I am also incensed over the fact that idiotic conflation of such non-events to real racism, cheapens and degrades the continuing struggle against real racism in this nation. These two, Stein and the Hotline (not Hot Air) character, along with several commenters, make reference to Obama's speech on racism being "timely" in reference to this alleged racism. In fact, their comments did more to damage any possible good or truth that Obama's speech might have done.

Having attended the Vets For Freedom event in Kansas City, heard Bellavia's speech about real heroes vs. the paper heroes America puts on pedestals, read his book honoring the men he fought with (of all ethnicities and races) and listened to many other speeches by these men and women, the idea that Bellavia was making a racist remark or could be construed to do so is preposterous beyond belief.

Bellavia's speech was slightly abbreviated in order to move the event along and introduce McCain. In this event, he mentioned that Tiger Woods would not be the "hero" that he taught his children to look up to. He would teach them to look up to men like McCain. He introduced McCain as "the real 'Audacity of Hope'".

Bellavia has given a similar speech all along the Vets for Freedom tour. In Kansas City, his speech regarding the same theme, included noting various athletes and Hollywood stars from Tiger Woods to Tom Cruise, among several, that people call "heroes" when, in fact, he served with real heroes and was on tour with some real heroes. It is a theme that has been repeated many times among those who have served, their families and those who support them as on this blog: America has lost its way when choosing its "heroes" and it shows in our continued selfishness, our unwillingness to sacrifice in a greater cause and our total absorption with all things "me".

Sam Stein has very likely never read Bellavia's book, House to House. While it is a book about war, it is not a book about hate. It is a book about love for the brothers that Bellavia served and bled with in the Battle for Fallujah. It is about the love and honor that he feels for those who he served, who died in that battle and later. he never mentions the race, color or ethnicity of these men, though he calls them by name and their names sometimes gives their heritage away along with several pictures of his unit included in the book. They include black, white, Hispanic, Asian and many other nationalities and ethnicities. These men were not colors or races to Bellavia, but brothers. He calls them "heroes" and they are more so than a Woods, Obama, Clinton, Cruise, Spears or any other whom the shallow would deem "heroes" for their alleged "struggles" to overcome things that have little to do with sacrificing all for another.

Bellavia's heroes are men like 1Lt Edward Iwan, Japanese-American, who led Bellavia's platoon and who died in Fallujah November 12, 2004 having taken over the gunner's position in a Bradely fighting vehicle, surrounded by insurgents on every side firing AK-47s, sniper rifles, heavy machine guns and RPGs. Iwan was cut down by just such an RPG. Bellavia continuously referred to Iwan as a great leader who took care of his men to the end.

At the end of his book, Bellavia lists the 41 men from his unit who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order of the date of their death. They are a true representation of America's "melting pot" with names like "Khan", "Kennedy", "Eckhart", "Martinez" and many more. Bellavia wants people to remember these men and honor their sacrifice.

Stein and the other fellow, posted only a small snippet of the actual event in order to make this implications. I note that he did not bother to post any other video or pictures from the event that clearly shows the many men and women of many races and ethnicities that were part of the "Vets on the Hill" event. These men and women had served in the military as Bellavia had and were there for the same reason: to insure that those who had fought, were fighting and those who had sacrificed, had their voices heard. They want to insure, as LTC Steve Russell (ret) has said, that their sacrifices were not simply "remembered" by names chiseled on a black stone wall, but would be "honored" by a lasting memorial of freedom and democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those attending, those of the many races, ethnicities and genders, knew exactly what Bellavia was speaking of when he compared a "hero" for children like Tiger Woods to a real hero who had sacrificed much for his nation like McCain and the many who had served in the past and present. Tiger, Bellavia has previously noted, is a fine man who has made much of his talents and often gives much back to communities like free golf clinics for the young and underprivileged, charitable events and various foundations. He is an excellent example of how to be a self made man who knows how to give back in recognition of the advantages he had been given.

But, if you are going to tell your children about "heroes", "sacrifice" and "love of country" who are you going to tell them about?

