Check out the original headline for an AP profile on Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire donor to the Gingrich campaign:
Gingrich’s biggest benefactor is a casino mogul, a hardliner on Israel and very, very rich
It has since been changed to one that is a little less overtly anti-Jewish:
Gingrich donor is casino mogul, Israeli hardliner
It is unbelievable grist for the neo-Nazi, Israel-firster, and anti-Zionist mills. It’s ostensible premise is that influence-peddling is back since the Supreme Court threw out donor limits with Citizens United, but the angle is entirely “Ohmigod, scary Jewish billionaire is buying a candidate for his hard-line views on Israel!!”
He’s an ardent supporter of Israel. A megabillionaire casino mogul whose Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) is under federal investigation. And the self-proclaimed “richest Jew in the world.”
Sheldon Adelson is also, far and away, the biggest patron of Newt Gingrich’s surging Republican presidential bid. Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have pumped $10 million into a political action committee backing Gingrich that is run by the former House speaker’s onetime aides. Campaign finance experts say the two $5 million contributions are among the largest known political donations in U.S. history.
No other candidate in the race for president appears to be relying so heavily on the fortune of a single donor. It’s been made possible by last year’s Supreme Court rulings – known as Citizens United – that recast the political landscape by stripping away restrictions on contributions and how outside groups can spend their money.
Watch how the writer manages to take every instance and turn it around on how this one person is using his money and influence to make sure that Newt’s stance on Israel is in line with his own.
Sheldon Adelson is Citizens United come to life.
“The bottom line is that it creates that potential for one person to have far more influence than any one person should have,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of the campaign finance watchdog group Democracy 21.
When any candidate is beholden to a single donor for so much money, Wertheimer said, “it opens the door to corruption and influence peddling.” Wertheimer said the infusion of cash would raise questions about any decision Gingrich would make that touches on gambling, for example. And similar questions could be raised about Gingrich’s Mideast policies.
We are supposed to be calmed by this instance of journalistic objectivity, which assures us that both Newt and Adelson have “hardline” stances on Israel. But still, the insistence that Newt is now bought and paid for by the Zionist Occupational Government (and won’t THAT line get me all kinds of neo-Nazi search hits) is rampant throughout the article.
Friends say Adelson and Gingrich met when Gingrich was House speaker and Adelson was lobbying to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Gingrich backed the legislation and the two bonded over a shared hardline stance on Israel.
In Cocoa, Fla., Gingrich on Wednesday called Adelson “very deeply concerned about the survival of Israel” and the threat of a nuclear Iran. Asked if he had promised Adelson anything, Gingrich replied that he pledged “that I would seek to defend the United States and United States allies.
Yeah, sure. You lousy Israel-firster, you. We know you pledged yourself to Israel’s needs over America’s.
The article also takes a look at what Adelson’s money goes for. Okay, Yad Vashem, cool, but wait–what’s this? Birthright Israel? And a right-wing newspaper that supports Netanyahu? ISRAEL-FIRSTER! ZOG! JEWISH MONEY INFLUENCING THE WORLD!
Last year, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel, said it received its largest private donation ever – a $25 million gift – from Adelson. Since 2007, he has donated more than $100 million to Birthright Israel, a group that sends young adult Jews from the United States and other countries on 10-day trips to Israel.
Adelson is an outspoken supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and owns a widely read, right-wing Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom, which is distributed at no cost throughout Israel and is supportive of Netanyahu.
The hefty donations to Gingrich’s presidential bid aren’t the first checks he’s written to help the former Georgia congressman. He ponied up more than $7 million to help get Gingrich’s conservative political group American Solutions for Winning the Future off the ground.
Some of you may think that I’m exaggerating the subtext of this news article. Maybe just a little bit. But it hits all the chords that anti-Semites have hit over the centuries. It profiles a rich Jew who is using his money to influence the politics of his country to support Israel. He is using his money to get American Jews over to Israel via Birthright Israel, presumably to create a stronger bond between them and Israel. And the candidate is marching to the billionaire’s drum. Witness:
In December, Gingrich proclaimed the Palestinians “an invented people.” Israel’s Haaretz daily reported later that month that Adelson approved of the remarks. And Gingrich has said that one of the first executive orders he would sign if elected president would move the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
This is how modern anti-Semitism works. In the shadows of the mainstream press, with the wink-wink nudge-nudges of innuendo and reading between the lines. Sheldon Adelson has bought and paid for a candidate who is running for president, and it’s clear that the quid pro quo will be Israel. Watch for Andrew Sullivan and his progressive brothers-in-arms to wave this news article like a flag on how Israel is controlling America.
Looks like I won’t be giving up this blog anytime soon. The Jew-haters won’t let me.
And when the left expresses any reservations about George Soros’s lavish spending on his pet causes, I’ll believe this sort of thing arises from principle and not opportunism.
I keep hearing that we control the media. If so, we’re doing a damn poor job of it.
Additionally, sickening, the (extremely liberal) American Jewish media helps them out.
The “Moe Greene” comparisons have been echoed throughout the Blogosphere, without a trace of irony. And the latest anti-Republican spin is claiming that Romney is promising – if elected – to make Max Boot an integral part of America’s foreign policy apparatus. The MSM consistently ignores the fact that the vast majority of Jewish voters will be pulling the switch for Obama, so obsessed they are with the specter of “Jewish Cabals.” Tabloid media is what it is. They should go back to what they do best: delivering the latest “hot gossip” on Taylor Swift or whoever passes for famous this week ..
I think that tabloid journalism understates the pernicious character of this “reporting.” Yellow journalism might be more appropriate.
I wonder how many of those freaking out over an American citizen financing a political action committee, and in particular Fred Wertheimer, think that the half dozen millionaires who financed Eugene McCarthy’s campaign in 1968 against LBJ were doing something bad, when they enabled him to challenge the incumbent Democratic Party president in the primaries over the Vietnam War? McCarthy’s close showing in New Hampshire (LBJ still won that primary) persuaded the President to withdraw from the race and not seek reelection. Campaign finance laws today would prevent such contributions. (Maybe they do disapprove; Richard Nixon won the election that year, after all. That was primarily due to the crackpots rioting at the Dem convention in Chicago, though.)
Didn’t the Citizen’s United decision “unleash” businesses and unions to contribute, not individuals? Here we seem to have an couple, as individuals, giving money to a PAC they have set up because that is the only legal way they can influence the election. People contributing money to support candidates and causes they believe in; Quelle horreur!
Money is going to find a way to influence politics. Far better than the complicated and arcane campaign finance laws, which try to restrict free speech, and result in weird results (remember all those $25 contributions Obama got in 2008 from contributors like Mickey Mouse?), would be to let anybody who is a US citizen, buisiness, or union, or other cooperative association of US citizens (e.g. nonprofit organizations), donate whatever amount he, she, or it wanted, but have the campaign immediately disclose the transaction to the world (and who is behind innocuously named contributing groups), within say 24 hours, probably via the internet. Then the voters could decide if Gingrich being supported by a wealthy Jewish man was not to their liking. Some of them might actually sympathize with his position on issues. But people like Wertheimer and the legacy media disapprove of such freedom. It limits their control over the information the voters can get.