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What's the Truth About the Iranian Protest Scandal?
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The truth may be dirtier than we know.
According to this report, Democrats threatened to attack the tax-exempt status of Jewish Groups which organized an anti-Iran rally outside the United Nations if Ms. Palin was allowed to remain on the invite list.
"It's an absolute shame that this has happened," [Assemblyman Dov] Hikind [D-Brooklyn] said. "To threaten organizations … to threaten the Conference of Presidents that if you don't withdraw the invitation to Gov. Palin we're going to look into your tax exempt status … that's McCarthyism."
Let's go back to the beginning. In preparation for a UN visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (CPMJO), in association with other groups, planned to protest in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.
They had separately invited Governor Sarah Palin (R) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D) to the event. Ms. Clinton, upon finding out that both were billed to speak, declined her invitation on the grounds that having both speak would make the event a partisan one.
That's silly, of course - having only one party represented would make it partisan. Having both makes it bipartisan.
Once Ms. Clinton declined the invitation, the ball passed to Barack Obama, Junior Senator from Illinois' running mate, Joe Biden, since both he and Ms. Palin are running for the V.P. slot.
Biden declined, citing a previous commitment to an American Legion event.
After that, Malcolm Hoenlin, the CEO of the CPMJO disinvited Ms. Palin, which is tacky beyond belief. (What would his mother say?) He cited a desire to keep the news about the event, instead of about the partisans.
None of which makes any sense.
Ms. Palin didn't make the event partisan. She did not object to being on stage with Democrats. Further, the decision on the part of the CPMJO makes the entire Jewish community that they represent look silly and petty in the face of Iranians who back President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. If the leaders in the Jewish community can't even sort out how to deal with a couple of politicians, Iranian theocrats will note, "of what importance should the world pay to their rally?"
The Obama camp denies any wrongdoing, saying that they were going to send Robert Wexler (FL) to speak.
For those of you who don't know, Wexler called Ms. Palin a "Nazi sympathizer" because, as mayor of Wasilla, she wore a Pat Buchanan button when Mr. Buchanan came to Wasilla in the lead-up to the 2000 elections. At the time, Ms. Palin was on record as being a Steve Forbes supporter.
Let's examine this.
- Democrats pull out of a bipartisan event on the grounds that staying in would be partisan. Up is down. We're used to that.
- They then, in the face of a media crisis, fail to send anyone to the event.
- The organizers of the event disinvite the Republican speaker, making themselves look foolish and weak.
- The Barack Obama campaign then says it would have been happy to send to a Jewish event a man who traffics in Nazi slanders. Brilliant. Totally bipartisan.
The question now is, were the lawyers who threatened CPMJO connected in any way to Barack Obama or the Chicago political machine?
h/t Hot Air.
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