ABL and John have already hit this one hard, but, having dealt with the mouth puke that comes from reading the source text “outing” Sandra Fluke’s boyfriend as (horrors!) a Jew, I’m feeling the need to add my $0.02.
It’s probably not worth bothering with the historical idiocy used to underpin that source’s overt anti-Semitism, (no link to the asshole, but check out Tbogg for both righteous smackdowns and the connection if you want it). But given the time I spent getting to know that notorious Jewish Socialist nutbag and traitor to all that is good and just in the world, Albert Einstein, I can’t pass without comment this one line:
New Bedford, MA, where Raphael Mutterperl ran the family’s manufacturing arm, was a hotbed of Marxist trade-unionism in early 20th century America. Why? It was easy to “sell” radical trade-unionism to a whole people group who were brought up in the lap of Weimar Marxian ideology, because New Bedford had many new eastern-European Jewish immigrants living there at the time, including, of course, the Mutterperl family.
There truly aren’t enough integers to count the stupid in those two sentences, but just to offer one more of my futile nods to what we laughingly call “reality,” I’d like to point out that the Weimar Republic was, of course, an explicitly anti-Marxist political construction (see, e.g. the the decisions taken by the SPD government during the January Uprising, a of January 1919.
Hint: when the German Communist Party’s campaign to destabilize the the Social Democrat-led government turned into an insurrection, that government called for help from the old Kaiserene military elite, and deployed Freikorps, unofficial units of former soldiers led by right-wing officers, to crush the insurgency.) The sense (sic!) of the phrase “Weimar Marxian ideology” is roughly analogous to this: “Pentacostal Islamic theology.”
Moran!
And then there’s the bizarre take on New Bedford as a hotbed of Weimar (read Jewish) degeneracy.* I actually checked out this fine young idiot’s link, which led me to a truly anodyne pamphlet on New Bedford’s Jewish history. There, using the man’s own source, I discovered that any German Jews in New Bedford in the early 20th century were mostly descendents of migrant peddlars who arrived in town in the mid-19th century — hardly a likely well spring for “radical trade-unionism” born amongst Berlin Reds in the 1920s.
Eastern European Jews started showing up after about 1875 — but they could no more be Weimar fifth columnists than their predecessors and, what’s more…
…Oh, hell. Why bother. You get the idea. The actual facts about the American immigrant experience hardly matters, not when your eyeballs fill with blood and your eardrums throb and all you can see or hear is Jew, jeW, jEw, JeW, jEW, JEw, JEW.
It is a necessary condition in the formation of this style of antisemitism that bone ignorance be combined with utter certainty, so it’s no surprise that our little friend proves such a putz.**
That he should be shamed, ridiculed, and embarassed to within an inch of his capacity to scribble in crayon is fine by me, but what really struck me on reading his attempt to combine word strings into something that reads roughly like English was that here we have the real answer to the question that sometimes pops up in neo-con Jewish circles: why won’t their co-religionists join them in voting Republican?
I’ll give y’all a hint: It’s not because — or not simply because — we think Republican policies violate the injuction to tikkun olam — to heal the world. Nor that the claims of both tzedek and tzedakah, justice and charity, are ones that the contemporary GOP denies at every turn. Nor even the argument that reflexive support of the worst impulses in Israel is the surest way to do Israel great harm over time.
No, at least in part, and on some level of deeply sensed distrust, it is because I and lots of both secular American Jews and deeply devout ones know that when you scratch enough of those with whom our co-religionists would have us ally, you get this kind of dreck.
Put it another way: listening to a party whose dog whistles against our first African American President have become as audible as air raid sirens, it’s not that hard to remember the rest of the package bundled with such loathesomeness.
There are a lot of reasons to support Barack Obama in the coming weeks and months. One big one is that you have to remember that the folks putting the hate on what an African American in the White House symbolizes have lots more rage to go round. That this lesson gets daily reinforcement helps make this election season at once so fascinating and so repulsive. For today’s reminder, and for that service only, I am grateful to the imbecile who decided that the Jewishness of Sandra Fluke’s partner is such a profound mark of shame.
Oh: and f**k you with a rusty pitchfork, you spawn of history’s sewer. Also too.