Try Mike Mansoor, Navy Seal, Medal of Honor recipient, who have his all for his country and for the men he served with when he jumped on a grenade.

Obama was not completely wrong. There is racism in this country, though not institutionalized and rarely raising its head publicly. I know what racism looks like. I had an unpleasant and unfortunate experience last week when someone made a comment that was neither ambiguous, subtle nor misconstrued, though it was under their breath and in the company of people they thought were "like minded" for some unknown reason. That person now knows it is unacceptable and intolerable, not only by me, but those in our group.

This egregious and scurrilous attack on Bellavia, however, makes me very upset. What good has Sam Stein done to equate, no, lower the issue of real racism to comparison with this non-event? I'll tell you, he has done no good. In fact, the construing of these comments to "racism" actually provides people cover when confronted with real, subtle and unsubtle, racism. He has done nothing, but provided a place for every half-wit with a political ax to grind, who see our soldiers as nothing but jack booted oppressors, and dislikes McCain, the Iraq war, and various other angst and neurosis, a place to vent their ugliness and idiocy.

Sam Stein owes Bellavia an apology, in public (since he made it that way).

Sam Stein, tear down that post.

� Secure this line!

The term *hero* has been bandied about so much over the past couple of decades that it's lost much of its original connotation, just as the term *racist* has been watered-down by overuse.

I don't walk through certain sections of Trenton because some of the inhabitants have spread the word that any white face appearing on their turf will be shot. I have *friends* in that neighborhood, but I won't visit them -- not because I'm a prejudiced SOB, but because it would be suicide for me to do it. My friends don't want me to visit because their homes would get firebombed -- the gang-bangers figure any black family receiving white visitors are informants.

But by Stein's definition, I'm a racist.

Wotta moron...

Heh. And now we're circular... since the Hot Air post linked our post with the citation for Bellavia's MoH nomination...

And now we're circular...

Only some of us.

I'm *linear*...

Where did the "Chickenhawk" meme go?

Now that the Dems don't have a faux military hero as their nominee, they're embarking on a strategy to trivialize and debase real military heroes like McCain and Bellavia, either by insinuating that they're racists, like the yahoos in kat's post, or like Jay Rockefeller in his recent comments that McCain just dropped laser guided bombs from 30,000 feet without considering the human toll of the destruction below.

Huffington Post is just a bunch of zealous morons, especially Mrs Huffington herself. Sometimes I just want to stuff my pointy highheel shoe right up their A$$, they would be burping leather for a month.

Racist, yea say "boo" and they think you are stating a racist quote. They are the ones who are racist, just like Sharpton. Idiots....

Heh. Someone whizzed in Rita's Wheaties® this morning!

Hero - A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life.

Athlete - A person possessing the natural or acquired traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance, that are necessary for physical exercise or sports, especially those performed in competitive contexts. Professional Athlete - same as above - except for MONEY.

My achin' butt!! Just sayin'. ML

I think they have been wizzing in my Wheaties for some time now :)

I just cannot stand when those people dripple lies and attack a person who has served his country with honor and distinction. We just need to stand up and fight that kind of rhetoric; and with pointy highheel shoes just for an extra jolt :).....

Since when did comparing sports heroes to war heroes become an issue of race? What a load of crap.
I'm waiting for Tiger to come out and announce that it's a load of crap too, as he's done in the past when the race card has been forced into play. He recognizes a true racial slur versus a comparison of hero status.

Crap, I tell ya. Crap.

While I think the last thing that David Bellavia is, is a racist. The "Tiger" thing wasn't well thought out. don't get me wrong, no one is on target all the time.

One of Huffington's commenters said that if it wasn't meant to be an insult, he didn't get the point. That's where I find myself in this. Sure John McCain should be admired for his service (no one needs to tell Princess Crabby that....). But, to be frank, there is nothing wrong with young people admiring Tiger Woods. He's naturally talented, he works hard & has achieved his successes legitimately.

John McCain doesn't need us to tear down other people to build him up.

"Dripple" - a new word for me.

I like it.

