[Clemenza]

Methinks Mr. Donahue has the old blue collar Irish parochial attitude toward the chosen people. Does he really think that the gentiles who work in Hollywood (and there are many, btw) are any better on the issue than their secular Jewish colleagues? Is he aware that the major studios are PUBLIC COMPANIES and can thus be "controlled" by anyone with the resources to buy shares?

[SolutionsOnly]

Shmuley Boteach and Bill Donohue together in one debate is not productive. Both are unnecessarily inflammatory. Boteach sees anti-Semitism where it doesn't exist, Donahue just inflames. I strongly disagree with the rabbis condemnation of the film , 'The Passion' . Donahue blames secular Jews for much of Hollywood's garbage when it's secularists period - Jewish, Christian, atheist, agnostic, whatever. 'Jews' qualifiers was gratuitous and wrong.

[weenie]

Incendiary post.

And I think that's a good thing.

[nothingnew]

". . . Hollywood has become a cesspit because it's secular, period."

No argument here.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Cicero]

The only criticism you can make of it is that maybe Donohue shouldn't have concentrated only on secular Jews. As Buckley says, there are other secularists as well who regularly attack Catholicism and Christianity generally.

But when it came to attacking the passion, there's no question that the ADL and secular Jews were in the forefront, and that influential secular Jews in Hollywood chipped in. Donohue was accurate.

After all, the particular crime they charged Mel Gibson with was antisemitism. They even made a point of going after his aged father for questioning the Holocaust. I would guess that Mel's father is probably senile, and in any case is entitled to his private opinions which never would have been made public if not for the treachery of the interviwer, and which have zero, zip, nada to do with "The Passion."

[karenbarinka]

Only girlie-men and anti-Christians found Passion too bloody.

Funny how Buckley failed to mention Rabbi Smelly calling Bill Donahue an "ignorant peasant" for refusing to accept his revisionist teaching that no Jews were involved in the Passion.

I'm sending a big check to the Catholic League.

[ChicagoHebrew]

A Rabbi and a Priest wind up sitting next to each other on an airplane. About halfway through the flight, the Priest bends over and asks, "You know, I'm a Priest in a small town. I've honestly never met a Jew before. I here that you don't eat ham... is this true?"

The Rabbi says, "Yes, dis is true."

The Priest says, "But it's so moist and tasty! You've never even been tempted?"

The Rabbi says, "Vell, ven I vaz young, vonce I vaz curious and had a little taste. Now, tell me Father, have you ever been vit a voman?"

The Priest says, "Of course not! How could you ask such a thing?"

The Rabbi says, "vell, it's better den ham."

[SJackson]

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[rmlew]

The secularist Jews fear Christians and actual Judaism.

[Baraonda]

What has happened to William F Buckley, Jr over the last 10-15 years?

He sounds like a leftist neoconservative. Has he surrendered to the neocons?