See Friday's entry about the Jewish Defense League's apparent reaction to the alleged 50 billion dollar stock market fraud Bernie Madoff (who not only is a Jew, but apparently traded upon Jewish "clannishness" to victimize other Jews). The main reaction (whatever other disclaimers there may have been) of the JDL appears to have been concern about Madoff fueling a "further" rise in anti-Semitism. Sorry. I don't care who you are. If your knee jerk reaction to a massive fraud by a Jew is to worry about anti-Semitism, you are a useless, bigoted organization regarding the world in terms of groups--especially your own group--rather than a world of individual justice. The JDL has exposed itself as a useless, counterproductive organization.
That is why this overlooked attempt by the JDL to gain attention, and advance its own agenda and power, was deemed worthy by the pointing "Finger" of this week's Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate.
The Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate, if you are in ignorance of the truly important awards being made in today's real U.S.A., is this blog's reincarnation of the old "Laugh In" award every week (an unauthorized reincarnation). As is true of this reincarnation, the old "Laugh In" award was for outstanding stupidity and/or evil that came to the attention of the pointing Finger in the previous week--an award represented by a statuette of a pointing INDEX finger.
As I have previously said, the primary bigots in the country today are of the left. That is not to say that there remain no bigots on the right. It is to say that bigotry is much more pervasive on the left, and in the mainstream media, to the point that it is not even acknowledged for the bigotry it is. Yes, I regard the JDL as part of the left, certainly in type of mindset, even though it is obviously a fanatic "interest" group of the same type as those Muslim "anti-discrimination" groups that tend to excuse the words and actions of extremist Muslims.
I quote Robert Young, from "Adventure in Baltimore" (the movie in which he gave the best preview of his "Father Knows Best" character: The left is "mean, bigoted and intolerant." Yes, the JDL comment on Madoff was "mean, bigoted and intolerant, because it implied that it should not be mentioned that Madoff is a Jew, or that many of the victims may have been lured into their loss by a type of Jewish bigotry (preferring to deal with, and trust, another Jew, rather than people outside of the Jewish community). Yes, again, a statement purporting to condemn bigotry can reveal bigotry. It is simply the wrong reaction to a crook like Madoff to worry that others will be inspired to anti-Semitism (basically a non-problem in the U.S.--a statement behind which I stand, even though I have previously condemened--and continue to condemn--the kooks of the "New World Order", "international Jewish Conspiracy" types for the deluded, bigoted kooks that they are).
Yes, "Adventure in Baltimore" is another one of those older (1949) Hollywood movies showing that we have regressed in many ways in this country. This is only apparently a major digression on my part. It all goes to prove my point that the left in this country, and the media in general ("journalists"), are more "mean, bigoted and intolerant" than ever.
"Adventure in Baltimore" (rating 73) is a pretty good movie attacking the evils of gossip. In the process, it makes an absolute mockery of that Turner Classic Movie, leftist, "documentary--narrated appropriately by Jane Fonda--about the way the Hollywood "Code" supposedly subjugated women in the movies into mere submissive housewives. The thesis was that the "pre-Code" females were "complicated" women, while after the Code they were Stepford women. That is a thesis worthy of Jane Fonda and the left, and which this blog has rightly mocked as the absurdity it is. The only "casualty" of the "Code" was SEX, and not feminism (unless the disastrous--to women--modern sexual "freedom" is regarded as the entire essence of feminism). It is enough to say that the major success of Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck occurred AFTER the "Code". The best feminist political movie ever made is "The Farmer's Daughter", with Loretta Young--also, coincidentally, an indictment of the "politics of personal destruction" now routinely employed by the left.
Yes, we all fully know the evils of rumor, back fence gossip, paying too much attention to personal attacks based on agenda. This blog has previously cited these movies: "People Will Talk", "The Chidren's Hour", and "Ridicule" (an absolutely great condemnation of the CNN/mainstream media/leftist attacks on Sarah Palin made before Sarah Palin was even an adult).
The media does not confine this modern use of gossip merely to politics, of course (Fox News, this means YOU). The routine speculation (think Joh Benet Ramsey) on criminal matters, and many other things, is nothing more than truly evil gossip. These "journalists" (not to mention lawyer and psychological "panelist" "experts" should not be able to sleep at night. Who knows. Maybe they don't. Remember the attacks on hero Richard Jewell? Well, the media does not, as they do not remember any of the lessons of these movies over 70 years or more.
