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But "fascist" is *such* a wonderfully volatile little "trigger word". It's so useful when you have no real point to make. Ideological ad hominem.

Cohen is so transparent. He writes it took him days to figure out the film was "fascistic."

I guess Cohen just happened to "coin the phrase just as the grosses started rolling in, and the film skyrocketed to the top of the box office, a blockbuster hit.

The original plan, as we all recall, was to make the film fail by slapping it with an anti-Semitic label. That plan backfired miserably. Poor Abe Foxman of the ADL had to eat his words.

Not only that, Foxman had to come out denouncing a magazine called . . . I kid you not, Heeb . . . which mocked the film (and Christianity). Here's the thread. An unkind person could even accuse Foxman of inciting such a treatment. But that person would have a wide, ironic smile.

Excellent point, "antisemitic" didn't quite catch on, so he switched gears and tried our the newly-popular "fascist". The libs use to love to call Christians "rascists", and "intolerant homophobes". But they know that we have become inured to the use of those names. So, like good playground bullies, they are breaking out the next batch of "clever" insults.

We can probably look forward to five years of being called "fascists", "Nazi's" and "xenophobes".

"Antisemitic" doesn't ring true to too many in the Jewish community, because no group supports Israel the way the Christians do.

On an aside, if anyone has trouble understanding the divergence of views within the Jewish population, I suggest reading The Chosen by Chaim Potok. It is a High School level, short novel about an injuring ball pitch, in a game between two Jewish boys' schools, that leads at first to hostility between the Hasidic boy and the culturally-Jewish youth, then later to an understanding of the real differences between a believer and a non-believer. (A real eye-opener if you managed to skip this one in HS.)