Has anti-Semitism

[Lurking Dem]

become so commonplace, so ingrained, so banal that it barely raises eyebrows any more?

http://wonkette.com/politics/what-if-they-gave-a-war-and-nobody-came-dept%27/rudy-reveals-secret-war-280866.php

[rockymountaindem]

1. That's surprising

You should post this in GD and see what kind of reception it gets.

[Lurking Dem]

2. Feel free.

I'm kind of hit or miss at the moment due to poor health.

[Lurking Dem]

3. Now Wonkette is threatening to sue

some blogger for asking if the site was anti-Semitic.

Because they thought they were being oh so funny in referencing (apparently "more" is a reference) a YouTube then they are in the clear.

HA.

http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2007/07/wonkette-threatens-me-with-legal-action.html

[Behind the Aegis]

4. I shudder to think what whould happen.

[Lurking Dem]

5. I'm sure there would be some derivation

of "Wonkette speaks truth 2 power, man!"

[11cents]

6. Uh, wait a minute

The "Jewliani" Wonkette post is, as you acknowledge, a reference to a video which is itself a satire. Are you nonetheless claiming that the poster is an antisemite? Or the people who commented on the post? Or who?

[Meshuga]

7. What was up with the...

"Jew York Times" in that same blog entry? Is that part of the satire?

[11cents]

8. Yes.

In context, it was part of the same satire. Not that the satire was at all skillful or even had much point, but this is Wonkette, after all. The notion that this was a case of a Wonkette contributor freely throwing around "Jewliani" and "Jew York Times" on his own account seems to be a deliberate "misunderstanding" on the part of a right-wing blogger.