Why I Decline To Host RFK, Jr. Comments

RFK, Jr., is an apple that fell pretty far from the tree. He relies on conspiracy theories as opposed to facts. Last week, he made this assertion: "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” 

A 30-second search on Google reveals that he's full of shit. COVID-19 infected and killed without regard to religion, race or ethnicity. It is a very egalitarian virus, except when it comes to older people like me. It hates geriatrics, and for good reason! 

Except for this thread, I will decline comments promoting Kennedy or his kooky theories. He's promoting anti-Semitism and Sinophobia. We've had enough of that over the centuries, doncha' think? 

ADL Identifies New Hate Symbol, ((( )))

The Anti-Defamation League has identified the echo symbol as a new form of anti-Semitism. Used around someone's name, as in (((Bernie O'Hare))) the purpose is to alert everyone that the person inside is a dirty, no-good Jew.

I grew up in Hellertown, a community that refused to allow blacks to use the swimming pool because they smell funny in the Summer. In fifth grade, I once joked that a nun's nose was as big as a Jew's. When i grew up, racism and anti-Semitism were pretty much mainstream.

True, the nuns beat the shit out of me after I was reported by one of the girls. But I was not disciplined for making a disgusting anti-Semitic remark, but because the nun was really pissed off at being compared to a Jew.

"My nose is not as big as a Jew," she screamed as she swung away.

Maybe I should have told her to quit her "kvetching."

Someone in the local ad biz who is anti-Semitic who likes to say that to Jews. This fellow is a faux liberal who pretends to support Bernie Sanders. But at the same time, he demeans a local Jew with Yiddish terms. to alert readers that the writer is a Jew. This also plays on Lehigh Valley hate that is just beneath the surface.

"Quit your kvetching!" he'll say.

Anti-Semitism and racism are, unfortunately, a part of my background. It's under the surface, but it's still there.

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Callahan Condemns, Then Condones, Anti-Semitism

Just six weeks ago, John Callahan was condemning LV Congressman Charlie Dent for refusing to distance himself from American Action Network chair Fred Malek, who forty years ago was dispatched by Richard Nixon to determine how many Jews were working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He did as he was told.

"If Charlie Dent doesn't take a clear, immediate and principled stance against Mr. Malek by calling for his group to stay out of this election, then his silence can only be interpreted as approval,” huffed Callahan.

Never mind that Charlie Dent has no connection, directly or indirectly, to either Malek or his group. Or that the founder of the American Action Network - the group Callahan wants ostracized from this election - is Minnesota Guv' Norm Coleman, himself a Jew. Or that Malek actually apologized for his actions. Or that ADL National Director Abe Foxman is proud to call Malek a friend. Or that Senator Diane Feinstein said that she has “great trust, respect and admiration for him.” In fact, Jewish Week's James Besser laments, "Am I the only person who's really, really tired of the Fred Malek story, which resurfaces every few years when Jewish Democrats think they need some new ammo to use against their Republican foes – as if they needed any, given the fact Jews continue to vote overwhelmingly Democratic?"

Six weeks later, John Callahan has done a complete 180.

Callahan has stressed his willingness to appear at debates with Jake Towne, a candidate for Congress who recently hand-picked the band Poker Face – a group labeled as anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League – to perform at a campaign event. The ADL notes that the group’s leader has denied the Holocaust occurred, called the ADL “a terrorist organization,” and believes that a conspiracy of "Satanic Jews" runs the world.

Jake Towne, the Manchurian candidate, insists that Poker Face is not anti-Semitic. They just go "overboard."

“This is who John Callahan wants to share a stage with to debate public policy? Shame on him.” said Shawn Millan, Congressman Dent’s campaign manager, in a news release issued yesterday afternoon.

ADL Regional Director Barry Morrison told The Express Times that candidates should steer clear of hate groups because they risk inadvertently supporting them. "Anybody who is identified with a person or group that has a record of bigotry must put distance between themselves and that record. They must speak to the bigotry, call it for what it is and condemn it."

Instead of doing that, John Callahan will share a podium with Towne.

“Why won’t John Callahan agree to a one-on-one debate with Charlie Dent? Because Callahan is unable to defend the Washington agenda he supports and he wants to hide behind Jake Towne’s podium at a debate,” Millan said. “Mayor Callahan needs to stop listening to his Washington-oriented advisors who tell him to either condemn or condone anti-Semitism based on what’s politically convenient.”

