Peter Rosenberg: A liar, or just an idiot?

Also, while we're on the topic, I guess there's this post on Peter Rosenberg's blog where he copies and pastes some shit his father wrote about Gaza, supposedly as proof that his father isn't a member of the Israel Lobby. But he might want to check the Wikipedia entry for the Israel Lobby. Rosenberg says a simple Google search on his father would have revealed that he isn't a lobbyist. But ironically enough, a simple Google search is precisely how I found out that his father is a member of the Israel Lobby.

If you type Rosenberg's old man's name into Google, the first page that comes up is a page on the site of the Israel Policy Forum, with a bio of Rosenberg's father, MJ Rosenberg, who it says is a Director of Policy Analysis there. Sounds like the job title of a lobbyist, huh? Then, if you go to the Wikipedia page for the Israel Lobby, the Israel Policy Forum is listed right there on the page as being part of the Israel Lobby.

The world's most accurate encyclopedia does make it a point to note that the Israel Policy Forum isn't a PAC, i.e. it isn't directly involved in funneling money into the coffers of pro-Israel politicians. But all it would take is to look at the very top of the page to know that you don't have to be the guy who actually shoves the dollar in Obama's pocket to be a member of the Israel Lobby. All you have to do is be part of "the loose coalition of groups and individuals who attempt to influence American foreign policy in support of Israel and its policies." Peter Rosenberg's father might not work for AIPAC, but guess where he used to work? Erm, motherfucking AIPAC!

MJ Rosenberg is a member of the Israel Lobby, plain and simple. How in the world Peter Rosenberg came to say that he isn't is beyond me. It could be that the younger Rosenberg is aware that his father's job, for probably his entire lifetime now, has involved subverting US interests in favor of another country by way of media trickery, but he figured no one who reads his shitty blog would be capable of operating a search engine. Or it could be that Peter Rosenberg genuinely has no idea what it is his father does. (For what it's worth, I have no idea what my father does. And no, I'm not one of these black people who don't have a father.) Either way would be pretty sad. Honestly, I actually hope it's the former.