Is this a threat against me?

The A-Team blog has just published 1930s era Nazi cartoons that are designed to incite violence against Jews, and then personally attacked me by name.  The author also knows I am Jewish.

I don't see any way this can be seen other than a personal threat against me.

Comments

[J.C. Wilmore]

Every reporter in Virginia needs to know about this ASAP.

If this isn't jew-baiting, then I don't know what is.

Yawn.

[Poli-Carp]

Where's the attack?

Not sure I see a personal attack over at the A-Team but I do think that both sides need to knock it off and get back to the real issues that Virginian's care about.

Did Riley just publish the infamous "lying Jews" cartoon then imply Ben was lying?????

[Ward Smythe]

QUOTE THE THREAT, BEN!

QUOTE IT.

[Poli-Carp]

Boy, this is like the Pope making a historical reference. There should be demands for apologies! Defamers of bloggers must be punished!

[truthteller]

What a way for the Allen folks to bring in the Jewish New Year, baiting Jewish and half-Jewish bloggers and deriding them as anti-Semites. All the while Allen hurt himself by percieving that saying his mother was Jewish was an "aspersion" and referring to stereotypes about Jews and pork. Way to win the Jewish vote in Richmond, Virginia Beach and NoVA -- NOT!!!

Right now I give the A-team a D. If they keep on working at this -- as they seem intent upon doing, maybe Virignians will give them an "F". Right now Jim Webb is the only one talking about ideas to better the country. As the panel on This Week concluded, George Allen has revealled flaws which make him unviable as a presidential contender. With any luck Allen's candidacy for Senate will also fall flat and we could actually get a Senator who is serious about policy and who will not keep getting himself in trouble every time he goes off script!

[James Young]

If you think this is a "threat," Ben, then your sensibilities are too tender to be in politics.

[charles]

No, the A-team put up that 30's era nazi cartoon that bears a vague passing resemblance, someone thinks, to the Webb cartoon.

I was going to post over there that this is childish and it's time to stop, but that's where I saw the link to Ben's stupid post about the lightning bolt where he essentially called Allen supporters anti-semitic.

I will note that Wadhams never called anybody an anti-semite, he said the Webb CAMPAIGN had anti-semitic overtones, which is an attack on ACTS, not on people. Not that I liked him doing that either, for the simple reason that Webb's campaign's attacks are not "anti-semitic", they are simply false and tawdry and reprehensible.

Anyway, nobody's attacking or threatening Ben, and I'm tired of Ben hiding behind his heritage whenever someone points out he's being a jerk.

[Voice of Reason]

You guys (bloggers) have go toget over yourselves and over this idiocy about anti-semitism.

[Bwana]

Since you asked...

No, Ben, it was not a threat of any type against you.

[Doug]

Chuck, Chuck, Chuck. Gay people are going to get married and make you watch.

You've shown on past posts that you are, in fact, a bigot, so how could you understand this stuff.

Ben- I read their post and feel sick for you and Lowell. I mean, I can see this twisted hatred and I'm sorry that these idiots don't realize what is actually anti-semitic and what is racist and I'm sorry you've been on the receiving end of this.

[Thomas Paine Patriot]

It is time to end this madness about... lightening bolts... offensive cartoons... ill-considered comments that are 29 years old... Jewishness... winning the title of Reagan's best butt-buddy... pork chops... and pathetic indignation about alleged "threats."

These vacuous issues are not going to ignite passion among the tens of thousands of voters who won't vote this year without further motivation.

This tower of tabloid babble is not going to win over any more hearts and minds for Jim Webb.

Stop beating a drum of nonsense that distracts from the central message about Allen's lockstep support of Bush and the Iraq War.

[Dannyboy]

Oh, it's disgusting. The A-Team needs to remove this and apolgize. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with this campaign?

[RepublicanForWebb]

WOW. Ward Smythe sounds like a sociopathic psycho, and James Young, Charles, and Bwana are just insecure children with a grudge against everyone who does their "job" better than them. Yuk.

The attack is in the same place that the anti-semitism can be found on Raising Kaine. It's nowhere.

[James Young]

Wow! I've been accused of being an "insecure child" by someone who is so insecure that he posts under a (probably false by its own terms) pseudonym.

Priceless!

[phriendlyjaime]

I'll echo the "(probably false by its own terms) pseudonym"; you're an insecure child.

[Tom James]

I think we are starting to see the real Virginia!

I believe history will show this to be a look into the heart, soul, and mind of the Virginia elite.

There's plenty of dirt on the hands of both sides of these issues.

These are the issues in Virginia!

Prejudice, racism, bigotry, anti-semitism.

At least the Virginia I was born, raised, and live. I've witnessed it since kindergarten and that's been 40+ years ago.

It's always been a fight/division of cultures and beliefs in this state.

WASP, Catholic (Italians, Irish), Jews, Blacks. now Asians, Hispanics, Arabs, Indians, Russians, etc. Rich, Poor, educated, etc.Northern, Southern.

But everyone's terrified to admit it.

To Quote Allen: "The Real Virginia"

[Tom James]

Written by one of Carrico's fans.

http://ladyk1955.spaces.live.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1

White Men and Women need to read closely the judgement which is found in Loving Vs Virginia

It was Justice Carrico who wrote the decision that men and women of opposite races were not allowed to marry each other. (147 SE2d 78). Although this was later overturned by the United States Supreme Court in Loving vs. Virginia , 388 US 1 (1967), Judge Carrico is still sitting, is still a segregationist and had not moderated his views.
Loving Vs Virginia, 388, US 1 (1967)
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."


This way we know as White People That inter-racial dating, marriage, and pro-creation of
children is wrong. Despite the fact that a Nigger Loving Supreme Court reversed this fine
decision. It still stands.

"The real VA"

[bwana]

Gosh, I answer Ben's question, and that makes me an "insecure child"?

So much for civilized give and take.

Naturally, "Republican for Webb" has a right to his opinion...but please point out how the A-Team post (which doesn't add anything of value to the public debate) is a personal threat against our friend NLS.

[marco]

You need a vacation. In the words of Dick Cheney, "Big Time."

What we've all suspected for some time has finally been confirmed.

ben really does squat to pee.

[James Young]

I really didn't need to know that, Anon 1:30, and wonder why you do.

And how you came by that information. ;-)