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!

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.

The public needs to see who Keith Ellison really is.

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.

Seriously. Are you married to Diane?

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.

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.

Coleen Rowley – Captain Anti-Semite: Saving the state of Palestine, one Nazi photo at a time

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?

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.

If you provide actual examples of Ellison speaking or writing antisemitic remarks, then you will have proven her wrong.

Bill O’Reilly showed a videotape of one she did in San Francisco. (God bless Fox News)

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.

Even funnier is the fact that “Roving Reporter” is the first commenter almost EVERY time Michael puts up a new post.

It seems there might be a bit of a pattern here.

Gotta love the new DFL.