Posted on 12/18/2006 4:34:47 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In an explosive telephone argument that led to her firing, publisher Judith Regan allegedly complained of a "Jewish cabal" against her in the book industry and stated that "Of all people, Jews should know about ganging up, finding common enemies and telling the big lie."
A spokesman for Regan's former employer, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., told The Associated Press on Monday that the remarks were based on notes taken by HarperCollins attorney Mark Jackson, with whom Regan was discussing the future of a controversial new novel about baseball star Mickey Mantle.
The spokesman, Andrew Butcher, released the comments in response to a threatened libel suit from Regan's legal representative, Hollywood attorney Bert Fields, who had called earlier reports of anti-Semitic remarks "completely untrue" and added that the publisher "didn't have an anti-Semitic bone in her body.
Since 1994, Regan had headed the ReganBooks imprint at News Corp.'s HarperCollins. She was fired Friday.
The allegations first emerged earlier Monday when The New York Times, citing two unnamed News Corps officials, referred to unspecified anti-Semitic comments.
Regan, one of of the book world's most successful publishers, already had tense relations with HarperCollins and News Corp. Last month, Murdoch cancelled "If I Did It," her planned O.J. Simpson book and Fox television interview.
Simpson's book, said to have described how he theoretically would have committed the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, had been scheduled for release Nov. 30 following the airing of a two-part Simpson interview.
Simpson was acquitted of murder in 1995 but later found liable for the killings in a wrongful-death suit filed by the Goldman family.
As my brother in law might say "If we Jews rule the world, where's my cut?"
The woman should be boycotted, just as Mel Gibson should have been boycotted.
You beat me to it.
Maybe we just didn't know. Someone here posted a rather nasty quote from the Peanut Farmer, so I asked him for a reference which he gave. He closed by suggesting that I "just google for 'If I get back in' and carter." (It's sort of an eye-opener.)
ML/NJ
It's becoming fashionable to be open about it.
Shameful as it is, prior to 9/11 and joining FR I held antisemitic views. Obviously I never called myself antisemitic, only "anti Israeli occupation, anti Zionist etc".
The 9/11 attacks kinda brought it all home that something stinks in the mideast and it ain't Israel.
""Does anyone have her comment on tape? Right now, it's a lawyer's word against a book publisher's (Regan). Yet everybody is assuming it's Regan who is lying.""
The title of her forthcoming book, "If I Said It."
Jewish cable? JNN headline news?
This thread is brought to you by the world-wide zionist conspiracy.
Mel Gibson, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
She should have known better. Murdoch used to be a Nazi-hunter.
Stop muddying the waters with logic and common sense.
Perhaps you should learn to use "spell check". What's your friends's name, btw?
It's been my perception of her for a long time, that she is very self absorbed and impressed with herself.
In any case I can't stand her, and suspect she and O.J. got it on. Birds of a feather.
That must be how he found "Hitler's Secret Diary."
I was about to ask the same thing. It's really alarming because I think the recent spate of comments by people in the media like Regan, Gibson (and now Novak) seem to be reflecting a more widespread acceptance of such filth.
I heard enough of this kind of trash from ignorant, foreign-born relatives: I don't need to hear more of it from Americans who really ought to know better.
How do you know she said anything anti-semitic? One guy - a lawyer for a company that she's on the outs with - makes the charge. It's in his "notes" - which implies he doesn't have a tape. She claims she said no such thing. Why and how do you know she's the one who's lying, and not the lawyer?
I love that Homer in your tagline. Did you have to screw around with the font to do that?
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