An Israeli Pundit Scorecard

michael pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Wed Apr 3 14:03:31 PST 2002


Nathan and I love to lurk among the freepers. I actually met some real live ones when David Horowitz "spoke" at UCB last yr. They were a 10 feet or so from the couple dozen Sparts.What fun!

On S.F. local media, btw, one of our older DSA members with decades in the CPUSA behind her, is under the delusion the S.F. Chronicle is a conservative paper.Think I'll copy their last editorial on Wolfowitz or U.S. miitary aid to Columbia for her.

Here is a URL link http://www.thefileroom.org/weblog/dannylog.cfm for Danny Schecter's list 'o pro-Israeli punditizing.

Something else>...""MARGARET WARNER: Do you think this could spin out of control?

"ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: Well, it could spin out of control. In the meantime the United States and Israel are increasingly isolated internationally. This could hurt our ability to conduct the war on terrorism and last but not least--and this worries me a great deal --I think the Palestinians are being turned, largely by Mr. Sharon, into something like the Algerians: People absolutely determined to wage urban guerilla warfare brutally, ruthlessly, at any cost at enormous self-sacrifice.

"And the Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.

"But the reactions are all out of proportion, and all of that I think is a very sad spectacle and ultimately a spectacle of failure of American strategy."

Michael Pugliese

COLUMNISTS AND COMMENTATORS WHO CAN BE COUNTED UPON TO SUPPORT ISRAEL REFLEXIVELY AND WITHOUT QUALIFICATION:

George Will, The Washington Post, Newsweek and ABC News

William Safire, The New York Times

A.M. Rosenthal, The New York Daily News, formerly Executive Editor of and later columnist for, The New York Times,

Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, PBS, Time, and The Weekly Standard, formerly of the New Republic.

Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and MSNBC.com, formerly of The New Republic and The New Yorker.

Lally Weymouth, The Washington Post and Newsweek

Martin Peretz, The New Republic,

Daniel Pipes, The New York Post

Andrea Peyser, The New York Post

Dick Morris, The New York Post

Lawrence Kaplan, The New Republic

William Bennett, CNN

William Kristol, The Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, Fox News, formerly of ABC News

Robert Kagan, The Washington Post and The Weekly Standard,

Mortimer Zuckerman, US News and World Report (Zuckerman is also Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ).

David Gelertner, The Weekly Standard

John Podhoretz, The New York Post and The Weekly Standard

Mona Charen, The Washington Times

Morton Kondracke, Roll Call, Fox News formerly of The McLaughlin Group, The New Republic and PBS

Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard, Fox News, formerly of The New Republic, The McLaughlin Group, and The Baltimore Sun

Yossi Klein Halevi The New Republic,

Sidney Zion, The New York Post, formerly of The New York Daily News

Norman Podhoretz, Commentary,

Jonah Goldberg, National Review and CNN

Laura Ingraham, CNN, formerly of MSNBC and CBS News

Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe

Rich Lowry, National Review

Andrew Sullivan, The New Republic

Seth Lipsky, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Sun, formerly of the Jewish Forward

Irving Kristol, The Public Interest, The National Interest and The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page

Chris Matthews, MSNBC

Allan Keyes, MSNBC, WorldNetDaily.com

Brit Hume, Fox News

John Leo, US News and World Report

Robert Bartley, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page

John Fund, The Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal, formerly of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page

Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page,

Ben Wattenberg, The Washington Times, PBS

Tony Snow, Washington Times and Fox News

Lawrence Kudlow, National Review and CNBC

Alan Dershowitz, Boston Herald, Washington Times

David Horowitz, Frontpage.com

Jacob Heilbrun, The Los Angeles Times

Thomas Sowell, Washington Times

Frank Gaffney Jr, Washington Times

Emmett Tyrell, American Spectator and New York Sun

Cal Thomas, Washington Times

Oliver North, Washington Times and Fox News, formerly of MSNBC

Michael Ledeen, Jewish World Review

William F. Buckley, National Review

Bill O‚Reilly, Fox News

Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,

L. Brent Bozell, Washington Times

Todd Lindberg, Washington Times

Michael Barone, US News and World Report and The McLaughlin Group

Ann Coulter, Human Events,

Linda Chavez, Creators Syndicate

Cathy Young, Reason Magazine

Uri Dan, New York Post

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, morality maven

Rush Limbaugh, radio host

PUBLICATIONS THAT, FOR REASONS OF OWNER OR EDITORSHIP CAN BE COUNTED UPON TO SUPPORT ISRAEL REFLEXIVELY AND WITHOUT QUALIFICATION:

The New Republic (Martin Peretz, Michael Steinhardt, Roger Hertog, Owners)

Commentary (American Jewish Committee, Owner)

US News and World Report (Mortimer Zuckerman, Owner)

The New York Daily News (Mortimer Zuckerman, Owner)

The New York Post (Rupert Murdoch, Owner)

The Weekly Standard (Rupert Murdoch, Owner)

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page (Peter Kann, Editor)

The Atlantic Monthly (Michael Kelly, Editor)

COLUMNISTS LIKELY TO CRITICIZE BOTH ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS, BUT VIEW THEMSELVES TO BE CRITICALLY SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL, AND ULTIMATELY, WOULD SUPPORT ISRAELI SECURITY OVER PALESTINIAN RIGHTS:

Thomas Friedman, The New York Times,

Richard Cohen, The Washington Post and New York Daily News

Avishai Margolit, The New York Review of Books

David Remnick, The New Yorker

Eric Alterman, The Nation and MSNBC.com

The New York Times Editorial Board

The Washington Post Editorial Board

COLUMNISTS LIKELY TO BE REFLEXIVELY ANTI-ISRAEL AND/OR PRO- PALESTINIAN REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCE:

Robert Novak, The Washington Post

Pat Buchanan, WorldNetDaily.com, formerly of The Washington Times, The Washington Times and CNN.

Alexander Cockburn, The Nation and New York Press

Christopher Hitchens, The Nation and Vanity Fair

Edward Said, The Nation



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