Chuck Woolery: ‘Not to Stir the Pot but, #BernieSanders Is a #Jew and a #Communist’
Chuck Woolery, best known as the TV game show host of “Wheel of Fortune” and “Love Connection” in the ’70’s and 80’s has been working hard to make a name for himself as a far right wing Christian conservative. This week he may have succeeded.
Woolery, an anti-gun control activist, has also made his anti-Islam views well-known. Now some are accusing him of anti-Semitism.
On Monday, Memorial Day, Woolery posted tweets saying “members of the left are mentally ill and in need of help,” and, “Now that we don’t have a socialistMarxist [sic] in office as president, all of Europe seems to be confused. Germany, France, Britain to name a few.”
And this absolutely false claim: “Almost without exception, all political ideology of the Left originated in Germany. Progressivism Political correctness Marxism. You name it.”
And then these tweets, which led some to accuse him of anti-Semitism:
Hours later, this:
And then on Tuesday:
Early Tuesday Newsweek reported Woolery told “FOXBusiness earlier in May that his politics stopped him getting work,” and, “he added his observation the ‘left is really operating on all German ideas instead of American ideas.’ While this could be a reference to the moral philosophy of Enlightenment-era Immanuel Kant, it far more likely an allusion to Adolf Hitler.”
It is unclear why Woolery chose Memorial Day to expound on his theories about Judaism and socialism. Those theories, such as they are, are neither new nor correct. Karl Marx, the principal author of The Communist Manifesto, was Jewish, but his forebears’ religion played no known role in the formation of his world-changing theories of history, social organization and the interactions between capital and labor.
Some responses to Woolery’s tweets via Twitter:Â
Newsweek senior writer:
New York Times writer:
Brookings Institution fellow:
Others:
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