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By Elton Beard There are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide people into two kinds and those who don't. I don't. |
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| Saturday, January 14, 2006 |
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Shorter Andrew Klavan:
Why God chose the Jews
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Plus: Bad Example. To falsely accuse people of anti-Semitism is not a good thing, if only because it dilutes the impact of more legitimate alarums. Here's how Klavan does it: Or how about when Venezuelan leader - and anti-American Iran ally - Hugo Chavez warns that "descendants of those who crucified Christ ... have grabbed all the world's riches for themselves"?Now, Chavez's statement has engendered some controversy, mostly because the Simon Wiesenthal Center has demanded an apology for it. But Klavan quotes rather selectively from the Christmas Eve speech. Here is a more complete sampling: The world has enough for all, but it turned out that some minorities, descendants of those who crucified Christ, descendants of those who threw Bolivar out of here and also crucified him in their own way in Santa Marta, there in Colombia, a minority took the world's riches for themselves.In context, it's at least arguable that this is a generic reference to oppressors of the downtrodden, with no implication of Jew-hatred. The Confederation of Jewish Associations of Venezuela (CAIV), the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress all read it that way and strongly disagree with the Wiesenthal Center. But you wouldn't know that from the truncated depiction provided by the LA Times' chosen Op-Ed writer. One more thing. It would be unfair to ignore the more subtle (for a Manichean) lesson Klavan wants to teach us, which is that if you find an opinion of yours to be also held by a villain, you should reconsider your opinion. The logic is supposed to work like this: Chavez is an anti-Semite; therefore, Chavez is a villain. Chavez the villain is a leftist; therefore, all leftists should reconsider their opinions. Well, maybe. But then, shouldn't Andrew Klavan reconsider his belief that Jews are God's chosen people in light of the fact that it's also held by Pat Robertson? | |
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
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Shorter Jonah Goldberg:
... and so what if you are?
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Plus: Jonah's Whopper. This article (the ellipses in the title of which refer to a preceding piece entitled "You're being watched ...") includes the following assertion by Mr. Goldberg: ... according to Risen's book, "about 500 people" living in the U.S. who were in contact with suspected terrorists had their communications tapped. Risen calls this "large-scale" spying on the American people even though, as the Weekly Standard recently noted, this constitutes "1.7 ten-thousandths of 1% of the U.S. population.But James Risen does not say that only "about 500 people" in the U.S. have had their civil rights criminally violated by the Bush Administration. James Risen has been interviewed since completing his book and he says something completely different from what Jonah Goldberg claims he says. From an interview with Andrea Mitchell on January 3rd: Mitchell: Is the president correct when he tells the American people that the NSA was only intercepting "a few numbers?"Jonah Goldberg is not an honest interlocutor. | |
| Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
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Shorter Reuel Marc Gerecht:
'Hearts and Minds' in Iraq
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Plus: Your freedom requires my firm guiding hand. Reuel Marc Gerecht leaves Robert Novak in the dust when push comes to smarmy and may someday inspire a perfume named Condescension if his head doesn't snap backwards off his neck first, but he is not without an occasional insight. From the on-line Q/A for today's article: North Haven, Conn.: Since covert CIA propaganda is such a force for good in promoting U.S. policy, do you advocate it for the home territory? Why or why not?Obviously, space would not have sufficed for the complete list. But he's not too happy with his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. Apparently it's been concentrating on jejune stuff like intelligence gathering to the detriment of more, shall we say, physical activities, since around the time Oliver North departed the White House. It's like, nobody wants you to have fun anymore. | |
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