[Steve_Seattle]

"The plague-carriers, so to speak, are the secularized, liberal, middlebrow Jews whose vulgarity sets the tone for American politics, public discourse, and popular culture. Some of them, like Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand, have real talent, of sorts; most of them are good at making money and aggressive in using it for their pet causes. Above all, they have a low genius for propaganda - for shaping the popular mind and its characteristic platitudes."

This paragraph is the essnce of the piece, and what we have here is a restatement of the Medieval idea of the "dirty Jew," the corrupting Jew, the Jew as a defective human, the Jew who undermines good, clean Christian values. Yes, there are many Jews who fit this profile, but there inummerably more Catholics, Protestants, and non-Jewish secularists who fit it. Sobran is re-packaging an ancient smear.

[Snuffington]

Ok. Point conceded. I missed that one. "Plague carriers" , and calling out Streisand and Spielberg's Judaism is pretty suspicious. There's no rational correlation there, and I have a hard time seeing why it belongs there. I retract my comment in post 22.

[St.Chuck]

This paragraph is the essnce of the piece, and what we have here is a restatement of the Medieval idea of the "dirty Jew," the corrupting Jew, the Jew as a defective human, the Jew who undermines good, clean Christian values.

I didn't get that at all. You are the one applying some kind of steroetype.

[Delphinium]

Sobran is re-packaging an ancient smear.

Satan is repackaging an ancient smear. Sobran is just the vessel.

[Steve_Seattle]

"This paragraph is the essnce of the piece, and what we have here is a restatement of the Medieval idea of the "dirty Jew," the corrupting Jew, the Jew as a defective human, the Jew who undermines good, clean Christian values. Yes, there are many Jews who fit this profile, but there inummerably more Catholics, Protestants, and non-Jewish secularists who fit it. Sobran is re-packaging an ancient smear."

Let me clarify myself here. In saying "there are many Jews who fit this profile," I was not referring back to the "defective human" phrase but to the other phrases pertaining to people believed to be "corrupters of society," and I was emphasizing that whereas some of these people might be Jews, most are not. But Sobran's phrase "plague carriers" harkens back to the Nazi view of Jews as "defective humans," and I would not use that phrase - with its eugenic and biological connotations - to describe people who I simply view as "bad influences."