*That’s what I think really lodged in this unfortunate writer’s excuse for a brain: Weimar, we know, is associated with not just Jews, but gay Berlin (oh! That Isherwood fellow again) terrifyingly non-uplifting art (who is this George Grosz and why can’t he paint nice pictures of flowers and birds?) too much sex and who knows what else besides. Anything with that much going on is a priori evil, and given that Marxism is wretched to the root as well, then what the hell….
**And no, I’m not referring to the traditional Amish Christmas nativity scenes. Why do you ask?
Image: Unknown photographer, Karl Liebknecht delivering the funeral oration for Spartacist comrades, late 1918 or early 1919.
Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of an Old Jew, 1654.
Cross-posted at The Inverse Square Blog.
Mnemosyne
Here’s one of my all-time favorites: Magnus Zeller’s The Orator.
It’s even more powerful if you get to see it in person — it’s in the German Expressionist collection of the LA County Museum of Art (aka LACMA).
MikeJ
You know who else complained about the way Jews ruined 1920s Germany?
When you keep repeating the joke, eventually it’s on topic.
nitpicker
Here’s the book Brooks Bayne says he got his information from.
Here’s a quote from the preface to the paperback edition of the book.
And the fact he uses this book, Bayne suggests, is proof he’s not Jew-baiting.
John T
I left a snarky comment over there on that dreck Graph article, saying something to the effect that the article seemed to have lost something in translation from the original German. But surprise, surprise, the comment was deleted within an hour.
beltane
It is not mentioned much in this country, but the American right was largely sympathetic to all aspects of Nazism, not just the construction of the Autobahn. As we have seen, absolutely nothing has changed over the past 80 years.
Bill Kristol, Pam Geller, et al. can fellate the far-right all they want but they’ll still never be accepted as Aryan by them.
David Koch
First the came for the contraception….
Chris
Also the fact that the Jews have spent 2,000 years living in “Christian nations founded on Christian values,” and know better than to invite yet another one of these.
stickler
Yeah, that article was something else. He wasn’t just alluding to Nazi rhetoric … he was actually channeling it. Lock, stock, and smoking barrel. Is this really 2012? This sort of rhetoric took a big hit ’round about June, 1945; I haven’t seen much of it, this raw, lately.
I’m starting to come around to the notion that there really can be no such thing as “peak wingnut.” It’s really turtles, all the way down.
ShadeTail
@David Koch:
It’d be more appropriate for you to use the *final* line of that old saying. They’ve already come for everything else.
PIGL
next they came for the rootless cosmopolitans. Or to put it other terms: in your country, there is problem.
Mnemosyne
@beltane:
As G says when the topic comes up, the only problem the American right wing seems to have with the Nazis is that they killed too many Jews. If they had only murdered, say, 1 million, Hitler would still be their hero today.
Well, by people other than Pat Buchanan.
Daaling
After going to some of those links I think I need to take a shower. And those were just the links making fun of the original links.
WAR, bitch, git some!
Mike in NC
Whenever I see references to the Weimar Republic and Freikorps, I see the horrific images created by Otto Dix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Dix
nitpicker
Here’s the link by Bayne. Someone want to save this and see if it’s there tomorrow?
nellcote
I blame Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism for all this throw the words in a hat and pull them out in any random order to name the enemy style so favored by the fringy assholes these days.
qkslvrwolf
Totally off topic, but Tom…you should come to barcamp boston and do a thing! :-)
http://www.barcampboston.org/
(Sadly, it’s at the NERD, not at MIT anymore.)
scav
Damn, was waiting all day for your next post to put this in and its more than usually sadly out of place. Still, as a brief palate cleanser before Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, etcetera
Science writing prize: Capture the drama, it’s rocket science!
J
Don’t forget
http://gawker.com/5868847/breitbart-should-probably-stop-posting-nazi+era-anti+semitic-cartoon-to-his-site
Steve
I’ve sort of been tuned out through this whole episode, but while this is pretty awful stuff, am I wrong or are we kind of picking on Some Guy With A Blog? I mean, does this person have any kind of legitimacy with anyone?
jl
I wondered in an earlier post on this topic, whether Volcker was included because the author thinks he is Jewish.
