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Jews DO control
the media
July 1, 2012, 11:05
am
We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor.
Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him
enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about
Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, Jewish directors. Every time
someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we inevitably say
something like, “Did you know that he was Jewish?” That’s just how we
roll.
We’re a driven group, and not just in regards to the art world. We
have, for example, AIPAC, which was essentially constructed just
to drive agenda in Washington DC. And it succeeds admirably. And we
brag about it. Again, it’s just what we do.
But the funny part is when any anti-Semite or anti-Israel person starts
to spout stuff like, “The Jews control the media!” and “The Jews
control Washington!”
Suddenly we’re up in arms. We create huge campaigns to take these
people down. We do what we can to put them out of work. We publish
articles. We’ve created entire organizations that exist just to tell
everyone that the Jews don’t control nothin’. No, we don’t control the
media, we don’t have any more sway in DC than anyone else. No, no, no,
we swear: We’re just like everybody else!
Does anyone else (who’s not a bigot) see the irony of this?
Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control the
media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the
big movie production companies it’s almost obscene. Just about every
movie or TV show, whether it be “Tropic Thunder” or “Curb Your
Enthusiasm,” is rife with actors, directors, and writers who are
Jewish. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Jews?
But that’s not all. We also control the ads that go on those TV shows.
And let’s not forget AIPAC, every anti-Semite’s favorite punching bag.
We’re talking an organization that’s practically the equivalent of the
Elders of Zion. I’ll never forget when I was involved in Israeli
advocacy in college and being at one of the many AIPAC conventions. A
man literally stood in front of us and told us that their whole goal
was to only work with top-50 school graduate students because they
would eventually be the people making changes in the government. Here I
am, an idealistic little kid that goes to a bottom 50 school (ASU) who
wants to do some grassroots advocacy, and these guys are literally
talking about infiltrating the government. Intense.
Now, I know what everyone will say. That everyone tries to lobby. Every
minority group and every majority group. That every group has some
successful actors and directors. But that’s a far call from saying that
we run Hollywood and Madison Avenue. That the Mel Gibsons of the world
are right in saying we’re deliberately using our power to take over the
world. That we’ve got some crazy conspiracy going down.
Okay. Fine. So some of that is kooky talk.
But let’s look at it a bit deeper.
Maybe it’s true: everyone lobbies. Maybe it’s true there are actors of
every ethnicity out there. But come on. We’re the ones who are bragging
about this stuff all the time. Can’t we admit that we’re incredibly
successful? Can’t we say it to the world?
I’ll give my theory for why Jews don’t want to talk about their control
of the media.
First of all, as much as Jews like to admit that so many of them are
successful, and that so many of them have accomplished so much, they
hate to admit that it has to do with they’re being Jewish. Maybe
they’ll admit that it has something to do with the Jewish experience.
But how many Jews will admit that there is something inherently a part
of every single one of them that helps them to accomplish amazing
things?
The ADL chairman, Abe Foxman, was interviewed in a great article about
the subject and he said that he “would prefer people say that many
executives in the industry ‘happen to be Jewish.’” This just about sums
up the party line.
The truth is, the anti-Semites got it right. We Jews have something
planted in each one of us that makes us completely different from every
group in the world. We’re talking about a group of people that just got
put in death camps, endured pogroms, their whole families decimated.
And then they came to America, the one place that ever really let them
have as much power as they wanted, and suddenly they’re taking over.
Please don’t tell me that any other group in the world has ever done
that. Only the Jews. And we’ve done it before. That’s why the Jews were
enslaved in Egypt. We were too successful. Go look at the Torah — it’s
right there. And we did it in Germany too.
This ability to succeed, this inner drive, comes not from the years of
education or any other sort of conditional factors, but because of the
inner spark within each Jew.
Now, the reason groups like the ADL and AIPAC hate admitting this is
because, first of all, they are secular organizations. Their whole
agenda is to prove that every Jew is the same as every other person in
the world. I cannot imagine a more outlandish agenda. No, we’re
different. We’re special.
