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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

THREE MARTINI LUNCH: FEBRUARY 10, 2015

National Review's Jim Geraghty and Radio America's Greg Corombos discuss current events. Today's topics: Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner takes on the unions, Obama calls a terror attack in Paris "random," and Melissa Harris-Perry has an odd request for Eric Holder.



An Administration With a Blind Spot About Anti-Semitism
President Obama's recent interview with Vox included an astonishing characterization of one of the most notorious recent terror attacks. As he did in his initial reaction to the assault on a kosher deli in Paris, the president did not call it an act of anti-Semitism or say that those slaughtered were singled out for murder because they were Jews. Even worse, he told Vox that those responsible for the attack on the Hyper Cacher had decided to "randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a Paris deli."
The day after such a glaring misstatement of fact, one might expect the White House to walk back this remark in some way. But, instead, both White House spokesman Josh Earnest and State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki doubled down on the president's tortured logic in a stunning display of Orwellian doubletalk. Instead of just a president with a blind spot about anti-Semitism that comes out when he is interviewed, it is now clear that the United States has an administration with a blind spot about anti-Semitism.
To have made such a statement once might be just a gaffe. To do it twice revealed that the president has a blind spot about anti-Semitism that somehow prevents him from either admitting that the incident was anti-Semitic or condemning it as an incident in which Jews were targeted. But today we learned that this is not just a rhetorical tic. It is now official U.S. policy to claim that when Islamist murderers go into a kosher deli looking for Jews to kill, they are not targeting Jews or acting out of religious bias...
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