed anything Ellison has written that could be construed as anti-semite or racist? Are any of Ellison present policies or proposials anti-semite or racist? Could someone here please, try not to be such flamming morons, and present cogent, coherant, and reasonable reasons why Alan Fine is a better candidate for the 5th Congressional seat. Fine’s position on health care is very weak. He doesn’t even mention the war in Iraq and what he intends. But that’s not really the issue here. The main thrust of this site is to smear and slime as much as possible and that oftens requires extreme liberties with things like troublesome facts. There hasn’t been an iota of substantive argument ever hear. I have been a republican for over 20 years and this site makes me ashamed. The present incarnation of the republican party makes me ashamed as well but damn, people, work on convincing people of the correctness of your viewpoint. You can’t do that by leading with, “Hey listen, you commie bastard,,,”
Facts, figures, statistics,, things like that work much much better. Unless of course, that’s too much work.
September 20th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
The article linked doesn’t prove Rowley wrong. Although Ellison’s (Hakim’s) article implicitly supports Farrakahn, it does not contain any references to Jews, Judaism, or reference any anti-semitic remarks. Her assertion was not that Ellison has never spoken in support of people holding negative views of Jews or Judaism, just that he himself had not written or spoken antisemitism. To suggest that Rowley is wrong based on the article linked is false.
If you provide actual examples of Ellison speaking or writing antisemitic remarks, then you will have proven her wrong.
September 20th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
“So, has anyone printed anything Ellison has written that could be construed as anti-semite or racist?”
Keith Ellison/Hakim wrote about “certain forces” who were opposed to the racists Keith was bringing to the U of Minnesota campus. Those “forces” were Jews. How do I know that? Because I was then and remain now one of them.
By alluding to Jews in this way — as “forces” that silently exert unseen control — Keith was regurgitating one of the oldest, most destructive, and widely held antisemitic lines. We’re seeing that in his campaign again, where he refuses to discuss his past while arguing that he’s fighting against some unknown thing, all the while giving a wink and a nod to his supporters.
Keith also hosted and supported a string of people who wore their bigotry more openly. One of his speakers told the audience that Jewish doctors were injecting HIV into black babies. Another said he refused to bow down before the Jews. The list goes on…
When confronted Keith threw a series of verbal fits: much like he’s doing now albeit in a more passive-aggressive manner. He refused to participate in ongoing Jewish-Black dialog groups or even listen to those who were scared and threatened by his behavior. To this day it doesn’t look like Keith is spending much time mending rifts with the Minneapolis Jewish community.
Keith was smart enough not to write something like “I hate Jews” because he knew he wanted a political career. That’s why he wrote under a pseudonum, even way back when.
Keith’s hatred is scary to Jews. Most Minnesotan’s can’t or don’t — or won’t — empathize with that fear. We made our feelings unambiguously clear to Keith many years ago. Instead of working to understand Keith reveled in and used this power.
September 20th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Rowley is a joke..plain and simple….after 11-7 she will disappear.
September 20th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Good thing that she is not investigating for the FBI any longer if this is what she comes up with.
Minnesota has the LARGEST Somali population in the country, Keith is Muslim, Keith is mysteriously changing the DFL into his own personal tool, Keith is a man who defends cop killers (that should be of prime offense to Ms. Rowley), he is hardly a law abiding citizen with the tickets and the taxes and the campaign violations, he cheats on his wife, he lies about his ties to NOI, he takes contributions from terror-related org’s…need I go on?
With the threat of imminent danger upon us if he is elected, how can she justify such comments?
Does anyone know what she really did at the FBI?
Even a janitor there would know better than to chummy up with Keith….unless…
She is undercover and she is making nice with him to infiltrate???!!!
Now that would be more reasonable.
Of course, if she is not an undercover agent spying on him…then one must hope that the ‘whistleblower’ runs out of breath sooner than later on this one eh?
September 20th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Diane, I have yet to see proof of Ellison’s adultry. Could you point me to evidence of sexual relations outside his marriage?
September 20th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Wow, Andy, I’m surprised you can breathe in the pretzel you’ve twisted yourself into. Calypso Louie is a vehement anti-semite. His aides, who staffed Cynthia McKinney’s election night debacle, assaulted a camera guy and called him a Jew. Calypso Louie himself has called Jews devils among other things. How can someone pro-Jewish support the biggest anti-Semetic guy around?
September 20th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I could never figure out the “superhero” caricature on all of Rowley’s signs, but now I get it…
Coleen Rowley – Captain Anti-Semite: Saving the state of Palestine, one Nazi photo at a time
September 20th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Despite this supposed editor’s suggestions as to what he took from Keith’s writings, who can provide me a single example of Keith saying anything anti-semitic?
I just want one example. Not some yahoo talking about what he thinks Keith means. If he is so ravingly anti-jew, there would seemingly be hundreds of examples of his hate.
I want y’all to either show me one, or shut up.
Your choice.
September 20th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Chris, You are confusing Ellison with Farrakahn. I never said anything about Farrakhan’s remarks, just that the link MDE provides to refute Rowley does not contain any proof of Keith Ellison speaking or writing an anti-semitic remark. PLease read MDE’s full post, follow the link, and then read my comment again.