And clearly, that whole thing about big Jewish noses was totally blown
out of proportion. (illustrative photo: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
And clearly, that whole thing about big Jewish noses was totally blown
out of proportion. (illustrative photo: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
Of course, people hate when anyone says this. They assume that if
you’re saying that Jews are special, it somehow implies that they’re
better.
To be honest, I’m not really sure what the word “better” even means.
What I do know is that being special simply means a person has a
responsibility to do good.
I think that’s the real reason most Jews are so afraid to admit that
there’s something inherently powerful and good about them. Not because
they’re afraid of being special. But because they’re afraid of being
responsible. It means that they’re suddenly culpable when they create
dirty TV shows that sully the spiritual atmosphere of the world. It
means that things can’t just be created for the sake of amusement or
fun or even “art.”
Suddenly, we can’t screw up the world.
The interesting thing is that Jews have done so much for the world in
so many other ways. They’ve moved forward civil rights; they’ve helped
save lives in Darfur, Haiti and just about everywhere else.
But that’s not enough. Fixing the world physically is only half the
battle.
Our larger battle, the harder battle, is elevating the world
spiritually. And this is what the people that fight with every inch of
their soul to prove that Jews are just the same as everyone else are
afraid of. It means that we can no longer just “express ourselves.”
We’ll have to start thinking about the things we create and the way we
act. It means we’ll have to start working together. It means we’ll have
to hold one other, and ourselves, to a higher standard.
The time has come, though. We no longer have to change our names. We no
longer have to blend in like chameleons. We own a whole freaking
country.
Instead, we can be proud of who we are, and simultaneously aware of our
huge responsibility — and opportunity.
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This article was
written under an assumed name.
Source:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19
Who runs
Hollywood? C'mon
December 19, 2008 |
JOEL STEIN
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans
now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by
Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which
released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory
against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has
gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.
How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a
full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that
the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed
by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures
Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert
Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch
Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief
Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime
minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC
Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the
Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power
to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji
water on hand to fill a mikvah.
The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan
Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written
by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on
the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish
and has never worked in Hollywood.)
The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six
Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called
them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused
to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC
President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.
As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes,
we control Hollywood. Without us, you'd be flipping between "The 700
Club" and "Davey and Goliath" on TV all day.
So I've taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run
Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that's what
we do best. I'm weighing several slogans, including: "Hollywood: More
Jewish than ever!"; "Hollywood: From the people who brought you the
Bible"; and "Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably
like Jews after all."
I called ADL Chairman Abe Foxman, who was in Santiago, Chile, where, he
told me to my dismay, he was not hunting Nazis. He dismissed my whole
proposition, saying that the number of people who think Jews run
Hollywood is still too high. The ADL poll, he pointed out, showed that
59% of Americans think Hollywood execs "do not share the religious and
moral values of most Americans," and 43% think the entertainment
industry is waging an organized campaign to "weaken the influence of
religious values in this country."
That's a sinister canard, Foxman said. "It means they think Jews meet
at Canter's Deli on Friday mornings to decide what's best for the
Jews." Foxman's argument made me rethink: I have to eat at Canter's
more often.
"That's a very dangerous phrase, 'Jews control Hollywood.' What is true
is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood," he said. Instead of
"control," Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the
industry "happen to be Jewish," as in "all eight major film studios are
run by men who happen to be Jewish."
But Foxman said he is proud of the accomplishments of American Jews. "I
think Jews are disproportionately represented in the creative industry.
They're disproportionate as lawyers and probably medicine here as
well," he said. He argues that this does not mean that Jews make
pro-Jewish movies any more than they do pro-Jewish surgery. Though
other countries, I've noticed, aren't so big on circumcision.
I appreciate Foxman's concerns. And maybe my life spent in a New
Jersey-New York/Bay Area-L.A. pro-Semitic cocoon has left me naive. But
I don't care if Americans think we're running the news media,
Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to
keep running them.
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