Maybe...but Wile E. Coyote HAS to be Moose-limb!
Posted on 02/25/2006 2:52:58 AM PST by Antioch
Tom and Jerry, the lovable cat and mouse locked in cartoon combat, is a Jewish conspiracy, according to an Iranian official.
Prof. Hasan Bolkhari, a cultural advisor to the Iranian Education Ministry, delivered the news last week on Iran's Channel 4 during a broadcast of film seminar where he was lecturing. An excerpt of the video was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon," said Bolkhari. "It is still shown throughout the world. This cartoon maintains its status because of the cute antics of the cat and mouse – especially the mouse.
"Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent in Europe."
According to the professor, "Tom and Jerry" was created to irradicate the association between mice and Jews created in the minds of Europeans by Hitler.
"If you study European history, you will see who was the main power in hoarding money and wealth in the 19th century," continued Bolkhari. "In most cases, it is the Jews. Perhaps that was one of the reasons which caused Hitler to begin the anti-Semitic trend, and then the extensive propaganda about the crematoria began. ... Some of this is true. We do not deny all of it.
"Watch 'Schindler's List.' Every Jew was forced to wear yellow star on his clothing. The Jews were degraded and termed 'dirty mice.' 'Tom and Jerry' was made in order to change the Europeans' perception of mice. One of terms used was 'dirty mice.'
"It should be noted that mice are very cunning ... and dirty."
"Tom and Jerry," the creation of Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna, was created in 1939, the year World War II began and while the Holocaust was in full force, for the MGM cartoon studios, not Disney. During the next 18 years, Hanna and Barbera created over 200 cartoons featuring Tom and Jerry, earning the pair seven Academy Awards. Today, "Tom and Jerry" is owned by Turner Entertainment.
"If you happen to watch this cartoon tomorrow, bear in mind the points I have just raised," said Bolkhari, "and watch it from this perspective. The mouse is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute. He kicks the poor cat's a--. Yet this cruelty does not make you despise the mouse. He looks so nice, and he is so clever. ... This is exactly why some say it was meant to erase this image of mice from the minds of European children, and to show that the mouse is not dirty and has these traits. Unfortunately, we have many such cases in Hollywood shows."
It doesn't have to be true. It only needs to be shouted loud and often to stir up the rabble.
I can see it now: The Road Runner was Jewish because he always outran the coyote, who was smarter and lived in the desert and always starving, so he was obviously a deprived Muslim.
funny
Now hold on just a minute here. While saying the mouse is somehow related to rehabilitating Jewish image after the war is a purly muslim mind bend, his premise about the methodology used by hollywood is pure gold. Do any of you not see how hollywood uses its tactics to push the view it wants? Yes, the muslim is only concerned with Jew hatred, but do not be misled into thinking hollywood doesnt influence you by this method on lots of other issues. Anyone ever hear of the new movie brokeback mountain? Now tell me again the muslim is wrong on the mechanics of hollywoods methodology? You simply cant do it with a strait face.
Flame me if you want, but it really bothers me that the people in that country are not hearing another viewpoint. And the shrillness of the political rhetoric twisted around a religion is going to take years of either deprogramming or a violent intervention.
Watching Iraq now and the bombing of mosques...and the care the coalition took to not desecrate them...the hypocracy! Sacred this and sacred that, the clerics are heretics and all them sacred places is nothing more than primal idolitry!
I seem to be a bit more than crabby this morning...and idjits like the professor don't help matters.
Oh My Goodness, Scott Bradley is the Antichrist!
What a panic!
Didnt the Brits call Germans Jerrys?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Facts are a zionist plot!
Mark
Yea the Germans in WWII are were called Jerries.
Beep, beep!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
No flames here! It's not just Iran. Heck, the official gradeschool "curriculem" of the PA still includes references to Jews murdering moslem children for their blood, in order to make pastries. Their version of "Sesame Street" includes calls for Jihad. And people wonder why nothings changing there?
Golda Meir once said, "There will never be peace between the Jews and the Arabs until the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews." That's something that simply hasn't changed.
Mark
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Maybe...but Wile E. Coyote HAS to be Moose-limb!
Wow - Islamic adults watch Tom and Jerry?
Really twisted.
Iran to U.S.:
"Our college professors are stupider than yours are, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!!"
Yep, they win this round....
Scrappleface? The Onion?
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