[jalisco555]

I would boycott WallyWorld except I never shop there anyway.

[Blogger]

That's a stupid book for them to be selling!

[Freepdonia]

"If ... The Protocols are genuine (which can never be proven conclusively), it might cause some of us to keep a wary eye on world affairs. We neither support nor deny its message. We simply make it available for those who wish a copy."

Did Dan Rather write this?

[Amalie]

I like Walmart, but you're right. The fact that nobody recognized what this book was when they chose to stock it in thier stores is incredulous to me.

[MineralMan]

Interesting story. Normally, it's hard to find a copy of the book, but there it was at Walmart. Sounds to me like some anti-semitic employee was responsible for adding it to their short list of books that Walmart sells.

That's too bad for Walmart, IMO.

[television is just wrong]

I found an old copy of the book in my fathers house when he died. I read it, It makes no sense. It talks in circles. Weird. publication.

[Freepdonia]

What's next for Wal-Mart? The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or The Turner Diaries? :-)

[Valin]

Bowing to a barrage of complaints from Jewish groups people with IQs 5 points higher than a flatworm, retail leader Wal-Mart Inc. has stopped selling "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," an infamous anti-Semitic tract long exposed as fake.

There that's a bit more actuate.

[In_25_words_or_less]

In a statement e-mailed to Reuters, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said, "Based on significant customer feedback regarding the book titled 'The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,' we have made a business decision to remove this book ... from our site at www.walmart.com."

Who the hell made the "business decision" to put it on the website in the first place?

And why?

[Tijeras_Slim]

It's hard to believe that even Wally world could e this stupid.

[valkyrieanne]

The book should be available (so that those with historical interest can see what this kind of propaganda looks like & how it has been used), but any edition sold should have a long cautionary preface. Pretending it was never written doesn't help anyone.

[Grampa Dave]

The good news is that they are finally selling every form of "Unfit for Command" that is available.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/search-ng.gsp?search_constraint=3920&search_query=Unfit+for+Command&ics=20&ico=0&Continue.x=3&Continue.y=8

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

One should watch closely some of the books carried by Wal-Mart. Sometimes I think persons of certain religious persuasions try to slip their books on the shelves without input from the main offices.

A few years ago I was in the WM in Farmington, NM and was surprised to see a whole shelf given over to a paper back book published by the Seventh Day Adventist church, a book of doctrine only offered elsewhere by Adventist stores. No other WM carried the book.

[Slings and Arrows]

The description, now withdrawn from the Wal-Mart Web site, said, "If ... The Protocols are genuine (which can never be proven conclusively), it might cause some of us to keep a wary eye on world affairs. We neither support nor deny its message. We simply make it available for those who wish a copy."

Sounds like Wally World had a Islamist or extra-Y-chromosome Sheethead working in their IT department. Hopefully he doesn't work there anymore.

[nonkultur]

"Jewish leaders had complained that the book, which purports to tell of an international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, was being sold on Walmart.com with a description that suggested it might be genuine instead of a forgery concocted by the Czarist secret police in the early 20th Century."

Where are all the liberals with the "Fake but Accurate" mindset?

Substitute Zion with Neocon.

[BnBlFlag]

What incredibly poor judgement to put this on their shelves.

[Ptarmigan]

The Soviet Union greatly subsidized and distributed The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion throughout the Muslim world during the Cold War. It was wildly popular among Communists. I know Nazis like that book and they distributed it widely besides Mein Kempf. Both The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and Mein Kempf are widly popular in the Arab Muslim world today. This explains their anti-Semitism today.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My tagline says it all.

[Old Professer]

The older the crap, the worse the smell.

[Napoleon Solo]

In a statement e-mailed to Reuters, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said, "Based on significant customer feedback regarding the book titled 'The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,' we have made a business decision to remove this book ... from our site at www.walmart.com."

A business decision? An effin business decision? What about a moral decision? They (Walmart) have destroyed business in the US manufacturing base and now will destroy morality with such nonsense like the elders taking up valuable space on their dot.com site. Hopefully, they won't move it from their warehouses to their stores. These people in their Arkansas headquarters have been drinking too much of the chicken tainted waters around Bentonville.

[SJackson]

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