Senator Al Franken accuses Donald Trump of launching antisemitic TV ad

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Source: The Guardian

The Democratic senator for Minnesota, Al Franken, has accused Donald Trump of launching an antisemitic TV advertisement along the lines of the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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Franken, who is Jewish, said he immediately was struck by what he called “a German shepherd whistle, a dog whistle” in a new two-minute advert from the Trump campaign, launched as the countdown to Tuesday’s election intensifies.

The film features lurid shots of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve interspersed with images of three prominent Jewish people: Janet Yellen, who chairs the Fed, the progressive financier George Soros and the Goldman Sachs chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein.

“The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election,” Trump is heard saying in the advert. “For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don’t have your good in mind.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/06/senator-al-franken-accuses-donald-trump-of-launching-antisemitic-tv-ad

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...Al Franken pissed off. This will be interesting.


If I was DT I'd run for the bunker.

[George II]

1. No doubt about it. He's pandering to the bigots and antisemites in this country.

[Maraya1969]

2. Here is the ad

[mucifer]

3. Here is the ad it's creepy and as a Jew I see the dog whistle. I think lots of people wouldn't:

VERY powerful ad.

[Maraya1969]

4. Where is the dog whistle?

[oberliner]

29. Wealthy cabal of international bankers secretly controlling the world

And working against the interests of "regular people" for their own nefarious ends.

That is a standard anti-semitic trope.

[Nitram]

51. Maraya, slyly questioning why Stewart doesn't use a Jewish surname is a classic anti-semitic

dog whistle. That, along with his ads that slyly connect well-known Jewish Americans with "global banking" conspiracies is obvious to anyone familiar with anti-semitism.

[Ellipsis]

8. Im sure he wrote that himself. The ability to read words on a script verses writing them...

..."ya gotta" admire the mans pentameter.


He's a pitchman... not a leader.


My question would be who wrote the script?

[mucifer]

9. Alt right people wrote the script

[Ellipsis]

11. Okay then... who compiled the thoughts of the alt right?

The coagulator of the feces. Who did the ad?

[mopinko]

32. someone bannon hired.

unless it was bannon himself.

[Ellipsis]

33. Thank You Mopinko...

Go Cubs.

[mopinko]

34. add me to the list of people who enjoyed it through

the eyes of a loved one who had passed.
not much of a sports fan, tho raised a cub fan. 30 years w a sox fan, including season tickets for the trophy years, but remain pretty blissfully ignorant of sports since his happy departure.

but for my mom, and because she shared her love of the cubs w her dad, who scored the games so he could tell her what happened when she got home from school, i enjoyed the series, especially that last one.
and my sister snuck a handful of mom's ashes into the parade and celebration.

and it never hurts to see my city so happy.

and you are most welcome.

[JudyM]

13. That is a powerful ad. Even as a Hillary voter, it is hitting my "Bernie" resonant emotions.

For Berners who haven't been awakened to with the importance of tRump's danger, it could hurt us.

[Skittles]

16. that is a dog megaphone

[DK504]

47. snort, snort

Uhhhh, Mr Irony talking about jobs going to China...lol....LOL.....

I wonder how much money he has made on Chinese products.

I LOVE the picture of Hillary during the 11 hour Congressional hatch job on Hillary. Wasn't that when Gowdy Doody was whining on without asking a question? LOL....priceless!!!!!!

[wordpix]

53. it shows Jews in high positions but ad features Hillary

Bill C and Pres. O. also. Mostly ad shows Hillary.

Too late, Trumpie

[Siwsan]

10. You know the saying about people who don't learn from history being doomed to repeat it, but...

I am fully convinced there are some people who have absolutely made it their goal to revive that whole 'master race' nightmare.

And as in the past, if you take a look at the people who are leading this movement, their own genetic material seems to fall far short of their ideal. I won't even go into what I think of the followers.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. I'm not sure which is worse; Trump actually believing this or

him just using antisemitism as a dogwhistle.

His son-in-law, one of the top guys in Trump's campaign, is from a prominent Jewish family. Ivanka had to convert before the his family would allow the marriage.

[Ellipsis]

14. Leave no stone unturned...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Simplest hypothesis often best. In these cases: tRump clueless & doesn't hear dog whistles he makes

... or his alt-right staff makes (Bannon & Bossie).

[Hekate]

42. Trump's father believed in a Master Race, believed he was breeding for that. Trump's own words.....

....and behavior from his youth to the present indicate his belief in his superiority over anyone who is not him, but for clarity let's just say all people of color, and all women.

[Hekate]

43. There's a bit of cognitive dissonance in everything Trump does, but don't let that confuse you....

.....about his true nature.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

44. What's most confusing to me about Trump is how it is possible

for any human being to be such an astonishingly churlish, deceitful, egomaniacal, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, cheating, hypocritical bully and still have millions of Americans think not only is that cool, but that this astonishingly churlish, deceitful, egomaniacal, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, cheating, hypocritical bully ought to be our president.

Honestly, it's the support that is so utterly incomprehensible.

[yardwork]

45. Beware the insider with no ethics.

Highly placed gay people have used homophobia to devastating effect to elect Republicans, for instance.

Some people are just evil. They have no ethics, no loyalty to their own families or communities. They are out to enrich themselves.

[SunSeeker]

15. The irony of that ad is that it is the Trump campaign that is involved in conspiracy...

With Putin, Wikileaks, and rogue FBI agents.

Trump always accuses Hillary of his own misdeeds.

[grantcart]

18. This campaign has set records for irony

Melania lecturing on rudeness, working illegally . .
Everything Trump says, "I respect women"

Thing is I think they believe it when they say it.

[still_one]

19. you are darned right it is a dog whistle, and it isn't that subtle

[Paladin]

21. Thanks and profound gratitude to Senator Franken for this.

I hope I get to vote for him for president, some day.

[Ellipsis]

35. Me too.

[smirkymonkey]

23. I would not put it past him.

He has been hated by Jewish New York for ages. They are superior to him and he resents it.

[whathehell]

27. "Jewish New York has hated him for ages. They are superior to him and he knows it".

Really? Only "Jewish New York" is superior to him? In what way? What about the rest of New York?

[oberliner]

30. What do you mean by "Jewish New York" ??

Can you clarify?

[Beacool]

24. When has he stopped pandering to white supremacists?

This is a man who started his campaign by branding Mexicans, and by inference other Latinos, as being rapists and drug dealers.

The man is vile, completely unworthy of the presidency.

I will have lost all faith in the inherent goodness of this country if this sack of feces is elected president.

[COLGATE4]

26. That ad is worthy of Der Steurmer. Julius Streicher would be proud.

[DinahMoeHum]

31. Al Franken's comments here. . .

[Hekate]

41. Sen. Franken just called The Don on his shit, and he is absolutely right to do so.

See what you see and know what you know. Speak the truth.

Thank you, Al Franken.

[Nitram]

50. The ad is a classic anti-semitic dog whistle. nt

[Gothmog]

52. Senator Franken is correct about this ad

[Danmel]

54. Not to mention the they'll bleed you dry line

None too subtle reminder of the"blood libel" anti Semitic trope that caused countless deaths and pogroms around Easter when Jews would be accused of killing Christian children and bleeding them dry and using their blood to make Passover matzah.