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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By Jen Chung in News on August 3, 2006 5:30 PM

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anonymass

(tried to put some tags around my last sentence, but those seem to have disappeared)

anonymass

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.

Sharon

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

daniel

semantics

-daniel@egotist

http://www.the-egotist.com

i had fries

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.

JESUS CHRIST

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.