Nixon, Billy Graham on tape expressing anti-semitism

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

As for any of the rest of it, you are preaching to the choir here. And as far as I am concerned, Billy Graham didn't hijack no airplane and take out the WTC. As for *leftist Jews*, I got no use for leftist anything. Last time I checked, Dasholstein, Kennedystein, Kerrystein, and Mad Maxie Waterstein or Queen Shiela Jihacksonstine Lee weren't Jews at all. Odd ain't it that so many NON Jews are so leftist and how many REAL Conservatives like Patrick J. Buchannanstein sold their souls to the lefties for a few measley bucks. Effing hypocrites.

No link, just me.

Finkelstein's a Holocaust denier? His parents are survivors...

Ethnocentric critics might call him that.

Speaking of Finkelstein...

In his book, Finkelstein quotes Israeli writer Boas Evron, "Holocaust awareness is actually an official, propagandistic indoctrination, a churning out of slogans and a false view of the world, the real aim of which is not at all an understanding of the past, but a manipulation of the present."

Former Israeli Foreign Secretary Abba Eban once observed: "There's no business like Shoah business." Two important books can help us better understand the prominent position the Holocaust has captured in the American consciousness.

The first book is Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life, and the second is Norman Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry. Novick's more scholarly work caused quite a stir, but Finkelstein has been called a "self-hating Jew" by many of his critics. Finkelstein's more provocative work heavily cites Novick's book, yet Novick has called it "trash." I'd recommend reading Novick's book first, followed by Finkelstein's. You can decide if Finkelstein's interpretation of Novick's work is really off the mark.

Novick's main points are that the promotion of the Holocaust has served several specifically Jewish interests: particularly support for Israel, combating anti-Semitism and now promoting multi-culturalism. Finkelstein's point is that it's not about money, it's about more money, and the real victims aren't getting it. Both books are also very critical of Elie Weisel's role in the promotion of the Holocaust as a unique event "beyond understanding."

Well, genocide and violent ethnic conflict have been a part of human history from the beginning of time. Just look back at the last century- the Holocaust, Rwanda, Armenia, and the tens of millions killed in the name of communism- the killing fields of Cambodia, China, the Ukraine and Russia…

Back to the media…

In her October 25, 2000 column for Salon, an online magazine, feminist author Camille Paglia stated, "At any rate, much more open debate is necessary about the history of American alliance with Israel. Too often, criticism of Israeli policy is punitively policed and treated as if it were rank anti-Semitism."

Of course, no one dares talk about the ethnic interests of people like Richard Perle or Paul Wolfowitz or the countless Jewish media figures who frame this issue for Americans. There is far more criticism of Sharon's policy in Israel than in the U.S.

In addition to Paglia's suggestion, I would add that much more open dialogue is also necessary about Jewish media hegemony, the prominent position the Holocaust plays in American life, and anti-Semitism. However, these are extremely emotionally charged issues. Currently, there seems to be no "meaningful" dialogue occurring in this country. If anything, there is only a monologue.

Again, considering the history Jews and Gentiles have shared, combating anti-Semitism seems to be a rather logical and noble endeavor. However, I would argue that the methods being used to combat anti-Semitism are based in a belief that gentile Americans pose a real threat to American Jews. This type of paranoia was exemplified in the August 21, 2000 issue of New York magazine. The magazine featured a roundtable discussion of a "diverse minyan of the city's Jewish opinion leaders" discussing Jewish issues "in the wake of Joseph Liebermann's historic run." During the discussion, Bust magazine editor, Marcelle Karp, stated, "Things might be different in New York and in L.A., but in many parts of America, they still hate us. They, of course, are gentile Americans. Another participant, filmmaker Ben Younger, likened pre-war Nazi Germany to the United States circa 2000.

Americans are clamoring for diversity in the highest levels of corporate America, academia, the government, and we even want more diversity on TV, but we're not suppose to care that Jews (approximately 3% of the population) fill the majority of positions of power in many areas of the media. We're told that they are just Americans, who happen to be Jewish, acting as individuals, "pursuing the American dream."

From ADL website:

"Even a reputable British magazine in 1994 revived the stereotype of Hollywood in which an alleged "Jewish cabal" controls the industry. The article, in The Spectator, authored by William Cash, a Hollywood correspondent for the conservative British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, contended that Jews have created an "invidious and protective culture" that denies employment to non-Jews."

"The Anti-Defamation League expressed outrage at the article, saying that it raised the age-old canard of Jewish control and conspiracy and was reminiscent of classic anti-Semitic propaganda of the past hundred years. "Those Jews who enter the movie industry have done so as individuals pursuing the American dream, not as representatives of their religious group," commented ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman."