I am pretty sure Volcker is a German goy.
Volcker was also insanely inaccurately and anachronistically described as an Obama crony. But then maybe Obama is the inheritor of the notorious commie Jewish Carter/Reagan conspiracy. I dunno.
AA+ Bonds
THE JEWS!
AA+ Bonds
@Steve:
The right is antisemitic, it’s just how things are
AA+ Bonds
It’s really never a bad time to point out that the far right is and always will be the home turf of antisemitism
J
So are they going to start accusing Fluke of Rassenschande?
Riilism
Wow! I mean, just, Wow! Just out of curiosity, I dived into TBogg’s link. I’m speechless, except to say that I’m disappointed that celebrities (such as, say, Kris Kristofferson and Boxcar Willie), were excluded from Brook’s “theory”. If you’re gonna emphasize Volcker’s role in the Obama/Fluke conspiracy to have her Jewish boyfriend overthrow the regime and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat, you just gotta throw some celebrities into the mix. It helps maintain credibility….
opie jeanne
@efgoldman: I’m not Jewish and with this I have finally hit outrage overload. If there was a dial for my level of anger it would go way past 11.
And I’m exhausted by the sheer stupidity and hatred.
nitpicker
@Steve: Um, CNN contributor/Breitbart writer Dana Loesch is backing him up.
handy
So does this mean Obama by extension is also a Jew?
nitpicker
@Steve: Also, I won’t link, but this guy’s got a lot of new fans at Stormfront right now.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
THIS, Tom. THIS.
Also: More non-uplifting art.
opie jeanne
@efgoldman: @nellcote: I first ran into the “Nazis were Soci.alists (and therefore Leftists)” nonsense about 7 years ago, when W had just been re-elected.
The guy spouting this became nasty when I pointed out that they were neither, and told me that the US is a conservative nation and that we’d see just how much in the 2008 election, but in pretty rough language.
I knew him from flickr for several years earlier, he had admired some of my old photos in my collection and he had some amazing old publications, some from Germany about the time of the invasion of Poland.
After the disagreement I had to block him because he started posting this dreck under my photos. I told him to get stuffed before I did.
BGinCHI
Shorter GOP: We LOVE Israel. But Jews? Not so much.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@BGinCHI: Yep. They “love” Israel only in the way it plays a role in their armageddon fantasies.
David Koch
@handy:
You didn’t know that http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/files/2011/09/Obama-New-York-First-Jewish-President.jpg
My gawd, man, his chief of staff and campaign manager are both Jewish. What else can he secretly be, but Jewish.
David Koch
@BGinCHI:
/fixed
opie jeanne
@efgoldman: I am that old. Turned 62 on Friday.
opie jeanne
Stuck in moderation, oh well:
@nellcote: I first ran into the “Nazis were Soci.alists (and therefore Leftists)” nonsense about 7 years ago, when W had just been re-elected.
The guy spouting this became nasty when I pointed out that they were neither, and told me that the US is a conservative nation and that we’d see just how much in the 2008 election, but in pretty rough language.
I knew him from flickr for several years earlier, he had admired some of my old photos in my collection and he had some amazing old publications, some from Germany about the time of the invasion of Poland.
After the disagreement I had to block him because he started posting this dreck under my photos. I told him to get stuffed before I did.
jwb
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Or this.
handy
@David Koch:
Well since he’s also a Kenyan Soshulist Muslim Liberal Fascist I guess that completes the circle.
TheOtherWA
The rerun of Rachel MAddow is on now and worth it to watch the Inhofe interview. Really!
Inhofe got a bit uptight when Rachel asked him about his book. He wrote about her and something she said on her show in Dec 2009. It seems he took it out of context, so RM played that portion of her show. It was about the Xian ministers going to Uganda and promoting hatred of the gays and the devastating results those efforts produced. Inhofe was stammering, and claimed he knew nothing about those things, and Doug Coe is a wonderful man and Rachel should have him on her show. She said she’d love to, if only he return her calls.
Inhofe is a clown, but that was worth watching.
