New Low for Tebow Derangement Syndrome: Broncos Win Could Mean Mosques, Synagogues Burn

NewsBusters ^ | 14 Dec 2011 | Ken Shepherd

[mandaladon]

Huston has a screen capture that shows the Hammerman post before he scrubbed it of its offensive passage.

One Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, a columnist for The Jewish Week, went off the deep end into a cesspool of anti-Tim Tebow derangement in his December 12 post, "My Tim Tebow" problem.

Former NewsBuster Warner Todd Huston noted the most offensive passage of Hammerman's screed at the website HoosierAccess.com. This paragraph has since been scrubbed from Hammerman's post:

If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants. While America has become more inclusive since Jerry Falwell’s first political forays, a Tebow triumph could set those efforts back considerably.

It's so laughably absurd you'd think this were from The Onion. But Hammerman appears to be dead serious, even in his sanitized post, where grafs like these make clear Hammerman is a) a die-hard Boston sports fan and b) mentally unbalanced:

I admire much of what Tebow stands for. His mom’s decision to risk her own life rather than abort her fetus flies against my own – and Judaism’s – values, but neither am I pro-choice in all cases. His story is so improbable that if he were to win it all, a part of me would be wondering whether there is a Purpose behind it, just as I saw a divine hand in the equally unbelievable Red Sox victory of 2004. And it makes me wonder whether other Jews, the ones who don’t happen to have advanced degrees in religion and a few decades of rabbinic experience, might be even more seduced by this unfolding drama.

[subterfuge]

Further proof that many jews fear Christians and Christianity more than they do islamists. (Its why they continually vote with the hard left)

[HereInTheHeartland]

I'm not offended by it, but it has really come on quickly. I agree; if he starts playing poorly; he will probably lose a lot of instant fans.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Don't you think this means that they are ashamed to have published it; they know it was wrong; and they have done the best they could to correct their error?

I sure hope so. But that doesn't excuse the fact that they published it in the first place. Their editorial review board read it and had no problem with it until they started getting the criticism. The one good to come out of this is that the comments under the article --whether they came from Christians, Jews or even atheists -- almost uniformly condemned the column as a bizarre, bigoted rant.