I'm quadrilateral, not even trapezoidal. No two sides of me are parallel.

It wasn't about "McCain" v. "Woods", it was "war hero" v. "athlete", "sacrifice of mind, body and life" v. "sacrifice of free time to practice".

Now, you're right, Woods is a good example of perseverance, goal setting and achievement with the extra of giving back to the community. That's a nice example for kids to look up to. But, I wouldn't call him a "hero" and if I was trying to inspire kids about doing the right thing or sacrificing something for a greater cause, it would be McCain or the men with Bellavia I would point to, not Tiger.

kat's kernel:

Hero vs Example

A smear campaign by liberal bloggers is currently underway to silence the conservative opinions offered by myself and other conservative talk radio hosts at one of the highest-rated conservative talk radio stations in the nation. (KSFO 560 AM).

It began when one liberal blogger tried to get us fired. When that didn�t work he began an anonymous campaign to intimidate advertisers to not support �hate speech.�

Now liberal bloggers are calling for our firing. They are also pushing for implication [note: implementation?] of the Fairness Doctrine to force liberal radio programming down the public�s throat. (They tried to compete in the free market with �Air America� and that failed miserably, so now they are using these tactics to silence conservative radio voices).

To respond to growing pressure from these ruthless liberal bloggers and political activists to silence us, we are going to do something unprecedented. We are opening up our airwaves, cancelling our normal programming and having an open forum where the public, news media, bloggers, critics and friends alike can call in and address any issues surrounding this matter.

I am asking you to call in and voice your support!

We will do this from 12:00 Noon � 3:00 PM Pacific (or longer if need be!) which is equivalent to 3:00 PM � 6:00 PM Eastern. [note: lacking day/date information, I'm guessing this is a one-shot event]

The media will be covering this event live, and I want to make sure you are invited to weigh in on this matter. We will give out the phone number to call in during the special program.

I�d ask that you FAX in letters/notes of support to:
(415) 954-4013

[note: even if the show was a one-off, the FaxSwarm is still a Go]

You can also send email to our station here:
http://www.ksfo.com/contactus.asp

A final note�

I want you to know the lengths these people are going to smear us and to try to silence us. They�ve gotten reporters to say that I�ve called for targeting Nancy Pelosi for assassination because of the following comment.

[note: first hyperlink stripped. I'm not gonna bump mm-dot-org's count or give them a trackback]

1. I want you to go here and play this clip (on the liberal Media Matters website of all places) and see for yourself how these people are engaging in a shameless effort to misrepresent our comments:
http://mediamatters.cut-paste-delete-italicsorg/items/200611210011

2. There have been times when I have regretted making a comment or felt I was insensitive in characterizing a situation. When such incidents have occurred, I have been forthright in offering a retraction and apology. Here�s one incident from December 2006.
http://www.melaniemorgan.com/frommelanie.html

[note: do the cut 'n' paste trick on the following, too. I don't wanna blow the bottom out of the bandwidth budget in the middle of the month and have to keep ry company in the sub-garderobe]

And related to a similar incident here was the comments made by my co-host Brian Sussman:
http://melaniemorgan.com/1_short_sussman_apology.mp3

I am sharing these clips with you so you can know that I take my efforts to fight for conservative causes very seriously. I would never sink to levels of advocating violence or other such inappropriate comments.

I hope I can continue to count on your support.

- Melanie

[final note: keep the faxes upbeat and supportive. Ummm, Ladies -- I suspect goin' into Valkyrie mode would be counterproductive] --Bill

� Secure this line!

"have to keep ry company in the sub-garderobe"

But Chief, you simply must see what I've done with the place. It's cozy. Well, when you move the comic books outta the way so you can sit it is, don't tell SWWBO I've got 'em as she's trying to make the Castle all clean and organized like. And I got the old black and white tv to pick up something other than UHF.

Stale Cheeto?

[PG-17C in AltMode(Maint) installs cable outlet in Garderobe.]