September 21st, 2006 at 6:27 am
Supposed editor? I am, or at least was, the real thing. Now I’m just a businessman in south Florida: a long, long way away from Minnesota. Part of the reason is Keith: I didn’t want to raise my son, Ezra, in the type of atmosphere that supported somebody like Keith Ellison/Hakim. People told me I was crazy. Looking back, I was right.
That leads to the question, who are you? What kind of “reporter” hides behind the mask of a pseudonym? I know that Keith did so many years ago: maybe you’re him?
You’ve had plenty of evidence r.e. Keith’s bigotry. I’ve unfortunately seen it first hand. If you aren’t Keith ask him about he: he’ll remember. Somewhere there are also videotapes of Keith and at least one of the speakers he brought to campus, or at least there were. There’s also Nils Hasselmo’s condemnation. And that’s enough. In fact, it’s more than enough.
Stop marching blindly off a cliff. Keith Ellison in Congress will be a setback for the Democrats, an embarrasment for Minnesota, he’ll scare Jews (especially older one’s). Keith is a divisive, morally repugnant bully — a charismatic bully — but still a bully.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:55 am
Michael Olenick
Get me photo of Keith in the bow ties.
They exist.
I need one.
Thanks
September 21st, 2006 at 10:05 am
You moved to Florida out of fear of what Keith Ellison might become?
Seriously. Are you married to Diane?
September 21st, 2006 at 10:18 am
You moved to South Florida because of one person you went to college with? Somehow I doubt that. Otherwise, you’ve got strange judgement.
September 21st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
From the blog:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com
If Keith is Muslim…then state it and take us to your Mosquw and show us how you pray.
What is the secret Keith?
Do you not want to put on display what Muslim really means?
I am disturbed by this telling entry in this blog listed above.
Granted, not all Muslims are violent, but, they allign themselves with VIOLENCE.
And as in any religion there are basics that you must AGREE with if you identify with that relifion, especially a religion of choice as is Muslim.
Keith if this is what you stand for…
I am appalled!
From: ThinksYouAreAnIdiot at September, 14 @ 09:48 GMT
quote: Originally posted by Vitchilo
And did he mentionned that Christians also did this? Killing millions of people because they were infidels? Pope, STFU.
Maybe, but only muslims are still doing it.
Along with slavetrading, vaginal circumcisions, executing gays for homosexuality, genocidal racial purges, and stoning women for being raped.
September 21st, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Somebody somewhere has to have video or still photos of the hate-filled speaking events that Ellison organized at the U.
Michael – please rack your brain and think of who you might know who would have that.
The public needs to see who Keith Ellison really is.
September 21st, 2006 at 9:31 pm
The only person I knew that had the video was Keith. He showed an edited version to Nils Hasselmo who concluded — even after viewing the edited version — that Keith’s event was hateful and racist and issued a public condemnation of it.
I moved to California because:
1. I’m in the high-tech industry and Minnesota’s business climate wasn’t attuned to software, and
2. It’s cold in MN — really, really cold — and I don’t like winter, and
3. I didn’t think MN was a good place to raise a Jewish kid. The hostility people showed me defending Keith way back when made me think that something was wrong.
After many years I moved more recently from CA to FL to be closer to my family for personal reasons.
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:26 am
“Michael Olenick”: // He refused to participate in ongoing Jewish-Black dialog groups or even listen to those who were scared and threatened by his behavior. To this day it doesn’t look like Keith is spending much time mending rifts with the Minneapolis Jewish community. //
Well, I’ve read several of your posts by now, Michael. You seem like a calm enough person to actually talk to.
First, of course, we need to address your bona fides. Are you really who you claim you are? There are a lot of pseudonyms around here, and one can never be sure. Perhaps you could give us the name of your former editor now working at the Washington Post. Or perhaps your name is still known down at the Daily? I’ve been thinking about ringing them up at the Daily to check on your story.
Assuming you are who you say you are, I’d like to get your opinion on something written in the MN Daily today.
// Ellison’s views in his Minnesota Daily pieces fueled the accusations.
“The single most distinguishing characteristic of the Nation of Islam, from a black perspective, is the Nation’s message of economic self-determination,” Ellison wrote in a 1989 Daily column as Keith E. Hakim.
That piece ran with an editor’s note, which said in part, “I see Hakim’s piece as a genuine threat to the long-term safety and well-being of the Jewish people.” //
MN Daily, Friday, September 22, 2006, pp 3.
As soon as I read it, I wondered, “Is this Michael Olenick speaking?” And I also wondered how a black man, passionate about helping fellow blacks to be self-sufficient, could stir up feelings of fear in an editor. Surely such an editor must hold strong views himself about the NOI, even back then.
So, MO, was this you whose “editor’s comment” ran with Keith’s piece? And what were your views of the NOI during college?
Just because you go to the game, wear the jersey, and cheer doesn’t make you a member of the team. You’ve said multiple times that Keith was a member of a hate group. Yet Keith says he wasn’t. What makes you believe he was indeed a member of the NOI?
Things are getting chilly up here already. Enjoy the Florida sunshine!