Posted on 06/01/2010 3:41:24 PM PDT by curth
Up until now, one could merely have accused Sarah Palin’s stalker-biographer, Joe McGinniss, of unethical behavior, even journalistic malpractice.
After all, McGinniss’ decision to move into a house just fifteen feet away from the family he is subjecting to hostile research struck even the hard-hearted as unusually crass and callous. It also famously prompted the construction of a fourteen-foot high screening fence by “first dude” Todd Palin, and elicited sympathy for the Palins from a number of usually less-than-sympathetic sources.
But now McGinniss has outdone his already-gross behavior by telling The Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the Palin’s anguished response to his intrusion should be compared to “Nazi troopers” in 1930s Germany.
In making this comparison, no matter how ludicrous, McGinniss further transgresses the boundaries of decency into an area of intense Jewish concern – the history and meaning of the Nazi Holocaust. His remarks, for starters, show gross insensitivity to Jewish feelings.
When McGinniss invokes “Nazi troopers,” for Jews he conjures up the brown-shirted thugs who rioted in the streets of Berlin in June 1935 and garroted an elderly Jewish man to a tavern table, as recounted by American journalist Varian Fry, in an eyewitness account run the following day on the front page of The New York Times. When McGinniss invokes “Nazi troopers,”we remember the expulsion of Jews wholesale from German universities, the violent boycotts of Jewish businesses, and the public burnings of “decadent” books (often by Jewish authors) in front of SS-organized mobs.
When McGinniss invokes “Nazi troopers,” Jews think of the German National-Socialist Party’s special shock forces who led enraged mobs in burning down a thousand synagogues – and many more Jewish sites and businesses – over Kristallnacht, in November, 1939. And of course Jews think of the “Nazi troopers” who rounded up defenseless Jewish civilians in the middle of the night and loaded us onto boxcars “headed for the East.”
This is why Jews are still “sensitive” to facile comparisons with “Nazi troopers,” even by a low-life journalist of McGinniss’ stripe. Because McGinniss’ foolish analogy cheapens the meaning and memory of the Holocaust. Jewish defense organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, would do well to rebuke McGinniss, unless they think he is beneath their purview.
But really, because McGinniss’ comparison of Germany in those dark times to the America of today is so outrageous and appalling, he should be repudiated by all thinking people of good will.
And because McGinniss’ comparison demeans a political leader and a popular movement whose character are overwhelmingly peaceful, democratic and tolerant of all races and religions, all Americans should reject him, and hang on him a letter of shame.
Gov. Sarah Palin, the Tea Party movement, and the awakening voters of America, will not long remember this unprincipled opportunist who calls himself a journalist. But the American people, McGinniss’ publisher, and most of all the Jewish community, should be disgusted that he has so cheapened the public discourse.
The house next door needs to be mistakenly bulldozed.
Oops, sorry.
Use the Ak law load up a shotgun with rock salt and fill his pants with a little extra light salt. maybe this creep will get the idea thatb rock salt to the behind may get his attention. this man is stalking, and needs to remove himself from AK.
He's an antisemite.
If I were Sarah I would be really pissed at my neighbors...who would do that to an entire family? Maybe a reporter needs to track their asses down and ruin their summer. I’m just sayin’
It’s ironic how the left bring up Nazi’s every damn time someone disagrees with them about something. Adolf Hitler was a progressive leftist, something they won’t mention. McGinnis is a slime ball and a waste of human space. To call Sarah a Nazi for what, not wanting him next door to her house..for wanting some damn privacy..for that she gets called a Nazi, who has she murdered, she hasn’t hurt anyone or killed anyone yet she is called every damn name in the book..its disgusting
There is also a law about capitalization nd punctuation but you are obviously unaware of it.
Good grief,,it is a freee country and the writer can live wherever he wants. I don’t get it why people think Palin can somehow control who is next door. Now if he does something intrusive, then she can do something but I haven’t read that he has.
Do you know her personally? If not, then how did you get on a first-name basis?
Or are you just being presumptive and rude?
Mistakes are made.
Do you not think the guy has a history of stalking Palin?
Not really. My neighbor, after 30 yr of hassle, has induced the city to declare me a public nuisance.
The a-hole is a stalker. Where have you been for the past year or so?
Strange, that’s exactly what the leftists are saying. Gee, what a coincidence. /sarc
- JP
Sarah and her family are the victims, once again, and once again Obamamedia are happy to portray them as having started something...
But who is funding this guy? It’ obvious he wouldn’t live there of his own free will. And no, the Palins can’t control nor do they want control who lives next door. And their response, the fence, is something done on their own property for their own sake.
“Good grief,,it is a freee country and the writer can live wherever he wants.”
This is true. It’s also true that if one transcends the bounds of decency, sometimes you get a whoopin’. That would be entirely appropriate in this case.
So yes, if he wants his butt kicked every day, he can live anywhere he wants.
I’d wager he’ll be moving soon. After seeing his interview, he doesn’t seem to like the same scrutiny he dishes out.
Is there no one who can...
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