Thanks for your thoughtful comments on my blog--I've put up a permanent link to your site up on it.
www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com

[How apt. My spam filter dumped the email notification of this comment into the trash. The comment below (except where interspersed with comments contained in [brackets]) does not represent in any ways, means or form, the personal nor editorial policy of Castle Argghhh!. We reject the unifying premise.]

The Jews behind George W. Bush

[More accurately, a list of Jews, period. Which means you know where this is going... down the Road to Dachau. Oh, wait - Dachau was just a vacation destination for European Jewry established in the middle of a genocidal war by a benevolent German government. Oops. My bad. ]

1 .Richard Perle
One of Bush's foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. A very likely Israeli government agent, Perle was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson's office in the 1970's after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam. Perle came from one the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktanks, the AEI. Perle is one of the leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war mongering within the administration and now in the media.

2. Paul Wolfowitz
Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle's Defense Policy Board, in the Pentagon. Wolfowitz is a close associate of Perle, and reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military. His sister lives in Israel. Wolfowitz came from the above mentioned Jewish thinktank, JINSA. Wolfowitz is the number two leader within the administration behind this Iraq war mongering.

3. Douglas Feith
Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon. He is a close associate of Perle and served as his Special Counsel. Like Perle and the others, Feith is a pro-Israel extremist, who has advocated anti-Arab policies in the past. He is closely associated with the extremist group, the Zionist Organization of America, which even attacks Jews that don't agree with its extremist views. Feith frequently speaks at ZOA conferences. Feith runs a small law firm, Feith and Zell, which only has one International office, in Israel. The majority of their legal work is representing Israeli interests. His firm's own website stated, prior to his appointment, that Feith "represents Israeli Armaments Manufacturer." Feith basically represents the Israeli War Machine. Feith also came from the Jewish thinktank JINSA. Feith, like Perle and Wolfowitz, are campaigning hard for this Israeli proxy war against Iraq.

4. Edward Luttwak
Member of the National Security Study Group of the Department of Defence at the Pentagon. Luttwak is reportedly an Israeli citizen and has taught in Israel. He frequently writes for Israeli and pro-Israeli newspapers and journals. Luttwak is an Israeli extremist whose main theme in many of his articles is the necessity of the U.S. waging war against Iraq.

5. Henry Kissinger
One of many Pentagon Advisors, Kissinger sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle. For detailed information about Kissinger's evil past, read Seymour Hersch's book (Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House). Kissinger likely had a part in the Watergate crimes, Southeast Asia mass murders (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), Installing Chilean mass murdering dictator Pinochet, Operation Condor's mass killings in South America, and more recently served as Serbia's Ex-Dictator Slobodan Milosevic's Advisor. He consistently advocates going to war against Iraq. Kissinger is the Ariel Sharon of the U.S. Unfortunately, President Bush nominated Kissinger as chairman of the September 11 investigating commission. It's like picking a bank robber to investigate a fraud scandal.

6. Dov Zakheim
Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Department of Defense. He is an ordained rabbi and reportedly holds Israeli citizenship. Zakheim attended attended Jew�s College in London and became an ordained Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in 1973. He was adjunct professor at New York's Jewish Yeshiva University. Zakheim is close to the Israeli lobby.
[Oops! Incomplete! Zakheim is *also* a Beltway Bandit!]

7. Kenneth Adelman
One of many Pentagon Advisors, Adelman also sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle, and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supports going to war against Iraq. Adelman frequently is a guest on Fox News, and often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. Through his hatred or stupidity, he actually called Arabs "anti-Semitic" on Fox News (11/28/2001), when he could have looked it up in the dictionary to find out that Arabs by definition are Semites. [Which doesn't mean they can't be anti-semitic. Look at many prominent Democrats included in this list. They are anti-American...]

8. Lewis Libby
Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff. The chief pro-Israel Jewish advisor to Cheney, it helps explains why Cheney is so gun-ho to invade Iraq. Libby is longtime associate of Wolfowitz. Libby was also a lawyer for convicted felon and Israeli spy Marc Rich, whom Clinton pardoned, in his last days as president. [Shouldn't you update this now that Libby has been indicted? Geez, dude, how long have you been prowling the 'Net, shatting in people's blogs with this drivel?]

