Neo-Conservatives insensitive to American Jews and just plain wrong when they insult thier critics

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The neo-conservative elements in major corporate media have crossed the line many times, but after the Michael Richards fiasco, Don Imus and everything in-between, here is Debbie Schlussel and Glenn Beck making comparisons to the German National Socialist Party and their opposite numbers in news media.

One would think that the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish watchdog groups would be up in arms over this. As of yet, this reporter has not heard nor seen anything in the American Jewish press about this. Why they would allow the neo-conservative punditry to insult and trivialise the xenophobic and genocidal Nazi organisation's attempt at racist human destruction at their expense is beyond me. And it is hypocritical of the Zionist movement to allow this to occur without challenge after hounding and demonising critics of of the political activites of Israel, especially in regards to comparisons of Nazi atrocities and their own genocidal practises against the Palestinian population indigenous to the region.

Ms. Schlussel's suggestion that Media Matters accepts funding from Nazi's is not only baseless but wholly insensitive to the Jewish community, many of which who have a personal connection the the European holocaust. Being Jewish herself seems to matter little. Neo-conservative punditry cares little for intrinsic self-respect.

Glenn Beck's hateful condemnation of former American vice president Albert Gore is shocking and it raises serious questions about television programming. When public personalities can brazenly insult individuals and frame talking points around unrelated issues and still keep thier jobs, it says a great deal about the American public and the illogical ways everyday people think about bias and socio-political equality.

While we should ignore them, we cannot. They are only what America has made by way of 200-plus years of immaculate violence still as of yet to be accounted for . - The Angryindian

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Update: The ADL has released a public statement and it can be accessed here.

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From Intelligentaindigena:

In a May 1 weblog post, right-wing
pundit Debbie Schlussel speculated that a
Canton, Michigan, resident who had allegedly
suffered "extensive" injuries to his hand when a
homemade "cherry bomb" he and his friends created accidentally
exploded might be Pakistani. Asserting that "[s]ince Muslim terrorists
are generally more
clandestine -- and occasionally more clever," Schlussel said that the
alleged cherry bomb maker and his friends in fact "might not be
Muslim." The only basis she cited for
her speculation that they might be
Pakistani was that, according to
her, there is a "large Muslim Paki, er ... Pakistani population" in
Canton. As Media Matters for America noted when Schlussel used the term in an April 16 blog post, "Paki" is a disparaging term for a person of
Pakistani descent. Schlussel used the term "Paki" twice in the
May 1 post, and said in her second use
of the
term: "I would be remiss in not pointing out the large Muslim
Paki, er ... Pakistani population in Canton.
After all, I wouldn't want to disappoint my friends from the deceptively-named,
Nazi-funded
Media Matters for America."

In describing Media Matters as "Nazi-funded," Schlussel linked
to an April 18 blog post in which she falsely claimed that Media Matters was funded by philanthropist
George Soros and smeared Soros as "a fake Holocaust survivor, who -- instead of 'surviving'
the Holocuast [sic] -- helped the Nazis perpetrate it." The only source Schlussel
provided for these claims was David Horowitz and Richard Poe's thoroughly discredited book The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton
and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nelson
Current, 2006). As Media Matters
has noted, several conservative media figures
have distorted Soros' experience as a 14-year-old boy in Nazi-controlled Hungary
to suggest that he collaborated with the Nazis.

Then enter Glenn Beck:

CNN's Glenn Beck to host hour-long global warming smear-fest

Summary: A CNN press release declared
that Glenn Beck's upcoming "special report" will "deflate what Beck perceives as the media hype surrounding global
warming" and "question[] the accuracy of Al Gore's claims in
the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient
Truth." Beck has repeatedly advanced falsehoods related to
global climate change, cited debunked scientists to support his doubts that
"we're causing" global warming, and regularly attacked Gore.

During the May 2 edition of
his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck will air an hour-long "special
report" titled "Exposed: Climate of Fear"
that, according to an April 30 CNN press release, will "deflate what Beck perceives as the media hype surrounding global
warming" and "question[] the accuracy of Al Gore's claims in
the Oscar-winning documentary An
Inconvenient Truth of 20-foot sea
level rises and the disastrous effects of increased carbon dioxide
levels." As Media Matters for America
has noted, Beck has repeatedly advanced falsehoods related
to global climate change, cited debunked scientists
to support his doubts that "we're causing" global warming and
developed a pattern of attacking Gore.

Most recently, on the April 30 edition of
nationally syndicated radio show, Beck falsely claimed that "even the
U.N. says" Gore is wrong in suggesting sea levels could rise by 20 feet.
He went on to liken Gore's climate change awareness campaign to the tactics
Hitler used in "rounding up the Jews and exterminating them."