You voted for it, why are you clapping him? To which she replied I’m clapping because he’s the leader. I’m supporting him. And how do we know they said this? Apparently through journalists using someone who could lip-read. Am I the only person to find this more than a little distasteful? It was described as ‘overhearing’ David Miliband. But it wasn’t overhearing him. It was a kind of deliberate eavesdropping. Politicians now know they can say nothing to a colleague in a public place, however private the remark, without the risk that a lip-reader may ambush them by publicising the remark. Is this not an oppressive state of affairs? Soros’s contributions to J-Street, says Lake, represent no less than one third of the group’s revenue from US-based sources over the year between 2008 and 2009. As Michael Goldfarb explains in the Weekly Standard, this revelation has totally smashed the credibility of J-Street, which had repeatedly given the strong impression that Soros -- who has taken a consistently hostile attitude towards Israel and criticised the US decision not to negotiate with Hamas -- was not one of their funders. Now on American Thinker, Ed Lasky has...Wednesday, 29th September 2010
Read my lips -- this isn't cricket
4:04pm
Several papers today reported that, when the newly elected Labour leader Ed Miliband condemned the Iraq war at the Labour Party conference, David Miliband turned to Harriet Harman and said:Tuesday, 28th September 2010
Only connect...
3:05pm
The great Eli Lake has now shown that the J-Street lobby group, which despite its claims to be pro-Israel in fact works against its every interest, has secretly received funding from the billionaire financier George Soros, who funds a slew of organisations which are in the business of undermining western civilisation.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
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