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by John Cole|  June 24, 200310:21 am| 8 Comments

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Who, in the last month, has made the following statements:

“Are Jews crazier than other people?”

“He was handed media stardom defending his mother

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  1. 1.

    Moe Lane

    June 24, 2003 at 10:30 am

    OK, I’ll be the fall guy: I dunno, John. Who DID say all those things?

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    PG

    June 24, 2003 at 11:03 am

    :-) Eric Alterman, the Jewish anti-Semite — isn’t that what John’s saying?
    Though by this measure, I’m a self-hating minority member as well.

    Chris Rock tried to explain this when he was saying who could and couldn’t say “nigger,” but I guess it didn’t make sense to everyone.

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    June 24, 2003 at 11:07 am

    I don’t think heis a self-hating jew- I just think he ascribes alot of silly things to jewishness.

    IN the self-guilt category, I will take my Irish Catholic friends over any jew, any day.

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    PG

    June 24, 2003 at 11:25 am

    I ascribe my talkative nature, lousy sense of time (IST) and intolerance of cold weather and bland food to my ethnicity. Due to my group’s not being as entrenched in American culture as Jews are, people think this is funny instead of offensive. Just wait ’til we get the “7/11 Owner of Venice”…

  5. 5.

    Ricky

    June 24, 2003 at 12:42 pm

    Alterman’s not anti-semitic. He’s just a jackass.

  6. 6.

    MonkeyPAnts

    June 24, 2003 at 5:36 pm

    “Alterman’s not anti-semitic. He’s just a jackass.”

    Explain the difference.

  7. 7.

    M. Scott Eiland

    June 24, 2003 at 8:46 pm

    ‘”Alterman’s not anti-semitic. He’s just a jackass.”‘

    “Explain the difference.”

    When Alec Baldwin advocates that his political enemies be killed, he doesn’t single out Jews; therefore, he is a jackass, but not an anti-semitic one. Similarly, when Eric Alterman whines and snivels about the election of 2000, he doesn’t single out Jews when making his list of imaginary enemies, so the same argument applies: jackass, but not an anti-semitic one.

  8. 8.

    M. Scott Eiland

    June 24, 2003 at 8:49 pm

    “Chris Rock tried to explain this when he was saying who could and couldn’t say “nigger,” but I guess it didn’t make sense to everyone.”

    It must be part of the same philosophy that lets white liberals call conservative minorities “oreos”, “coconuts”, “bananas’, and other similar terms, and insulting their intelligence and other traits without being called racists by their minority co-ideologists.

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