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Conservative Jews-a conundrum for the Left
October 31, 2009 | Tagged Gottlieb, Horowitz, Levin, Morris, Prager, Savage, Zelman | Leave a Comment
Dennis Prager has posted an outstanding article on the Front Page Magazine Website concerning the fanatical devotion of the Left to the secular humanistic dogma of what can only be called their “religion” of state control of virtually everything. Although not mentioned in Prager’s post, we have seen this kind of quasi-religious zeal expressed again and again in the debate on gun control.
Dennis Prager is one of my favorite Conservative thinkers. He is a talk radio host. (Oh! My goodness!) This vocation makes him a target of the Progressive Left that is driving this country into what I believe to be a web of Marxist Socialism. Dennis Prager is also a Rabbi, which gives the lie to the Leftist canard that all Conservatives and Second Amendment supporters are anti-Semites. In fact, a considerable number of important Conservative thinkers are Jews. David Horowitz, Alan Gottlieb, Dick Morris, Mark Levin, Aaron Zelman, and Michael Savage come to mind.
For the record, I am not Jewish. I was raised a Methodist, but stopped attending the church over its support of the World Council of Churches and the Religious Left’s fascination with gun control.
David Horowitz was a Red Diaper Baby, a founder of the 1960’s New Left, and a pioneer of the anti-Vietnam War Movement. He initially split with the American Communists over their failure to break ties with a Black Panther group in California. The Panthers murdered a friend that Horowitz had placed with the group as a bookkeeper. Horowitz knows the machinations of the Left as well as anyone. While he does not typically deal with Second Amendment issues, his books, Left Illusions and The Shadow Party should be required reading in every high school in America. (They won’t be read as long as young people are required to sing songs in schools praising Barack Obama.)
Alan Gottlieb is a guiding light in the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Foundation. These groups put on a national gun rights conference every year that should be attended, if at all possible, by everyone interested in the fundamental, natural right to armed self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide enjoyed by American Citizens and recognized by the Second Amendment. Gottlieb has written numerous books, including Politically Correct Guns, and The Gunrights Fact Book.
Dick Morris was the brains of the Clinton White House, before philosophical differences and personality rifts deprived Bill and Hillary of his considerable talents. He knows more about the Clintons than anyone else who is alive and willing to talk. His latest book is entitled, Catastrophe.
Mark Levin is another radio talk show host. Ooh! Scary, if you are a Liberal. He has written several books, including Liberty and Tyranny, a Conservative Manifesto, and Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is destroying America.
Aaron Zelman founded Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. (JPFO) Their cartoon comic book series, Grandpa Jack, should be required reading in every grade school in this country. (This will not happen as long as the teachers’ unions control the classrooms.) The JPFO Website is rightly famous for its “Genocide List” which chronicles the relationship between gun control and genocide throughout world history.
Michael Savage is the stage name of another radio talk show host. Oooh! He has written a book entitled Liberalism is Mental Disorder, which pretty much sums up his take on the situation.
In terms of talk show style, Prager is a gentle listener who believably says that “He prefers clarity to agreement.” Levin and Savage do not suffer fools lightly.
Horowitz is a tireless campaigner for intellectual liberty on college campuses. His Websites, Frontpage Magazine, and DiscovertheNetworks.com, track the interlocking web of billionaire-funded organizations that fuel the Democrat Political Machine. Gottlieb works with the National Rifle Association in filing lawsuits against repressive anti-gun regulations. Zelman’s JPFO often criticizes the NRA for compromises regarding gun rights issues. Savage frequently proclaims a pox on both the GOP and the Democrat Party and has threatened to start a third party movement. Morris is a regular on Fox News. (Oh! No! Not Fox News!) He also has his own website and an online newsletter.
The above individuals are Conservative Jews. I believe their contributions to the cause of American freedom are invaluable. The Liberal stereotype of Conservatives as angry, skinhead, mean-spirited. knuckle-dragging, racist bigots clearly does not hold water. This divide between Liberal dogma and reality must be a troubling intellectual thorn in the side for honest thinkers on the Left. Actually, I’m a bit puzzled myself. Given the painful memory of the Nazi Holocaust’s campaign of death against unarmed Jews and the current administration’s apparent inability to deal with Iran’s nuclear threat to Israel, it is somewhat surprising to me that more American Jews do not embrace the Second Amendment, other conservative values, and the Republican Party. (JPFO has a section on the Website that deals with this issue.)
Def Mech