“John Callahan can still do the right thing here,” Millan said. “He can admit that someone with Jake Towne’s extremist views is so far out of the mainstream he doesn’t have a place in what should be a serious discussion on the issues facing the American people.”

Jake Towne's Ties to Anti-Semitic Band Ruin Debate Chances With Dent

When I first heard that LV Congressman Charlie Dent was none too thrilled about including independent Jake Towne in Congressional debates, I was a little disappointed. Of course, Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan, aka Johnny Casino, is all for it, hoping it drains votes that might otherwise go to Dent. Still, if Towne gets on the ballot, aren't we entitled to hear from him?

I've changed my mind, thanks to an Express Times report. Towne has invited Poker Face, an Allentown-based rock band labeled xenophobic and anti-Semitic, to his July 30 "Freedom Concert," even though he agrees they tend to "go overboard."

D'you think??

Poker Face's lead singer, Paul Topete, happily tells an interviewer his band's music is used in "white Christian identity militia training videos." And he knows the source of all our troubles, too.

Satanic Jews.

"It is these satanic Jews, and the Rosicrucian Goyim henchmen that need to be erased from our planet. They are the cancer that is destroying humanity," Topete says in one of those "overboard" comments.

You might find this hard to believe, but the ADL doesn't much care for Poker Face, especially after Topete posted this "overboard" comment:

"Very interesting where facts about the White Brotherhood pop up. The elite of the elite satanists are the white brotherhood. Made up of Sabbatean Jews at the top and Rosicrucian goys at the bottom. Anywhere from a 60/40 split to a more realistic 80/20 split with the Sabbateans in the drivers seat."

Congressman Dent, in a news release, calls on John Callahan to "immediately join us in telling organizations interested in sponsoring debates that neither he nor I will agree to participate in any debate involving Jake Towne.”

Dent's also troubled by other Towne statements claiming America’s actions in foreign affairs precipitated the September 11th attacks and blog articles decrying America's imperialistic ambitions. One such post encourages readers to think about that viewpoint before saying they support the troops.

“Jake Towne is not a conservative and he is not in the mainstream of political beliefs either in our local communities or in American politics,” Dent stated. “I’m calling on John Callahan to put aside politics regarding Mr. Towne and do the decent thing – don’t give credence or a public platform to someone enmeshed in ideas of anger, violence, anarchy and bigotry,” concluded Congressman Dent.

Congressman Dent was joined by Lehigh County Republican Committee Chairman Wayne Woodman who said that “any group that offers a forum to Mr. Towne in light of his association with this group is offering legitimacy to Mr. Towne’s deplorable ideas. I applaud Congressman Dent’s decision not to share a stage with Mr. Towne.”

All this kinda' makes me wonder what really happened to Jake Towne when he fell off that bike in China two years ago. He went from having no interest in politics to suddenly leaving his job in Shanghai and returning here to run for Congress. What the hell happened in that Chinese hospital?

I think I'll rent The Manchurian Candidate.

Why The Morning Call Should Think Twice Before The Next Layoff

Hillary Kwiatek, Have You No Sense of Decency?

Up until yesterday, unsuccessful Lehigh County Commissioner candidate Hillary Kwiatek had little chance of being appointed to fill the vacancy created by the sudden resignation of Democrat Bill Leiner. Now she has none, thanks to a vicious personal attack against her erstwhile opponent, Glenn Eckhart. She accused his campaign of launching an anti-Semitic whisper campaign directed at her.

Here's how she puts it: "[T]here is a very likely possibility that some of Mr. Eckhart's supporters started a whisper campaign about my Judaism, which I am not sure had any influence on the outcome of the election but was still completely inappropriate."

Do you want to know what's completely inappropriate? Making a serious accusation like she did, with absolutely no evidence to back it up. When she makes such a claim so lightly, she demeans the victims of the very real anti-Semitism that still exists, right here in the Lehigh Valley.

Soon after her scurrilous charge, an impressive gentleman named Wayne Woodman called me. He's in the running to be Lehigh County's next GOP chair. He's also Glenn Eckhart's single largest contributor, and gave him $2,600 for his race against Kwiatek.

