Rolling Stone writer's anti-semitic crime of following the $

[maz]

Disclaimer: This guy attacked 9/11 truthers and conspiracy theorists in previous op-eds, but seemingly for good reason as there were mostly personal attacks and not evidenced or fact-based.

Ludicrous: Matt Taibbi Accused of Being Anti-Semitic for Goldman Sachs Article

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/1412 ... s_article/

"The [Rolling Stone] article makes a very compelling case against Goldman Sachs, but I think the problems it identifies are pervasive in financial firms and corporate America in general," says Nell Minow, who is the co-founder of the Corporate Library, a research firm that tracks corporate-governance issues. "We need to launch substantive financial reform rather than weighing the faults of one firm versus another." Minow's point is this: spend too much time on Goldman and you miss the fact of how broadly the financial system and the regulations that are supposed to keep profiteers in check failed us. And she's right.

It's been interesting, to say the least, watching the public reaction to my Rolling Stone piece last week. I of course expected that some kind of highly unpleasant response would come my way from Goldman and its allies in the press, but I admit to being surprised a little by the form this response took. Obviously I don't want to dwell on this business, because it's beyond boring when someone in my position complains about his critics, but I feel like I have to say something about at least a few of the talking points of the inevitable Goldman counteroffensive, which in various forms (letters sent to me personally, public comments) have reached my desk in the last few days.

The most ludicrous of these, and the one that surprised me the most, is the accusation that my article was anti-Semitic propaganda. The first letter I got on this score I actually mistook for a joke sent to me by one of my friends. Then I got another one which I quickly realized was not a joke at all. "Isn't it convenient," it read, "that an Arab-American writer for Rolling Stone looks at Wall Street and picks the most prototypically Jewish firm around to demonize."

The last time I heard something similar was a few years ago, when Debbie Schlussel, a severely dimwitted Detroit-based right-wing pundit, railed against my supposed Arabness after I wrote an article about the Lebanese population in Dearborn, Michigan. I wrote to her to let her know that I'm actually Irish and Filipino, and not at all an Arab, but never got a response. This time the charge is a little different, as several writers complained that my article was "a rehash of every classic anti-Jewish conspiracy theory" and "a pale copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

The evidence for these charges seems to be as follows. One, I used the word "tribe" somewhere near the end of the piece. Two, the term "blood-funnel" was used (one person also hinted that the use of a squid image was somehow anti-Semitic, but I was not entirely clear what was being referred to there). Three, I "singled out" Goldman and failed to level similar charges at "less Jewish firms" (yes, one letter-writer actually used that phrase) like Morgan-Stanley.

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[scorpio]

Yep...You start putting the pieces of the puzzle together and you are an 'anti-semite'....
Things are getting more transparent by the day. :lol:

[Yo Mama]

If anything Taibbi's article was PRO-Jew, because not once in his article did he ever dare mention that Goldman Sachs is completely and totally Jewish controlled.  Nor did he ever say that all the individuals he mentioned in his article were Jewish.  What a joke.   :roll:

[scorpio]

If anything Taibbi's article was PRO-Jew, because not once in his article did he ever dare mention that Goldman Sachs is completely and totally Jewish controlled.  Nor did he ever say that all the individuals he mentioned in his article were Jewish.  What a joke.   :roll:

You are totally correct. Just getting near the edges of what is happening is enough to get him in some trouble by the gatekeepers. Just imagine if he used the word 'Jew' just once.... :twisted:  :roll:

[Rockclimber]

I've said it all along and we all know it...expose anything 'j ewish', even it's criminal, justified and provable, and you are an anti-semite.  :roll:  Everyone else is fair game, but never the 'Chosen'.

[MikeWB]

Here is Matt on truthers but that's not what's interesting. Watch carefully what he says about Evangelical Christians. Notice what he says all their leaders are saying about Israel at 2:28.

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Folks, this is why there will be no change whatsoever until this country implodes, people rise up and overthrow the regime and Wall Street crooks meet the guillotine. Christians and Zios control so many brainwashed people that you simply cannot cause a change just based on talk. Once people go hungry and cannot pay for beer & football games, that's when the change will come!

All we should do is amass more and more data and truth so that when mobs start roaming the cities, they know who to go after.

[scorpio]

Folks, this is why there will be no change whatsoever until this country implodes, people rise up and overthrow the regime and Wall Street crooks meet the guillotine. Christians and Zios control so many brainwashed people that you simply cannot cause a change just based on talk. Once people go hungry and cannot pay for beer & football games, that's when the change will come!

All we should do is amass more and more data and truth so that when mobs start roaming the cities, they know who to go after.

MikeWB - Great post! Excellent analysis. I couldn't agree more. That is the only way there will be change.
After I heard Taibbi's other comments about 9/11 ect, It is clear why he is allowed on TV to pump his book.
Yep, once the bread and circus runs out, it may very well be a whole new reality.  

Scorpio11

[abduLMaria]

what we need is a magazine or an ezine that gets in front of "America's young people" and other young people, like Rolling Stone, but admitting the obvious - there's is a pattern that relates to criminality & ethinicity.  So that a term like "Jewish Bankster Criminal" is not judgmental - it is an objective description.

in the case of magazine distribution, it raises the question.  if you did have a well-produced magazine that was honest about Zionism in its reporting & news commentary, could you distribute it ?  i wonder how much control the magazine news-stand distributors have.  do they get their tires slashed, in a corporate way, if they take a magazine with "forbidden info" like a print version of French Connection/ TIU.

either that or to advertise TIU and similar websites.