Raging Bullshit: Martin Scorsese is one of my favorite film directors. But I'm not impressed with his script for dealing with incorrigible mass murderers like Saddam: "I think it really has to come down to respecting how other people live. There's got to be ways this can be worked out diplomatically, there simply has to be." Go see Lileks take Scorsese apart.
Gretta Duisenberg, the rabid wife of the head of the European Central Bank, believes that Israelis are worse than Nazis. Duisenberg, who was permitted to enter Israel on a Dutch diplomatic passport, was quoted in a Dutch newspaper
"With the exception of the Holocaust, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian areas is worse than the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands...The cruelty of the Israelis has no limits. That they are blowing up houses of Palestinians is not rare. The Nazis never went that far during the occupation of the Netherlands"None of this is true, and in any event, I don't believe that the Dutch incited their children to blow themselves up in Düsseldorf supermarkets. Nor did the Nazis occupy the Netherlands because the Netherlands initiated a war of annihilation against Germany. Nor did the Nazis allow foreign activists to go to the Netherlands to protest the Nazi occupation. Nor does Israel do to any Palestinian children what the Nazis did to, say, Anne Frank.
Mike Silverman points out an example of outrageous anti-Semitism in the San Francisco Bay Guardian (an alternative weekly). Mike e-mailed me to ask "Is this kind of stuff par for the course for them?" The Bay Guardian is a keystone of the local idiotarian left. You can always count on them to be squarely behind any leftist idiocy du jour.
Ray Hanania can't tell the difference between Al Qaeda and Al Barger. Al (Barger) is unimpressed.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 10, 2003 03:25 PMI have to question the mental stability of anyone who can compare anything to what the Nazis did, "with the exception of the Holocaust." That makes about as much sense as asking "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"
Posted by: Xrlq on January 10, 2003 03:34 PMIs she really not aware of the German bombing of Rotterdam? The Nazis didn't just blow up houses; they blew up houses with the people inside them.
Posted by: David Foster on January 10, 2003 05:06 PMComparing people and activities to the Nazis has become so fashionable that it has desensitized people to the truly horrific atrocities of the Nazis - atrocities on a scale unfathomable - and have we now forgotten the thing we said we would "never forget"?
Posted by: Ipsofacto on January 10, 2003 07:35 PMMartin Scorsese says: "I think it really has to come down to respecting how other people live."
Martin, Martin, Martin... You obviously haven't read "The Threatening Storm" by Kenneth Pollack, have you? It tells us EXACTLY how Saddam Hussein and his cronies live in Iraq, and how their oppressed countrymen DIE.
I have NO respect for how Saddam and his fellow Ba'athist swine live, and not much for those dupes like Martin Scorsese who want me to respect them.
Posted by: BarCodeKing on January 11, 2003 01:16 AM