An objective review of Weber's essay cannot avoid seeing (by page 2) that Weber is anti-Semitic and that he blames Jews and immigrants for America's decline. He attempts to mask some of his antipathy for Jews and immigrants in his rhetoric. For example, on page 2, Weber says "no establishment politician, no matter how eloquent or seemingly sincere," can change the course of the downslide, because America's political, intellectual and cultural life "has been systematically skewed to serve alien interests" (p. 2). What are those "alien interests"? Weber doesn't say but the implication is Jews and immigrants, especially Latino immigrants, have brought the country down.
He gives a pitch for Sarah Palin, who he says is "a source of hope for the future." She would be better than any of the "slick" politicians in power today, Weber asserts, because millions of people are impressed with her "simplicity and lack of sophistication"...
2). He attacks those who would have the U.S. government reduced in size and he attacks the education legislation called "No Child Left Behind" -- saying it is "proving to be a failure" (p. 3). On pages 3 and 4 Weber leaves no doubt where the real problem lies: "the enormous power of the organized Jewish community." On page 4 he references Richard Nixon's anti-Semitism and asks the reader (or the listener) to accept that Nixon, "the most powerful man in the world," could not do anything about the "Jewish stranglehold" on the U.S. media.
Weber ends his essay -- more of a diatribe than a traditional essay -- by asking readers to "support" the IHR, and to accept that the "impact of Holocaust propaganda" is "corrosive." The media personalities on television are nothing more "than entertainers," he asserts; hence, the "crying need in our nation today is candor, courage and truthfulness," he concludes.
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