Riilism
@Riilism: My, my, did I make a mistake (see, the brainrot from reading that tripe is already setting in). Brooks did include a celebrity (not in the conspiracy, per se, but to “illustrate” his “point”). None other than Woody Allen (I wonder if Mr. Allen knows about this?). Well, there you have it. Case closed….
BGinCHI
Anyone else think The Hunger Games previews and the GOP primary season are the same narrative?
I can’t tell the diff.
Suffern ACE
@David Koch: Yep. Appointed people of Catholic and Jewish persuasions too the Supreme Court when he had the chance. He might be both. It’s like the Life Pi come to life.
asiangrrlMN
Your post is spot on, Tom. Bayne and his ilk are despicable, and I really hope all this ugliness backfires on them and in a big way this upcoming election. You are welcome to my rusty pitchfork™ any time – I have a hunch it’ll be getting a lot of use this silly season.
@Mnemosyne: That’s amazing, Mnemosyne. Thanks for linking it.
gorram
@stickler:
FTFY.
priscianusjr
Not to defend the asshole, but isn’t “Weimar Marxian ideology” just a short way of saying “German Marxist ideology during the Weimar period”?
handy
“Marxian?” Is that like the Received Pronunciation of the old Christian heretic? Maybe an inhabitant of the red planet?
Jebediah
@nitpicker:
Any chance that Loesch’s support for a White Aryan Resistance-pimping pimple will be too embarrassing for even CNN?
Oh my, I amuse myself sometimes.
TheOtherWA
The current crop of wingnuts are really ignorant and loud. They tire me out.
MGB
There is only one way I can describe what Cole, ABL and Tom have posted
Diese Leute haben die Juden Hass.
FSM, God, Zeus, who the fuck ever have mercy upon us if these folks come to power.
peggy
Thanks for the history lesson. Despite a membership in Rosa Luxemburg SDS at MIT in 1969, I didn’t know all this.
techno
MAN! I get nervous whenever the conversation turns to the various theological manifestations of Marx. Suffice it to say that Marxism was a murderous failure. I know the academics in the West will explain that the guys in USSR and China weren’t REAL Marxists. An irrelevant point. The main difference is that the Marxists who ran governments and had power tended to farm out their ideological work to guys like Suslov so they could get on with butchering their farmers.
No, it isn’t cool to promote Marx. Marx was an intellectual failure whose teachings were going to lead to food lines and Ladas, no matter how humanely applied. Time to bury that old charlatan.
Karen
I can’t take it anymore.
For the past months, it’s been getting worse and worse as things have grown more and more fascist and racist. But to see this blatant anti-semitism and nazi sympathizers on CNN? CNN is promoting nazi sympathizers?
And people like Glen Greenwald and the FDL people want to stay home to teach the Democratic party a lesson? Because purity is more important than the chance that these misogynistic, racist dominionists will be in control of the country?
There’s so much at stake and the GOP voters will be so motivated to get rid of Obama and all Democrats and the Democratic party will have people who say that it’s great if the Dems lose because we have to destroy the party to make it perfect?
Shooting myself in the head would be more pleasant than the new anti-Obama government.
Citizen_X
@techno: I’m a lot more fucking nervous about the various theological manifestations of fascism. Especially the Republican-Party-of-2012 model.
Jess
Interesting how the Jews can be condemned as both rich, greedy, bloodsucking one-percenters AND left-wing radical soshulists. Fucking logic, how does it work?
Yutsano
@Jess: Yeah. We’re pretty fucking talented like that.
Xenos
@techno: Marxism is an important topic to understand, and to debate. You won’t find any ‘believers’ in Marxism here, in any case. But knowing the details about and distinction between different strains of extreme left-wing thought is, if anything, a duty for a liberal or centrist. Just as conservatives ought to know the limits of their own ideology.
priscianusjr
@Jess:
The prophet Nostradumbass
@TheOtherWA: That interview was a train wreck. Inhofe is a liar, and an asshole. Maddow did a terrible job of interviewing him, except for the part about “The Family”, where she had a personal interest in what was in that shit’s book.
Jess
@priscianusjr: Ahhh, now I get it! and this must explain the diabolical plan of the unions to destroy the working class, right?
