“Tom & Jerry is a Jewish Conspiracy”
What’s particularly bizarre here is that Tom & Jerry is ascribed to Walt Disney who has himself been accused of anti-Semitism. Looking a the bland, accepting faces of the students in the room gives me the Willies. I wonder what some of our more “peacenik” Democratic candidates would make of this. What would they say?
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20 Comments
1. promoguy:I certainly heard the Arabic word for Jew being thrown around a lot.
Was wondering if someone was just putting phoney subtitles to the presentation. Seemed like that when he said something about the mouse “kicking the cat’s ass” you’d have heard a bit of laughter. Hell, in an American university someone would have.
Feb 25, 2007 - 11:31 am 2. Buddy Larsen:Fox’s recent special on radical Islam reported an au courant theory that “Pepsi” (the soft drink), stands for “Pay Each Penny to Save Israel”.
Feb 25, 2007 - 11:43 am 3. Sissy Willis:In your heart you know the old boy is right.
Cats that look like Hitler
Feb 25, 2007 - 12:18 pm 4. firetide:Same reverential respect on every face as this man’s academic colleague Majid Shah-Hoseini informs his audience, apparently of Revolutionary Guards and clerics, that Hollywood, since the 1950’s, has created monster movies for the express purpose of inciting Islamophopia:
Feb 25, 2007 - 12:30 pm 5. Buddy Larsen:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWsmOb2TUg
Don’t forget “Plankton” on Spongebob–an obvious attempt to legitimize Achmadinejad.
Feb 25, 2007 - 1:05 pm 6. Buddy Larsen:well, i meant ‘de’ legitimize, but as a dumb joke maybe it works as well either way.
Feb 25, 2007 - 1:08 pm 7. Roger:promoguy, this is Farsi (Persian), not Arabic. This video was sent to me by several people, including an Iranian filmmaker who is naturally a native Farsi speaker – so we can assume the subtitles are accurate.
Feb 25, 2007 - 4:07 pm 8. Deagle:Buddy,
Heh… Great in-depth analysis.. Drink Coke!
Feb 25, 2007 - 5:30 pm 9. promoguy:Roger, you’re right and I should have known better on the Farsi part. Well, I guess us Jews are at it again. I think that I am being punished on this being not a rich Jew. Maybe because first wife was Catholic and second and current love of my life is Episcopalian.
And now I’m going to be hated for posting this during the Oscars.
Feb 25, 2007 - 6:08 pm 10. Buddy Larsen:Don’t let her get TOO mad, promoguy–you might have to marry a Babtist!
Feb 25, 2007 - 6:55 pm 11. ObeliskToucher:promoguy: “Seemed like that when he said something about the mouse “kicking the cat’s ass” you’d have heard a bit of laughter.”
They were probably just confused… trying to figure out how a cat could possibly own a donkey, much less why a mouse would want kick it.
Feb 25, 2007 - 7:25 pm 12. Luther McLeod:I do not make light, evil personified I see. But, I mean really, how desperate can one be, when you are reduced to deconstructing frigging cartoons to advance your GD point. The world is truly absurd at times. We are slowly losing this damn war, due to most folks hearing only one side of the story.
Feb 25, 2007 - 8:12 pm 13. Doug S.:“… ascribed to Walt Disney” ??
Shows you the quality of research these people put into concocting their swill. Tom & Jerry was the work of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera when they were working for MGM’s animation studio, before they went on to create The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, etc. Disney had nothing to do with it.
Feb 25, 2007 - 9:50 pm 14. Pooh:Even his basic premise is wrong. Jews were compared to rats and not mice:
From the notorious Nazi film Der ewige Jude (”The Eternal Jew”):
“Wherever rats appear they bring ruin, by destroying mankind’s goods and foodstuffs. In this way, they (the rats) spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. They are cunning, cowardly, and cruel, and are found mostly in large packs. Among the animals, they represent the rudiment of an insidious and underground destruction – just like the Jews among human beings.”
http://tinyurl.com/y9j5y5
“The rats are underneath the piles. / The Jew is underneath the lot” — T.S. Eliot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
Feb 26, 2007 - 2:22 am 15. Terrye:I did read some o fthe comments. Intteresting. Of course someone just had to make the comparison to evangelicals. I can honestly say that evangelicals do not think that Tom and Jerry is a conspiracy of any sort. Just mean little cartoons.
Feb 26, 2007 - 2:23 am 16. Cynic:The original MEMRI video
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1049
made the translated version of the Iranian TV broadcast available a year ago, while the Holocaust Cartoon Competition was getting up steam in Teheran.
Feb 26, 2007 - 6:27 am 17. Cynic:Just another link:
“Tom and Jerry: A nefarious Jewish plot”
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/02/tom_and_jerry_a_nefarious_jewi.php
Roger said:
“promoguy, this is Farsi (Persian), not Arabic. This video was sent to me by several people, including an Iranian filmmaker who is naturally a native Farsi speaker – so we can assume the subtitles are accurate.”
Roger, would have thought that you would have noticed LGF’s post: “Iranian Madness Watch ”
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19409_Iranian_Madness_Watch&only
Feb 26, 2007 - 6:34 am 18. ricpic:People who are consumed by hatred are in hell. A hell of their own making. They are fit objects for pity. Problem is they are also dangerous. What to do? What to do?…
Feb 26, 2007 - 7:23 am 19. ElMondo:“But, I mean really, how desperate can one be, when you are reduced to deconstructing frigging cartoons to advance your GD point.”
Oh, Luther… before Radical Islamic Militarisms insanities became popular, there was the socialist/communist variety. Deconstructing Disney (Yes, I know Tom & Jerry aren’t Disney; part of what I’m doing is pointing out the laziness of thought here) was a chic thing for many years now.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Donald-Duck-Imperialist/dp/0884770230
“How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic”. Yes, it’s a real book; it was widely published throughout Latin America, and it’s just a shining example of how people can misconstrue someone else’s culture. And that’s the mildest criticism I can make of it. Anyway, damning Disney as propoganda for American ideology is nothing new; in fact, it’s so boringly worn out already.
This guy in the video just isn’t original.
Feb 26, 2007 - 8:14 am 20. Buddy Larsen:This old looney tune knows where it stands, alright!
Feb 26, 2007 - 9:38 am