Borat

Just an Anti-Semitic Laugh?

With anti-Semitism reemerging in Europe and rampant in the Islamic world; with Iran acquiring the ultimate weapon of genocide and proclaiming its intention to wipe out the world's largest Jewish community (Israel); with America and, in particular, its Christian evangelicals the only remaining Gentile constituency anywhere willing to defend that besieged Jewish outpost -- is the American heartland really the locus of anti-Semitism? Is this the one place to go to find it? - Charles Krauthammer - Just an Anti-Semitic Laugh? Hardly. - washingtonpost.com Krauthammer is here addressing Sacha Baron Cohen's (Borat), claim that he goes around America making anti-Semitic remarks in order to elicit a nodding anti-Semitic response. And with enough liquor and cajoling, he succeeds in showing just how anti-Semitic we yokels are.  As I watched Hollywood's high profile Jewish entertainers recently embrace the likes of Cindy Sheehan, even while she was feted by the world's  leading Hitler idolizers, like Chavez and Ahmadinejad, I finally figured it out.  They are Jews the same way the National Organization for Women are women.  That is, only insofar as they can use their status to advance leftist causes.  It's a tool.  Which reminds me, what the hell happened to Curb Your Enthusiasm?