The National Review's John Derbyshire recently wrote the following on the Cash issue- "…recall the Spectator incident of 1994. In October of that year, the London Spectator - a literary and political magazine of impeccable gentility - published an article titled "Kings of the Deal", analyzing, in a thoughtful and entirely unthreatening way, the dominance of Jews like Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg in Hollywood. To the amazement of the Spectator's editor (who was Dominic Lawson - a Jew!) this innocuous article caused a storm of outrage in the U.S.A. The young author, William Cash, was denounced from the pulpits of political correctness - that is, from the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Prominent American Jews like Leon Wieseltier went into high-hysterical mode, denouncing Cash as the new Julius Streicher and so on. The storm went on for weeks, led by a howling mob of buffoons - Barbra Streisand, for example - who had certainly never read, nor probably even heard of the Spectator up to that point…It was a display of arrogance, cruelty, ignorance, stupidity and sheer bad manners by rich and powerful people towards a harmless, helpless young writer, and the Jews who whipped up this preposterous storm should all be thoroughly ashamed of themselves."

Bedtime.

Read this and tell me you think Charles Krauthammer, like myself, "is someone trying to rationalize and justify bigotry against the Jews, albeit in carefully couched prose."

By Charles Krauthammer

Friday, October 15, 1999

As Bob Woodward likes to say, he is the gift that keeps on giving. Richard Nixon, that is. And an endless source of amusement he is. We have all been having a great chuckle listening to Nixon again. More tapes, more titillation, most notably his ranting and raving about Jews. ("Generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards," etc.)

As a Jew, I have been asked several times about these revelations. I am entirely unmoved. First, I wonder how anyone would fare who had an open microphone in his office for 3,700 hours running. Second, Nixon was suspicious and paranoid about everyone. So what else is new?

Third and most important: I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. Tell me about his outer acts. And what were Nixon's outer acts vis-a-vis Jews? Well, in 1973, he saved Israel from possible destruction with his massive weapons airlift during the Yom Kippur War. He even put the U.S. military on worldwide alert to keep the Russians from intervening on Egypt's behalf.

I feel about Nixon the way I feel reading about Truman's occasional ethnic lapses. "In private, Truman was a man who still . . . could use a word like 'kike,' " writes David McCullough, "or, in a letter to his wife, dismiss Miami as nothing but 'hotels, filling stations, Hebrews, and cabins.' " So what? Truman remains a hero to Jews for having recognized the State of Israel at the crucial moment of its birth in 1948.

Herb Stein, who died last month, was chairman of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers. Reflecting on Nixon's Jewish problem, he wrote that he never felt anything but the utmost respect and friendship from Nixon. Whatever Nixon's private thoughts, both in his personal relations and in his public actions as president, he was a friend of the Jews.

It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician--his private thoughts, his inner demons--at the expense of his outer life. I cannot, for example, imagine Pat Buchanan ever saying even in private anything as nasty about Jews as did Nixon. But the public Pat Buchanan goes around fanning hatred for Jews with his sly and not so sly allusions to Jewish power, Jewish influence, Jewish disloyalty.

So who is the antisemite? Obsession with self is the motif of our time. It carries over into our thinking about public figures, to our preoccupation--long predating our fascination with Gary Hart's nocturnal trysts--with their inner life. The reductio ad absurdum of this tendency is Edmund Morris's disastrous book on Reagan. The subject of the book is really not Reagan but Morris, and when Morris does get around to Reagan, it is the inner "Dutch" that interests him, not the politician, the leader, the president.

The results are comical. Seven pages spent on imagining Reagan's thoughts while making his first movie, four pages on the momentous years 1976-1980, when Reagan remade American politics. Between Reagan's losing the nomination in '76 and winning the presidency in '80, the book is a near total blank. We hear about Morris's encounter with Jimmy Carter, Morris's publication of his Theodore Roosevelt biography, then get one page--out of 674--on the 1980 campaign.

One modern conceit is that the inner man is more important than the outer man. The second conceit is that somehow, thanks to Freud and modern psychobabble, we have real access to the inner man. As a former psychiatrist, I know how difficult it is to try to understand the soul of even someone you have spent hundreds of hours alone with in therapy. To think that one can decipher the inner life of some distant public figure is folly.

Even the experts haven't a clue. Remember that group of psychiatrists, 1,189 strong, who in 1964 signed a statement asserting their professional judgment that Barry Goldwater was psychologically unfit to be president? The very attempt to make such a diagnosis at a distance is malpractice.

