O'REILLY GOES NUTS, CONT'D: In
O'REILLY GOES NUTS, CONT'D: In an uncommonly intelligent column by Frank Rich over the weekend on 'Passion,' he says this:
Bill O'Reilly was not so circumspect when he returned to this same theme last week, asking an editor from Variety why Mr. Gibson has taken so much heat for his film. After beating around the burning bush for a while, Mr. O'Reilly said: "I'm asking this question respectfully. Is it because that the major media in Hollywood and a lot of the secular press is controlled by Jewish people?"
Did O'Reilly
really just stoop to the old-school, "Jews control everything" anti-Semitism? Doesn't he know that the Jews-control-Hollywood canard hasn't been true since at least the mid-'60s? When he lumps Jews in with "secularists" (his new favorite target), not only is O'Reilly making an inherent contradiction (isn't Judaism a religion, and thus by its very nature
not secular?) but he's buying into the classical, code-worded anti-Semitism favored by his friend Mel Gibson, in addition to being completely wrong.
And this guy thought
Ludacris was offensive? I'm ready to start a boycott of my own, and I certainly hope O'Reilly burns for this.
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 8, 2004 12:38 AM