Reply #7: So this is the patriarch of this malicious tribe. Jeez. [View All]

Norman Podhoretz is a veteran neo-conservative who has exerted an enormous pull. He is married to Midge Decter, and together they helped found the Committee on the Present Danger in the late 1970s and the Committee for the Free World in the early 1980s, which Decter co-chaired with Donald Rumsfeld.

Norman Podhoretz joined Hudson Institute as a senior fellow in May 1995 after retiring from Commentary, where he had been editor-in-chief since 1960. Podhoretz studies, writes, and speaks on social, cultural, and international issues. He also serves as editor-at-large of Commentary.

Podhoretz still appears on TV - on BBC-2's Newsnight on 7 May he called for regime change throughout the Middle East in order to fight terrorism. As editor of Commentary he published articles by many of those who become known in the neo-conservatives movement since then. (Many will remember how Commentary tried to destroy the reputation of the most effective Palestinian voice in the USA, that of Edward Said, just when Said was on the verge of publishing his memoir out of place in 1999).
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Norman Podhoretz' son, John, is a columnist for the New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, and often appears on the Fox Channel, which Murdoch also owns. John Podhoretz wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan and then for George Bush Sr. He has written against America putting any pressure on Israel, and even claims that Israel refuses to defend itself so, as to show its "good faith" in seeking peace.

According to Eric Alterman writing in Salon magazine, John Podhoretz has "spent virtually his entire life supping at the table of strange right-wing foreigners seeking to buy their way into respectability by courting the American right." Starting with the Reverend Sun Myung Moon of the Moonies "who hired John and his college roommate Todd Lindberg to provide a Nice-Jewish-Boy front for his nefarious activities."

http://english.daralhayat.com/column/06-2003/Article-20030617-d6242959-c0a8-01fc-0051-f910db137d67/story.html


John Podhoretz, flattering photo!
Norman Podhoretz