Here is our correspondence:

Keepin’ It Real Says:
July 28th, 2010 at 12:40 am

If Americans haven’t heard of AIPAC, the ADL, the Jewish Warner Brothers, Fox, etc then they must be retarded. What about the Banking System controlled by Ben “Shalom” Bernanke, Allan Greenspan or Larry Summers.

Oliver Stone is a great director who causes people to think. I know most Conservatives can’t do that because we all know that the Earth is 6000 years old, Jesus was real and Global Warming is a hoax created by Communists. Right?

Stones got balls for being. If most Americans disagree with him on Jew Power than they are deservedly the biggest joke on the planet because every other nation knows that Jews Run the Western World and especially braindead America.

- Canadian Government Policy Analyst

My first response:

Ari Says:
July 28th, 2010 at 11:42 am

It’s good to see that you’ve kept up with the Protocols. So courageous of you to lash out in an antisemitic rage, then sign your inane drivel with “Canadian Government Policy Analyst.” A true profile in courage…

“AIPAC, the ADL, the Jewish Warner Brothers, Fox, etc”
You sure have a solid point there – AIPAC and the ADL do exist – jackpot! Who could imagine such a devious scheme as a group of like minded people joining together to advocate their perspective?

And the Warner brothers – they were Jewish. They did build a business from the bottom up. Case and point! (one is left to wonder what this case and point are?)

And FOX, etc? That beats me. I guess Rupert Murdoch and Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal are secretly Jewish, right? Oh, and the media at large is just in the bag for Israel, right?

Of course, no Jew hater would be complete if he didn’t believe that the Jews control the banking system. In fact, this small cabal actually runs the entire Western World! Yours are the paranoid claims of a very sick individual.

Followed by:

Keepin’ It Real Says:
July 28th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

Ari,

I am a Canadian Analyst and discuss with other international analysts- we know!!!

If you believe that Jamaicans run or influence Hollywood significantly or that the Somali lobby, Pakistani lobby or the Irish lobby are as powerful and vicious as the Israel/Jew lobby you are not living in the real world. Get real man!!!

We live in a world where every tough question is covered up with the references to Protocols, “Anti-Semite” or some other junk to shut up and discredit Jew power. You can fool the illiterate, white-trash masses in America maybe, but elsewhere……forget it!

And finally:

Ari Says:
July 28th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Congratulations, you and a bunch of anonymous bureaucrats get together and bash regular people (“white-trash masses in America”) and share your Jew hatred (most likely on the dime of the “white-trash masses”). When it comes to delusional conspiracy theories, I have no doubt that you all “know.”

It would appear as though you’ve uncovered an insidious Jewish conspiracy in Hollywood. Time Warner, the publicly traded parent company of Warner Brothers along with General Electric, the publicly traded parent company of Universal, are really in secret Zionist cahoots!

And you’re right – the Jews are the only interest group that exerts pressure on the American government. There are no other lobby groups – that is why lobbyists are in such low supply. I’m sure you also believe that the ‘neo-cons’ are working to advance the Zionist agenda, right? Perhaps when people call you a Jew hater it’s because….. you are one. Or is that also part of the Zionist conspiracy?

How’s Joseph Goebbels doing?

The government decided that it was ‘good’ for Americans to own their homes. As for people that couldn’t afford a home? The government decided that they would compel banks to loan money to sub-prime lenders, in order to expand the ‘right’ of home-ownership. The end result: the collapse of the housing market, a major catalyst in the financial meltdown of 2008. This is just one of a seemingly infinite possible examples of social engineering by the government backfiring.

In the most recent instance, the Wall Street law states that the federal government has the right to terminate contracts with financial institutions which fail to ensure “fair inclusion” of women and minorities. What constitutes “fair?” That is left up to the discretion of the benevolent big government.

