Friedman: That’s ‘how Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated’
It happened with a nod and a wink. It happened by the ongoing drumbeat trying to deligitimatize a leader who wanted peace with Palestine.
Click here for reuse options!His right-wing opponents just kept delegitimizing him as a “traitor” and “a Nazi” for wanting to make peace with the Palestinians and give back part of the Land of Israel. Of course, all is fair in politics, right? And they had God on their side, right? They weren’t actually telling anyone to assassinate Rabin. That would be horrible.
But there are always people down the line who don’t hear the caveats. They just hear the big message: The man is illegitimate, the man is a threat to the nation, the man is the equivalent of a Nazi war criminal. Well, you know what we do with people like that, don’t you? We kill them.
And that’s what the Jewish extremist Yigal Amir did to Rabin. Why not? He thought he had permission from a whole segment of Israel’s political class…
Of course Trump’s handlers, recognizing just how incendiary were his words, immediately denied that he was suggesting that gun owners do anything harmful toward Clinton. Oh my God, never. Trump, they insisted, was just referring to the “power of unification.” You know those Second Amendment people, they just love to get on buses and vote together.
But that is not what he said. What he said was ambiguous — slightly menacing, but with just enough plausible deniability that, of course, he was not suggesting an assassination. Again, it’s just like the Rabin story.
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39 responses to Friedman: That’s ‘how Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated’
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TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 10:17
Kind of like “baby parts” and “Tiller the baby killer” and “rapists and murderers”.
Just harmless phrases never intended to harm anyone.
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 10:20
Look no further than what Palin did to Gabby Giffords.
Remember her “target list”?
Read four down on the left of this list.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 10:27
Thanks Toothpick, I knew I was missing some examples.
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 10:33
You’re welcome TirdOldGuy.
Did everything go OK at the “transfusion” yesterday?
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 11:44
Just 1 unit … YAY!
But white cell count down to 0.8 making me an infection waiting to happen. Surgical mask becoming my new best friend.
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 12:02
You will look Chinese!
It probably wouldn’t hurt to get some of the surgical gloves to wear when you go anywhere outside of your personal environment.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 12:13
Probably not a bad idea living in a building full of old people. I have to get on them quite often about walking around in their hospital gowns, so they would probably think I was a doctor and they were back in the hospital.
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 12:43
Disqus is not keeping my notifications up this morning.
They wear hospital gowns in a residential building?
You will have to be especially careful around your grandchildren, especially if they are in school or any kind of daycare facility.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 12:53
We have rules against it but it is a common infraction. And when you call them out on it they get all snippy. Starting to schedule our local health care providers who give free flu shots. Then I have to get these stubborn old fools to take them.
Can’t be around grand kids for 2 weeks after they get live virus immunizations without the mask.
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 14:35
They should understand better than anyone that the elderly suffer more when they get the flu. So many end up with pneumonia. You’d think that they would be clamoring for the flu vaccine. I wonder how many of them have been immunized against pneumonia?
Now I’m going to be worrying about you even more.
I know you want to spend a lot of time with your grandchildren. It is going to be difficult when cold/flu season gets under way.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 15:05
I just got off the phone with a couple of our local health care providers. Got them coming here in 2 weeks with flu, tetanus, shingles, and pneumonia serum. We have 2 “floor captains” on each floor that I will have visit every resident to gently urge them to get the shots. Maybe if I put out snacks and drinks I can get a better crowd for the meds … “you can have a donut if you get a shot”. That might work, free food is always a winner here.
Also have Legal Aid of the Bluegrass coming next month. They provide free wills, living wills, and power of attorney. I’ll have to send out my little army once again when that gets close. The first year they came we only had 15 residents (including my wife and me) use their service. The next year it was 20. Last year was 32.
It’s FREE people!!!
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 15:19
You’re a wise man TOG. And funny. It’s like bribing children with candy! :)
Just make sure the ones who show up for the freebies don’t take them and leave. I can see that happening.
Free legal services too? Wow. How can these folks not have wills and power of attorney papers done already at their age? We’ve had ours since our son was born. Updated ours when he turned 18 so he didn’t need my brother to be his guardian, if something happened to both of us at the same time, anymore and he became our alternates on the power of attorney.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 16:46
My wife and I had ours since our 1st daughter was born. Updated after each of the other 2. Updated 4 yrs ago along with living will and POA.
