In keeping with our commitment to provide assistance to AOL/Huffington Post’s pledge to be ad hominem-free, we at Big Journalism discovered yet another case of “ad hominem attacks” on the website.
Shock is cheap.
AOL/HuffPo contributor Roseanne Barr was featured on the cover of Heeb Magazine (and as Che on cover of her book) dressed as Hitler with a sheetful of “Jew cookies” fresh from the oven. This, of course, was one of the tamer things Barr has done as a lazy attempt to use shock-sans-cleverness for fame.
Since 2007, Roseanne Barr has been known as one of America’s most vicious anti-Israel libelers and propagandists:
5/3/07: Roseanne Barr: I Hate Israel Too Much To Host The View, by Michelle Malkin
12/31/08: Roseanne Barr Says Israel’s Destruction ‘Assured,’ Rick Moran, American Thinker
1/2/09: Roseanne Barr: Israel Is A ‘Nazi State,’ by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
Even the white supremacist, neo-Nazi website StormFront gleefully welcomed Barr’s rants as reflecting “the truth”:
1/4/09: Roseanne Barr Blasts Israel As ‘Nazi State’
Barr has also been an official HuffPost blogger since February 1, 2008. Her debut blog article? An anti-Israel, anti-Semitic rant, of course:
Obama and Israel: He’s “Forgainst It”
Excerpt:
“How will Obama handle his Jewish problem? He has to pander to the pro Zionist Jews of America” […]
Yesterday AOL/Huffington Post spokesman said Andrew Breitbart’s characterization of admitted Marxist and 9-11 truther Van Jones as a “commie punk” was too egregious a statement for them to continue an association with Breitbart.
Last anyone’s checked, Barr still remains as a contributor to the AOL/Huffington Post. I’m certain that after we point this out to them they will just as swiftly issue a statement detailing their disassociation with Barr as commitment to their consistency of not featuring writers who engage in “ad hominem attacks.”
We will keep you updated.
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