Democrat House Majority Leader Thinks Jim Moran Should Retract Jewish Conspiracy Comments
I posted on Moran’s comments the other day. He talked about Jews controlling the media and being behind the war in Iraq. Apparently, conservatives like me weren’t the only people who took umbrage to the comments.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Rep. Jim Moran, D-Virginia, is under fire from members of his own party for recent comments claiming a major Jewish public action committee was behind the push to invade Iraq in 2003.
In the September issue of the Jewish magazine Tikkun, Moran is sharply critical of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), saying “AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning. I don’t think they represent the mainstream of American Jewish thinking at all, but because they are so well organized… they have been able to exert power.”
AIPAC tells CNN it has taken no position on the Iraq war.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, was quick to dispute Moran’s charge.
“I think he certainly ought to retract the remarks, and indicate he believes that he was inaccurate on the facts,” Hoyer said Tuesday.
Nice to see someone on the left has the backbone to stand up to this kind of nonsense. Now if we could get Hoyer or some other member of the Democrat leadership to condemn Dennis Kucinich for denouncing the war in Iraq from within the borders of a rogue terror state and telling the world that he thinks 9/11 was a Bush administration conspiracy we’d really be getting somewhere.
