Father Pfleger’s best friend Farrakhan has made an important list. He is now one of the “World’s Top Ten Gaddafi Toads,” per Walter Russell Mead, who puts him at #6 position, between Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi.
<— A real toad
Mead:
Like the ever-faithful Hugo Chavez, Louis Farrakhan is a Gaddafi loyalist who loves true and loves long. Bitterly disappointed when the Clinton administration blocked the transfer of $1 billion of money looted from the hapless Libyan populace to the Nation of Islam back in 1996 (and, worse, blocked the $250,000 honorarium promised to Minister Farrakhan), Farrakhan is still calling Gaddafi a friend, and predicting that America is on the verge of a Libya style uprising. Sure, Gaddafi has his critics, says Farrakhan, but what leader can count on 100% support?
Distinguished company. Father Pfleger must be proud.
Elsewhere in the news, in the Jerusalem Post in fact, which has a very big dog in this fight, are a couple of stories that predate Farrakhan’s more recent defense of Gaddafi in Chicago.
Last June, he fingered Jews as black people’s “worst enemy.”
And in March of ’09, again in Chicago, he fingered Israelis as “liars, thieves, murderers” who have “taken the position of God” and are out to “kill everybody.”
He has a way with words, to be sure. Still, what does Fr. Pfleger see in him? What need does he fill. Father figure? Hard to figure.
Blithe Spirit 