Wayne tells me, "I'm incensed that a fellow Jew would use anti-Semitism to obscure her own political deficiencies. Hillary Kwiatek, have you no shame? How far are you willing to drive partisanship?"

Commissioner Glenn Eckhart, a conservative Republican who nominated Lehigh County's first ever African American Commissioner, refuses to dignify Kwiatek's smear with a response. He does tell me his most active campaign worker is Jewish, but prefers to keep his name out of this sordid affair. "Religion is a private matter," he tells me.

Kwiatek later cites the evidence. One anonymous comment. Posted here. Quickly deleted. For all I know, she could have posted that comment herself, in an effort to build up sympathy. Or it could have been the bizarre rant of some nut. It certainly is no evidence of a whisper campaign.

"Let us not assassinate this lad further, Ms. Kwiatek. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, ma'am, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

Benedict XVI: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!

It was the Jewish Sabbath. It was the day before Holocaust Memorial Day, marking the liberation of Auschwitz. But in the name of Christian unity, a German Pope has re-instated a Bishop who denies Hitler's Final Solution.

Now Catholics have a Bishop whose blog, Dinoscopus, actually provides a Biblical basis for anti-Semitism. As the good shepherd explains to his flock, he's just opposed to godless communism. He really wants to help Jews.

"Now ever since the Jews were responsible for the crucifying of Our Lord Jesus Christ -- "His blood be upon us and upon our children", Mt.XXVII,25 -- they have as a race and as a religion, always with noble exceptions, continued to reject him down to our day. Thus St. Paul observed that they not only "killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets", but they also prohibited St. Paul himself from "speaking to the Gentiles so as to save them". In brief, their behavior was such that "they please not God and are adversaries to men" (I Thess. II,14-16). Closer to our own time, it is a matter of historical record that the designing and launching of, for instance, Communism, to wrest mankind away from God and to replace his Heaven with a man-made paradise, was largely their achievement.

"So they persecuted St. Paul at every turn (see Acts of the Apostles) as being one of their arch-enemies, when in fact nobody loved them more truly or labored more for their real well-being than did St. Paul (cf. Rom. IX,1-5). Similarly today, they will call an "anti-semite" anybody who gets in the way of any godlessness of theirs, when in fact all people laboring for their salvation, as for the salvation of Gentiles, are their best friends. St Paul, pray for us ! Kyrie eleison."

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Anti-Semitic Smears From the Sunshine State

Let's put aside Israeli foreign policy for a moment. People of good will can have dramatically different opinions about whether Israel has gone too far. But there is no justification for this chant."Go back to the oven. You need a big oven, that's what you need." Those remarks come from Fort Lauderdale, where people should be dodging sharks during the day and getting totally wasted at night.

Hitler would love it. I guess Israelis are supposed to sit still as lethal Hamas rockets rain down on their cities.

Morning Call Fowls Two Jews Over Chicken Parts

One of the Morning Call's local stories today concerns two dudes who were just nabbed for dumping chicken guts from some poultry plant into the Schuylkill River. I know plenty of people who use hamburger or cheese as bait on opening day. Chicken is a lot more healthy, except for the fish feeders, who now face a gazillion years in jail.

So am I going to squawk about the arrest? No. I'm no bird brain. I'm sure this is a very serious matter and I, for one, am thankful that our state AG was all over that like turkey on rye. Good for him!

Is it the news account? No, it's a dispassionate and factual account by Tracy Jordan, one of the paper's best.

What really bothers me are the two pictures that accompanies the hard copy story. There are two very large photographs of the defendants, dressed in attire that make it obvious they are Orthodox Jews. Were these pictures in any way relevant to the story? No. Are these dangerous and at-large criminals, who might be egging your house and car at night? No.

But these fowl men are Jews. And an unintentional message, thanks solely to the photographs, is that this is what you should expect from greedy Jews.

It worked, too. One Morning Call Readers' Forum commenter quickly notes, "JWWISH new york scumbags." Another, who calls himself "Hymie Rabinovitz," adds "We killed jesus and we're proud of it!"

The newspaper often declines to publish the ethnicity or race of an at-large rape suspect because of stereotyping concerns. But doesn't the publication of these photographs amount to the same thing?

