Cardinale slams reporter on column

Your response to Doblin shows the world what kind of guy you are, Gerry. 

Cardinale forgot that Doblin is a columnist and opinions editor, not a journalist.  He seems to pride himself on not taking journalistic integrity into consideration when he writes.  Unfortunately, he also gets off on the backlash attention.  The best thing would be for everyone to ignore him, including Wally and whoever chooses the quote of the day on this site.

I agree with Cardinale.

The Record refuses to acknowledge that Senator Cardinale was ever at risk in the first place. This campaign was nothing but perception over reality with the BCDO proclaiming that money and broadcast NY television would oust an embedded incumbent in a Republican district.

The Record failed to be objective because they just don't like Cardinale. He's arrogant and a bit self absorbed and doesn't get along with his own Assembly runningmates. But he is effective and never lost a race.

More importantly, why was Ariyan ever taken seriously in the first place?

What hard data existed to suggest he could win? His positions on issues were hard left with no basis for support in this district. Like Arohnson last year, the media WANTED the race to be competitive versus the race ACTUALLY BEING COMPETITIVE.

More importantly, why would The Record enable the BCDO? Why play into the fiction that Ariyan was ever in the race?

Ironically, Republican Mike Guarino fared better against Democratic incumbent Paul Sarlo with NO MONEY AT ALL. Had The Record actually covered that race, Guarino might have won. Instead, they bought into the Sarlo is this emerging power when he ran worse in Bergen County than he did four years earlier...

The lesson for The Record is to REPORT THE RACES, NOT HANDICAP POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS. There were no issues in the 39th, but in the 36th you had EnCap which has been on the headlines of the paper for 10 months! Why wouldn't they credibly cover Guarino? Why didn't Sarlo debate Guarino? Why did he work so hard in having Guarino removed from the ballot only for Guarino to get written-in along with his runningmates?

Money doesn't make a candidacy. That is the lesson of Ariyan. The lack of money can break a real candidacy. That is the lesson of Guarino's defeat.

Senator Cardinale says that he got information about Arabs from Daniel Pipes. Here is my version of  what Daniel Pipes may have sent to Cardinale.

From: Daniel Pipes

To: Senator Gerald Cardinale
Demarest, NJ

Dear Gerry:

As per your request, please find attached pertinent information about your opponent's links to terrorism and extremism. This, I suggest, will assure your victory in November.

I believe that distinguishing between real and phony moderation, obviously, is not a job for amateurs like U.S. government officials. I have made a career vilifying Arabs and Muslims and my expertise has come in handy in so many venues such as political campaigns, collegiate freedom of expression debates and freedom of the press in general. I have set up Campus Watch to ensure that only those who support my views are permitted to teach or speak in American universities. I established a Campus Watch website after failing in my own pursuit of an academic career, to take revenge on the scholarly community that rejected me. The site is a showcase of the signature distortions that serve as the foundation for my twenty-five year career. I am a master at twisting words, quoting people out of context, and stretching the truth to suit my purposes.  

I have also set up shadow agencies to ensure that my views on the Middle East, namely, that only a decisive military defeat of the Palestinians will resolve the Palestine issue, are advocated. Unfortunately, all others, including numerous prominent Jewish academics, I have labeled as Jihadist, Islamists, and terrorists. All these labels, including one of my own coinage, "Islamo-fascists" are easy but powerful labels of choice to defeat the surging Arab and Muslim population in the U.S. No wonder I am known as the world's leading Islamophobe.

In New Jersey, I believe you have a decisively winnable case against your opponent. Just accuse him of supporting terrorism. Accuse him of being an extremist, because I will provide you with a paper trail, the record, public and private, Internet, print, domestic and foreign - of his Arab buddies, of his individual or institutional ties to Anti-American activities. Such tactics have been most productive with intellectuals, activists, and imams- all of whom have a paper trail that can easily be exploited. 

Your opponent's law partner is an Arab Christian, so I will devote my attacks on his links to ADC and especially its communications director, Hussein Ibish. I will not talk here about my other usual target, namely the Council on American Islamic Relations. Hussein Ibish  of ADC was rude to me so many times that I often refused to engage him in interviews or debates. His large stature wedded to his eloquent and readily available rebuttals scare me. That is why I am providing you quotations (albeit out context and dubiously documented) to shatter the good image of ADC.

Remember, the more you repeat lies about Arabs and Muslims, the more the gullible American public believes them. When you do use me a resource, few will dare to question your allegations. Do use my now famous statement that "the Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people…who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States."

I have always argued that more than 80% of American Muslims are terrorist sympathizers. I have always argued that to ensure the safety of our nation we must be ready to intern all Arab and Muslim citizens. I have also demanded that America's Muslims are the enemy within and I have called for the unrestricted racial profiling and monitoring of Muslims in the military.

I do not know why in late 2003, President Bush appointed me to serve on the USIP (United States Institute of Peace). Unless Bush does not read my blogs or articles, I do not believe in peace.
I know that my appointment would have not be approved since the Senate, led by Ted Kennedy introduced bill to prevent my nomination. This explains Bush's trickery of appointing me during the Summer Recess when Congress was not in session. So my appointment lasted only 18th months- not he normal 4 years given to an approved nominee.

I despise everything Arab- even their falafel (thankfully, we have unilaterally declared it to be an Israeli delicacy.) I always look down in disgust at them and make every effort to obsessively look for dirt to smear their image in public discourse. When I fail to find lies about Muslims, I fabricate them. I made a lucrative career being an Arab and a Muslim basher. Across the Hudson River, I recenlty waged a relentless war against  Debbie Al-Montasser, an Arab Muslim who was supposed to head an Arab language charter school in Brooklyn, NY. Why should teach the language of terrorism?  After we toppled her, we spitefully appointed a Jewish woman to replace the Arab principal. Our choice was an avoid Zionist who does not even speak Arabic. 

I urge you to disavow any knowledge of or friendship with Arabs and Muslims in your Districts. They will turn against you. Do not support their efforts to become politically active or enjoy their rights as equal citizens. I once compared the American Muslim voter registration drives to those of the Communist Party USA and instilled in the public the fear that as the population of Muslims in the United States grows, so does anti-Semitism, and that Black converts (to Islam) tend to hold vehemently anti-American, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic attitudes.

With our maturing relationship and your wife's to the Jewish Defense League (which is unfortunately is classified as domestic terrorist organization by FBI), you can rest assured. Believe me, I know what extremism is. 

Good luck, Mr. Cardinale. You are a true American. My congratulations in advance.

Yours truly,

Daniel Pipes

Islamo-fascist Expert

Letter above is based on statements and quotations shown in the below links:

• Identifying Muslim Moderates
  The Islamophobe who cried Islamist
• Daniel Pipes Continuing His Campaign Against Muslims
• Why Pipes is Wrong about Japanese internment
• The War on Academic Freedom
• Daniel Pipes is not a man of peace
• No Madrassa in NY
• Neocon Man
• Right-Wing's War on the Gibran Academy
• Daniel Pipes, the expert of hate

Who, what, when, where, and why, were taught the day Al Doblin took off from school to attend a NOW rally. 

"Sometimes it looks as if the Democrats are out to win at all costs, while the Republicans are out to compromise at all costs." Thomas Sowell, September 8, 2007 - Random Thoughts.