Anti-Semitism Detector

I am listening to Michael Medved and he's discussing events in Gaza.  As is his MO, he's taking calls from people who are opposed to Israeli bombing of Gaza (or in fact, of them standing up for themselves in any way.)  I've heard shows like this before, whether its Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt or Medved and it never fails to amaze me how each of these hosts have what must be an anti-Semitism detector.  Clearly you can oppose what Israel is doing and not be an anti-Semite.  And at first many of these callers sound like they are disagreeing on debatable geo-political topics.  Then at some point in the conversation the host must get a whiff of something more to the story and inevitably they ask a pointed question specifically about Jews and amazingly (to me) these callers don't make any real attempt to side step it.  They walk right up, take a swing and reveal themselves completely to be bigoted at best and truly insane at worst.

This time the caller began with claims that Israel's response was unfair and poorly reported by the media.  He then segued into saying that Hamas was probably not even responsible for the rockets; instead it was Mossad agents sneaking into Gaza and firing rockets on their own to make it look like Hamas.  Then Medved just asks him straight out when he first started having problems with Jews and his response was when he realized that Jews were responsible for the assassination of John Lennon.  Just let that sink in for a moment, because it gets better.  Have you allowed the crazy to really wrap itself around your brain?  Ready for more?  When asked why Jews would want John Lennon dead he said it was because they thought John Lennon was the second coming of Christ.  Now, I don't claim to be a biblical scholar or expert in Jewish theology, but I'm pretty sure that if Jews thought John Lennon was the son of God, they'd think he was the first one, not the second one.

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  • 3/2/2010 3:12 AM network vulnerabilities wrote:
    I will read time to time that
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  • 6/30/2010 11:05 PM JC Horth wrote:
    After moving to Israel last year, I was able to conclude that news are over exaggerating with adjectives they use and descriptive terms - & that media can filter the type of events they want to broadcast, and has the capacity to create an image globally far from what's the real deal.
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  • 6/30/2010 11:08 PM Moving to Israel wrote:
    After moving to Israel last year, I was able to conclude that news are over exaggerating with the descriptive terms they use - & that media can filter the type of events they want to broadcast, and has the capacity to create an image globally far from what's the real deal.
    ~JC Horth
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