Steve in DC
Make jokes at your own peril here. The military is the tea party for the most part. And blame fucks like Maher and Pelosi (see their last TV special) for that. Make no fucking mistake, when push comes to shove, the military will go conservative everytime. I remember bucking Clinton yet felating Bush, it’s always that way.
And I personally value the military over my liberal ideals, spend a few years deployed and being shat on by the Ivy League left, you’ll hate them as well.
guckertgannon
@techno: Wrong. You just need to learn a lot more about Marx’s analyses, which were often superb and continue to inform much sociology, so much so that Marx has rather disappeared from attributions.
Also, too, you need to read a lot more Industrial Revolution social and political facts, and some stuff about the nature of revolutions, and then you’ll be able to get past your glib 1959 high school revulsion toward Marx. Then, you can contribute to the conversation (outside of wingnut circles, anyway).
middlewest
@nitpicker: Well, fuck, those Amazon reviews really remove all doubt, don’t they? Is “evolutionary psychology” just a fraud? It sure seems to get used to justify a lot of stupid shit.
Jess
@middlewest:
As does anything to do with evolution, it seems. I recommend Steven Pinker, “The Blank Slate” for an interesting discussion that challenges all sorts of ideologies on both ends of the political spectrum.
Mnemosyne
@middlewest:
Yes. Any time you take findings from a study of white, middle-class college students and declare that they prove something about the evolution of human behavior over the course of the past 200,000 years, you’re pretty much perpetrating a conscious fraud.
Jess
@middlewest: Yeah, those reviews are seriously creepy…
Jess
@Mnemosyne: I would argue that condemning an entire field based on its lunatic fringe also falls into that category…well, maybe “fraud” is too harsh, but “cherry picking” isn’t.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mnemosyne:
One of the problems fascism has is that the brand is tainted by the German variant. All that genocide gave the entire movement a very, very bad name.
This to the eternal regret of those in this country who admired Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco so much.
Well, except for Pat Buchanan, who nakedly embraces the entire enchilada.
Yutsano
@Villago Delenda Est: Franco is still dead tho, amirite?
Villago Delenda Est
@Yutsano:
Yes, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. No change since Chevy Chase was doing Weekend Update.
Joseph Nobles
@Riilism: Yeah, he totally McLuhaned Woody Allen to justify his Jew-not-hatin-just-sayin.
Plus, I love in the comments how the author states that nobody better pull the Jew-hatin card on him because he’s got a Russian Jew in the family. He’s as Jewish as fuckin’ Tevye, this guy.
Mnemosyne
@Jess:
I’m not judging the field based on anything in this post. I’m judging the field based on stuff coming out of otherwise respectable places like Newcastle University that claims evolutionary psychologists “proven” why all women, everywhere, throughout all of human history, prefer pink by studying — wait for it — 208 British college students.
Evolutionary psychology is a fraud.
(Edited to fix name of university)
asiangrrlMN
@middlewest: I checked all the one star reviews, and this quoted passage (from the book) stood out:
I’m part of the technocratic elite! YAY, me! What a crock of shit.
Mnemosyne
One last slam at EP before I go to bed: evolutionary psychology is what people study when anthropology sounds cool but turns out to be too much work, what with all of that living with other people and studying languages and doing field reports out in the middle of nowhere. Now you can stay at the university, test a few freshmen who need $20, and go out for a drink afterwards and the media will champ at the bit to get your grand pronouncements about how your study totally proves that gender stereotypes are true.
Jess
@Mnemosyne: Stoopid shit like that crops up in every discipline, especially the ones that focus on explaining human beings: psychology, anthropology, history, etc. It’s hard for us to look in the mirror.
SRW1
Hah, so they were 48ers (that ain’t referring to the California gold rush)! Which is to say this aspiring young history buff was off by just one German revolution. Given that there was a grand total of two such events in the last 164 years of German history, I’d say he still has hopes to qualify for the Jonah Goldberg league of history scholars. I mean, he was kind of close, wasn’t he.
