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We all witnessed the one sided reporting the media did during the campaign and how they all wanted to be in on the "let's make history" bandwagon.

Was that when the media obsessed about Rev Wright for two weeks? The true motive of the media is not liberal or conservative, it is the profit motive, imo.

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Just because anitsemitism has been around for centuries does not change the fact that the holocust happened and the media played a large roll in creating the atmosphere for it to happen in.

What I am saying is that the atmosphere was already in existence.


Judensau on the Wittenberg church. The imagery of Jews in contact with pigs or representing the devil was common in German.


The original title page of On the Jews and their Lies, written by Martin Luther (the "Father of Protestantism") in 1543.

He argued that the Jews were no longer the chosen people, but were "the devil's people." They were "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth."[84] The synagogue was a "defiled bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut ..."[85] and Jews were full of the "devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine."[86] He advocated setting synagogues on fire, destroying Jewish prayerbooks, forbidding rabbis from preaching, seizing Jews' property and money, smashing up their homes, and ensuring that these "poisonous envenomed worms" be forced into labor or expelled "for all time."[87] He also seemed to sanction their murder,[88] writing "We are at fault in not slaying them."[89] Wiki, 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...her_and_antisemitism

If you are interested in the topic I would highly recommend both Erich Fromm's "Escape from freedom" and Daniel Goldhagen "Hitler's Willing Executioners."