Lawmaker calls ‘BS’ on ‘antisemitic’ Obama, dismisses Russian interference in U.S. election
A Republican state senator from New Hampshire calls Pres. Obama an anti-Semite for his administration’s latest attempts to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
At the president’s direction, the United States recently allowed the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The move was followed by a high-profile speech by Secretary of State John Kerry calling the settlements a threat to Middle East peace.
In a series of blistering tweets, state Sen. Kevin Avard (R-Nashua) responded by accusing the president of “setting the world on fire” in the waning days of his presidency and dismissed the president’s actions retaliating against Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election as an attempt to distract the public from the developments. ”BS.. shame,” he wrote.
Avard also lashed out at Secretary of State John Kerry for his speech condemning the settlements. “Israel has the GOD given right to exist,” he wrote, “someone tell John Kerry.” In another tweet, Avard added, ”kerrys tongue slithers like the serpent! Delusion or deceit? Both are tragic!”
Avard’s tweet calling the president an anti-Semite was in response to a report published on World Tribune, a website the New Yorker once described as “something between a newspaper and a rumor-mongering blog.” (One of today’s featured stories: “Cannibalism and sexual perversions mark Middle Eastern Islam’s descent into a primeval abyss.”)
Avard admits that he generally gets his news from rightwing sources. In 2013, he joined Tea Party activists in a boycott of Fox News over the network’s failure to adequately investigate the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. It wasn’t easy.
“I am having withdrawal. I do like Fox News,” he told Daily Beast at the time. “I have been going to CNN, and to Headline News just to get some kind of fix. I usually probably only watch them once or twice a year.”