First They Came For Gregg Easterbrook’s Non-Job, In An Anti-Semitic Purge of Protestants, And I Said Nothing

January 29th, 2013 by Scott Lemieux

Ah, the Washington Free Beacon: the journal for people who think that the Daily Tucker needs to dumb it down a few shades.

I also note that the story talks about the Beauchamp non-scandal as if it was a real thing.

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  1. actor212:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:37 am

    Easterbrook singlehandedly refutes the “Jews are educated” stereotype.

  2. rea:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:42 am

    Easterbrook isn’t Jewish, and in fact, had to apologize for some remarks that were facially anti-semitic.

  3. John Protevi:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:43 am

    A nice comment on the site:

    Chait’s work here has failed to diminish my opinion of the Washington Free Beacon.

  4. snarkout:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:51 am

    The soft global warming denialist Presbyterian given to noting the avariciousness of Jewish Hollywood executives and today mostly known for his schticky and repetitive football writing is the Jew of Even the Liberal Fascism.

  5. mark f:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:54 am

    Any mention of Juicebox Mafioso?

  6. mark f:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:01 am

    Semi-related lulzes:

    Breitbart News will be launching a new feature/vertical on our website called “The Conversation.” Look for it in the navigation bar.

    The Conversation will be a place where our readers can watch an ongoing dialogue amongst a select group of thought leaders that includes Ace of Spades, Iowahawk, David Webb, Javier Manjarres of Shark Tank, DocZero, Nice Deb, Jerome Hudson, Lisa De Pasquale, William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, and Adam Baldwin, along with John Nolte, Ben Shapiro, Larry O’Connor, Sonnie Johnson, Liberty Chick, Jon David Kahn, as well as other writers and contributors from Breitbart News.

  7. John Protevi:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:05 am

    Needs moar Darleen Click

  8. david mizner:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:06 am

    And glancing at the table of comments, I see that Cohn, Rosin, and Rosen escaped the purge, probably by pretending to be Christian.

  9. c u n d gulag:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Maybe if Sarah “The Whore of Babblin’-on” Palin can learn to type-out her word-spews, she can find a home at the DC Fry Bacon.

    Bill “WRONG!!!” Kristol got exactly the son-in-law he so richly deserves.

  10. DocAmazing:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:08 am

    My God, it’s full of adjectives…

  11. joe from Lowell:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:10 am

    I hear the whole purge was coordinated through Journolist.

  12. Vern:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:11 am

    Boy, that’s some powerful roster of thought leaders there. I wouldn’t trust that crew to empty out a litter box.

  13. snarkout:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:15 am

    And you know who else used too many adjectives?

  14. Icarus Wright:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:16 am

    The public was warned.

  15. Malaclypse:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:17 am

    Boy, when you can’t get Chuck Norris or Ted Nugent, you’ve really hit rock bottom.

  16. Malaclypse:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:18 am

    There are many ways one can criticize the Snowbilly Grifter without stooping to “whore.”

  17. timb:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:18 am

    Some racist cartoons always spice up a non-controversy.

  18. Tybalt:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:19 am

    The list of real-world accomplishments of that group must be utterly staggering. If someone can start it.

  19. david mizner:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:19 am

    Ah, okay, I actually read the piece, which tries to make the point that it’s pro-Israel stance is softening. Yeah The mag was so much better when it was headed by a rabid anti-Arab bigot.

  20. CJColucci:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:24 am

    What, exactly, would their objection to purging Jews be if it were happening?

  21. JKTHs:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:28 am

    It means that TNR will come out full-fledged in favor of the brown people

  22. c u n d gulag:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:28 am

    Sorry about that – I was punnin’, and I guess it wasn’t funnin’ that context.

    But she does babble-on, doesn’t she?
    And getting paid a million dollars a year for it, from FOX. At least for awhile.

    So, maybe I should call her a word-worker, instead. ;-)

    Point taken, though, Mal.

    I always liked Kondike Barbie, myself.

  23. rea:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:33 am

    It’s a close question–I see how you could infer sexism from “whore.” On the other hand, she sells her politics for money. Anyone have any problem with calling Newt Gingrich a “whore”? If the metaphor fits . . .

  24. c u n d gulag:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:37 am

    I think you folks know me well enough to know that I’m not in any way, a misogynist.

    I was just playing with words.

  25. actor212:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:37 am

    That, uh, was the joke.

  26. Malaclypse:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:40 am

    Agreed, I just think it is a bad way to refer to a female. Rea raises an interesting question with Newt.

