Judith Regan, the ex-publisher who thought it would be a great idea to pay a murderer millions of dollars in advance for a book “confessing” to his murders, apparently thought that the problems she was having were all the fault of…
“‘Of all people, the Jews should know about ganging up, finding common enemies and telling the big lie,'” Ms. Regan said, according to the notes Mr. Jackson made as the conversation unfolded; the notes were provided by Gary Ginsberg, an executive vice president of News Corporation.
According to the notes, Ms. Regan then said that the literary agent Esther Newberg; HarperCollins’ executive editor, David Hirshey; HarperCollins’ president, Jane Friedman; and Mr. Jackson “constitute a Jewish cabal against her.”
That’s right. A Jewish Cabal.
Or was it?
A lawyer for Ms. Regan, Bert Fields, denied Monday that she had said there was a “Jewish cabal against her,” saying that she had used only the word “cabal” in the conversation, and that was done in response to Mr. Jackson’s using the word in a question to her. But Mr. Fields acknowledged that during the heated conversation by phone last Friday, she had made some version of the first statement, drawing attention to the fact that her boss and others involved in the controversy over the aborted O. J. Simpson project were Jewish.
So it was just a cabal… an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, everyday cabal that you’d find most anywhere, like at a dice game in the alley or swiping tables from sidewalk cafes.
Not that there’s anything wrong with accusing a group of Jews stopping you from paying a murderer millions of dollars in advance to write a book “confessing” to his murders, mind you.
After all, her hired legal representative doesn’t think so, right?
He denied, though, that this reflected any anti-Semitism. “There is nothing insulting to Jewish people in saying that Jews should particularly understand what it is to be victims of the big lie,” Mr. Fields said. “They were looking for an excuse to fire her, and they fired her, and called it anti-Semitic. It ain’t anti-Semitic.”
So calling a group of Jews stopping you from paying a murder millions of dollars in advance to write a book “confessing” to his murders isn’t anti-Semitic?
I guess then it’s anti-Semitic if you actually call them a Jewish cabal out-and-out, right?
And, Mr. Fields said, even if she had said “Jewish cabal,” that would not have been anti-Semitic. “I want to make it clear that had she said it, even that is not an anti-Semitic remark,” he said. “Had she said it, I wouldn’t be offended, as a Jew.”
Well, I’m glad that’s settled to your satisfaction, Chief Rabbi Fields. Let’s go ahead and just shut down the ADL and Museum of Tolerance now that we’ve set the bar so low based on your wisdom.
Me, I’m so glad that sheeny shyster isn’t disturbed by the term “Jewish Cabal” or other formerly anti-Semitic slurs. Now people like him can join the rest of us in focusing on sniffing for gold with our gigantic schnozz, stealing Arab babies to drain them for their blood, and inventing crack and AIDS to thin out the black population.
Of course, now that “Jewish Cabal” isn’t considered an anti-Semitic term, we’re going to be hearing a whole lot more of it, and we’d better be prepared for it.
I mean, just around here, I keep hearing “That dumb Jewish cabal keeps sneaking gluten in my food” and “I wish that Jewish cabal would stop using up our bandwidth quota” and “Oh, great… we’re stuck watching the Dolphins… who programs this schedule, a Jewish cabal?” or “Why am I having to publish my great book through NTM Publishing… is a Jewish cabal keeping me from talking to the big-time publishing houses?”
Now if only we could free up that n-word the blacks stole from us. (We Jews invented that one, too, you know. Should have never let the trademark expire on that thing.)
The lawyer does have a point in a way.
If three black guys beat me up in an alley and the cops ask me to describe my assailants, I’ll say “three black guys did it.” That’s not enough to constitute any kind of anti-black bias. This chick my be a huge anti-semite, but this single incident isn’t enough to prove it.
That’s so unique it’s near genius. Nobody ever thought of blaming stuff on the Jews before.
“Had she said it, I wouldn’t be offended, as a Jew.”
I think that she said it, and, as a Gentile, I’m offended, as I’m offended by all anti-Semitism and all other forms of ethnic and religious prejudice.
What is a Jewish Cabal, and why is it an anti-Semitic thing to say? I don’t know what that is any more than what a macaca is.
What is a Jewish Cabal, and why is it an anti-Semitic thing to say?
A cabal is a secret organization of conspirators. There are two derivations frequently given for the word. One is that cabal derives from the initial letters of a group of British noblemen and gentry under Charles II, who (the noblemen and gentry) signed a treaty allying Englan to France in case of a war against the Dutch. The noblemen and gentry were Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale. This is most probably not the correct etymology. It is far more likely that the word is derived from kaballah, which is a mystical interpretation of Jewish scripture. So “Jewish cabal” is doubly a reference to Jews, although it is unlikely that Judith Regan, if she used the phrase, meant it that way.
In any event, the phrase would mean a secret organization of Jews for the purpose of promoting their own equally secret agenda.
Just press the J key on your keyboard and keep the money coming to the secret Jewish bank account folks…just keep the money coming!
I can’t get The NFL Network, thanks to the insatiable greed of the Time-Warner Cabal!
Seriously, though, how anti-Semitic can Judith Regan be? This is a woman who is constantly on Page Six here in New York. If she were this rabid anti-Semite, she could never swim in these society circles, much less the publishing world. This sounds like a woman upset over being fired caught in a “gotcha” moment.
Same goes for Mel Gibson. How anti-Semitic can this top Hollywood player be? Forget the drunken “gotcha” moment; I’m talking about the man’s behavior, his interactions with an industry frankly dominated by Jews.
How you treat people is infinitely more important than what you think of them. And while political correctness is turning our speech into a tortured Newspeak, we’re still free to entertain whatever thoughts occur in those few cubic centimeters of our minds (for now).
In the immortal words of Archie Bunker: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you are one dumb Polack (Hebe, Dago, spook, spic, mick, chink, fairy…)! This is the credo by which we must live if we are to survive as a nation.
Can there be non-Jewish cabals?
And if so, how would I join one? 🙂
Oh Lawrence you forgot. It’s all George W. Bush’s fault, him and the vast right wing conspiracy. They’re out to get everyone.