Even Nixon, his private thoughts spilled out on tape forever, is no open book. Sure, the seething cauldron of inchoate hatreds and fears helps explain Watergate. But how do you match that with the man who cut through the paranoia and fear and opened the door to China, fashioned detente and ushered in the era of arms control--something less psychically roiled presidents had not been able to do?

"Know thyself" is a highly overrated piece of wisdom. As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and judge them by their works.

But I didn't "hear" either of them call someone "FJB."

I didn't hear anyone refer to "Hymie Town" either...

Finkelstein's a Holocaust denier? His parents are survivors...

Which makes him even more evil...Steven Plaut - National Review contributor - on Finklestein.

Were Billy and Dick right?

Historically, the "Big 3" networks have been owned by Jews: Paley at CBS, Sarnoff at NBC, and Goldenson at ABC.

Media ownership is always in flux, but the following is a reasonably accurate portrait of current media ownership in the United States by ethnic Jews:

The largest media company in the world was recently formed by the merger of America On Line and Time Warner. Gerald M. Levin, formerly the head of Time Warner, is the Chief Executive Officer of the new corporation. AOL-Time Warner has holdings in television (e.g., Home Box Office, CNN, Turner Broadcasting), music (Warner Music), movies (Warner Brothers Studio, Castle Rock Entertainment, and New Line Cinema), and publishing (Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune).

The second largest media company is the Walt Disney Company, headed by Michael Eisner. Disney has holdings in movies (Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, under Walt Disney Studios, includes Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures, Miramax Films); television (Capital Cities/ABC [owner of the ABC television network], Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television, Buena Vista Television, ESPN, Lifetime, A&E Television networks) and cable networks with more than 100 million subscribers; radio (ABC Radio Network with over 3,400 affiliates and ownership of 26 stations in major cities); publishing (seven daily newspapers, Fairchild Publications [Women's Wear Daily], and the Diversified Publishing Group).

The third largest media company is Viacom, Inc., headed by Sumner Redstone, who is also Jewish. Viacom has holdings in movies (Paramount Pictures); broadcasting (the CBS TV network; MTV [a particular focus of criticism by cultural conservatives], VH-1, Nickelodeon, Showtime, the National Network, Black Entertainment Television, 13 television stations; programming for the three television networks); publishing (Simon & Schuster, Scribner,The Free Press, and Pocket Books), video rentals (Blockbuster); it is also involved in satellite broadcasting, theme parks, and video games.

Another major media player is Edgar Bronfman, Jr., the son of Edgar Bronfman, Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress and heir to the Seagram distillery fortune. Until its merger with Vivendi, a French Company, in December 2000, Bronfman headed Universal Studios, a major movie production company, and the Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company (including Polygram, Interscope Records, Island/Def Jam, Motown, Geffen/DGC Records). After the merger, Bronfman became the Executive Vice-Chairman of the new company, Vivendi Universal, and the Bronfman family and related entities became the largest shareholders in the company. Edgar Bronfman, Sr. is on the Board of Directors of the new company.

Other major television companies owned by Jews include New World Entertainment (owned by Ronald Perelman who also owns Revlon cosmetics), and DreamWorks SKG (owned by film director Steven Spielberg, former Disney Pictures chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, and recording industry mogul David Geffen). DreamWorks SKG produces movies, animated films, television programs, and recorded music. Spielberg is also a Jewish ethnic activist. After making Schindler's List, Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Foundation with the aid of a grant from the U.S. Congress. He also helped fund Professor Deborah Lipstadt's defense against a libel suit brought by British military historian and Holocaust revisionist David Irving.

So what's next on Steven's ethnic activist agenda? Well, Spielberg bought the rights to A. Scott Berg's biography of Charles Lindbergh. But when he read Berg's biography, he was troubled by parts of Lindbergh 's life… In February of 1999 Spielberg told the New York Times: "We'll probably make `Lindbergh ,' but one of the reasons I've considered not being the director is that I didn't know very much about him until I read Scott Berg's book and I read it only after I purchased it, and I think it's one of the greatest biographies I've ever read. But Lindbergh 's America First and his anti-Semitism bother me to my core, and I don't want to celebrate an anti-Semite unless I can create an understanding of why he felt that way. Because sometimes the best way to prevent discrimination is to understand the discriminator."

He didn't know very much about Lindy until he read Scott Berg's book? Really, that's not what A. Scott Berg says…The following piece from New York Magazine makes it look like he wants to vilify Charles Lindbergh. Of course, Lindy was guilty of raising an anti-Semitic "canard" or two.

