/2008/11/02/support-khalidi-buy-the-iron-cage/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2008/11/02/support-khalidi-buy-the-iron-cage/comment-page-1/#comment-518209 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:08:08 +0000 /?p=1374#comment-518209 Goldfarb’s response I thought was disturbing, but not quite a melt down. A lot of people think that Goldfarb was revealed as a boob in this video — but I think he follows the (McCain) script perfectly: which is simply to plant suspicion or a seed of doubt in the mind of the viewer. ‘We all know who we are talking about’ (smirk).
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]]> /2008/11/02/support-khalidi-buy-the-iron-cage/comment-page-1/#comment-518099 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:49:10 +0000 /?p=1374#comment-518099 Thanks for that, Kerim, it’s a brilliant little video excerpt. The inane smugness of Goldfarb, who can’t muster any sort of sensible response to the news reader’s admirably focused prodding, says a great deal about the traction of this particular charge against Obama, and even more about the integrity of the McCain campaign. But you’re right, that even if it doesn’t stick to Obama — and it might — the problem is that the bigger charge of Khalidi’s alleged anti-Semitism does seem to stick. This is the really ugly side of American politics: that the candidates work so hard to look middle of the road that everything else looks like extremism. I’m off to Amazon to buy a copy of the Iron Cage, and also a copy of Passionate Uprisings — I can’t resist after Jay mused about the methodology section of a book that describes a sex orgy.

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