Bruce S
Forget deconstructing “Jewish soxialism.” The thing that’s hilarious about this is that the only current evidence of ties to any world historical forces actually presented points to the Mutterperl pere being a legal counsel at high-end financial corporations – the primary one being incorporated into the Bank of America – and having been involved on an Arthur (cough…Enron…cough) Anderson oversight board with…uh…Paul Volcker. How this squares with soxialism in any of its ethnic permutations is one for the “insane right-wing pathologies” files. Paul Volcker, incidentally, is the only Federal Reserve Chair who Ron Paul has any kind words for and who functioned effectively as an extreme inflation hawk under Ronald Reagan. The notion that Volcker is even remotely “left” in any ideological sense, as opposed to a pragmatic pro-capitalist seeking that markets and monetary policy function most effectively by his lights, is nutty. Despite his currency among slightly “leftish” friends and would-be friends of the Obama administration, Volcker has been a target of left-liberals more often than he’s been an ally.
Frankly, I think the clown who wrote this crap has been given more than his allotted 15 minutes. It’s garbage. Has anyone ever heard of this douche before this started circulating on lefty blogs? (3 posts here! LG&M and, of course, the dreaded FireDogLake…)
Jebediah
@asiangrrlMN:
When you take over, please remember that I have always quietly been an asiangrrlMN supporter.
Yutsano
@Jebediah: Ahem. I fake-married her first bub. I’m First Concubine here! :)
asiangrrlMN
@Jebediah: Will do! You will be held in high esteem and have a place at my table.
@Yutsano: No, hon – you are Second Fake-Hubby! Jebediah can be First Mister.
joel hanes
Inhofe is a clown
Somehow I don’t feel inspired to laugh.
Jebediah
@Yutsano:
I know, and I wouldn’t dream of trying to supplant you… I’d be happy with a more lowly position, like maybe Seargeant-at-Rusty Pitchforks or some such.
Jebediah
@asiangrrlMN:
Thank you! I will do my best to not disappoint. (And if I do, I will probably try to distract you with cute pics of Otto and Juno, like this one.)
asiangrrlMN
@Jebediah: I like it. I hereby dub thee my bodyguard. So be it! ::taps you on each shoulder with my wooden sword::
asiangrrlMN
@Jebediah: SQUEEEEE! They are adorable! ::forgets all transgressions::
Odie Hugh Manatee
Wow, talk about breathtakingly anti-semitic. Breathtakingly stupid is another thought that comes to mind. Pig ignorant also works well. For some reason those three things seem to be the necessary ingredients for racists, anti-semites and the like.
It’s sad seeing shit like this out there. I hope the right is enjoying the shitstorm they have unleashed on the country.
I’m sure as hell not but I am hoping these assholes go supernova this November.
@opie jeanne:
Happy Birthday! :) You’re one decade ahead of me.
Here’s to it staying that way for a long time.
/cheers
Jebediah
@asiangrrlMN:
Yay! I will now celebrate by ingesting some Celebratory Substance.
El Cid
__
And from their point of view, 1 has a lot more in common with 1,000,000,000,000 than it does with 0, so they’re fine with just rounding up.
The “Weimar” or whatever government they choose to refer to did a lot of European-type stuff, so, therefore, it’s Marxist.
Jebediah
@asiangrrlMN:
Yeah, they’re pretty dang cute. I am right now uploading two more pix of Juno, taken with the fancy new used camera my (real-life) wife just gave me.
Xenos
I am just disappointed that this fool, upon putting together a New Bedford-based conspiracy, could not manage to work Fredrick Douglass and the whaling industry into the whole thing. How often do you get a chance to blame the near-extinction of the whales on the lieberals?
Lojasmo
@Steve in DC:
Officers, but the grunts are a pretty mixed bag. See Obama shooting hoops on the bases, and you will see tons of adoring troops. Of course you already know that if you’ve spent time in the forces, right? Right?
Omnes Omnibus
@Lojasmo: There are liberal officers as well. Sure, they are a minority, but they exist. Look at the the vets who have run for office recently.
atlasfugged
@nitpicker:
@nitpicker:
The author of that book, Kevin MacDonald, is a well-known anti-Semite, a sympathizer of Holocaust deniers, and a white supremacist:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/kevin-macdonald
He also writes for the white supremacist/white nationalist website VDARE:
http://www.vdare.com/users/kevin-macdonald
He is the go-to academic for the Stormfront crowd.