Anti-Semitism Alive and Well in Lehigh Valley

The Express Times reports two recent incidents of anti-Semitic behavior this holiday season. First, we have holiday lights converted into a swastika in Lower Saucon Townships. That's presumably juvenile mischief. The grown-ups there are far more subtle, erecting a gate across one road to prevent access by the poor people.

But a special Sieg Heil goes out to the P-burg area family upset at ShopRite for refusing to inscribe their three year-old's name on his birthday cake.

The name? Adolf Hitler. He used his ovens to bake Jews, not birthday cakes.

I Hate Format For "Community Dialogue" on Hate

As I mentioned yesterday, AJ and I attended this morning's packed "community dialogue" about hate at Allentown's Palace Banquet and Conference Center. His recap of the event, located here, is an excellent and accurate summary, written soon after the event by someone who obviously majored in journalism.

What I can tell you, as a nonjournalist, is that the place was packed with nearly fifty people, a very diverse group from all over the Lehigh Valley. But because of a poor format, we never really heard from each other. One reason for this meeting, stated at the onset, is a recent increase in hate crime. The Holmes family was there in force, too, all pretty much seated at the same table. I was looking forward to hearing Kari Holmes, victim of a recent racial assault, share what had happened. Allentown cops were there, too. I'd wanted their side of the story.

But instead of allowing that to happen, meeting organizers decided on a bunch of mini-meetings at each table. So although I was able to hear a lot from the five or six very interesting people who sat with me, I heard nothing from anyone else. The Holmes were deprived of an opportunity to share their story with us. So were the Allentown police. It's inaccurate to call this sort of meeting a real community dialogue.

Allentown police officers, all seated at one table with other city employees, were able to tell each other what they already know. AJ and I, the bloggers, did the same. Ditto the Holmes family.

This is no real dialogue. Did I learn anything? Only that a large group of people had something to say, but was unable to share its knowledge. It's a great idea, but needs a different format.

Morning Call Enables Anti-Semitic Rants

Last week, I told you about a meeting next week concerning the hate in Allentown, and by extension, the Lehigh Valley. Can Allentown really be a "No Place for Hate City"? That will be the topic on June 4 at The Palace Banquet and Conference Center, 623 Hanover Ave, Allentown 18109 (former Ice Palace Skating Rink). This breakfast meeting starts at the ungodly hour of 7 AM, and those interested are asked to register by calling Nicholas Butterfield at 610-437-7616 or e-mailing him at butterfield@allentowncity.org.

Most of us are disgusted by the racially-motivated assault against Allentown resident Kari Holmes, which has received scant attention from police or local media.

Scant attention is one thing. The knowing promotion of racism and bigotry is something else. And that's precisely what the suits who run The Morning Call have allowed.

All in the name of the Almighty Dollar. Morning Call columnist and blogger Bill White has candidly admitted, "The tremendous traffic on our Web site is a selling point for advertisers and future subscribers. And the comments, warts and all, attract a lot of those clicks."

Gee, I never knew that profit is a justification for bigotry.

Just today, The Morning Call Readers' Forum is spiced with a little anti-Semitism from someone who is just thrilled that the Neuweiler building owner has been arrested and jailed for unpaid fines.

"Fug the A-town slumlords glad to C the mayor taking action here we don't need anymore Scumbags like Mendelson. Hope they get their jewish asses beat down in LCP. Just guessing this guy is a jue."

That comment has remained untouched for five hours at the time of this post, and has undoubtedly read by thousands. If this was a once and done thing, I's have no problem. But it is a disturbing pattern, and the paper has ignored repeated requests to do something to stop it.

In its history, the Morning Call is known for charging Max Hess more than other advertisers simply because he was Jewish. Given its previous overt discrimination against Jews, I guess this more subtle form of discrimination - providing a forum in which unnamed others can spread hate - should come as no surprise.

But as long as this paper, one of the largest in the country, enables bigotry, Allentown will remain a place for hate. Perhaps this community dialogue can ask advertisers to stop using The Morning Call until it stops the hate.

The Almighty Dollar seems to be one thing that might get the attention of the Morning Call gods, who ignore the concerns of their own editors and reporters.

Update: The Morning Call Reader Forum rant about Jewish asses getting beat up in Lehigh County prison has now been standing seven hours. Isn't that nice?