August 22nd, 2009 / 12:13 pm
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“Goldman Execs Blame anti-Semitism” for Negative Press About Their Looting, Pillaging, and Defrauding of the Country. And now they’re worried about an even bigger shit-storm coming when they hand out bonuses.

Yes, we all know anti-Semitism exists in the world. Those of us born Semites even smell it from time to time. It’s real. (For example, did you see this totally bizarre video from a Nevada Town Hall event?) But it’s also a pretty safe bet–damn near axiomatic, in fact–that when someone raises the anti-Semitism flag out of nowhere, and twirls it around like a coked-up majorette, time to reach for your wallet and make sure it’s still there. From one Jew to another, Lloyd Blankfein- go fuck yourself.

Charlie Gasparino’s Sympathy for Goldman, at Daily Beast.

Previous post at Giant with link to online copy of Matt Taibbi’s enormous piece on Goldman’s crimes, here.

Extra fun: my old boss, Alexander Cockburn’s “My Life as an ‘anti-Semite’.”

15 Comments

  1. August 22nd, 2009 / 6:28 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      justin, I appreciate your bringing some social/political relevance to htmlgiant from time to time. I enjoy these posts.

  2. August 22nd, 2009 / 2:28 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      justin, I appreciate your bringing some social/political relevance to htmlgiant from time to time. I enjoy these posts.

  3. August 22nd, 2009 / 6:54 pm Justin Taylor—

      Thanks, Tim!

  4. August 22nd, 2009 / 2:54 pm Justin Taylor—

      Thanks, Tim!

  5. August 22nd, 2009 / 8:15 pm Jimmy Chen—

      damn juice cause all the spills in the world

  6. August 22nd, 2009 / 4:15 pm Jimmy Chen—

      damn juice cause all the spills in the world

  7. August 23rd, 2009 / 4:05 am David—

      Justin, I’m with Tim. I really appreciate these posts too. Sorry about my thing the other day. It was more an outburst at Hitch, not you. Anyhow, thanks, dude. Also, it’s really cool you used to work with Alex Cockburn.

  8. August 23rd, 2009 / 12:05 am David—

      Justin, I’m with Tim. I really appreciate these posts too. Sorry about my thing the other day. It was more an outburst at Hitch, not you. Anyhow, thanks, dude. Also, it’s really cool you used to work with Alex Cockburn.

  9. August 23rd, 2009 / 11:42 am jason diamond—

      Is that woman who yelled at him wearing an IDF shirt?

  10. August 23rd, 2009 / 7:42 am jason diamond—

      Is that woman who yelled at him wearing an IDF shirt?

  11. August 23rd, 2009 / 8:32 am Justin Taylor—

      She IS wearing an IDF shirt!! Isn’t that totally fucked? See that’s the thing about AIPAC and all the other rightwing/hawk-Jews who align themselves with the bat-shit-nuts wing of the American right. It’s a total marriage of convenience, because the Right supports all the military shit that the Left won’t, but the Jews have to basically ignore the fact that they’re dealing with religious fanatics whose self-described end-time scenario involves those same Jews being either converted or destroyed. Personally, I’ll take an anti-Semite over a philo-Semite any day. At least the guy waving the World Church of the Creator flag–I know where he stands. Someone like that woman in the IDF shirt… She thinks of herself as a PRO-ISRAEL FRIEND OF THE JEWS. And she’ll kill any fucking kike who says otherwise.

  12. August 23rd, 2009 / 12:32 pm Justin Taylor—

      She IS wearing an IDF shirt!! Isn’t that totally fucked? See that’s the thing about AIPAC and all the other rightwing/hawk-Jews who align themselves with the bat-shit-nuts wing of the American right. It’s a total marriage of convenience, because the Right supports all the military shit that the Left won’t, but the Jews have to basically ignore the fact that they’re dealing with religious fanatics whose self-described end-time scenario involves those same Jews being either converted or destroyed. Personally, I’ll take an anti-Semite over a philo-Semite any day. At least the guy waving the World Church of the Creator flag–I know where he stands. Someone like that woman in the IDF shirt… She thinks of herself as a PRO-ISRAEL FRIEND OF THE JEWS. And she’ll kill any fucking kike who says otherwise.

  13. August 23rd, 2009 / 12:38 pm Justin Taylor—

      Thanks, David. No worries about before. You’re entitled to as many outbursts as you want- at me, at Hitch, at whoever. (Try to be nice to Blake though; he works hard.) Yeah, I was an intern at The Nation back in ’04, and one of my tasks was being Alex’s research assistant. He was great to work with/for.

  14. August 23rd, 2009 / 8:38 am Justin Taylor—

      Thanks, David. No worries about before. You’re entitled to as many outbursts as you want- at me, at Hitch, at whoever. (Try to be nice to Blake though; he works hard.) Yeah, I was an intern at The Nation back in ’04, and one of my tasks was being Alex’s research assistant. He was great to work with/for.

  15. August 24th, 2009 / 3:25 pm Matt Rittberg—

      check out this video I made. I am a Jew and I made this video to make to make fun of Goldman Sachs, not to be anti-semitic. A few news reporters called me to tell me I was anti-semitic, which I thought was ridiculous. PS- They also started defending Goldman’s actions!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONDZr840nkg