Priorities
posted at 11:02 pm on August 2, 2006 by Bryan
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Today’s news featured anti-semites on rampages. Every day since 9-11 seems to have featured anti-semites on rampages somewhere in the world, but two of today’s stories happened right here in the US of A.
Hezbollah fired over 200 rockets into Israel today, at least one of which got all the way to West Bank. That must have been their new Khaibar-1, a rocket made by Iran and named after some Islamic grievance that probably goes back 500 years. Hezbollah’s and Iran’s causus belli is Israel’s existence. Israel’s a Jewish state. So Hezbollah is an anti-semitic army, beholden to an anti-semitic country that sits on an ocean of oil and is developing nuclear weapons.
The Seattle shooter, who may not be a terrorist behind a tree but he sure as heck was a terrorist behind a gun a few days ago, got charged on 9 counts including murder today. Given that his victims were all Jews and given that he stated his anger at Israel was a reason for shooting them, I think it’s safe to say he’s an anti-semite.
Mel Gibson got charged with DUI and a couple other things today. He said a bunch of stupid, anti-semitic stuff when he got arrested, indicating at the very least that he listened to his dad’s rants around the dinner table when he was a kid. He’s probably an anti-semite, but his actual crime was drunk driving and other stuff connected to that, and there’s every chance in the world that he can shake his prejudices without actually killing anyone.
Gues which story gets the most prominent play as a story about anti-semitism and its effects on Drudge and everywhere else today?
Call me crazy, and several of you have, but I’m thinking the Gibson story just ain’t that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
We’ve got a war going on in the Middle East, we’ve got its wannabe foot soldiers freelancing that war here, and the whole idiotic world is in a tizzy about Mel Gibson. If this keeps up, this century is going to be unbearable.
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Dittos. Sharpton and Jackson are media darlings for their lifetime of Jew bashing. But, they’re liberal democrats. It’s expected.
roninacreage on August 2, 2006 at 11:13 PM
A question strictly for the leftists:
Did Mel say anything, while drunk, any different that anything being said, sober, than some of the garbage being spewed by leftists at some leading universities in this country?
I have to wonder how many of these outraged leftists give money to candidates who coddle anti-semitic tyrants. Jimmah Cahtah is practically a deity to many on the left. I’ve also noticed that not too many people on the left have been “professionally shunning” Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
If Mel Gibson was a flaming liberal this wouldn’t even be considered news.
Now, strictly to those attacking Christianity over Mel’s comments:
Christianity did not begin with Mel Gibson and The Passion of The Christ. I’m sure that no one on the left is invalidating Al Bore’s movie because he doesn’t live in a yert and isn’t wearing suits made from hemp.
All of that said, Mel really needs to get his act together on so many levels.
Paul Atreides on August 2, 2006 at 11:16 PM
But you know how much America loves its celebrities. More people vote for American Idol then for president. Sad commentary.
Unless something drastic happens (what could happen more drastic than 9/11?) this will be a very unbearable century.
But, it’s all so predictable. IMO, it’s all about the ‘06 & ‘08 elections. It will come down to one issue. Terrorism. The left calls that warmongering. I call it reality.
However, should the left regain congress, and the WH in ‘08, any future attacks will be directly attributed to Bush incompetence, even though they’re “in charge”
“Hypocrite, boredom sets into the boring mind”
JH
rightside on August 2, 2006 at 11:21 PM
I cannot help but think of Spike Lee, as well.
Paul Atreides on August 2, 2006 at 11:23 PM
I wouldn’t read too much into it. We did how many posts about l’affaire Greenwald, all while the war was raging?’
People need diversion. A celebrity freak-show provides it.
Allahpundit on August 2, 2006 at 11:23 PM
Which makes me think of Cynthia McKinney and her father.
Paul Atreides on August 2, 2006 at 11:28 PM
I don’t know. The Gibson diversion takes us right back to anti-semitism and rips off the Passion scab. I for one was more than a little annoyed at being called an anti-semite for seeing a movie, but I was over that a long time ago. Thanks Mel for that splendid diversion!
Put another way, I understand some of Dr. Rusty Shackleford’s diversions because they’re, you know, actual diversions. But Gibson is just another battle in the culture war now. And of the three big battles going on, it’s easily the least important but gets the most play.
Bryan on August 2, 2006 at 11:29 PM
Which, seriously, begs the question: if this had been George Clooney doing the exact same thing, would it be front-page material. All he would have to do is blame it on frustration with the Bush administration and that would be that.