The government creates this same problem over an over again.  They fail to ever think past step 1. Step 1 is always something to the effect of “it sure would be great if everyone could own a home” or “in this modern, industrialized society, everyone deserves publicly funded healthcare.” However, the government never accounts for: how to procure the needed funds, what the effect will be on the housing/medical etc. industries, or other intangibles that are not immediately visible. That is why government orchestrated social engineering is destined to fail every time it is tried. We live in a constantly changing world, and the government cannot adapt fast enough. It was never meant to. In the Wall Street case, it may be a desirable goal to have more women and minorities working in the financial sector, but that should be left to the free market to decide. Finance is an exceptionally competitive field. It is difficult to imagine firms rejecting applicants based on anything other than merit. Unlike the government, these institutions have to turn a profit, otherwise they go out of business. Perhaps unequal representation of different peoples in this, or any other field, reflect a shockingly controversial reality: all people are different. If the National Basketball Association received government money, should it have to pass the “fair inclusion” test? Or should players be judged on ability?

Another consequence, this one obviously intended, of social engineering is the expansion of government, both in terms of physical size, and overall power. The new Wall Street law creates 20 new offices of Women  and Minority Inclusion in the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission and other finance-related agencies. These new offices will not just regulate the much maligned ‘big banks,’ they will have the power to interfere with local, mom-and-pop firms as well. More government, less freedom – Obama’s answer to all problems.

The Obama administration and its toadies in Congress are anti-business. Every day they wage a war on industrious people, painting entrepreneurs as villains. With ever more regulations, they make it nearly impossible to succeed in the United States. In the end, their social engineering will ensure equality in one way: Americans will be equally miserable.

Doctor 1: Hey, my wife won’t let me have porn in the house.
Doctor 2: That really sucks, is there a way around it?
Doctor 1: No. Not unless I wanted to keep it at the lab.
Doctor 2: Good point.
Doctor 1: Wait a minute, I have an idea…

Either way, I’m sure the $20 that the participants in the study likely got paid was worth it. Ah such sacrifices in the name of science.

Most of the time, we in the media focus on the activities of politicians and pay little or no attention the bureaucrats. That might be because an obscure name in the depths of the government bureaucracy doing something wrong doesn’t capture the interest of our readers, or because an elected politician in government offers a better target for the media and opposition.

But whatever the reason, this is wrong because most of the time it’s the bureaucrats who really call the shots on many important decisions, and they definitely have the power to shape most of the decisions made by governments at all levels. We always scrutinize and expose the activities of politicians and appointed officeholders, but I believe that often we are barking up the wrong tree.

H/T FFoF

In an interview this weekend with the Sunday Times, Oliver Stone opined on a number of topics, ranging from Iran and Israel to World War II and Hitler. Here are some choice excerpts from the article:

on Iran:

[Stone] describes America’s attitude to Iran as “horrible”. “Iran isn’t necessarily the good guy” – his incongruously dark eyebrows shoot up – “but we don’t know the full story!”

On his forthcoming 10-part documentary on WWII:

The 10-part documentary [which Stone is planning] will address Stalin and Hitler “in context”, he says. “Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support.”

On the Holocaust/Israel/Jews:

He also seeks to put his [Hitler's] atrocities in proportion: “Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30m.”

Why such a focus on the Holocaust then? “The Jewish domination of the media,” he says. “There’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years.”

There you have the warped thinking of a very confused man.

The Left, in both film and academia, have made a concerted effort to denigrate the Allies’ heroic effort in World War II. While to most people it is still evident that the Axis powers were pure, unadulterated evil, and the Allies were the force of freedom in the War, the Left is trying to rewrite that narrative. They claim that segregated forces made the Allies the moral equivalent on the Nazis. According to the Left, the Allies holding colonies was on the same level as Nazi plans for world domination. They equate the living conditions of those in Allied colonies with those of persecuted peoples under the Nazis. The Left can never accept that The United States is the greatest force for good in world history. They have to find a way to ‘prove’ that the United States is really just as bad or worse than the true antagonist in any conflict. It takes quite a stretch to claim that the United States was responsible for Hitler, and that there is more to Hitler than the raving, genocidal lunatic that he was, but rest-assured, Stone will find a way.

