# Jews Rule the World and Run the Media? I WISH! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999 "2003-10-17T13:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/41 "2003-10-17T22:50:41Z")
A couple thoughts about Easterbrook and his column. Even after that apology, I’m still a little confused about this: what exactly makes members of an ethnic group that has been a target of predjudice and horrific violence over thousands of years _especially responsible_ to make sure they behave better than anyone else? What would make anyone think that? I do sympathize with Easterbrook’s difficulty in explaining his words. While the usual celebrity or sports figure who comes out with something bigoted or otherwise profoundly offensive in an interview can simply claim they were misquoted or taken out of context, how much more difficult it must be when _you actually wrote the whole piece_? I guess saying “I mangled my words” is the best you can do. Kind of conjures up an image of Easterbrook rolling over in bed and accidentally mashing the column. And lastly, it’s not as if a bunch of criticism (some with highly anti-Semitic overtones) hasn’t been leveled in the past few years at “Jewish studio executives”, over the issuing of “Last Temptation of Christ”, distribution of Mel Gibson’s movie etc. Maybe Easterbrook just didn’t realize his pile-on would draw as much unfavorable attention as it did. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/42 "2003-10-17T22:52:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daisy Cutter \* > \*\*The only things those ignoramouses at that conference need to add is the “heil hitler” sign, while clicking their sandals together. > \*\* You know, they’ve got a dog that can do that now. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/43 "2003-10-17T23:05:56Z")
I spent a lot of time in Malaysia in the mid-90’s. Mahathir has made all sorts of anti-Jewish comments in the past so this is no suprise. When that dumbfuck decided to float Malaysia’s currency and few years back and it totally tanked (part of the “Asian contagion”) he blamed it on Jewish speculators. Israeli citizens couldn’t even enter the country until the late 90’s. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/44 "2003-10-17T23:28:23Z")
Well, of course Jews run the media. Unfortunately, we don’t run the post office. If you haven’t gotten your check this month, now you know who to complain to. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/45 "2003-10-17T23:49:56Z")
I wish he’d realize anyone can be an idiot. Atheists too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/46 "2003-10-18T00:01:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\* —Hmmppphh. So if we run the world, and the media, howcum I’m stuck in this lousy magazine copy-editing job, and can’t even find a decent pair of winter boots? \*\* So, you’re in the media business, are you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/47 "2003-10-18T00:10:43Z")
So these two retired Jewish men are sitting on a beach in Florida, as they often do. Usually they read such things as the Simon Wiesenthal Center newsletter, but one day one of them brings some neo-Nazi propaganda instead. The other man asks him, “Why are you reading that neo-Nazi stuff?” The first man says, “I’m tired of reading about how Jews are oppressed, I’d rather read about how we rule the world.” ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/48 "2003-10-18T00:27:51Z")
So, the Prime Minister of Malaysia claims that Jews rule the world; what you should _really_ be incensed about is that, in America, there’s \*[a general who has chided Muslims!!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=217773) \*. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/49 "2003-10-18T00:32:42Z")
I thoght everyone knew that it was the Zoroastrians that actually rule the world. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/50 "2003-10-18T00:42:05Z")
[hijack] Ever since seeing _Zoolander_, every time I see “Prime Minister of Malaysia,” I can’t help but think “Prime Rib of Propecia ™” Sorry. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![TVAA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TVAA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVAA)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/51 "2003-10-18T01:41:16Z")
Interesting. I always hear the screaming floating disembodied head of Mugatu. “You must KILL THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA!” ---
**Author:** ![Amethyst\_Autumn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Amethyst\_Autumn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amethyst_Autumn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/52 "2003-10-18T02:02:42Z")
I’m Jewish and I used to work in the media until I was laid off. But my bosses were all a bunch of goyim so 😛 on him! ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/53 "2003-10-18T02:41:58Z")
[nitpick] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*I say the same thing about the Evil Liberal Media Conspiracy™, myself. If there _really_ was an ELMC, all the lies and bullstuff about Saddam’s 500,000 tons of WMDs would have been revealed (in breathless 200-point “exclusive investigative report” headlines, no less) back in January… \*\* [/nitpick] I have never known any right-winger to talk about an evil-left-wing-conspiracy. An evil-left-wing- **bias** , yes, but not conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/54 "2003-10-18T03:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MC Master of Ceremonies \* > \*\*I thoght everyone knew that it was the Zoroastrians that actually rule the world. \*\* Nah, they just inspired the theme music. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/55 "2003-10-18T04:54:47Z")
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is just being his usual recalcitrant self. The last person to publicly say that about him was the Australian PM. I remember the war of words that one litte word - _recalcitrant_ - incited. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/56 "2003-10-18T06:36:46Z")
Man, every time I let somebody convince me that Jews are white, somebody else comes around and tells me they’re not and that I’m not a member of majority culture. It’s damned confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/57 "2003-10-18T08:04:57Z")
I have a bit of a problem accepting that the apology is sincere. He didn’t go after Quentin Tarantino, who wrote and directed _Kill Bill_, and would logically seem to be most responisble for its content, but managed to isolate the biggest name Jews associated with it, and go after them. Then I read the original statement: > [@](#): > > Set aside what it says about Hollywood that today even Disney thinks what the public needs is ever-more-graphic depictions of killing the innocent as cool amusement. Disney’s CEO, Michael Eisner, is Jewish; the chief of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, is Jewish. Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence. Does that make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else, by promoting for profit the adulation of violence? Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice. But history is hardly the only concern. Films made in Hollywood are now shown all over the world, to audiences that may not understand the dialogue or even look at the subtitles, but can’t possibly miss the message–now Disney’s message–that hearing the screams of the innocent is a really fun way to express yourself. He either hasn’t seen the movie, or is deliberately distorting its content. Of the hundred somthing people killed in the film, exactly one is an innocent. She is killed offscreen. In an anime sequence. There is not one instance of “ever-more-graphic depictions of killing the innocent as cool amusement”, not one instance of “glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice”, not one instance in which “hearing the screams of the innocent is a really fun way to express yourself.” When he blatantly lies about so much in the statement, It’s hard for me to accept that it’s merely poor wording in the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/58 "2003-10-18T08:18:50Z")
I’m reminded of an Onion headline from a while back: “Affable Anti-Semite Thinks The Jews Are Doing Super Job With the Media.” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/59 "2003-10-18T09:19:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\* LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 — A senior editor at The New Republic has published a column on the Internet that deplores the violence in the film “Kill Bill” and criticizes Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax, which released the film, and Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company, as “Jewish executives” who “worship money above all else.” > \*\* As opposed to the executives at other major studios, who are only in it for the _art of film_…:rolleyes: Yeah, this film will warp any children that see it. Hell, it damn near warped ME. (I enjoyed it, BTW) But I have to ask, do they let children in to see this adult faire where this bozo lives? Setting aside those devious ones who sneak in and are already a little warped to start with. Isn’t this a PG 17 film??? ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999/60 "2003-10-18T13:39:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah, this film will warp any children that see it. Hell, it damn near warped ME. (I enjoyed it, BTW) But I have to ask, do they let children in to see this adult faire where this bozo lives? Setting aside those devious ones who sneak in and are already a little warped to start with. Isn’t this a PG 17 film??? Well, we brought our two kids (10 and 13). In our defense, the movie had just come out and we had no idea it would be so violent. In \*my \* defense, it was my wife’s idea. The theater evidently had no problem admitting two youngsters into the film with their parents. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-rule-the-world-and-run-the-media-i-wish/207999.md?page=4)