ZGram - 9/25/2004 - "Just because we call ourselves "neocons," it doesn't mean you can."

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September 25, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

An absolutely amazing chutzpah article!  Save it for your grandkids!

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http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1316


Don't call me a "neocon" unless you are a friend.

BY JULIA GORIN

Last week Pat Buchanan appeared on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," 
and liberal host Jon Stewart bonded with his paleoconservative guest 
over their mutual opposition to the liberation of Iraq. Mr. Stewart 
smiled and nodded while Mr. Buchanan derided "neoconservatives" four 
times in the course of the six-minute interview. In his efforts to 
promote his and his guest's common agenda, Mr. Stewart didn't ask Mr. 
Buchanan what he meant by "neoconservatives." It was clear that the 
Jewish Mr. Stewart didn't realize that Mr. Buchanan was using what 
has become an epithet for "Jews"--an epithet employed most often by 
the left.

One big culprit has been Air America. Tune in to the proudly liberal 
radio network, and you'll hear actress-turned-activist Janeane 
Garofalo and other hosts frequently blast the "influence" of the 
"neocons" on the Bush Administration, then go on to name names such 
as Wolfowitz, Perle, Abrams and Libby. Not a single gentile name 
makes the list, so it's the Jewish influence to which the network 
takes particular exception.

Others have gotten in trouble for pointing this out, but let's give 
up the charade. When a member of the enlightened classes, or Pat 
Buchanan, makes reference to a "neocon," what he's saying is "yid." 
That's right, "neoconservative," particularly in its shortened form, 
when employed by a nonconservative (or by Buchananites) and therefore 
meant derogatorily, is the modern, albeit more specific, word for 
"kike" that the left can say--and it has been doing so liberally (no 
pun intended) ever since American conservatism became yet something 
else that Jews have managed to benefit from--the conquered, final 
frontier of that famous Jewish manipulation.

By "neocons," the left means the Jewish subset of neocons. [MB: 
Please read that again. What the?] Witness Maureen Dowd's column last 
year, titled "Neocon Coup at the Department d'Etat": "The neocons 
have moved on to a vigilante action to occupy diplomacy. The 
audacious ones have saddled up their pre-emptive steeds and headed 
off to force a regime change at Foggy Bottom. . . . The president is 
not always privy to the start of a grandiose neocon scheme. . . . 
When the neocons want something done, they'll get it done, no matter 
what Mr. Bush thinks. And they think Mr. Powell has downgraded the 
top cabinet post into a human resources job, making nicey-nice with 
the U.N. and assorted bad guys instead of pursuing the neocon 
blueprint for world domination."

At first, Ms. Dowd's neocon list of last names included only 
Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol, Libby and their "Likudnik friends," but 
later, as blogger "Silver Surfer" writes on IsraPundit.com, she 
amended the list to include Cheney, Woolsey and Gingrich. "In Ms. 
Dowd's view," he writes, "adding a few non-Jewish names to her 
'neo-cons' list makes her conspiratorial story-line kosher. But it 
doesn't. The result is a classical portrait of 'neo-con' (read: 
Jewish) advisors, who drip poison in the ears of their hapless 
gentile bosses, while they advance their global plot to subvert true 
American interests and take over the world--and, as Ms. Dowd is 
always quick to point out . . . thereby 'advance the strategic goals 
of Israel.' "

For a while, I couldn't tell whether the word was a euphemism or a 
slur, but from the resentful tone with which it was being employed by 
certain contingents ("pushy neocons" is another popular one), I could 
discern that the term's usage was undergoing a transition. After all, 
ethnic slurs can start out as euphemisms (meant to avoid identifying 
anyone blatantly by nationality) before evolving into derogations. 
"Colored" was a way to avoid the N-word, but today it doesn't go over 
very well itself. And a century ago Jews jokingly called one another 
by their Ellis Island designation "keikle" (Yiddish for 
"circle")--until the joke was co-opted by those hostile to Jews.

As a new staple of mainstream American vocabulary, "neoconservative" 
warrants a reminder of the term's beginnings, before it became chic 
newspeak. It originally referred to a movement of largely Jewish 
liberals who gave leftism an honest and protracted effort, who 
dutifully reviled every Republican president through Eisenhower, who 
did their time in inner cities, and who gave peace and social 
engineering a chance, until the real-world consequences of their good 
will forced them to acknowledge that what they were doing wasn't 
working but in fact backfiring. At which point, these men (e.g., 
Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol) underwent a midlife epiphany and 
became conservative after the 1960s.

Today the word applies to anyone who undergoes such a transformation, 
Jewish or not. True, neoconservatives are not the same breed of 
conservative that made up the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater. 
The difference is the neoconservatives' more interventionist foreign 
policy as opposed to vintage conservatism's isolationism.

With today's "post-9/11 omigod I think I may be Republican" 
Democrats, what we have in effect are neo-neoconservatives. Many of 
the Jews in this group might be more accurately described as Bush 
Democrats, but they've opted for the cachet of the label and call 
themselves neocons. But when Al Franken and other determinedly 
left-wing Jews use the term, they don't mean it nicely, embarrassed 
as they are by their politically wayward fellow tribesmen.
So let's go over the rules: Just because we call ourselves "neocons," 
it doesn't mean you can. Of course, if you're right-leaning and don't 
intend the word disparagingly, you get a pass. Just know that unless 
you're aware that "neoconservative" also includes last names like 
Bennett, Kirkpatrick, Sowell, Kemp and Ashcroft, when you refer to 
someone as a neocon, you're saying "Jew." We might suggest reverting 
to previous, less codey expressions such as "Jewish conservative" or 
"Republican Jew"--especially since not every right-leaning Jew is 
neo. But not to worry: We neocons, Republican Jews, Jewish 
conservatives and Jews for Bush won't take offense, since we don't 
want American Christians to feel even more paranoid than they already 
do (particularly during "holiday" season).

As for our imperviously left-leaning fellow tribesmen, let them 
figure out for themselves how to handle their non-Jewish 
co-ideologists who say "neocon" angrily and freely in mixed company.
Yes, poor Richard Perle and Dick Cheney (oops, Douglas Feith) 
drinking at their segregated water fountains, "doing their time in 
inner cities" - why, my tears run down like waters, and my 
self-righteousness like a mighty stream.



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