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![]() Just Above Sunset
December 18, 2005 - The Jewish Problem
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As mentioned in these pages
in late November, in Mondays With Murrow, we are divided. Bill O'Reilly and the whole Fox News network have mounted a campaign to end the oppression of beleaguered
and minority Christians in this country and save Christmas itself from the secular bullies who now run this country. John Gibson argues this
war must be fought every time someone uses the greeting Happy Holidays rather than Merry Christmas. And who does that? Costco,
Target, Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Sears have "Happy Holidays" in their promotional material - not "Merry Christmas." So we need
to fight them. If we don't fight them? That would be a victory for the secular left and a defeat for all Christians. But the wariness is there.
Someone is out to get them. "Happy holidays" and
"Seasons greetings" are neither new nor hostile to Christmas. They are fine, old inventions that exemplify civility and recognize
that one of the nation's glories is its diversity. In much of America, you never know whether the stranger with whom you exchange
pleasantries in the line at Starbucks might be Jewish, Buddhist, agnostic, Muslim or Hindu. The "War on Christmas" riff smacks
of a panicky grievance against an America of many hues. Well, you can be sure these
folks are not out to "poison a national holiday of good will." But there is some
panic here. There's a very secret
plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, "Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A. because
we want X, Y, and Z." They'll never ever say that. But I'm kind of surprised they went after Christmas because it's such an
emotional issue. It's the ACLU and the secular
Jews like George Soros, of course. Damn those Jews! They hate Christmas. The fact that the Christmas
warriors are talking in code should not fool anybody. When a political candidate denounces his opponent for receiving campaign
contributions from New York and Beverly Hills, we all know who he is talking about. Similarly, denunciations of secular liberals,
especially when coupled with references to, say, George Soros and John Stewart, are pretty unambiguous. Yeah, it seems anti-Semitic,
doesn't it? Of course, the "war on
Christmas" it is totally manufactured. There is no Jewish, or other non-Christian group, that campaigns to ban the term "Merry
Christmas." Why would that be? Because Bill O'Reilly in response to a Jewish caller last December who said that he
found O'Reilly's views on Christmas objectionable told the fellow to "move to Israel?" Now the reason this is
happening is because of the ACLU and George Soros, Peter Lewis. Just a reminder: George Soros and Peter Lewis are the far-left,
secular progressive billionaires who have funded - they pour money into the ACLU, they pour money into the smear websites,
you know, they buy up a lot of the media time. And they basically want to change the country from a Christian-based philosophical
country to a secular progressive country like they have in Western Europe. Rosenberg notes Soros is
a Holocaust survivor and a billionaire who backs liberal causes, and Lewis is also a billionaire and a major donor to progressive
and Jewish causes. There you go, Jon Stewart.
We know what he's doing over there [on Comedy Central]. And it's not just Stewart. You know, ninety percent of quote unquote
entertainers are secular progressives. And a Merry Christmas to you, John Stewart. As I said in my newspaper column this week,
three wise men showed up to honor the baby Jesus way back when. And if corporate executives are not wise enough to emulate
that, well, those of us who respect Christmas might look elsewhere. Ah, that's how you handle
uppity Jews - get in their face, poke them in the chest and sneer, "Merry Christmas." The message is there are
more of us than are of you people, so shut up, if you know what's good for you. Rosenberg reserves special
scorn for O'Reilly's new ally, comedian Jackie Mason, who has gone on Fox to take O'Reilly's side against those liberal Jews
who are out there assaulting Santa Claus. He calls Mason "the Stepin Fetchit of Jewish comedians." The O'Reilly-Mason alliance
is no big surprise. Mason, who famously called Mayor Dinkins "a fancy schwartze with a moustache" has always trafficked in
racial stereotypes. In his dotage, he has now turned on the Jews. Bye bye, Jackie. It says something when the crazy right
has Jackie Mason and we have Jon Stewart. This is a cultural war we have won! Maybe so, but why is it
being fought at all? We are now approaching
the critical time of the year for shops and supermarkets: the month before Christmas is the four weeks when stores of all
kinds sell their products fastest. Father Christmas means one thing to children: presents. He has no connection with the original
St Nicholas, who performed a miracle in providing dowries for three poor sisters, thereby enabling them to marry and escape
a life of prostitution. That's curious. What makes
O'Reilly and John Gibson so defensive, what makes them go on attack, is their sense that someone, somehow, is taking away
their justification for simply being, and their hope. The first depends on their Christianity, and the second depends on the
belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus. As Eco says, we're all
still looking for something that will reconcile each of us to the inevitability of our own death. Of course, the attacks help
in the ratings too. It is amazing how many
people take that book literally, and think it is true. Admittedly, Dan Brown, its author, has created a legion of zealous
followers who believe that Jesus wasn't crucified: he married Mary Magdalene, became the King of France, and started his own
version of the order of Freemasons. Many of the people who now go to the Louvre are there only to look at the Mona Lisa, solely
and simply because it is at the centre of Dan Brown's book. Well, there's a lot of
that specific kind of depression going around these days. And he notes Himmler and many of Hitler's henchmen were "devotees
of the most infantile occult fantasies." And in bookstores he sees all these books explaining "Templars, Rosicrucians, pseudo-Kabbalists,
and of course The Da Vinci Code, but also anti-semitic tracts such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." |
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This issue updated and published on...
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