In a column chock-a-bloc with ignorance and disinformation, George Will goes so far over the top that his editors need to reconsider his continued employment. Among meandering thoughts on Spain & Russia and god knows what, we find this attack on Karen Kwiatkowski:
The Weekly Standard reports that she [Kwiatkowski], a retired Air Force officer, has written about "the Zionist political cult that has lassoed the E-Ring" of the Pentagon (the offices of senior civilian Defense Department officials). She says the war in Afghanistan was "planned of course before 9/11/01" because of "Taliban non-cooperation" regarding a trans-Afghanistan pipeline. She says that with "Bush and his neoconservative foreign policy implementers" -- those E-Ring Jews -- resembling propagandists such as Lenin, Hitler and Pol Pot, "all evidence" points to "a maturing fascist state" in America and, in foreign policy, "fascist imperialism touched by Sparta revived." [italics added]
The first sign of dissembling is reporting on someone else's reporting. Plausible deniability defined, not to mention easier for the lazy mind. Then notices how he cuts and pastes a phrase here and a phrase there and pastes them together. More laziness.
Now, I've just spent some time searching the web sight on which Kwiatkowski wrote as "Deep Throat Returns". Some of these phrases I can find, some not. When she does refer to Zionists, she uses the term correctly -- as a movement to establish and secure a Jewish state. And she makes some references to fundamentalist Christians who have come aboard the zionist movement over the last few decades.
You can argue with her on her specific points. But you cannot accuse her of anti-Semitism, which Will is clearly smearing her with here.
Shouldn't editors take a look at a paragraph like this, and require the author to back up the cut-and-pasting of phrases to make sure the columnist is at least close to the intent of the cited author?
Shouldn't any columnist who accuses another writer, or anyone for that matter, be pulled into the Capo di Tutti Editor's office and be grilled pretty thoroughly before they let through an slur of this nature?
Just imagine if Will had said, " those E-ring coloreds"?
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