Informant38

Well, here we go:

Phil Weiss pulled a bunch of comments on this post -
Martillo's Post on Zionists Manipulating Markets for 50 Years Is Antisemitic
Mine among them:

Are we supposed to think it's just simple coincidence that Bernanke and Greenspan are Jews?
Wolfowitz jumping around between the US State Dept. and the [IMF] World Bank, coincidence? Chertoff, Negroponte, and who knows who...
No connection. No pattern, nothing but that ancient irrational substanceless prejudice that says Jews will undermine with self-interest any state they prosper in, it's all irrational bigotry, nothing more.
The problem I have personally is no one defends this with reason and fact, there's only the hate sites and all that racist spew against a stone wall of silence and disdain that wants it disappeared unexamined.
So who will tell us?
Richard Witty with his calm assurances?
I'd listen more closely Richard but all you do is deny things, and you never back up your assertions.
I crawled through 4 years of vicious calumny and nasty behind the scenes response, some hurtful some damaging and all frightening in intensity, to my heartfelt and intellectually honest questions and conclusions that the Iraq invasion and occupation was greatly influenced by Jewish/Israeli interests, and never once saw that refuted competently and honestly and factually.
And eventually had it confirmed, not least here.
Nothing ever came from the other side but craziness and manipulative word games.
Just disdain, sarcasm, bitterness, and baseless assertions.
You, and people like you, Richard, have allowed the heat of anti-Semitism to burn, to become fire, by your arrogance and by your cowardice.

There's also a post at Weiss, and one at Tiny Revolution, both considering the SNL skit about the bailout etc. that mocks George Soros.
TinyRev's lead paragraph:

At stressful moments in the past, Saturday Night Live has often produced stupid, vicious, ugly material. But their sketch three days ago about the Wall Street bailout may be the lowest moment in the show's history.

This comment may ride on through, or it may disappear as well:

Jon Stewart's pretty consistently mocked the big anti-Semitic accusations, by jumping ahead of them, then playing with them by pretending they're true.
Which means they can't be true, sort of. Because he's pretending they are
Blunting, redirecting, but responding to what's already there.
What's there? A growing, and widely fragmented but real concern that what's happened, and happening, to America - 9/11, the War on Terror, the Iraq invasion, the push to invade Iran, and now this financial debacle, coming as it gets clear the American people aren't buying the lies anymore - has a strong but hidden component of Jewish self-interest all through it.
Ridiculing that by pretending to its validity, and by that pretending blunting and redirecting it back on itself.
It isn't working.
I just saw 911 Press for Truth, and the striking fact of the presence of Henry Kissinger on the 911 Commission, and then the less striking but very disturbing replacement of Kissinger with the egregious Philip Zelikow, didn't do much to allay my own concerns. And I've got that Keatsian negative capability running a lot of the time, most Americans don't.
It seems pretty naive to express wonder that the SNL writers, many of them Jewish, could produce this stuff.
Gosh! What were they thinking?
Probably that this shit is getting out of hand, because it is. So what can we do?
I know! We'll do an end run around it! We'll pretend like it's true!
Maybe that's what it is, and maybe it'll work, I don't think so, but I've been wrong about important things before.
I do know this:
Not confronting it directly only enables it.
It has to be confronted directly or it will start increasing exponentially; direct questions need to be asked and answered.
But it takes balls to do that.