Norman Podhoretz Blasts the ADL for Having the "Chutzpah" to Accuse Rush Limbaugh of "Borderline Anti-Semitism"....

The ADL is completely fucking lame.

Here's a little known fact: The Infidels Bloggers Alliance was started by an Jewish guy, named J, and I in response to how fucking lame the ADL was back in 2005, ignoring the Jihad and proclaiming that Fundamentalist Christians were the people Jews really had to worry about.

I had commented that I did more to fight anti-Semitism than the ADL (at my old blog CUANAS - Christians United Against the New Anti-Semitism) than the ADL did, and I did it for free, never asking for money. I commented that the aggregated work of bloggers, in general, absolutely trounced the ADL.

J responded, "We ought to start an aggregating blog and put them out of business, or something to that effect.

So, we started IBA. The idea behind the blog quickly grew to be, more generally, about the Jihad, rather than anti-Semitism. But, I would still maintain we are more accurate than the ADL on the subject of Anti-Semitism.

Fuck the ADL.

Story from Weasel Zippers:

Podhoretz is a national treasure (that statement alone is enough to throw many lefties into cardiac arrest)...

Accused of "borderline Anti-Semitism," Rush Limbaugh responded in his own voice on his show today, saying the context of his original remarks about Wall Street and Obama made clear that he was referring to the views of bigots, not to his own views.

He's also got a statementup in his defense from the neoconservative icon Norman Podhoretz, whose most recent book is called "Why Are Jews Liberals?"

Podhoretz writes that Limbaugh was merely echoing his own argument that Jews ought to be conservatives, and describing the views of anti-Semites. He continues:

For this, Rush Limbaugh has been subjected to a vile attack by Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Of course, Mr. Foxman has a long history of seeing an anti-Semite under every conservative bed while blinding himself to the blatant fact that anti-Semitism has largely been banished from the Right in the past forty years, and that it has found a hospitable new home on the Left, especially where Israel is concerned.

This makes Foxman a perfect embodiment of the phenomenon I analyze in "Why Are Jews Liberals?" Now Foxman has the chutzpah to denounce Rush Limbaugh as an anti-Semite and to demand an apology from him to boot. Well, if an apology is owed here, it is the national director of the Anti-Defamation League who should apologize for the defamatory accusation of anti-Semitism that he himself has hurled against so loyal a friend of Israel as Rush Limbaugh.