Had a guy a couple of years ago who refused to get a will. Said that his brothers and sisters (6 in all) knew would know who got what. Less than 12 hours after he died one of his brothers came in the middle of the night and moved out everything including his Jeep. He had a key and was on Paul’s “authorization to enter” that we require of all tenants, so he was completely within his right.
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 12:55
My internet, phones and tv’s have been going on and off all morning.
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 14:36
I had a similar problem this morning trying to get and stay online.
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 14:51
Comcast?
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 14:55
No. Charter who recently acquired Time Warner. Internet service was much better when it was just TW. I’ve been hacked because the server was not secure. Lost a laptop and had to get a secure connection through a company that Norton sent us to.
Needless to say, we are VERY unhappy. And you thought Comcast was bad, right? :)
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 15:54
Right Comcast is bad but gradually getting better.
I guess they all suck..
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 22:48
It seems that way.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 13:02
I can access from my apartment like now when I’m at lunch, but can’t get much of anything in my office (where I’m headed now).
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 12:53
Good to see you are still with us.
I mean, who else could I get the chance to talk to somebody that knows so much about Crosley Field? Baseball cards, and radio’s? hahahaha
I’m curious though TiredOldGuy. What did your dad do at Crosley? If I may ask.
I ask because I worked at Wrigley Field for twenty years also.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 13:00
He worked security. He had to be there before the teams showed up for warm ups so I had the run of the park.
Worked with a guy at Delta who was a native of Chicago. Many times on off days we would fly to Chicago, catch a Cub’s game, and fly home that evening. Loved Crosley and Wrigley.
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 13:08
How cool is that?
I am a retired Union electrician and one of the contractors I was with did the electrical maintenance at Wrigley.
A dozen of us would go there in December, and work until opening day.
Fixing broken light fixtures, remodeling all over the place, I was even on the “field lighting job in 1987.
The bad news was once the season started we got booted out. They did not want construction work going on when the fans where there.
But they always gave us free opening day tickets, and they were usually behind one of the dugouts. They were great seats because they were reserved, “mostly for the players wives.
Those old ball parks where just too cool.
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 14:39
My Dad was a union electrician. :)
anothertoothpick August 10th, 2016 at 15:55
Sweet!
IBEW.
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 22:48
Yes! :)
The Original Just Me August 10th, 2016 at 13:46
Can you use Early Voting ? Just concerned about you and want you to Vote for Our Gal. :+)
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 14:46
KY doesn’t offer early voting. I can get an Absentee Ballot based on illness or disability, but if I die before the election would that be voter fraud? I always heard that Chicago was the only place that allowed the dead to vote.
I should be around another 6 or 7 months – don’t want to miss the Liberal Land party on Nov 8!
Red Eye Robot August 10th, 2016 at 10:59
Unfortunately for your example, Giffords shooter knew mothing about the alleged list, he wasnt political. Its peculiar how you guys will cite the giffords shooting and dismiss Black lives matter making statements like “Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon” and “What do we want? DEAD COPS,when do we want it? NOW!”
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 11:34
Your eyes are red because you struggle so hard looking to find BS stories that you actually repeat out loud because you have no shame whatsoever.
Do yourself a favor and crawl back under the rock you live under.
TiredOldGuy August 10th, 2016 at 11:45
Hanging out the flypaper are we?
mistlesuede August 10th, 2016 at 12:00
Hi TOG!
Guilty as charged. Usually they reply to me first. My bad.
The Original Just Me August 10th, 2016 at 13:44
Okay, So what do you have against Rocks that you would want him living under one LOL :+)
The Original Just Me August 10th, 2016 at 13:42
Man, you are really reaching today aren’t you ? Oh Well, While in the Land of OZ.
Hirightnow August 10th, 2016 at 17:19
Hmmm…who is it that keeps putting out the messages of “government=bad” and how you shouldn’t trust the “media”? What party would that be again?
crc3 August 10th, 2016 at 23:20
Are you as stupid as you sound? I think so…
Red Eye Robot August 17th, 2016 at 15:53
Perhaps, But if you cut out half my brain and drugged me I still wouldn’t be as stupid as you. All of the shooters acquaintances said he wasn’t political.
Gina Bousquet August 17th, 2016 at 16:02
False! Read Hirightnow exact answer to your stupid comment to see if truth bites you in the a$$ finally.
The Original Just Me August 10th, 2016 at 13:41
Well, this is how Gabby Giffords got shot isn’t it ?