  27. sharculese:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:41 am

    The Free Beacon is Bill Kristol’s new project. For the right payoff, they’d find anti-semitism in the Torah.

  28. mds:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:46 am

    Schoolhouse Rock?

  29. Ahistoricality:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:50 am

    Well, the liberal “wait for 40 years” Moses-Aaron clique did exterminate the conservative “Invade The Promised Land Now” Korach partisans, so it’s clearly not neo-conservative friendly.

    Plus, all those prophets telling Israel what they’re doing wrong: if that’s not anti-Semitic….

  30. Incontinentia Buttocks:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:51 am

    Three generations of Kristol-family punditry are enough!

  31. rea:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:54 am

    Ah, the Beauchamp scandal–big rightwingnut victory at the time, but the unfortunate sequel where all of their witnesses to the good behavior of our troops went to prison for first degree murder means that nowdays they have to be discrete in referring to it. And so it is here, where the name “Beauchamp” is not mentioned (someone might google it!), but the statement is made, “reinstalled former editor Franklin Foer, who had left after presiding over a scandal surrounding a series of fabricated reports from Iraq.”

  32. c u n d gulag:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    Also too – Ok, how about this, then:
    “The Hoar of Babblin’-on”?
    Or, “The Hoary of Babblin’-on”?

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hoary

    Of course, I’ll have to give a dictionary link everytime I try to use it…

  33. Kurzleg:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    The Washington Free Beacon is a smear sheet founded by Matthew Continetti, occasional contributor to the Weekly Standard and son-in-law of Weekly Standard editor William Kristol.

    How did I not see this coming? The wingers may not be good at much, but nobody beats them at nepotism.

  34. socraticsilence:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:14 pm

    One assumes they think Easterbrooks was a camouflage- after all its hard to accuse one of anti-semitism when part of one’s evidence is the firing of a man accused of the same (on more valid ground admittedly).

  35. socraticsilence:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:16 pm

    Trying to decide who between Ace and Col. Mustard is a more farcical “thought leader”.

  36. Malaclypse:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    Jeremiah was a bullfrog anti-Semite.

  37. rea:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    Poe’s Law strikes again.

  38. UserGoogol:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    Even setting aside the potential sexist connotations, lame puns like that have no place in civilized polity. That’s not a joke, that’s an assault on the very idea of comedy.

    Also petty name calling that is probably counterproductive to reasoned political discussion, but mostly it’s just a bad joke.

  39. mark f:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:38 pm

    Whichever it is, he clearly comes in behind Adam Baldwin on that scale. Whatever happened to all of the other Not-Alec Baldwins, anyway?

  40. John:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    I don’t understand.

  41. John:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:53 pm

    Don’t we all miss the days of Peretz’s blog? Getting infuriated just from looking at the titles of his blog posts (which always seemed to come from some alternate universe whose details were known only to Peretz) used to be one of the highlights of my day.

  42. gocart mozart:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    I thought it was a pretty good pun.

  43. c u n d gulag:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:04 pm

    That’s the problem with puns – people either love them, or hate them.

    I’m from the school of, the worse the pun, the better it is.

    But, I guess I don’t have to tell anyone that, after this exchange.

  44. Cody:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    Aside from their choices of people here, I think this is a decent idea.

    Of course, in this format the “”leaders”” (extra scare quotes for obvious reasons…) won’t have time to do any research to speak intelligently. Somehow, I feel like this won’t change a thing.

    I would enjoy seeing the LGM crew chatting sometimes, but who has the time?

  45. efgoldman:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:26 pm

    Also petty name calling that is probably counterproductive to reasoned political discussion…

    So, arbiter, we should all go New York Times in our comments and refer to Snowbily Snookie as “Ms. Palin?” Please. Serious people get serious treatment. The only things Mooserella was ever serious about were the grift and self-aggrandizement.

  46. JL:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:27 pm

    Well, Adam Baldwin was awesome as Jayne on Firefly.

    That might be about it.

  47. JL:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    The problem is that comparing idiots and grifters to sex workers is insulting to sex workers.

  48. CaptBackslap:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    Don’t forget his Mini-Me, Jamie Kirchick.

  49. Substance McGravitas:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    Fuck, I’d forgotten.

  50. Roger Ailes:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    Don’t overlook the Free Beacon’s reference to “wealthy socialite Chris Hughes, who is best known for sharing a room with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University.”

    Or, as they say on the right, “fag.”

