As I’ve written here numbers of times over recent years, I used to have a generally positive reaction to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). But the fact that, in recent years, he has degenerated into a ridiculous partisan hack has caused me to now see him in little other than negative terms.
Here, via Ian Hanchett’s article at breitbart.com, is the latest reason why:
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that “Columbia didn’t do enough” to combat antisemitism but the Trump administration cutting off $400 million in funding to the school “is outrageous. It’s just aimed at the universities. If you have some instance where someone didn’t do something about antisemitism and should have, go after that person or that group, but this is aimed at hurting universities, and I think it’s spreading and I think it’s very, very wrong.”
Host Chris Hayes asked, “Do you think this is a good faith attempt to deal with antisemitism?”
Schumer answered, “No, absolutely not. Look, let’s start, Columbia didn’t do enough, especially in the early days, to go after antisemitism. I spoke — I’ve spoken to Jewish students there who were vilified and even hit and hurt. And they didn’t do enough. Having said that, what Trump does is he takes this blunderbuss, he just takes $400 million. We don’t know why, where, when, who. Probably a lot of that 400 million goes to cancer research or Alzheimer’s research like this at Columbia Presbyterian. A lot of it may go to helping educate students, and it’ll hurt the 98% of students who never protested, even the Jewish students who might have been picked on. So, this is outrageous. It’s just aimed at the universities. If you have some instance where someone didn’t do something about antisemitism and should have, go after that person or that group, but this is aimed at hurting universities, and I think it’s spreading and I think it’s very, very wrong.”
That so, Chuck?
Well, tell you what: Columbia University currently has an endowment fund of almost $15 billion dollars. That’s $440 million multiplied about 34 times. Somehow I think they’ll sustain the hit. But the MESSAGE to Columbia, and to other colleges – presumably with lesser endowments – which have allowed wholesale anti-Semitism on their campuses to fester, is loud, clear and unmistakable.
I’m especially intrigued by your line that “if you have some instance where someone didn’t do something about antisemitism and should have, go after that person or that group…”. What the blank do you think was happening at Columbia University? A Jewish heritage celebration?
So you’ll pardon me, Chuck, if I’m less than taken with your use of Donald Trump’s action against Columbia’s overt anti-Semitic tolerance as nothing more than a way to make a political attack on President Trump that might re-ingratiate you to your current hard left masters.
All you’ve managed to do is show me (and, I am sure, many others) that your journey of degeneration has not yet bottomed out.
