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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: Rep. Dornan should be allowed to emigrate
Message-ID: <143@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 00:05:28 EST
Article-I.D.: rtech.143
Posted: Thu Mar  6 00:05:28 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 21:26:16 EST
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Organization: Relational Technology Inc, Alameda CA
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Keywords: fascism, anti-semitism

> 
> In article <15717@rochester.UUCP> Nigel Goddard writes:
> (referring to a comment by US Rep. Dornan complaining about Vladimir
> Posner, a spokeswidget for the USSR who was given airtime by US
> TV companies to comment on Reagan's speech):
>>Dornan:   called Posner a "disloyal, betraying little Jew"
>>	=> Dornan would like to be (is?) a functionary for the Third Reich.
> 
> Actually, when I heard this, I assumed that
> 	(1)  Posner is Jewish;
> 	(2)  Dornan is saying that anyone who is Jewish who can support the
> 		 USSR, (certainly a strongly anti-semitic country) is a
> 		 traitor to his own people.
> Then again, maybe Dornan is just crazy:  he is from Jerry Brown country,
> after all.
> 
> Certainly, Dornan's phrase is one which no politician ought to use if
> he/she doesn't expect to get misunderstood (assuming that Nigel is
> misunderstanding it at all).

I heard Dornan on a radio talk show the other night, and this analysis agrees
with what he says.  Dornan says that he has always been a strong supporter
of Israel strong critic of the Soviet Union's policies toward Jews.  He
apologized for his wording.  Some might question his sincerity, but he
convinced me that he didn't mean it the way it sounded.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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