Lindbergh Drama Gets The Works

"...Exactly what Steven Spielberg knew and when he knew it was the question, after news circulated that the Academy Award nominated writer Paul Attanasio had withdrawn from a planned Charles Lindbergh project. Spielberg bought the rights to A. Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of the famous aviator before reading the book, and the story making the rounds last week was that Spielberg turned cold on the project once he realized exactly how anti-Semitic Lindbergh was. 'He did buy the rights to the book before reading the manuscript,' confirms Berg, 'because I was still working on it.' But the writer adds that Spielberg always knew about Lindbergh. 'When he and I first met, topic A was anti-Semitism,' says Berg. 'And I would say that topic Z was anti-Semitism as well.' Another source close to the project explains that Attanasio, who wrote QUIZ SHOW and DONNIE BRASCO, wanted to write a character based drama, while the director of SCHINDLER'S LIST wanted more of a 'spectacle.' Spielberg is now talking to another writer about taking over the project..."

In the world of print media, the Newhouse media empire owns 26 daily newspapers, including several large and important ones, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Newark Star-Ledger, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune; Newhouse Broadcasting, consisting of 12 television broadcasting stations and 87 cable-TV systems, including some of the country's largest cable networks; the Sunday supplement Parade, with a circulation of more than 22 million copies per week; some two dozen major magazines, including the New Yorker, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Bride's, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Self, House & Garden, and all the other magazines of the wholly owned Conde Nast group.

The newsmagazine, U.S. News & World Report, with a weekly circulation of 2.3 million, is owned and published by Mortimer B. Zuckerman. Zuckerman also owns New York's tabloid newspaper, the Daily News, the sixth-largest paper in the country, and is the former owner of the Atlantic Monthly. Zuckerman is a Jewish ethnic activist. Recently he was named head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella organization for major Jewish organizations in the U.S. Zuckerman's column in U.S. News and World Report regularly defends Israel and has helped to rejuvenate the America-Israeli Friendship League, of which he is president.

Another Jewish activist with a prominent position in the U.S. media is Martin Peretz, owner of The New Republic (TNR) since 1974. Throughout his career Peretz has been devoted to Jewish causes, particularly Israel. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, he told Henry Kissinger that his "dovishness stopped at the delicatessen door," and many among his staff feared that all issues would be decided on the basis of what was "good for the Jews" (Alterman 1992, 185, 186). Indeed, one editor was instructed to obtain material from the Israeli embassy for use in TNR editorials. "It is not enough to say that TNR's owner is merely obsessed with Israel; he says so himself. But more importantly, Peretz is obsessed with Israel's critics, Israel's would-be critics, and people who never heard of Israel, but might one day know someone who might someday become a critic" (Alterman 1992, 195).

The Wall Street Journal is the largest-circulation daily newspaper in the U.S. It is owned by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a New York corporation that also publishes other daily newspapers and the weekly financial paper Barron's. The chairman and CEO of Dow Jones is Peter R. Kann. Kann also holds the posts of chairman and publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

The Sulzberger family owns the New York Times Co., which owns other newspapers, including the Boston Globe. It also owns twelve magazines (including McCall's and Family Circle, each with a circulation of more than 5 million), seven radio and TV broadcasting stations; a cable-TV system; and three book publishing companies. The New York Times News Service transmits news stories, features, and photographs from the New York Times by wire to 506 other newspapers, news agencies, and magazines.

Jewish ownership of the New York Times is particularly interesting because it has been the most influential newspaper in the U.S. since the start of the 20th century. As noted in a recent book on the Sulzberger family (Tifft & Jones 1999), even at that time, there were several Jewish-owned newspapers, including the New York World (controlled by Joseph Pulitzer), the Chicago Times-Herald and Evening Post (controlled by H. H. Kohlsaat), and the New York Post (controlled by the family of Jacob Schiff). In 1896 Adolph Ochs purchased the New York Times with the critical backing of several Jewish businessmen, including Isidor Straus (co-owner of Macy's department stores) and Jacob Schiff (a successful investment banker who was also a Jewish ethnic activist). "Schiff and other prominent Jews like . . . Straus had made it clear they wanted Adolph to succeed because they believed he 'could be of great service to the Jews generally' " (Tifft & Jones 1999, 37-38). Ochs's father-in-law was the influential Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the AJCongress and the World Jewish Congress and the founder of Reform Judaism in the United States.

Cable giant Comcast, owned by Ralph and Brian Roberts.

