Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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Lee Smith: Mainstreaming Hate - How media companies are using the Internet to make anti-Semitism respectable - '...If not quite as popular as adult-content sites, the anti-Israel blogosphere is a dirty little thrill that major U.S. media outfits have mainstreamed for the masses, the intellectual equivalent of the topless "Page Three" girls that British tabloids use to boost circulation. Among the dozens of blogs and websites obsessed with Israel and the machinations of the U.S. Israel lobby, Phillip Weiss' Mondoweiss (a project of The Nation Institute), Glenn Greenwald's blog on Salon, and Stephen Walt's blog on ForeignPolicy.com (owned by The Washington Post Company) sit atop the junk-heap...' [Supporters of the creeps in question show up in the comments and prove Smith's point.]