Is Stephen Miller, a Senior Adviser in the Trump administration, and anti-Semite?
It’s a little hard to believe, given that Mr. Miller is Jewish. But if you read the article by Hillel Italie, writing for the once-neutral, now-thoroughly partisan Associated Press, you might conclude he is.
Ms. Italie, it seems, does not like Trump Senior Adviser Stephen Miller’s explanation of how Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus” found its way onto the Statue of Liberty.
Never mind that Mr. Miller was factually correct that it was not there originally (it was placed on the statue in 1903, 17 years after the statue’s unveiling), and that its intent was to convey that the USA was a beacon of liberty for people fleeing tyranny, not an invitation for illegals to jump our borders.
And never mind that Ms. Italie doesn’t even know the name of the poem (she incorrectly refers to it as “The Great Colossus”).
She “knows” that Stephen Miller is in league with Jew-haters, so who cares.
Here is how Ms. Italie framed Mr. Miller’s comments:
When senior White House aide Stephen Miller disputed the significance of Emma Lazarus’ poem on the Statue of Liberty, he wasn’t stating a new opinion.
Members of the far-right community, including such white supremacists as David Duke and Richard Spencer, have harshly criticized the poem and even used anti-Semitic language.
“It’s offensive that such a beautiful, inspiring statue was ever associated with ugliness, weakness, and deformity,” Spencer tweeted in January, referring to such words by Lazarus as “wretched refuse.”
“The claim that America was to welcome ‘the wretched refuse of your teeming shore’ is a Jewish demand upon America, and not the original intention of the Statue of Liberty,” Duke wrote in 2012, noting that Lazarus was Jewish.
Miller’s comments about the poem, “The Great Colossus,” came during a press conference Wednesday when he defended President Donald Trump’s proposal to dramatically reduce legal immigration and shift the nation toward a system that prioritizes merit and skills over family ties. Miller noted, correctly, that the poem was not originally on the Statue of Liberty, but added 17 years later. He was responding to a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta, who asked whether the legislation violated the spirit of Lazarus’ words.
“I don’t want to get off into a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty lighting the world, it’s a symbol of liberty lighting the world. The poem you are referring to, which was added later, is not part of the original Statue of Liberty,” Miller said.
Among those praising Miller was Breitbart News, the alt-right publication once headed by Steve Bannon, now Trump’s chief strategist. “Trump Adviser Miller Schools Acosta: Statue of Liberty Poem on Huddled Masses Added Later” reads a headline on breitbart.com. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
To review:
-CNN’s Jim Acosta brought up the Lazarus poem in his interrogation-posing-as-a-question to Miller.
-Miller responded – entirely accurately – to Acosta’s comments.
-Miller mentioned nothing about either spencer or duke, he only educated Acosta on when “The New Colossus”was added to the Statue of Liberty.
This, to Hillel Italie – and her editors, who allowed the absolute crap you just read to be released – is, therefore, proof positive of Mr. Miller’s Jew-hatred.
And then, of course, there is the requisite invocation of Steve Bannon, as a man who ran an alt-right website – the Jewish owned, Jewish run breitbart.com – and the implicit suggestion that he was righ tin there with spencer and duke.
I would call it yellow journalism, but I’m not sure it rises to even that level.
This, folks, is what the Trump administration has to deal with from our wonderful “neutral” media every day.
Anyone still wondering why he uses twitter to communication with the public?
