James Wolcott: Bring The White Hate, Leave The Jews!

Long on commas but devoid of reason, Vanity Fair's James Wolcott seems capable of sentences, if not thought in this silly defense of former President Jimmy Carter. When he quotes the word apartheid, one has to wonder if he might not actually prefer to separate out the Jews in America. Oh, forgive me, actually, he does.

I also refuse to divest myself of admiration, respect, and support for Jimmy Carter in his embattled hour following the rabbinical flakeout over Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. What's particularly craven and crass in the mass resignation letter is the following handwringing passage:

According to Web site monitoring by the Anti-Defamation League, U.S. white supremacists have enthusiastically embraced your suggestion that the Israel lobby stifles debate in this country, saying it confirms Jewish control of government and foreign policy as well as and the inherently "evil" nature of Jews. If you doubt the support you are giving and receiving, please refer to: ADL

From there you can get to the postings of four different White Supremacist organizations that both support and make use of the contents of your book and what you have said in public.

Anyone can link to anything on the web, and anyone who thinks that Jimmy Carter shares sympathies with White Supremacist groups is a liar, a fool, or a tool.

True, one can link to anything on the Web. My linking Wolcott doesn't make me anti-semitic ... because we don't share the same Sympathies:

1. Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.

The White Supremacists invoking or linking Carter are doing so precisely because they do share sympathies on that particular issue. As I said, sentences, but no sense. Obviously Wolcott shares those sympathies, as well. He accuses The Jews of constraining free speech in America, but puts forward no indication of it at all.

Let me see if I understand this irony: To counter Carter's claim that the Israeli lobby stifles debate in this country, the Anti-Defamation League is going to stifle debate and slime the former president with guilty by association to prove how wrong he is.

Stifle debate? It looks to me as though they are actually initiating debate; certainly nothing Wolcott writes evidences an occasion wherein they sought to stifle it. This is a typical Liberal tactic - if you disagree with me and take a stand on principle, you're not only wrong, you're trying to shut me down. Again, sentences lacking any sense.

The New York Observer's Philip Weiss, who's been a standup guy for Carter (one of the few) throughout this mudslide, writes at MondoWeiss:

The campaign by the U.S. Jewish leadership to smear Jimmy Carter will one day be taught in history books, as an effort by a privileged elite to suppress the truth. Slavery and segregation also had powerful defenders who misrepresented those conditions. Despite all their well-connected efforts, these people will lose for two simple reasons: the facts are against them, and a movement has begun to discover those facts.

Hasten the day.

A movement has begun? Well, thank heavens Wolcott seems to be a part of it. I assume if we ever get to where Jews have to start wearing arm bands in America, with Wolcott's influence, there's hope they'll have a certain sense of style, perhaps something with a gay little flair.

Comments

[Purple Avenger]

He's got the moral authority of being an occicat owner on his side. That's like carrying the arc of the covenant into battle.

[Purple Avenger]

Wow, look at his blogroll - "one stop shopping" for moonbattery.

[Rhod]

Vanity Fair, the last journalistic toilet bowl for turds like Wolcott. He'll flick the handle all by himself and end up disgorged in some cess pool or other. Maybe the NYT? Hasn't he already been there?