GORE VIDAL’S BLATANT ANTI-SEMITISM IS IGNORED BY THE MEDIA: MOSHE PHILLIPS

Posted By on August 3rd, 2012

http://phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com/2012/08/01/gore_vidals_record_of_anti-israel_statements_ignored_by_msm.thtml

Isn’t it nice how the mainstream media ignores Gore Vidal’s long record of vicious anti-Israel & anti-Semitic statements in their coverage of his death?

The Nation and others on the left aren’t ignoring it though… They appear proud.

By 2010 even Christopher Hitchens realized that Vidal was an extremist and stated so in a February 2010 article in Vanity Fair titled “Vidal Loco.” Hitchens related that there was a time that Vidal had “a very, very minor tendency to bring up the Jewish question in contexts where it didn’t quite belong.” Something changed thought Hitchens. Vidal’s 9/11 conspiracy theories — also getting no substantial mention in the mainstream media — are the subject of “Vidal Loco” and the article can be found here: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/hitchens-201002. Note that Hitchens also mentions Vidal’s attacks on William F. Buckley and others he sparred with after their deaths. But it is Vidal’s use of terms like pro-Israel conservative commentators Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter as “Fifth Columnists (Israeli division)” and other supporters of Israel as “Zionist fellow travellers” that caused many to label him an anti-Semite.

See (one of) Podhoretz’s response to Vidal here: http://www.paulbogdanor.com/antisemitism/vidal.pdf

See The Nation‘s silly defense of Gore Vidal’s anti-Semitism here: http://www.thenation.com/blog/169182/remembering-gore-vidal

When they say at the end of their piece about Vidal “We won’t have another like him.” A sane response must be: Thank Goodness

 

Categorized under: ANTI-SEMITISM.
Tagged with: no tags.

Comments are closed.