Jewish pro-Obama site tries to turn negative into positive
Politico reports on jewsvote.org, a new political action committee that is trying to use the same kinds of social networks which originally spread false rumors about Barack Obama to disseminate a positive message about the candidate in the Jewish community.
The Jewish Council for Educational Research was co-founded by Mik Moore, who took a leave from his job at Jewish Funds for Justice to work on the project through the Novemeber election. The site asks registrants for their contact list, then provides a variety of ways for members to reach those people with information about Obama.
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Bill Levinson
08/27/08 04:55 PM
Click on my link for my open letter to JewsVote.org. Jewsvote.org does itself a major disservice by citing the National Jewish Democratic Council as an information source, noting NJDC’s long history of providing inaccurate information and publishing anti-Christian hate material.
If a “Christian” political group published a video that showed politicians sewing a Star of David into the blue field of the American flag, I would hope that real Christians would step up to denounce the group as anti-Semitic. Responsible Jews have a similar obligation to step up and denounce as anti-Christian hate speech NJDC’s “Bubbie vs. the GOP” video that shows politicians sewing a Cross into the flag’s blue field.
Meanwhile, I make no secret of the fact that I am circulating plenty of negative information about Obama. Unlike the smears and urban legends, though, the material I am circulating can be verified independently by the reader (e.g. specific page numbers from “Dreams From My Father,” links to original sources such as the Trinity United Church of Christ, and so on.) My position is that, unless you can show me a verifiable reference like one you would cite in a trade or research journal, don’t show it to me at all.