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January 23rd, 2012
03:48 PM ET
Jewish newspaper’s editor resigns over Obama assassination columnBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - A Jewish newspaper owner who attracted U.S. Secret Service attention for a column suggesting that Israel consider assassinating an American president has resigned as the paper’s editor, employees there said Monday. The resignation comes after a firestorm over the column and after a tearful apology from the editor-in-chief of Georgia’s Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler. The JTA reported Monday that Adler is selling the newspaper, but the office manager, Jerry Farkas, said that was incorrect and that Adler hadn’t announced plans to sell. The paper’s newly named interim editor-in-chief, John McCurdy, said in an e-mail that he had not talked with Adler about whether he planned to sell the paper. Adler wrote a January 13 column about the threat of Iran to Israel, posing three options for the Jewish state. One was a "hit on a president in order to preserve Israel's existence." The column attracted interest from the U.S. Secret Service, with spokesman George Ogilvie saying Saturday, "We are aware of it. We are taking the appropriate investigative steps." In an interview with an Atlanta TV station on Saturday, Adler broke down as he apologized for the column. “All I could do now is let President Obama, the State of Israel, everybody affected in Atlanta’s Jewish community … (know) that I’m sincerely sorry for what has transpired,” Adler told Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Inc., straining to choke back tears. “It’s storming outside as we speak, and I’ve always felt that when a storm happens that God’s angry with me,” Adler said. Farkas said the paper is working with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta to find a permanent managing editor. The federation had said that it was suspending its relationship with the Atlanta Jewish Times until Adler apologized, agreed to stop writing and gave up editorial control. |
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If the editor of The American Muslim had written something like that he would have been waterboarded, and sent to Gitmo without any investigation. And they would have insulted the Quran, The Prophet and 1.6 billions Muslim all over the world and Fox new would have started to rally people in bombarding Iran and saudi.
The NY Times, Washington Post and other major papers do not even mention this bloodthirsty Jewish punk.
So sad, so true.
“It’s storming outside as we speak, and I’ve always felt that when a storm happens that God’s angry with me,” Adler said.
Not only is he an idiot, he's an egomaniac too!
"It’s storming outside as we speak, and I’ve always felt that when a storm happens that God’s angry with me,” Adler said.
So he's not just an idiot. He's an arrogant, egocentric fool who thinks God manipulates weather patterns whenever he has a mood swing.
Holy crap, we wrote the same thing at the same time! God must be speaking through us!
He's a typical "Israel Firster."
Jews are the chosen people of God. They are allowed to say stuff like this and even go through with the plans folks. No big deal. Just take it.
This is most lamentable thing to have written, but the man does seem sincerely sorry. Isnt it sufficient penance that a guy named McCurdy is now running the Jewish Times Atlanta? Enough already!
I swore an oath to protect American against all enemies foreign or domestic. What Mr.Adler said would bring down the government of the United States and for that he should be prosecuted. Andrew Adler put this in writing and had the gall to reiterate it a second time as if he had no concern how dangerous that was to our country or the Commander in Chief and his family. Our armed forces aren't putting their lives on the line for Israel best interest. There is no such thing as Dual Loyalty among Jews. If they can't choose a side to be on they already have.
freedom speech is fine as long as you don't say anything bad eh?
Duh! It should be rather obvious that you do not advocate killing a President.
No, freedom of speech is fine as long as you don't suggest assassination of the president.
Threatening violence against anyone has never been considered free speech.
Um, with all do respect, steven, he didn't threaten to kill the president, he merely suggested it was one of Israel's options from a foreign affiars standpoint. And he from an analytical point he's not far off – Obama's administration and the president himself has really painted Israel into a country. Probably not smart for someone residing in the US to suggest, but at the same time, I don't see it as something one could construe as a threat, at least based on the information in this article. If I say that some aquited child rapist should be gunned down in the street, does that mean I threatened him, or expressed an opinion? Unless someone does "hit" the president, I don't see how what he said is a crime, and even then, they'd have to prove conspiracy.
Remember the liberty. 33 men killed by isrealis. they are nothing but backstabbing morons taking advantage of us and goading us to fight their wars.
Dammn right
This Jewish Anti American Racist should be behind bars! I hope the Secret Service interrogate his family, children and water board his dog.
Why would you waterboard his dog?
His dog probably told him to do this.
Perhaps he thinks that's how to train it to fetch waterfowl.
This story was considered important enough by the ADL, the Simon Wiesenthal Center et al, that they issued public statements condemning Adler's words. And while CNN and the Huffington Post reported on it, no mention of it can be found in the NYT, LA Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and other major news outlets. Interesting.
Yeah, cuz no one cares. No one should care either. I hope that one day, this country will have a real president again.