Stone’s statements on the Holocaust, Jewish control of the media, and Israel are all deplorable. There is no way to justify claiming that the killing 6 million Jews can be overstated. Oliver Stone’s belief that the organized attempt to eradicate a people from the planet is not all that important in comparison to the rest of the War reveals the sick thoughts that go through his mind. The ‘Holocaust industry’ talking point come strait out of the viciously anti-Semitic Muslim world. Perhaps Stone is immersing himself in the works of Hitler in preparation for his upcoming documentary, as the claim that Jews control the media was an accusation used by the Third Reich. And of course, not anti-Semitic diatribe would be complete without a shot at the ‘all-powerful’ and subversive ‘Israel Lobby.’ Oliver Stone is a crackpot, anti-American, anti-Semitic conspiracy huckster. If the Jews really do control the media, shouldn’t his career be over?

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R. Glenn Hubbard (no mention if he is related to L. Ron Hubbard), the dean of Columbia’s Business School, said, “I don’t blame the administration for being off in these forecasts…[the cause of the rise in unemployment is] a mystery.” Christina Romer, the leader of the President’s economic council chimed in with “we’ve done a lot of things to look at possible explanations.” This is not the making of an Agatha Christie novel.

Unraveling the ‘mystery’, the Obama administration has found the antidote. According to the Times, Obama’s plan is to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire. This move constitutes an enormous tax hike for small businesses, the largest employers in the United States. In addition, in order to get people back to work, Obama intends to extend welfare payments for the unemployed. What better incentive to find a job than the promise of more ‘free’ government money? Finally, the White House is in favor of a government-run fund to make loans to businesses. That makes sense – the government did work wonders in the housing market. Perhaps it can be as successful in the rest of the economy.

Some Democrats want to send the United States even farther down the socialist rat hole. According to Alan Blinder, a former Clinton hack, the only solution is… New-Deal style agencies. Blinder contends that the only way to battle unemployment is to put workers onto the public payroll. What could be better than rebuilding the Civilian Conservation Corps and other alphabet agencies? By Albert Einstein’s reasoning, you could say Democrats are insane.

As for the ‘mystery’ of unemployment, there’s no need to summon Sherlock Holmes. In this ‘whodunit’ there is an obvious perpetrator: the Democratic Party. Their big spending, government increasing policies have removed all confidence in the marketplace. It has come to the point where Las Vegas real estate mogul Steve Wynn said that he prefers to do business in China because the Communist Chinese government is more predictable than their American counterpart. In other words, Obama is following in FDR’s footsteps. With Roosevelt’s ever changing ‘experiments,’ there was never any certainty in the market. As a result, businesses did not expand, and thus, unemployment never went down. This only changed when the War broke out. After the United States entered the Second World War, the Roosevelt administration realized that they needed businesses to lead industrialization effort to equip the military. To do this, Roosevelt stopped his socialist experiments’ and got out of the way. Today, with bailouts, changing regulations that no one understands, a draconian tax code, enormous tax hikes only months away, non-stop anti-business rhetoric from Washington, and ever increasing government spending the climate in the capital is highly volatile. With such great uncertainty, businesses will not expand, new businesses will not be created, and Americans will remain unemployed. Mystery solved.

Now, when the news was revealed that Limbaugh was admitted to the hospital, there were a torrent of Tweets from his detractors wishing that he would kick the bucket, saying that they  hoped it was a heart attack, that he died a painful death, etc. I have never seen such hatred when someone from the Left has been through a similar experience. There are going to be a couple of nutjobs on either side of the spectrum no matter what; but I can’t help but laugh at the Left’s chosen way to treat someone they claim is so filled with hate and vitriol. They respond with…well, hate and vitriol. I’ve never heard Rush wish someone were dead — nothing close.

Despite what I think about NPR (which, believe me, is not favorable,) there is still an expectation of civility there. Punditry and polemic aside, media figures on the Left and the Right have [generally] had a level of respect for colleagues on the other side as individuals. Heck, Chris Matthews even guest-hosted the Rush Limbaugh Show once (betcha didn’t know that!)

When the now leaked Journolist database, this is the tip of the iceberg. From admittedly sharing strategies to kill the Jeremiah Wright stories to advocating a government takeover of Fox News, it’s clear the liberal media is…shockingly, liberal.