  51. Davis:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    Perhaps he meant that it couldn’t go any lower. Nothing Chait or anyone else says can lower my opinion of those dolts.

  52. spencer:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    Mooserella.

    I like it.

  53. Ahistoricality:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    “Nazi” scans better.

  54. Ahistoricality:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    Check the SyFy Channel…

  55. actor212:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    The Free Beacon calls him a Jew.

  56. actor212:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    I got a rise out of him by once calling him “Crappiest Actor on X-Files.”

    He used that for about two years to point out how angry liberals are.

  57. actor212:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    He’s not just a Not-Alec. He’s a Not-Baldwin.

  58. actor212:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Or they’re too stupid to go search Wiki.

    Altho, to be fair, he attends a half-Christian, half-Jewish Episcopalian….yes, you read that correctly…church.

  59. witless chum:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    A difficult balance of menacing and goofy, to be sure. It was a wonderful performance.

  60. rea:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    Hamlet, after all, is full of bad puns.

  61. John:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    One of the purged Jews!

  62. witless chum:

    January 29th, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    I don’t know what Snookie did to deserve that.

  63. Jonas:

    January 29th, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    Did he actually apologize? I don’t remember that. I remember the incident, he criticized Michael Eisner for being Jewish. Actually, he criticized Eisner for doing something that would be okay if a non-Jew did it, allowing a movie to be made that had violence in it in order to make money, but if someone Jewish did it, it was the act of a money-grubbing Jew.

  64. Jonas:

    January 29th, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    Okay, I looked it up. He did the ‘I am sorry if anyone was offended’ apology.

    Twenty minutes after I pressed “send,” the entire world had read it. When I reread my own words and beheld how I’d written things that could be misunderstood, I felt awful. To anyone who was offended I offer my apology, because offense was not my intent.

  65. mark f:

    January 29th, 2013 at 3:43 pm

    Wiki tells me I got him confused with Stephen, the “I’m moving to Canada if Obama wins” member of the Alec Baldwin Baldwins.

  66. Warren Terra:

    January 29th, 2013 at 4:30 pm

    He’s somehow convinced a fair few people of the notion that he’s an east coast intellectual, which is pretty much the same thing.

  67. Warren Terra:

    January 29th, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    Don’t use their labels. A policy of denouncing as anti-Semitic anyone more open to peace than, say, Avigdor Lieberman is not “pro-Israel”, and – most especially – diverging from such beliefs as Lieberman’s does not mean you cannot be “pro-Israel”.

  68. Warren Terra:

    January 29th, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    Well, sure, but do you really go for Shakespearean comedy?

  69. Warren Terra:

    January 29th, 2013 at 4:46 pm

    Mooselini, Il Dunce?

  70. Warren Terra:

    January 29th, 2013 at 4:48 pm

    How does that even work? Is this the Jews Sort-Of For Jesus?

  71. Manta:

    January 29th, 2013 at 4:58 pm

    Link, or we will think you are making shit up.

  72. Kal:

    January 29th, 2013 at 5:31 pm

    If this is anti-semitic, how would the Free Beacon describe my preferred policy of firing *everyone* who works at TNR?

  73. Pestilence:

    January 29th, 2013 at 5:35 pm

    Well that IS an awfully high bar

  74. Pestilence:

    January 29th, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    The conversation? or the Toxic Dump?

  75. Woodrowfan:

    January 29th, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    Schmeks and Gloks??

  76. Woodrowfan:

    January 29th, 2013 at 5:40 pm

    too “polgramy”

  77. Pestilence:

    January 29th, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    Well no, Episcopalian = Anglican, right? So it’s more Jews for sort-of-atheism

  78. Jeremy:

    January 29th, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    For purely rhythmic purposes, “blackshirt” would have to be my top choice.

  79. Warren Terra:

    January 29th, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    I’m an Atheist Jew; I know a lot of Atheist Jews. Part of growing up and still identifying yourself as Jewish in a Christian country is not accepting Jesus as divine. Not even as being the specific notion of the divine you’re rejecting. It’s that old joke about fighting over exactly what it is you don’t believe in.

    Also: I thought the line on Anglicans was that they venerated jumble sales and flower arranging – not that they worshiped nothing.

  80. Ahistoricality:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    That works, yeah.

  81. Origami Isopod:

    January 30th, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    An “ongoing dialogue”? Will there be trays to catch the drool?

  82. Origami Isopod:

    January 30th, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    Never understood a word he said, but he always let me share his wine. Unfortunately it was Manischewitz.

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