January 18, 2006

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January 18, 2006

Host: Daryl Bradford Smith

Guest: Ted Pike

Here are today's lies, misstatements, disinformation, and stupidity:

(1) Today Daryl Bradford Smith labels the Zionists the "evil Hebrew Jewish leadership." I guess throwing "Hebrew" in there so we're sure about whom he speaks.

(2) Daryl Bradford Smith says that Zionism has never had majority support in the Jewish community. Is he kidding? There's a flag of Israel in every synagogue I've set foot in.

(3) Daryl Bradford Smith says that Israel is all desert. It's not. There is a significant desert in the South, but that's about it. The rest of the country is tropical and it rains frequently in Jerusalem.

(4) Daryl Bradford Smith talks about people that "are trying to establish the state of Israel." Is he not aware that the state was established in 1948?

(5) Yet again, Daryl Bradford Smith believes that Zionism is tied to Jewish conspiracies going as far back as the Spanish Inquisition if not further.

(6) Ted Pike says that the Pharisees were the predominant sect of Jews when Jesus was alive. This is patently false. In fact, the Sadduccees, who rejected Oral Torah, were the ruling party in the Sanhedrin, and there were more sects of Jews in Judea in the first century AD than in any other time.

(7) Ted Pike says that Kabbalah was introduced into Judaism before Jesus came along. Yitzhak Luria didn't write the Zohar, the basis of Kabbalah, however, until the 13th century. Even the most Orthodox Jews do not believe the Zohar existed before the second century AD.

(8) Ted Pike says that the production and ownership of the film The Last Temptation of Christ was Jewish. The director was Martin Scorsese, who is an Italian Catholic (and former seminarian). It was adapted from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, who was a Greek Orthodox Christian. The adaptation was done by Paul Schrader, who may very well be Jewish. The producers were Barbara De Fina (Italian, probably Catholic) and Harry Ufland (maybe Jewish?). Here's the full cast and crew. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/fullcredits Ironically, the only Jew I see in the cast and crew who plays any kind of major role is Harvey Keitel, who plays, of all people, Judas Iscariot.

(9) Ted Pike says the Pharisees had Jesus crucified. Actually it was the Sadduccees who handed Jesus over to the Romans for crucifixion. The Pharisees would have carried out a death penalty themselves if they had wanted to, and it wouldn't have been crucifixion. Remember that the fundamental creed of Christianity, the Nicene Creed, says nothing about Jews killing Jesus; it says, "He was crucified by Pontius Pilate."

(10) Ted Pike concludes that the Jews who did not decide to follow Jesus decided instead to follow the Pharisees en masse. Rather, Pharisaism was the only form of Judaism left in large numbers after the Roman Destruction of Jerualem in 70 AD.

(11) "Mike" calls in to tell us that Khrushchev's real name was Perlmutter, and that Mikhail Gorbachev's last name is Kahn. General Primakov, he says, is actually "Pincus Finkelsteain." Neither Khrushchev nor Gorbachev were Jewish and I defy anyone to provide evidence to the contrary. (By the way, it was Maxim Litvinov who was born with the last name Finkelstein; Primakov seems to have always been Primakov, and I don't know one way or the other if he is Jewish.)