That Brooks Bayne (aka Brooks Anthony Martin) would cite MacDonald approvingly tells you all you need to know about his opinions of Jews and of Judiasm. One cannot deny being an anti-Semite while simultaneously endorsing the work of Kevin MacDonald. If someone endorses his work – especially the book linked to above, the thesis of which is that Jews are inherently corrupt and collectively an insidious blight upon the world – then that person is, incontrovertibly, an anti-Semite.
Barry
@techno: read before commenting, please.
beltane
@atlasfugged: “That Brooks Bayne (aka Brooks Anthony Martin)”
Is this the same person as Andy Martin/Anthony Martin-Trigona, the notorious Birther and former federal court pro se? He is well know in legal circles for his neverending series of frivolous lawsuits alleging there is a massive Jewish conspiracy against him.
Why is it that right-wing movements always draw the absolute dregs of society to them?
nitpicker
@middlewest: Well, I wouldn’t say fraud exactly. I think there are some in the field who are doing some interesting work, but, yeah, for the most part it’s filled with guys saying, So we started out here and then went here and then this happened and that’s why it’s natural for men to rape and white dudes were just made to hold power! QED!
Jado
When the establishment GOP finally realizes that they CAN’T control the Xtian Xrazies, they will probably need to purge them from the party.
Do you think the establishment will hesitate to label them as “Pentacostal Islamofascists”?
When the Great Schism comes, and the establishment and the religious right fully turn on each other, there are NO WORD COMBINATIONS that you could POSSIBLY come up with that one side or the other won’t employ.
It’s not about truth. It’s not about facts. It’s about rage, and powerlessness, and feeling helpless in your own life because you are TOLD to feel helpless, and IT’S ALL THOSE PEOPLE’S FAULT.
When each side gets around to blaming the other, there are no reasons that will be out-of-bounds.
atlasfugged
@beltane: Different guy. Brooks sports a thick black goatie and is apparently going for the archetypal “middle-aged, washed-up LA rocker/biker douchebag” look (picture: chain wallet, Ed Hardy tee, professionally distressed jeans, Chuck Taylors or motorcycle boots – also professionally distressed – and a beanie, fedora, or trucker hat atop the head). Andy Martin, on the other hand, looks like the archetypal Republican: bloated, pale, hair parted to the side, and decked out in strictly Brooks-Brothers-esque attire.
I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if they were both avid readers of Kevin MacDonald and had secret accounts at Stormfront.org.
kerFuFFler
@David Koch:
What a great line.
catclub
@handy: “So does this mean Obama by extension is also a Jew?”
Yes, the worst kind, an ISLAMIC Jew.
Jay C
@efgoldman:
Yeah, and hoping that the quiet time doesn’t mean said child is devoting its time to figuring out how to set the room (and probably the whole house) on fire…
Swishalicious
I could read Tom all day, every day. Everything he writes is goddamned brilliant
les
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Deb T
@Mnemosyne:
Love the hands.
Pococurante
@handy:
Jeff Goldberg thinks he may as well be:
elftx
thank the FSM for this blog and people like Tom !!
double nickel
I thought he was a Kenyan Muslim? I is so confused.
Jebediah
@atlasfugged:
Is that what he’s been doing since “Kids in the Hall” ended? What a disappointment.
atlasfugged
@Jebediah: It’s tough when the work dries up. Dave Foley has been handing out photocopies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on a street corner in Toronto ever since News Radio got cancelled. You gotta put food on the table somehow.
PanurgeATL
@ShadeTail:
Damn straight!
If you wanna know what they came for first, it’s long hair on white men, starting around 1975. And non-reactionary white men, not wanting to look like their priorities were out of order, decided, “Oh, well, I guess it’s not that important”, which is, of course, The Epitaph of Freedom. And that’s how it works–it starts out with stuff that’s Not That Important.
Right on the heels of that came punk rock, which, not realizing what was already happening in the rest of the world, actually made joining the Get A Haircut You DFH brigade hip. Net end result: The re-creation of a reactionary mindspace in the name of being hip, bold, rebellious, and independent-minded. And this is on the liberal side, mind you.