Paul Atreides on August 2, 2006 at 11:34 PM
As I was reading through all of the comments above I got to thinking, I think I’m just fed up with the major media in general.
4thelittleguy on August 2, 2006 at 11:54 PM
Y’know what I have yet to see or hear about Mel?
“Drunk Irishman”
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The Machine on August 3, 2006 at 12:08 AM
Yeah this is getting old
Iblis on August 3, 2006 at 12:14 AM
well said Bryan
RobertCSampson on August 3, 2006 at 12:48 AM
Do you want to make Iran happy? Talk up Gibson, Castro.
When deadlines come up about nukes, they pulled the Hezbollah string and the focus shifts to their attacking Israel.
To keep it hot they also pulled the Palistinian string.
Those in Iran must be tickled that a drunk driving celebrity has diverted our nation’s attention.
Anything to obfuscate their agenda. When the August 31 UN “more serious deadline” approaches, expect either North Korea or Venezuela to do something outrageous to divert attention from Iran.
Now is when we need to keep our eye on the ball. Pay no attention to prestidigitation.
Doug on August 3, 2006 at 1:29 AM
I’m sure Gibson’s rantings were merely designed to get under the arresting officer’s skin.
Whether those words came from his dad, a script he’s read or his heart, they fall squarely in the “Sticks and Stones” department. And he’s apologised.
Bryan’s got a point that maybe we should pay more attention to the guys who are using bombs rather than words.
(Quick aside: American Idol got more votes, but you were allowed to vote many times. I doubt more people voted for Idol than president. And how many of those were old enough to vote for prez? Logistics were all different, a phone call vs. a trip to the polling place. Apples and oranges I’d say. — BTW, Don’t blame me, I voted McPhee!)
DuffBeer on August 3, 2006 at 1:48 AM
Touché!
jasoneverts on August 3, 2006 at 2:15 AM
You’re right, of course, but sometimes people just want to get their minds off such heavy subject matter for a minute.
Mark Jaquith on August 3, 2006 at 6:47 AM
I can’t believe I missed this post yesterday. A-freakin’-men, Bryan.
Savage on August 3, 2006 at 10:40 AM
Great point. It’s all about keeping things in perspective.
That being said, on a lighter, more diversioinary note, here’s what really happened with the Gibson fiasco.
thirteen28 on August 3, 2006 at 11:13 AM
If you want to see what I think is a modern repository of anti-Semitism you really need to check out the BBC. I work in South America and so I am, mas o menos, dependent on BBC and CNN International for TV news (at least in English). Then there is the internet.
The Internet tells us that, so far today, 8 Israeli civilians have been killed by Hezbollah rockets aimed at civilians (as opposed to aimed at military targets located near civilians). But you wouldn’t know this from the BBC. It is now 2 pm here (3 pm EST) and, at this moment, on bbcnews.com there is not a SINGLE mention about the rocket attack on the Israeli civilians. There is neither a headline nor an inclusion in the body of a story. Look for yourselves.
Instead, there is a lot about the problems in getting aid to the Lebanese and a link (with photo) to 7 Palestinians (”…including one child…” don’t you know) dying from an ISRAELI airstrike.
After all the headlining about Qana/Cana/Kana (or however you spell it, and criticism about war crimes for “attacking” civilians, where is the balance…or shall we say “proportionality”?
Meanwhile, another Headline story in which the Iranian President says the solution to the Middle East crisis is the destruction of Israel (by-the-by yet another violation by the Iranian state of the UN Charter, as if anyone cares anymore) is relegated to a minor bullet in the BBC’s larger story about relief problems in Lebanon.
I mean C’MON! Maybe this is, as some will say, the BBC’s news “priorities”, but given their track record this is just more of the blatant anti-Semitism of what used to be a pretty good news source (unless you happen to be Irish).
Blaise on August 3, 2006 at 3:23 PM
I know, I know–anti-semitic means anti-Jew. It no longer describes people of a certain region of the Muddled East. It can’t, as a great percentage of the Semitic people hate the Jews who are different from themselves in only one respect:
God. God set the Jews apart, and it drives the rest of the world bonkers. “I have loved Isaac and hated Esau.” It is that simple. The descendants of Esau have hated Isaac’s children ever since, and have drawn the entire world into their family squabble. Thanks a lot, Esau. Loser.
Doug on August 4, 2006 at 10:33 AM
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