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Jewish World Review Sept. 22, 2000 / 21 Elul, 5760
http://www.jewishworldreview.com --
HERE'S A GOOD WAY to measure the effect you're having: see how low your
opposition will go.
By those standards, JWR is doing well. Very well.
On Wednesday and Thursday, one of the attack web pages of the Jewish
Left
(their front cover being, without exaggeration, an advertisement for the
National
Jewish Democratic Council) went after one of their favorite targets:
JWR editor-in-chief Binyamin L. Jolkovsky. Twice in two days -- we're
impressed.
First they claimed that Jolkovsky fed the story about Lieberman eating
on
Tisha B'Av to Matt Drudge. Any evidence of that? Of course not -- the
Brooklyn-based Jolkovsky was hardly following Lieberman through the
South on Judaism's national day of mourning in order to catch that one.
Drudge has no shortage of sources, and you can't blame
Jews of faith for noticing when the highest-profile Jew in the country
plays up his adherence to tradition -- and then publicly flouts its
precepts. But how better to discredit JWR than claim it's on an
anti-Lieberman witchhunt?
On Thursday, though, they outdid themselves. They provided a "full"
transcript of the interview between Don Imus and Joe Lieberman to
"prove"
that Lieberman never said there was no ban on intermarriage, as was
first
reported here.
Jolkovsky's story has been gaining momentum ever since -- it has now
been cited by media the world over; sometimes JWR is credited, and other
times not, but you saw it here first.
How did these desperate souls try to besmirch
this publication? Easy: they provided a false transcript, which JWR has confirmed was supplied by the NJDC, that is now
making its way around the 'Net. We're not talking about a "we love our
candidate" spin on the
truth, either, like putting "(laughter)" after his joke fell flat -- though
they did that, too. In this transcript, though, they rewrote the crucial
question in order to protect him.
Their version simply omits the
words "marriage, or" from the question Imus asked: "Is there a ban on
interracial or inter-religious marriage, or dating, or that sort of
thing?"
At which point Lieberman said "No, there's no ban whatsoever." The rest
of
the transcript is more or less accurate. It's amazing what you can do by
omitting two
words -- and amazing how low the left will go to save you from the
facts.
Don't believe us? Hear for yourself.
JWR
stands by our story. The question and answer are straightforward, and the
omission of these crucial words from the transcript can hardly be written
off as an innocent error. Interestingly enough the site credits MSNBC and
the JNDC for providing the text -- and as biased as the liberal media might
be, we think MSNBC cares about its reputation enough to avoid such obvious
distortion.
If that were only true of those Jewish crusaders for their confused version
of
Attack of the killer seals: Lieberman's defenders get desperate
By Michael Berman
Michael J. Berman is a contributing editor of JewishWorldReview.com
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