[Palin Republic]

He had a great desire to be liked by liberals; so he denounced his old friend Pat Buchanan and endorsed Bill Clinton. I never read him after that.

Ah, so. That explains why Safire joined in the secular liberal jihad against that movie, Passion of the Christ.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/opinion/01SAFI.html?hp

The villains at whom the audience's outrage is directed are the actors playing bloodthirsty rabbis and their rabid Jewish followers. This is the essence of the medieval "passion play," preserved in pre-Hitler Germany at Oberammergau, a source of the hatred of all Jews as "Christ killers."....

The richness of Scripture is in its openness to interpretation answering humanity's current spiritual needs. That's where Gibson's medieval version of the suffering of Jesus, reveling in savagery to provoke outrage and cast blame, fails Christian and Jew today.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I still don’t get why “Passion” is “full of nasty Jews”. OK, I only saw it way back in the theater, but I don’t recall anything particularly outstanding in there about Jews being all evil.