9 Robert Satloff
U.S. National Security Council Advisor, Satloff was the executive director of the Israeli lobby's "think tank," Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Many of the Israeli lobby's "experts" come from this front group, like Martin Indyk.

10. Elliott Abrams
National Security Council Advisor. He previously worked at Washington-based "Think Tank" Ethics and Public Policy Center. During the Reagan Adminstration, Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State, handling, for the most part, Latin American affairs. He played an important role in the Iran-Contra Scandal, which involved illegally selling U.S. weapons to Iran to fight Iraq, and illegally funding the contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government. He also actively deceived three congressional committees about his involvement and thereby faced felony charges based on his testimony. Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to a year's probation and 100 hours of community service. A year later, former President Bush (Senior) granted Abrams a full pardon. He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Reagan Administration's State Department.

11. Marc Grossman
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the Department of State. Grossman is one of many of the pro-Israel Jewish officials from the Clinton Administration that Bush has promoted to higher posts.

12.Richard Haass
Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at large. He is also Director of National Security Programs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the first Bush (Sr) Administration who sat on the National Security Council, and who consistently advocates going to war against Iraq. Haass is also a member of the Defense Department's National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon.

13. Robert Zoellick
U.S. Trade Representative, a cabinet-level position. He is also one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Bush (Jr) Administration who advocated invading Iraq and occupying a portion of the country in order to set up setting up a Vichy-style puppet government. He consistently advocates going to war against Iraq.

14. Ari Fleischer
Former ( until 2003) official White House Spokesman for the Bush (Jr) Administration. Prominent in the Jewish community, some reports state that he holds Israeli citizenship. Fleischer is closely connected to the extremist Jewish group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics, who follow the Qabala, and hold very extremist and insulting views of non-Jews. Fleischer was the co-president of Chabad's Capitol Jewish Forum. He received the Young Leadership Award from the American Friends of Lubavitch in October, 2001.

15. James Schlesinger
One of many Pentagon Advisors, Schlesinger also sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supports going to war against Iraq. Schlesinger is also a commissioner of the Defense Department's National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon.

16. David Frum
White House speechwriter behind the "Axis of Evil" label. He lumps together all the lies and accusations against Iraq for Bush to justify the war.

17. Joshua Bolten
White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Bolten was previously a banker, former legislative aide, and prominent in the Jewish community.

18. John Bolton
Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Bolton is also a Senior Advisor to President Bush. Prior to this position, Bolton was Senior Vice President of the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktank, AEI. He recently (October 2002) accused Syria of having a nuclear program, so that they can attack Syria after Iraq. He must have forgotten that Israel has 400 nuclear warheads, some of which are thermonuclear weapons (according to a recent U.S. Air Force report).

19. David Wurmser
Special Assistant to John Bolton (above), the under-secretary for arms control and international security. Wurmser also worked at the AEI with Perle and Bolton. His wife, Meyrav Wurmser, along with Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri),a Washington-based Israeli outfit which distributes articles translated from Arabic newspapers portraying Arabs in a bad light. [Um, MEMRI just translates the stuff, dude. The writing stands on it's own. It isn't MEMRI portraying itself in a bad light - it's the authors. Kinda *exactly* like you are in this piece of troll-scat you dumped here. Your Irony Meter is, well, *broken*]

20. Eliot Cohen
Member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor. Like Adelman, he often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. More recently, he wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal openly admitting his rascist hatred of Islam claiming that Islam should be the enemy, not terrorism.

21. Mel Sembler
President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. A Prominent Jewish Republican and Former National Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Export-Import Bank facilitates trade relationships between U.S. businesses and foreign countries, specifically those with financial problems.

22. Michael Chertoff
Secretary of �Homeland Security� and he holds Israeli citizenship

23. Steve Goldsmith
Senior Advisor to the President, and Bush's Jewish domestic policy advisor. He also serves as liaison in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (White House OFBCI) within the Executive Office of the President. He was the former mayor of Indianapolis. He is also friends with Israeli Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and often visits Israel to coach mayors on privatization initiatives.