There are some exceptions to this pattern of media ownership, but even in such cases ethnic Jews have a major managerial role. For example, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation owns Fox Television Network, 20th Century Fox Films, Fox 2000, and the New York Post. However, Peter Chernin is president and CEO of Fox Group, which includes all of News Corporation's film, television, and publishing operations in the United States. Murdoch is deeply philosemitic and deeply committed to Israel, at least partly from a close relationship he developed early in his career with Leonard Goldenson, who founded the American Broadcasting Company. (Goldenson was a major figure in New York's Jewish establishment and an outspoken supporter of Israel.) Murdoch's publications have taken a strongly pro-Israel line, including The Weekly Standard, the premier neo-conservative magazine, edited by William Kristol.

Another exception is NBC which is owned by General Electric. However, the President of NBC is Andrew Lack and the President of NBC News is Neal Shapiro, both of whom are Jewish. In addition, the Bertelsmann publishing group is a Germany-based company that is the largest publisher of trade books in the world and also owns magazines, newspapers, and music. Most of Bertelsmann's influence is outside the United States, although it recently purchased the Random House Publishing Company.

Some other Goyische companies: Hearst Communications- CEO Frank A. Bennack, Jr., the Chicago Tribune's empire which bought Times Mirror Co., Reader's Digest Inc., and Sony (which owns Columbia Studios and Tri-Star Pictures).

Maverick globalist Ted Turner is no longer relevant.

Bill Gates owns Slate. Mike Kinsley's half Jewish and I think one or two other contributors might be Jewish as well…Gates apparently also owns a big piece of Dreamworks and MSNBC.

Cable Baron John Malone, CEO of Liberty Media.

Media critic Mark Crispin Miller writes:

"The far-right media "critique" also ignores the role of major shareholders: buccaneers like Warren Buffett (Disney's largest investor); cyberlord Gordon Crawford, who manages the media holdings for the secretive Capital Group (which owns a chunk of every major player)."

"But more important, the far-right attack ignores the crucial point about today's media: Increasingly, their owners are publicly traded multinational corporations, chiefly answerable to banks, insurance companies and other institutional investors--and to advertisers, who are almost always the key source of revenue. Thus guided, corporate capitalism runs the show with no concern for any race or faith or for anything but profits."

This brings us to an interesting point. Richard Parson, an African-American, will soon take over for Gerald Levin at AOL/Time Warner. Could Parson be the first in a line of "Front" men for media empires? If the role of major shareholders is increasingly important, I think it will be important to know who the major shareholders are.

FAIR's Janine Jackson and National Radio Project's Phillip Babich on Media consolidation:

"Concentration in any industry means the consolidation of power and control in fewer and fewer hands. And when the industry that we're talking about is information, then it's all that much more dire and all that much more something we need to be concerned and active about…Fewer than ten media corporations now control, through ownership, most of the news and information we get in the United States. That number continues to shrink as these conglomerates cut mega-merger deals. On this program we take a look at the influence of money and corporate priorities on a basic democratic principle: freedom of the press."

Ethnicity matters. Let's have more diversity at the top.

Finkelstein can only be called a Holocaust denier in the highly esoteric sense that he denies what he considers the theological construct of the Holocaust, i.e., the mythification of the Holocaust. He most definitely does not deny that the Nazi extermination of Jews occurred.

Here is the crucial passage at the opening of his excellent book The Holocaust Industry:

This book is both an anatomy and an indictment of the Holocaust industry. In the pages that follow, I will argue that "The Holocaust" is an ideological representation of the Nazi holocaust. Like most ideologies, it bears a connection, if tenuous, with reality.

And Finkelstein also has a footnote to this passage:

In this text, "Nazi holocaust" signals the actual historical event, "The Holocaust" its ideological representation.

Thus, it should be clear that Finkelstein is certainly not a Holocaust denier in the sense that that phrase is conventionally used in English.

I feel it is human nature to be anti-semitic. The truth about God's chosen people Israel only comes from a revelation of God. I also believe this is true about abortion. I used to be, by nature, anti-semitic and pro abortion until God revealed the truth to me.

Though I would temper this theory with the probability of how committed are such Arabs to the war they have so far prosecuted against the U.S.A. directly; that is to say, if so committed to war, then that committment puts limits upon how far they can suddenly position themselves to be the "peace makers" early enough in order that such marketing has some affect on the elections here.

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American Jews of the liberal bent have been in control of the American (so-called) entertainment industry, the news media, and the publishing world for decades. And many of these powerful liberal American Jews are not only playing a major role in the destruction of the moral/historic fabric of this country; but they are also working every bit as hard as Arafat and his minions to achieve the destruction of the Jewish State. They put their political liberalism before their Judaism, and seek peace in the Middle East, even if it means the fall of Israel. They are betrayers not only of their adopted country, but of their heritage and their homeland.

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