More// UN SNUB: Hillary and Sarah in New York

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(behind hte scenes at the demonstation-- Anti-Iran rally  in NY;  Jews protest)

Sources: Intense PressureCBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups' Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite Led To Palin UN Snub

Reporting
Marcia Kramer

NEW YORK (CBS) ―  Hillary Clinton won't be speaking at Monday's anti-Iran rally at the United Nations -- and neither will Republican Sarah Palin or any other politicians for that matter.

The reason? A heated behind the scenes tug-of-war.

Sources tell CBS 2 HD that a decision to disinvite Palin from the high profile rally after Clinton pulled out in a huff came as the result of intense pressure from Democrats.

"This is insulting. This is embarrassing, especially to Gov. Palin, to me and I think it should be to every single New Yorker," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, told CBS 2 HD.

Sources say the axes were out for Palin as soon as Sen. Clinton pulled out because she did not want to attend the same event as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

"I have never seen such raw emotion -- on both sides," said someone close to the situation.

The groups sponsoring the rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN were reportedly told, "it could jeopardize their tax exempt status" if they had Palin and not Clinton or Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden on hand.

So all politicians were disinvited, most prominently, Palin.

"It's an absolute shame that this has happened," Hikind said. "To threaten organizations … to threaten the Conference of Presidents that if you don't withdraw the invitation to Gov. Palin we're going to look into your tax exempt status … that's McCarthyism."
(for those who do not know what happened in the 1950's with McCarthy and the black list, look it up, please ... and, this was in direct response to the DEMOCRATS threatening that, if ONLY Palin was to speak, they would look into the group's tax-exempt status;  this is a low even for the dems this year!  And I have always voted with them, too.   NOT this time!!)

Another Jewish group tried to step into the breach by inviting Palin to a different protest a day earlier.

"I'm absolutely appalled at the behavior of the Democrats," said Bob Kunst of Defenders.net. "I'm a Democrat and for the first time in my life I'm going to vote Republican. I can't take it anymore."

As for Sen. Clinton, she brushed right past CBS 2 HD's Lou Young when he tried to ask her about the issue on Thursday night.

Lou Young: "Were the organizers of Monday's rally right to depoliticize it?"

Clinton walked past Young, said "Thank you all very much" and started hugging people.

Clinton's people tell CBS 2 HD she intends to make some statement of support for the protestors. She is also expected to attack Ahmadinejad's pro-nuke, anti-Israel stance.

(Now, the reporting earlier in the week had been that Hillary, in a HUFF upon finding out about her being "BLINDSIDED" and expected to take on Palin in a sort of "cat fight" were absolutely stretched truths.. and, yet, it was "in the news";  every newscaster reported this with an straight face.  When this stuff happens, just WHO is it that benefits?  Certainly, it is NOT US..  Palin's possible presence was "such an irritant to the democrats, Palin had to be dis-invited", according to some in the group. What a display THIS was!.  This is not the Democratic party I thought I knew)