What got me was the way you claimed Glenn being Jewish wasn't "integral" to his life because he didn't mention it in this thread.

Why did that "get you"? What exactly are you inferring? I meant exactly what I said, I don't think Glenn being Jewish is relevant to anything he wrote, and since he doesn't bring it up, it clearly isn't relevant to his ideology, argument, etc.

Are you arguing I'm saying he's a "bad Jew" or something? I'm not. I was saying precisely what Glenn then responded, that his personal backgrounds aren't relevant to his intellectual argument. I don't always agree with that (I think those who suffer or experience certain things can and should bring personal experience into their perspectives), but I certainly respect Glenn's choice not to verbalize that as part of his argument. This whole distraction is a lot of hot air about nothing.

Your quibble should be with "anonymous," who scolded me that Glenn's Jewishness somehow meant something very important, and I should know about it.

As another poster pointed out, Glenn didn't mention his sexual orientation, marital status, professional status, etc. He, like most of us, thought it wasn't relevant to the discussion, becase it's not.

And I didn't mention Glenn's sexual orientation, marital status, professional status or Jewishness either. So what are we talking about and why are you criticizing me?

Again, being one of the posters that have asked a few questions that haven't been replied to, when did Glenn mention cabals, AIPAC, Lieberman, etc? Where did anyone on this thread say anti-semitism doesn't exist?

I can't keep climing on this "where did I explicitly say something" nonsense. Read any blog Glenn writes any day of the week. He constantly refers to how the Sober, Serious pundits never say what they mean, they simply infer it.

Literally saying something or not saying something is only an answer when applying reductionist simplistic logical litmus tests like intellectual giant Paul R. does.

Anti-Semitism, like all modern forms of racism, sexism and xenophobia, relies on codes and signifiers to communicate its presence. Thus "Hollywood Elite" rants by far right nutbags like Pat Robertson don't explicitly say "Too many Jews in Hollywood" but you and I both know what it means.

Why is this concept so hard to grasp?

Parsing the strains of racism and anti-Semitism require deconstructing the language and narrative threads that perpetuate the myths.

People don't just walk up and say "Jews run everything and work to destroy America!" Well some do. But most don't.

AnnieW, married, straight, atheist, liberal, Irish Catholic heritage, through marriage some children and all of my grandchildren are Jewish, decent tipper of all races (due to the fact that before I became an engineer I relied on tips myself)

Nice to meet you, AnnieW. I diary as WinSmith, I'm 34, and you can always find me over at Daily Kos. Not sure I'll be back in this thread. The name calling, ranting, paranoid suspicions about motives, and utter hysteria remind me of the worst of talk radio.

And the notion that the invasion of Iraq was a "Jewish War," done by secret Israeli control over American government, expressed by one or two posters, is pure, uncut 100% anti-Semitic bullshit.