24. Adam Goldman
White House's Special Liaison to the Jewish Community.

25. Joseph Gildenhorn
Bush Campaign's Special Liaison to the Jewish Community. He was the DC finance chairman for the Bush campaign, as well as campaign coordinator, and former ambassador to Switzerland.

26. Christopher Gersten
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families at HHS. Gersten was the former Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Husband of Labor Secretary, Linda Chavez, and reportedly very pro-Israel. Their children are being raised Jewish. [Um, and if one of them is Jewish and they've agreed to raise the kids Jewish, raising their children Jewish is surprising (or informative) for what reason? Oh! I see - Chavez must be Catholic (Hispanic, right?). Um, I'm CofE (actually, I'm undeclared, I was just raised CofE), my wife is Catholic, my son is... Catholic! Oh no! You're a Buffoon.]

27. Mark Weinberger
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs.

28. Samuel Bodman
Deputy Secretary of Commerce. He was the Chairman and CEO of Cabot Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.

29. Bonnie Cohen
Under Secretary of State for Management.

30. Ruth Davis
Director of Foreign Service Institute, who reports to the Office of Under Secretary for Management. This Office is responsible for training all Department of State staff (including ambassadors).

31. Daniel Kurtzer
Ambassador to Israel.

32. Cliff Sobel
Ambassador to the Netherlands.

33. Stuart Bernstein
Ambassador to Denmark.

34. Nancy Brinker
Ambassador to Hungary

35. Frank Lavin
Ambassador to Singapore.

36. Ron Weiser
Ambassador to Slovakia.

37. Mel Sembler
Ambassador to Italy.

38. Martin Silverstein
Ambassador to Uruguay.

39. Lincoln Bloomfield
Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs.

40. Jay Lefkowitz
Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

40. Ken Melman
White House Political Director.

41. Brad Blakeman
White House Director of Scheduling.

42. Carl Gershman
President National Endowment for Democracy

43. Edwin Feulner
President Heritage Foundation

44. S. Daniel Abraham
Chairman Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation

45. Joel Rosenthal
President Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs

46. Herbert I. London (Winner of the 2001 American Jewish Congress Award)
President Hudson Institute

47. Irwin Hochberg
Executive Committee Chairman Middle East Forum
The Middle East Forum, a think tank, works to define and promote American interests in the Middle East.

48. William Kristol
Chairman Project for a New American Century,

49. Bill Grinstein
Chairman World Affairs Council

50. David R. Segal
Center for the Research on Military Organization

51. Leslie Gelb
President Council on Foreign Relations

52. Abraham Lowenthal
Vice President Council on Foreign Relations

53. Myron Lieberman
Chairman Education Policy Institute

54. Jeff Cohen
Executive Director Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR),

55. Michael Savage (born Michael Weiner)
Conservative talk-show host and apologist for Israel. [His readio show sucks, too, for my taste. He's mean-spirited, screechy and annoying, and he makes more money that I do at this pundit business, so mebbe he's on to something. What's that got to do with putatively being Jewish?]

56. Jane Friedman
Chairman Association of American Publishers

57. Jean Picker Firstenberg
Director and CEO American Film Institute

58. Marlene Kahan
Executive Director American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)

59. Dan Stein
Executive Director Federation for American Immigration Reform

60. Diana Aviv
Chairman of the board National Immigration Forum

61. James D. Wolfensohn
President World Bank

62. Alan Greenspan
Chairman Federal Reserve [Oops. Need to update this one, fella. Alan retired.]

63. Nickolas J. Neubauer
Chairman Chicago Board of Trade

64. Charles H. Falk
President New York Board of Trade

65. Harvey J. Goldschmid
Commissioner U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

66. Stephen Friedman
National Economic Council

67. Lawrence Summers
President Harvard University

68. Richard L. Levin
President Yale University

69. Harvey Shapiro
President Priceton University

70. James O. Freedman
President Dartmouth College
(Quote: I dearly wish that my father, who had confronted anti-semitism in finding his early teaching positions, had lived long enough to see the installation of Jewish presidents at numerous Ivy League and Big Ten universities.") [Um, obviously your mileage varies...]

