The Collapse of Judgment

If you could save the victims of one of the following four events, which group would you save?

1. The victims of Fidel Castro's "revolution?"

2. The victims of Hezbollah's ambushes, rockets and missiles over the past three weeks?

3. The victims of the Seattle attack on the Jewish federation?

4. The victims of Mel Gibson's repulsive outburst of anti-Semitic venom?

If all human life is valued equally, you'd have to save Castro's millions of victims, the Hezbollah's thousands, then the one dead and many injured in Seattle, and then Gibson's offended.

As an extraordinary week draws to a close, though, you wouldn't have any sense of scale or importance if you had been watching American media or reading American commentary.

Hugh Hewitt

This tempest in a teapot is intended to provide cover for the blatant anti-Semitism of the American Left and their agents in the old media. It also provides an unintended illustration of the perennial double standard the entertainment culture applies those who find themselves the subject of media attention.