This guy has nothing to do with the Obama administration. He was in that advisory role for over 20 years.
This post is intentionally misleading to push an agenda.
It seems based on the article he took on the role during the administration. It will be interesting to see why it came to an end in the days ahead.
It seems based on the article he took on the role during the administration.
Does the article actually say that? Where?
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Mr. Stuart Seldowitz, Acting Director for South Asia, NSC. It would’ve literally taken you less time to google this than to troll here.
Your link proves that he was at a state dinner. I guess that’s proof he took the role?
The CNN article itself does not make that claim. Thus, if this official is racist, then every president who employed his services is racist, too, at least by the logic of mentioning that he was a former Obama administration official.
Anyway, this Huffpost article notes that
A now-deleted profile of Seldowitz on the company’s website stated he served as Acting Director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate in the early 2000s. A LinkedIn profile belonging to Seldowitz, which also appears to have been removed, said he was employed in that role from February 2009 to January 2011, according to CNN.
Seldowitz told the Times he had previously worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations, including holding a position at the State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs.
I’m not trolling. You’d know that if you were intellectually honest enough to evaluate the claim or more discerning when it comes to the media.
My link proves that he had an official position in the administration because it gives his title. What claim CNN makes is completely irrelevant to the question of whether the guy worked in an official capacity in the Obama admin, which he very clearly did. Something any intellectually honest person would be able to understand.
You know what? I apologize for calling you intellectually dishonest. It’s clear now that we were talking at cross-purposes.
whether the guy worked in an official capacity in the Obama admin
That’s not the issue. The issue is if his official capacity in the Obama administration reflects upon Obama.
Because Fox News could easily take this article and say, “Look! Obama’s Marxist-Leninist-Nazi beliefs inspired him to hire an Islamophobe! The hypocrisy of the Far-Left on display again!”
But since this official held this role for both Democratic and Republican administration, it either impinges on the moral judgement of every administration under which he served or none of them.
Yes, both democrats and republicans are deplorable. That’s precisely the issue.
And he had that official title before the Obama administration. So there’s no association. Do you think every federal worker is swapped out for a new one every time the president changes?
No, my point is that US government as a whole is a deplorable regime regardless of which specific clowns happen to be the face of it at any given time. People like Seldowitz are what constitutes the permanent bureaucracy in US. And these people are the scum of the earth.
CNN is pushing a misleading agenda about the democrats, do tell us more about your exciting conspiracy theory.
The guy was in the role for over twenty years. Way before the Obama administration. That’s a fact.
This article intentionally associates the actions of someone unrelated to the Obama administration… with the Obama administration.
I don’t need to know their motives to point out that fact.
The fact that US government has been consistently deplorable regarding of which party is in charge isn’t really the gotcha you seem to think it is.
Both sides ermaright? Herpa durr
Can’t expect much more from someone on lemmy.ml
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Try harder troll
The only troll that’s trying hard here is you my dude. I provided you with research analyzing decades of US policy showing that it doesn’t serve the interests of the public regardless of which party is in charge. The fact that this is the only response you have says all I need to know about you.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A former Obama-era National Security Council official has been arrested after a series of videos shared widely on social media showed him using hate-laden, Islamophobic language against an employee working inside a New York City food cart, police said.
Before his arrest was announced, Seldowitz confirmed to CNN in an email it is him in the videos, which were recorded by a vendor from inside a food cart on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and appear to be from different days.
In the videos posted online this month, Seldowitz mocks Islam, taunts the man about his citizenship status, accuses him of supporting Hamas and references the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
The New York City Police Department told CNN on Tuesday that a commanding officer is aware of the videos and local precinct personnel “are monitoring the situation.”
The videos come as the US is experiencing an “unprecedented” increase in reported anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias incidents since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to the Council on American-Islamic relations.
“Gotham Government Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz, an individual who hasn’t contributed to our work in years,” a statement on the New York City-based group’s website reads.
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Gotta love how every thread about US politics will inevitably have ex reddit troll brigade hovering it like a swarm of flies.
