But Kraut Hammer is paid to create opinions. So who is paying him to create this opinion?

'Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.'-- Moliere

'Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.'-- Ambrose Bierce,The Devil's Dictionary

I wonder if there'd be a way to isolate Rosenberg and Sleeper's regular diatribes against Krauthammer and Brooks from the interesting discourse -- if for no other reason than that they knock other blog entries off the front page, prematurely.

For those uninvolved in their personal vendettas and their tiresome fulminations Rosenberg and Sleeper's frontpage leasehold is mere self-indulgence.

For Krauthammer, the only real racism is anti-semitism. All other forms of racism & bigotry detract from the all-important fact of the Holocaust.

Dr. K should watch Casey Kaufman's report from Rural America or AlJazeera. Scary. I thought all those sick ideas died with past generations.

Thoughts on Joe the Plumber and middle class republicans:

http://thetruthburns.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/joe-the-plumber-in-middle-class-denial/

Krauthammer is an asshat. Last week he comes out and supports Obama, now he just can't anymore......WTF?

Obviously someone didn't get invited to any of the cool parties last week.

And just a quick aside: Ellen, I also find MJ unbearable at times. But, if you agree, why not say something, anything, to address the substance of the post? If not, simply scroll past it.

If you are missing posts that got booted off the front page, complain to Josh. Cuz MJ ain't stopping for no man (or woman).

Got anything to say about that?

My point is that one person saying something universally considered derogatory can not characterize a group. That person was an outlier.

Past that though, what was racist about "kill him"? Haven't those exact words been used regarding Bush or Cheney? Of course they have.

But in the end we have a picture of people wearing T-Shirts and a Secret Service investigation of the alleged outburst.
http://tinyurl.com/3n9m8k
http://tinyurl.com/6yotbe

Apparently the "Kill Him" episode was a lie. Nobody heard it except the "reporter". The agency responsible for the safety of the future President is serious about their job. I believe them.

So if we were to apply your use of one person as characteristic of a national organization, comprised of millions of individuals; the left could then be considered not only sexist, but racist, dishonest, and treacherous. How's that working for you?

It's refreshing to hear this from a Jewish person, as quite honestly, it does seem like people who's ancestry has had genocide usually seem to be myopic regarding just how many genocides have occurred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history

Ironically:

"The Old Testament not only describes the genocides of Amalekites and Midianites but justifies them through references to the word of God.[6]Adam Jones References p. 3, footnote 4 Jones quotes Jerusalem-based Holocaust Studies Professor Yehuda Bauer: "As a Jew, I must live with the fact that the civilization I inherited ... encompasses the call for genocide in its canon."[10]

Now in my opinion if the Holocaust had the highest number of victims, then of course it should be first on the list of genocides. I don't know if there is an accurate count, since genocide goes way back.

Also while America is one of the NATO countries that liberated the Jews who survived the Holocaust, and while America was a place for Jews to go to survive the Holocaust, look how many Native Americans the founding Americans slaughtered. "From the 1490s when Christopher Columbus set foot on the Americas to the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee by the United States militia, the indigenous population of the Western Hemisphere may have declined by as many as 100 million.[12""

My wife is an Armenian immigrant, and so I have heard from her her hatred of the Turks because they continue to deny their genocide of the Armenians during WW I. I watched a very good documentary recently on the Armenian genocide. But the person interviewed about the film mentioned something about the Armenian genocide being the "first" genocide. Which is absolutely incorrect as you can tell from the Wikipedia link above.

Being an average Joe of sorts myself, I know nothing of Krauthammer. Reading a few of his articles at Mr. Rosenberg's link gives me the impression that he is trying to keep up with you guys but that he has nothing of substance to go on, and so he has to exaggerate in order to keep his job. But it makes me wonder, if Krauthammer is big on perpetually pointing out the Jewish genocide waged by Hitler, what was he writing about during Darfur? And if he wasn't writing about Darfur, it would be the pinnacle of hypocrisy.

I wrote the following early this morning in the comments section of Krauthammer's unhinged rant. Interestingly enough my comment has now been removed. Looks like WaPo & Krautie can't take criticism.

"Careful Charles, your bias is showing. But that's OK, bias is good. I have no problem with opinions expressed in newspapers as some others do. I prefer to know exactly where columnists are coming from.

But you've gone beyond bias & have now apparently put blinkers on as if you were a horse in a race. Unfortunately for you your horse is losing badly & this poor attempt to distract our attention from McCain's associates just makes you look more pathetic by the day. Why not just come out & say what you really think? Obama is black and that scares you. Obama (according to you, probably) is a socialist and that scares you. Obama will tax you more because you're in the top 5% of earners who should pay more and that makes you angry (hey, you shilled for the Iraq war, you pay for it.)

If you want to talk associates who are raving (Pfleger) then by all means let's talk -- Hagee, Liddy, Keating, Bush. None of these associations shed any good light upon McCain. They show him to be an unprincipled politician lusting after power no matter the cost -- to him or to our country. And your support for him, desperate as it is, shows you to be the unprincipled, deceptive, dissembling water-carrier for power that you have always been.

For however long you've been able to cloak your extreme views in the guise of thoughtful commentary. No longer is that possible. You and a large number of right-wing water-carriers are having your unprincipled butts handed to you on a plate by a disciplined, principled candidate with a positive message of hope for this country. No longer will vile, hateful culture warriors like you have any say in the direction of this country. And that scares you most of all -- the prospect of your utter irrelevance.

I look forward to the day on which you & your extremist colleagues become irrelevant -- November 4th, 2008. No one will be listening to you beyond that date, so you might as well get your last few kicks in against the dying of the light. Because it's getting very, very dim from where you sit now."