It is the same as FDR's "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". People pay lip service to the sentence, and then promptly ignore the meaning--as if they are not even aware of the meaning (which they are not).
You may think I am too hard on CNN and the rest in this blog. Wrong. I am not hard enough. These people engage in evil on a daily basis. I don't have the stomach or the time to try to report on it all.
You think I am letting my bias influence my opinion of the left? Wrong again. Where to start? Should I mention the attacks on Clarence Thomas? Should I mention the attempt to say that President Bush was disqualified to be President because of an alleged, decades old DUI? Should I mention that Obama's decades old hard drug use was treated (coreectly, but not consistently) as a mere youthful indiscretion? What about the attempt to crucify President Bush over really a pretty minor, and exaggerated, alleged failure to fully comply with his National Guard responsibilities?
It has gotten worse. Yes, look at "Advanture in Baltimore", "The Farmer's Daughter", and "People Will Talk"--supposedly presenting the tolerant, "liberal" point of view. Then look at the treatment of Sarah Palin. Think of poor Bristol Palin. What about those allegations--endorsed on CNN and much of the left--that Palin could not be a mother and still do a good job as Vice President? Should the opposition have used that smear against Loretta Young, in "The Farmer's Daughter"? After all, Loretta Young was probably going to get pregnant, and have babies, AFTER being elected to Congress. What can you say about CNN sending a team to Alaska to "investigate" the rumors about Sarah Palin not even being the mother of her last child? Then there is that decades old D:UI arrest of Sarah Palin's husband.
Hey. I am just getting started. See Friday's entry where I discussed Jehovah's Witnesses, and the law in "conservative" Texas on refusing to allow evidence of religious practices to be used against a parent in a divorce/custody matter. Compare that with the leftist attempt to smear Sarah Palin with religiously bigoted innuendo based on her former affiliation with a Pentecostal church ("speaking in tongues", you know). What about the article from the religiously bigoted leftists in the Associated Press "revealing" that Mitt Romney's great grandfather was a polygamist (Horros!!!--except not only irrelevant and bigoted, but true of Obama's ancestors as well, although you would never know it from the disgraceful, sanctimonious hypocrites at the AP).
Then there is Christmas--jot to mention Rick Warren. People in Washington State were not free to observe a Nativity Scene explaining the meaning of Christmas in the sate capital without being exposed to a "mean, bigoted, and intolerant" atheist diatribe against religion. Some towns in Massachusetts are so anti-Christmas that they refuse to allow "Christmas lights", unless they are referred to only as "holiday lights".
Then there is Obama, where it was viewed with alarm that "whites" might not vote for him, but accepted as absolutely normal that 99% (or something close to that) of African-Americans would vote for Obama. Yes, we are back to the JDL (told you it was not a total digression). Is it "normal" for Jews to prefer to deal with Jews, and to trust only other Jews (irrational as that view obviously is)? Well, in a way it is normal. But it is a type of bigotry, just as it is a type of bigotry to look at a major crime mainly through a prism of whether some people might attempt to use it to stir up anti-Semitism. The minds that react this way are mean, bigoted and intolerant minds. Plus, they are minds trying to "use" an outrageous crime to get attention for themselves.
This is all evil stuff. The people at CNN, MSNBC, the AP, and the rest (again including Fox News) are evil people. They have been condemned as evil people by "liberal" film makers in the past, and there is really no excuse for them. They are fully aware they are committing evil, in order to advance their own agenda (or sometimes ratings). They don't care. That is why I suggest that, in many ways, our country has digressed. Back fence gossip and character assassination have always been with us--as well as the bigotry of treating people as part of groups rather than as individuals. The difference now is that this is really accepted. It used to happen, but be condemned (again, see the movies I reference over a 70 year period).
I repeat: The JDL is an intolerant group with absolutely the wrong reaction to the individual crime of a member of the group (Jews) whose interest the JDL is supposedly "protecting".
Award ceremony (again entirely in the imagination, with no graphics, which is why I suggest you use the image--if you ever saw the orignial--of Dick Martin presenting the award on the old "Laugh In" as a visual aid, even though Martin and "Laugh In" ;have no connection to this blog):
Imagine Dick Martin thrusting the statuette of the Finger at the camera, and saying: "Jewish Defense League, this is for you. You deserve it--mean, intolerant and bigoted as you are.
Return next week to see where the Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate points. It has previously pointed to President Bush (last week), Henry Paulson, and Obama in the past--as well as the evil people at CNN, MSNBC, the AP and--yes--Fox News. So it could point anywhere.
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