The Times Herald Record, big on anti-Semitism, small on common sense
The latest article to bash Hasidic Jews printed in the Times Herald Record rag about the arrest of the Monroe Mayor (yes, arrest, this is English) did wonders to reveal the true sentiments of the paper and their writing staff. The article, penned by John Sullivan, goes through more loops than a Six Flags roller coaster to make it look like Monroe Mayor John Karl III was the victim of a Hasidic Jew, when by all witness accounts it is quite clear that the Mayor was actually the aggressor and had overstepped both his professional and personal boundaries and had behaved inappropriately with Mr. Goldberger.
The Record is not concerned in the least bit of the wrongdoing that was perpetrated here by a government official onto another human being, but rather on the fact that the man was a Hasidic Jew and that a Hasidic web-site misused the word 'arrested'.
The Record needs to get rid of this ugly and destructive anti-Semitic and anti-Hasidic agenda and start putting the onus where it belongs.
As for the definition of the word 'arrested', the Record does not even need to go as far as to look into a dictionary to find the correct definition, but at their own published material which uses the exact word quite often to define the same situation.
Amazingly enough, since Times Herald Record writer Chris McKenna left his position as Kiryas Joel reporter, the Times Herald Record had no problem finding someone that shared his views, such as John Sullivan, to replace him.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/14/2007 09:03:00 PM
