Washington Post Wrong on Nixon, Malek, and Jews

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Nixon was such a fanatic Red-Baiter that his trip to Red China amazed most people. In fact, wheh he was out of office he was a lawyer for PepsiCorp. He went to China to sell Pepsi. One of the first concessions made by the PRC was to bring Pepsi in there. Other corporations won valuable trade agreements. Many people hated Communism because of Marx as a Jew, but his father converted to Christianity to be able to have a job. Many victims of the Hollywood Blacklist were socialistic Jews & some were Communist Jews. The Blacklist extended to all parts of the media & government. We lost many State Department experts. Their absence made it easier for the USA to become involved in wars against anti-capitalist nations. it's tragic that Israel is acting imperialistically by occupying land not included in the original arrangement. It encourages Jews to come there & is increasing the Jewish population. If it succeeds, it will have an excuse to "demand lebensraum" for its growing population, a fascist strategy. Israel should never have been created. Germany should have been cut up, with scattered parts going to Jews, never in colony size allotments.

aura dawn veirs of CA 5:06AM June 05, 2010

Malek's involvement with Nixon 'judenfrei' purge 40 years ago- ancient history
Ted Kennedy'a mishap at Chappaquidic in 1969 - current event until the day he died!
More GOP hypocrisy!

Dennis Middlebrooks of NY 2:26PM June 04, 2010

You're missing the point.
In a Washington Post story 22 years ago, Malek admitted to and apologized for compiling, at Nixon's request, a list of Jews who worked in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But he fervently DENIED he was involved in the subsequent demotion of two of those Jews. "In no way did I take part in moving anyone out of the BLS," he told the Post. "If I had even been peripherally involved or asked to alter someone's employment status I would have found it offensive and morally unacceptable, and I would have refused." That kind of action, he said, "or even the suggestion that I engaged peripherally in that kind of effort" was "morally wrong and totally out of bounds."
The new documents (and also a document I wrote about three years ago in Slate) demonstrate quite plainly that these were all lies. Malek was intimately involved in the demotion of not two but four Jews who appeared on the list he prepared for Nixon.
Malek has NEVER admitted this, much less apologized for it. As I wrote recently in Slate, "If that's atonement, then I'm St. Francis of Assisi."
You'll find the full story, with links to relevant documents, here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2254653
My 2007 story for Slate is here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2174788/

Tim Noah of VA 7:53PM June 03, 2010

Well said.

David of ID 6:54PM June 03, 2010

The sorry media will discount and make excusses for bribes to people not to run, but will drag up 40 year old actions to smear a republican. I think it can be and should be called, desperation !! Vogel is about nothing more than to keep Pelosi in there and give her more talking points.
More importantly, this is timed to feed on the anti Isreal and anti Jewish sentiment being inflamed by Isreals wanting to defend itself.
The media, Obama administration and many countries around the world should be ashamed of themselves for not supporting Isreal. Our one good freind in the region that gives people rights. No I am not Jewish, but I do support them.
This is no more than a pathetic attempt by the left to capitalize on what's in the news and throw someone under the bus for 40 year old statements for which he apologized for. If it was a member of their party it would be, GET OVER IT...

Hunter of WI 6:31PM June 03, 2010