This country has a "real president". What it needs are real citizens instead of all the backwater trash fantasizing that they're patriots and allowing themselves to be easy pawns of right-wing corporate interests like the Tea Party.
I'm not a republican, idiot. What this country needs are citizens that don't assume so much, not a bunch of retards that vote for people that say "change" and actually believe it means something. Shove it, chris. And by the way, this president sucks. Get out from under his desk, swallow that load and maybe you should look into what the useless bag of garbage hasn't done. I suppose you support him asking for another debt ceiling increase, right?
Funny, Patriot, you sure sound like backwater trash, not that there's anything wrong with that...
Stop with the denial, "patriot". I don't particularly care what affiliation you've appropriated for yourself – your juvenile comebacks fully qualify you for the kind of right-wing chain-mail swallowing, low-information voter that has infested the GOP brand for decades. If you can't comprehend why there was a global financial meltdown in '08, and what it cost the country to save your worthless hide from it – then really, I don't have the time or the energy to educate you on this forum. Party on.
How enlightening, ass hole. Thanks for setting the record straight on how much you don't know. Keep making assumptions.
Bye the way, if you're curious about the meltdown, you might want to look into the policies of your buddy bill jeff. Last name was clinton. Hey everyone, let's give houses to everyone, even people on welfare who are too lazy to get jobs! Welfare for everyone. Terrific. When you're done blowing obama, read a book.
Keep diggin' Patriot, it's fun to watch.
LMAO!!!!! What a joke you are, good times all around!!
Just imagine, if it was me. An American of Indian descent, a brown skin, saying the same thing. I'd be in jail by now.
No you would not. It is protected First Amendment speech. The Supreme Court has rule on this decades ago.
EXACTLY!!!!!!
I think not, GuGA. State your name clearly and avow that you actually do want to assassinate the President of the United States and let's see what happens.
Gunner – in my Army days, I served in the White House and I hope to tell you that when someone made threatening statements about the President, the Secret Service was all over them. Threats of violence against anyone have never been considered free speech and have never been condoned by the Supreme Court.
Dude obama's wife looks fugly!!
Your parents really need to stop interbreeding.
Presidential qualifications, as reported from Hicksville.
Finish your homework, and take a nap junior....
Wooohooo, I'd like to thank all the ignorant, dirty racists on this commentary, you folks have just provided me with about 20 minutes of laughter before bed. Good Night, Human Family, ONE LOVE!
One of many excellent reasons why I no longer care about the State of Israel. For 5000 years the people in the Middle East have been killing each other. It's their problem – not America's . Let them deal with it. Leave us ... and our President.. out of it. Don't go away mad ... Just go away.
It is time this dude resigned, retired, and went back to Israel, watch the sunset.
I hopefully wait for the day that the majority of Americans wake up and realize that Israel is no real friend of the USA. Just look back and pay attention . Iraq War was fought for them and they persist on goading us into Iran. Let them do their own dirty work.
Remember the USS Liberty .(which I bet not half of the public even knows about it)
This traitor should be in prison.He belongs in the history books with Sirhan Sirhan, Oswald, James Earl Ray, John Wilkes Booth, and all of the mutants who would try to undermine our democratic republic.
"It’s storming outside as we speak, and I’ve always felt that when a storm happens that God’s angry with me,"
What a narcissist on top of everything else.
This man still made an assassination threat against the president.
He needs to be arrested.
It is protected speech under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has weighed in on a similar case in the past with more direct "threats" articulate and still it was not a criminal act.
GunnerGA, assassination threats are NOT protected speech. Neither is someone calling you up and threatening to kill your whole family.
The guy is clearly a bit off balance (to say the least) and he obviously needs to go. No sane Jewish person would back up a statement like this. Of course nothing he's said hasn't been publicly said also by gun toting, Tea Party, white Christians. Its interesting (and hypocritical) how an incident involving 1 whacked Jew stirs up so much Jew hatred on in this commentary.
This man should be arrested, it sets a bad precedent if someone gets away with a serious threat like this. Disrespectful, distasteful, and just plain stupid.
In any community there are lunatics. But here is the big difference. if it was a Muslim – no Muslim leader would openly and clearly condemn him. In this case Jewish leaders strongly condemned this.
BS. Your bias is showing. If a Muslim had done this, the outcry would have been enormous and for lynching.
Go back to your hole.
cecexo, while it's true that Jewish leaders strongly condemned Adler's words, there's no good reason to assume that they did so for any reason other than that what he said is potentially harmful to Jews and could fan the flames of anti-Semitism, and therefore Jewish leaders had to distance themselves as far as possible from his words. I take it for granted that Muslims also act in their own self interest and would do so in a similar situation, and whether Muslim leaders would condemn a Muslim who made a similar statement would depend on what those leaders thought was in the best self interest of those they represent.