Jew baiting at the Strib

“Violations of virtually every aspect of Iowa’s child labor laws.”

And their parents are sitting in federal prison, victims of a mass trial and insufficent legal counsel. The only question here is who’s the bigger criminal: Agriprocessors or Bush’s immigration enforcement personnel.

And since this isn’t a “local” story, the Strib’s allowing comments:

My only reluctance in writing about the cultish Chabad Lubavitch connection was that some people might lump me in with these folks. 

As for the Strib, they can either moderate their comments or get rid of them altogether. It’s too late to fire Kersten — now that her pals have started to hang around in the comments there isn’t enough rodent repellant in the world to get rid of them.

And yes, I left a comment of my own:

What crawled out from under a rock

It’s funny how this crap keeps showing up in Strib comments. The further to the right the Strib moves, the viler and more racist their commenters become. While Agriprocessors is run by a virulent cult comprised of Chabad Lubavitch extremists, they are no more whacked out than your average prosperity gospel parishioner who belongs to a mega-church. Greed is not a religious value, and is usually a sign that your faith isn’t about God, but rather about yourself. The victims in this story are the Guatemalans who were willing to work for low pay in horrible conditions because Americans refused to work in that “jungle.” But instead of Upton Sinclair, the Strib gives us Katherine Kersten, or in this case, a story from yet another Republican-run wire service. Jon Tevlin did a great job with this story. Did that offend your investors? I wouldn’t bother to ask except the Strib refuses to say who specifically owns them now. For all we know, the Rubashkins own a piece of the Strib. Come to think of it, a newspaper is a lot like a packing plant. Except your kill floor is upstairs where the editors pick and choose which stories will make Obama look bad, and McCain look like he’s awake. But in the end, you both produce a lot of sausage.

posted by MarkGisleson on Aug. 6, 08 at 7:55 AM | 

I love that one big long paragraph comment style they use. Visually, it turns a good rant into a note tied around a brick.

UPDATE: Thomas Franks’ Captives of the Meatpacking Archipelago [h/t G Spot]

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Coddle tyrants, eat totalitarianism.

Would it have been political to have boycotted the Chinese Olympics? No more so than their decision to bar a champion American speedskater from entering China due to his involvement with Team Darfur.

Joey Cheek is not competing, which led the Chinese to think they could keep him out. I was thinking it would be nice if some athletes displayed the Tibetan flag at various strategic points in the Olympic pageantry, but now I think we need a flag for the victims of Darfur. 

George Bush could set this right by honoring Cheek, but to do so would be to further legitimize protest over Darfur (while insulting the nation that owns most of our debt). The U.S. has ignored this tragedy under Bush because we have no troops left over from Iraq to stop the slaughter of innocents. Zombie Hitler could set up ovens in Syria and we wouldn’t have the troops to do anything about it.

Evil frolics while Bush sucks on Iraq.

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More on Farmfest from Paul Demko and the PiPress.

Note to Al: when you’re speaking to the only non-bankers in the state who love George Bush, maybe a different strategy is in order.

Note to Norm: stop sucking on that tire gauge Pawlenty’s been pulling out of his ass at all his campaign stops. Conservatism was about conservation once upon a time — but then again, you were still a long-haired hippy from New York back in that day.

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A few days old, but worth seeing if you haven’t yet:

Nothing about modern American Republicanism is consistent. They are predictable only in that their loud, noxious fulminations ultimately change nothing. The only laws they pass are the ones that enrich their friends or help further turn the U.S.A. into a fascist police state.

No shining city on a hill for us, just the dank dungeons of Bush’s torture facilities.

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Time has the moderators for the three presidential debates:

Jim Lehrer, PBS

Gwin Ifill, PBS (veep debate)

Tom Brokaw, NBC

Bob Schieffer, CBS

It could have been worse. 

Much, much worse.

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Also a bit dated, MnIndy has a great profile of Ashwin Madia, who’s on track to become the DFL’s Bobby Jindal.

The USA brought people from the world together to form a democracy. India exported their people to every country on earth, promoting their values worldwide.

You’d think our nations would be closer, but Vietnam messed that up.

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Oops — gotta go.

 

Later.

 

 

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