I'm getting confused. I'm talking about the puppeteer comment, which is what I understood LB and JohnM to be arguing.
This, I find, has all become convoluted, Karen. I'm perhaps partially to blame, though I much prefer to blame Nadine. ;-)
Bill posted some sentences in which he used the line that criticism of the ties between the Sharon government and the Bush folk were anti-semitic. He claims to have included a link, but no text, to the Nader quote. I don't recall the link but, should anyone be interested, I'm certain the post is still there.
Nonetheless, whether link was there or not, I didn't read the pupeeter quote. As with a great many of Bill's posting of articles, I don't read them. I'm more interested in his comments about them. I skip most of them. I skipped this one.
I've said this to Nadine, who is still playing gotcha. I can't stop that.
LB was arguing about the pupeeter quote; I was arguing about Bill's statement, the one I quoted above.
Here it is Wednesday morning and I'm probably adding flames to a fire that burned out a few days back. But I'm back from the 4th break and catching up.
I don't consider, what I've now read of the Nader quote, to be anti-semitic, at least not in the historical sense of that term. But, if one created a continuum of anti-semitism in quotes, the Nader one would be slightly more so than the one from Juan Cole also cited.
However, the larger issue, at least to me, is that language with serious moral import is being degraded. |
