PJTV: Roger L. Simon Interviews Norman Podhoretz on "Why Are Jews Liberals?"

From the pages of the New York Times to countless dinner table debates, Norman Podhoretz has some controversial observations about political identity.
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[qworegoys]

By the way, as a Jewish woman, let me undo that 100% statistic--I am wholeheartedly AGAINST abortion.

[qworegoys]

Count me down as a proud Jewish conservative. There are more and more of us every day. Shame on the Jews who voted for Obama. What a kneejerk liberal reaction that was! How could anyone not know what a mess Obama would be--just look at his history! Too painful for many ol' Jewish libs to come to terms with, I guess.

[osopolar720]

Maybe they support those causes because they think about them, they have enough education to evaluate and follow some ideas; to say that they only want to be "good jews" is idiotic, to say the least. The democrats feared losing the vote of the jews? That's new to me. I thought that the Democrats didn't fear anything at that point; we were coming out of one of the worst decades in history, the decade of Bush. People who voted for Bush wanted to be "good americans" to the point of blindness.

[knightschwartz]

There were jews on the old right like Judah P. Benjamin and he stayed jewish or Benjamin Disraeli though he probably converted.

[knightschwartz]

It is to bad the neocons are terrible on immigration. They love amensty and mass immigration it seems all too often. I'm Jewish my self. Immigration is the issue. Get out of these exspensive useless wars and stop importing the third world.

[HayPennie]

@EffieReal Exactly. Hitler was neither Christian, nor Atheist. He was a Pagan; a combo of Norse & Roman mythology & State worship. Hitler's mother was Catholic, but that's part of why he hated Christianity; He felt it ruined his mother's life. Hitler, like most politicians, refer to God initially to garner favor with a largely devout public. Once in power he banned Judaism & Christianity. If you view Nazi parades on YouTube, they are wholly Pagan - almost ancient Greco-Roman in appearance.

[HayPennie]

@MTS0815 It's odd that you believe National Socialism is the polar opposite of Communism. Socialism of any kind is merely the precursor to Communism. The opposite of a massive state is no gov't, or anarchy. No gov't [or a theocracy run by theists] is far right. All centralized gov't is Leftist. A radical Islamic State would be an example of a far right regime, whilst Cuba, North Korea, are far Left. Nazis & Commies were similar regimes in competition for centralized control - not opposites.

[HayPennie]

Leftists AREN'T Liberal. Conservatives and Libertarians are closest to the school of Classical Liberalism. The Left has merely co-opted the term, but what they actually mean is liberal Government, i.e, government should be free to do as it wishes to us - it does not refer to freedom of individuals. The political context is not the dictionary definition like so many have been duped into believing. Conservative refers to conservative [limited] gov't, and therefore more liberty for the individual.

[procommenter]

The cops aren't after criminals--they're after you.

[MTS0815]

@acerusso actually the nazis have a lot more in common with UPS too, because they both wear brown uniforms ;-)

[MTS0815]

@smiledammit24 Even today there is a huge difference of what we germans or other europeans consider as right and left than americans do.

Here we usually consider national socialism on the far right as the opposite of comunism on the far left.

I think that is the reason why a lot of europeans have a problem with the american right.

[wilsodj]

Roger Simon is a simpleton.