{Daniel Pipes has a blog. He's caught his tit in a wringer with what is being called his racist stance on the Middle East. Pipes is a Jew. He says his seemingly racist remarks..."[Europeans] are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene..." were lifted out of context and are actually quotes of then current European attitudes toward Muslim immigration. I believe that. I was reading his blog, and feeling pretty sympathetic. Then he says,
"For five months, I quietly endured Sen. Edward Kennedy borking me as someone not "committed to bridging differences and bringing peace" and a Washington Post editorial criticizing me as "a destroyer" of cultural bridges, among other slings.and he lost me. I understand the beleaguered and beseiged attitude, the paranoia that isn't really anything but common sense and historical knowledge. But in my own life I've learned, far too slowly, that only a severely unbiased, unshaded, overly-fair-to-the-other-side tone of voice works. At least on people my age and younger. We were raised by the Masters of Innuendo, we learned at their feet, most of us, and we can see the spin a mile away. Schumer is a Jew, the LA Times is as pro-Israel as its east coast big sister. For Pipes not to acknowledge that is self-sabotage.}
Fortunately, others responded on my behalf; for example, Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Los Angeles Times both endorsed my nomination."