71. Jeffrey Lehman
President Cornell University

72. Henry Bienen
President Northwestern University

73. Richard Atkinson
President University of California
( Atkinson is a member of the Board of Directors of the avidly pro-Israel Koret Foundation, which features its "Israel Emergency Fund )

74. Isaac Stein
Chairman of the Board Stanford University

75. Michael Eisner
CEO Walt Disney Corporation, owner of ABC

76. Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein)
Chairman and CEO Viacom, owner of CBS, MTV and Paramount Pictures

77. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr
CEO of the New York Times , The Sulzberger family also owns, through the New York Times Co., 33 others newspapers, including the Boston Globe, purchased in June 1993 for $1.1 billion; twelve magazines, including McCall�s and Family Circle with circulations of more than 5 million each; seven radio and TV broadcasting stations; a cable-TV system; and three book publishing companies. The New York Times News Service transmits news stories, features, and photographs from the New York Times by wire to 506 other newspapers, news agencies, and magazines. [A well known and documented supporter of this President! Snerk]

78. Peter R. Kann
Chairman and CEO Dow Jones & Company, Inc, publisher of the Wall Street Journal

79. Peter Chernin
President and CEO of Fox Group, owns Fox News

80. Michael Silverman
Managing Editor Associated Press

81. Lloyd Blankfein
President and Chief Operating Officer Goldman Sachs, world's biggest investment bank

82. Stephan Newhouse
President Morgan Stanley

83. Sanford Weill
Chairman Citigroup, owns Citibank, the world's biggest private bank

84. Robert Rubin
Chairman of the Executive Committee and Director Citigroup [Ah, yes, Clinton's Treasury Secretary, just falls all over himself supporting Bush's policies... why just the other day I heard him on Limbaugh, right after his appearance with Ann Coulter, and before he dropped in on G. Gordon Libby. I hear he's scheduled a segment with Ollie North, too.]

85. Henry Kravis
Investor, President of Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts.
In 1997 Kravis joined with fellow billionaires Edgar Bronfman, Sr. and Lewis Eisenberg ( both jewish) to establish the Republican Leadership Council

86. Michael Dell
Founder and chairman of Dell Computer, head of the Bush technology panel [...and his firm built the computer I'm typing on. So?]

87. Michael Rubens "Mike" Bloomberg
Businessman and mayor of New York City [Ah yes, a Raging RINO who supports the President about as firmly as Senator Lincoln Chafee, (RINO) Rhode Island]

88. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg
US Supreme Court Justice [Who it's well known has voted in support of all this Administrations policies when appealed to the Supreme Court. Not.]

89. Stephen Breyer
US Supreme Court Justice [Another jurist well known to have voted in support of all this Administrations policies when appealed to the Supreme Court. Not.]

Izziss the best you've got? You're just a jew-hater, fella. Nothing more. It's not something to be proud of. Go away, and don't bother us again.

� Secure this line!

Saw the comment last night. Felt disgust, knew you'd handle it properly.

Oh, and I am sorry you're not sleeping well.

IH needs to expand his/her reading list beyond the "Protocols", "Mein Kampf", and whatever else David Duke and Pat Buchanan have published recently.

he forgot one...

90. Madonna

I've also been short of sleep, so I'm having trouble getting beyond the #$%*^ and muttering under my breath. I might try again later.

I was visited by the same troll last night, though Haloscan did not accomodate the entire length of his screed. He left it on the BBC post I did, so I told him he was welcome back if he wasn't a bot and if he wanted to actually stick to the topic at hand.

I'll read the entire thing at some future date when my stress level is actually lower...

Scanned it...all I really saw was:
"1. I'm idiot" thru "89. I'm an idiot".
I haven't seen someone keep banging their head against the wall like that for some time.

You must a UPS for your computer.......you can do the same thing with the CPAP.