Former CNN-employee and frequent butt of Jon Stewart jokes, Rick Sanchez, got fired last week after calling Jon Stewart a bigot and crying about the Jooz in control of CNN. Jon Stewart got him back on the Daily Show last night with a hilarious segment that showed the world that Rick Sanchez to be the real world Michael Scott (the Office). Well Christopher Hitchens has weighed in on the firing, and in his typical Hitch way, he made me look at the issue from an angle I couldn't previously see. I support his idea to call for Jon Stewart and the Jooz to support Rick Sanchez to be hired back, and if he doesn't get re-hired, he could see first hand that we don't control the media. I personally want him back because he's too hilarious to lose. It's not like having him around costs CNN some of their respect and gravitas; hooker handler Elliot "Gov. Outcall" Spitzer has a show and that network. But like a tree falling in the woods, if Spitzer gets a show on CNN and nobody watches, does it make a noise?
I disagree with Hitchens in that I do think Sanchez was implying that jooz run the media as he simultaneously played the victim card. He also seems to suggest that Jewish success sort of supports Sanchez' statement that the jews don't qualify for entry to the "oppressed minority" club. Success in the face of oppression doesn't mean that the oppression doesn't exist.
Hitch also says, "Self-criticism among Jews, on matters of religion and statecraft, is actually rather noticeable." It's also noticeable on matters of science and technology. From the scary joooo lobby AIPAC, here's a video on Israeli innovation.
Also, h/t to my college friend and surfing partner Mona "KGB" Smelnikov, pointing me to this awesome Mark Twain piece from 1899 Harper's Magazine:
”...If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky way. properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and had done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it.
The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”
And there are people out there that want to snuff us out of existence. There's a reason that Israel is our closest partner in the Middle East. They share our values and dedication to freedom, democracy, and the pursuit of happiness. Take a look at Israel's enemies (our enemies), and know what it is that they wish to destroy.
P.S.- You can't spell freedom without Reed.
> What is the secret of his immortality?
-Gefilte Fish
Posted by: cf | 10/06/2010 at 07:38 AM