August 3, 2006
Ed Koch's Take on Mel Gibson-gate
In The Forward, Ed Koch and Rafael Medoff have an article, Will Mel Gibson Get Away With His Antisemitic Tirade? And it's like a greatest hits of famous figures (mostly political) getting their slur on. For instance:
- Jesse Jackson called New York City "Hymietown"
- James Baker saying, "F— the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway."
- Marge Schott's Hitler love and her remarks about blacks
- Maybe everything Pat Buchanan has said about Jews
These figures have had various fallouts from their opinions (Jackson, Baker and Buchanan are relatively unscathed, Scott had to sell the Reds). Really, it's been said before, but those South Park guys were brilliant when they made The Passion of the Jew.
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Marge Schott owned the Cinncinnati Reds
Marge Schott had to sell the Reds, not the Indians. Though I could certainly see her being a big fan of Chief Wahoo.
I believe Marge Schott had to sell the Cincinnati Reds, not the Cleveland Indians...
someone should go ninja on mel with a pen. you know. navy seal style. put and end to that nonsense quick.
Oh, crap, I wanted to be the first to correct the Marge Schott mistake, but I missed it by 22 minutes.
Well, Baker had a point.
Fuck! I hate Ed Koch. He's the reason I hate black and spanish people. When I was a student under his mayorship he let crime go rampant and let stereotypes take it's course. The dude is the worst jew in the world. Hell, Mel Gibson just went up in my book. Getting a rejection from Ed Koch is like a badge of honor.
im a jew and i say ed koch is an idiot. 'boycott france'. 'freedom fries'. what an idiot. a whiny idiot. not to say anti-semitism may not still be a problem, but what he does, and when jews do like he does, it makes the problem worse. there are other people really being persecuted in this day and age, victims with more serious issues right now. who cares what than what mel gibson drunkenly says, or what movies he drunkenly makes.
semantics
-daniel@egotist
http://www.the-egotist.com
And now there's a new place to soak up all the Ed Koch creamy goodness.
http://www.nypress.com/19/31/news&columns/opinion.cfm
On a side note, can we please collectively agree to move past the whole "goodness" tag?
I throw up in my mouth a little every time I hear it.
(tried to put some tags around my last sentence, but those seem to have disappeared)