Repudiating Barack Obama

Luke Ford writes:

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said that none of the candidates (about a dozen) he donated money to won.

“The New York Times says President Obama has not explained himself well enough. I agree. The New York Times should be listened to by the president. He should now speak to the country every day. It should be like a diary. He’s already out-spoken every president in history.

“The problem is not that he can’t sell what he does. The irony is that he didn’t even try to. If he would try to sell what he has done, he would’ve been even more defeated. He never spoke in defense of the healthcare bill or cap-and-trade. He spoke about how we don’t know where the money is coming from for all of these Republican ads. He didn’t try to explain his policies.”

“I’ve never had the clarity I’ve had about any politician as I think I have about this politician. I thank you, sir. You have created a conservative movement beyond my dreams. You have clarified left-right differences better than anyone in public life.”

“This president is a leftist. He has never surprised me. Asking him to change would be like asking Ronald Reagan to change.”

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Disempowering Progressives

Luke Ford writes:

Here’s the headline on JewishJournal.com right now: “GOP sweep makes one Jew a star, unseats and disempowers many others”

You can’t make this up. They want to portray the Republican victories as disempowering Jews. Yeah, we’re all walking around America today fearing a pogrom.

What kind of wanker uses the word ‘disempower’? Only a real tool. No manly man would use that kind of language.

I don’t know about you, but where I come from, when we meet people who use the word “disempower” or who describe themselves politically as “progressive”, we drag them behind trucks until they stop. Usually sorts them right out after a mile or two. Then we leave them for the bloody dingos.

Only a wanker would call himself a “progressive.” A manly man on the left would say he’s a leftist just like a manly man homo calls himself a homo or a poof or a fagella or a twink or light in his loafers or a sodomite or a Reconstructionist rabbi but he ain’t ever “gay” unless he’s particularly happy.

I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam.

I Want To Love A Woman Like Dallas

Luke Ford writes:

While girls have come and gone from my life over the past 33 years, I’ve loved only one football team — the Dallas Cowboys.

This year, the Cowboys have one victory in seven games. They are virtually eliminated from the playoffs.

I tell myself that I love football and I watch other games not involving Dallas but I just can’t get excited. I find that I just don’t care about anyone else but Dallas. If I can’t be with Dallas, well, I just want to study Torah.

I wonder if I’ll ever find a woman who I love as much and as constantly as I love the Dallas Cowboys. I feel pretty proud of myself when I love just one woman in a year, let alone for 33 years. And even when I am in love with one woman, I often find myself thinking about other women and how much fun it would be to play football with them. Yet when I am with Dallas, I never find myself thinking about playing with other teams.

I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam.

Obama Criticizes Israel to Muslims

Luke Ford writes:

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “President Obama did something so troubling yesterday that it needs to be addressed. The president was in the country in the world with the largest number of Muslims [and he criticized Israel for building housing in Jerusalem, Israel's capitol city].”

Jerusalem is not a settlement.

The Indonesian government (like almost every Muslim country) prevents Israeli citizens from visiting its country.

The president wants America and himself to be loved in the world, particularly by Muslim countries.

He’s using the worst possible way to try to ingratiate himself with a Muslim audience — to crap on Israel. It is the easiest and the cheapest and the worst. All you do is feed the worst part of the Muslim world today — its hatred of Israel. If the Muslim world accepted a tiny Jewish state within its midst, it would be an enormous step forward for the Muslim world.

There aren’t many wonderful countries in the world. Israel is one of them. For us to have a president with deep ambivalence about Israel…

I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam.

Staying Safe In The Skies

Luke Ford writes:

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “There’s only one thing I want the government to be intrusive about and that is our safety.”

Dennis doesn’t buy the hysteria about the new scanners in airports.

“We need heroes… We have torn down so many. Because of media knowledge, the ability of the smaller to tear down the bigger is great.”

“I don’t [want to be thought well of in the mainstream media]. If the New York Times wrote something positive about me, I would rethink my position.”

I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam.

Freedom in France

Luke Ford writes:

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Tone is very important. The thing that I am told the most by people who listen to this show is the tone. Just not yelling at people was a major advantage of this program.”

Dennis interviews Philippe Karsenty, vice mayor of the city of Neuilly, France and documentary film-maker.

Karsenty says: “France was a communist country that used to work. Now it is a communist country that doesn’t work any more.”

According to a poll, most French youth want to work for the government bureaucracy.

“When people in the USSR used to watch the news on TV, they knew it was lies. When people in France watch the news, they think it is real news. That’s insane. The devastating effect on the people is that you are brainwashing them.”

I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam.

Inner City Black Life

Luke Ford writes:

On his radio show Nov. 17, Dennis Prager said: “Bob Herbert is reliably liberal. Society causes a lot of problems for blacks. We need government intervention.”

“I’ve said [that black life in the inner city is a tragedy] because I care deeply for Americans of every color but most whites don’t talk about this because they are afraid of being called racist. If you are absolutely certain that you are not something, you don’t fear being called it. I am absolutely certain that I don’t have a racist bone in my body.”

“How can a majority of black men without a high school diploma spend time in prison but there is no relationship between a policeman’s work in inner cities and race? Only a liberal who wishes away reality [could believe that]. It is a sad fact, a catastrophic fact, that black males disproportionately commit violent crime.”

“The moment you learn that the government won’t help you, you learn to help yourself. He laments it. He is a liberal. He laments that government won’t rescue black life from this catastrophe. No one will do what you need to do for yourself.”

“Government has tried to help black life all of my life. And it has failed horribly. My anger is at the left-liberal idea that government can help people when they should help themselves.”

I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam.