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Personally, having read his response, I am ready to give him a bit of a
break. I think he was stupid, that's all, not anti-Semitic (and as everyone knows
I'm pretty attuned to even mere hints of anti-Semitism). I think his problem is
assuming there is and should be a connection between people's professed
religion and their secular actions. I think there should be and I do try to live my
faith, but I doubt most people see the connections (but that might be
invidious thinking on my part).
Having read a good bit of his stuff in his TMQ, TNR and blog columns, I also think
it was stupid rather than anti-semitic.
Instapundit has a lot of coverage of the story, including a mention of Brin-l member
Gautam Makunda: http://www.instapundit.com/archives/012081.php
ESPN firing him for something he wrote in a different forum, for a different employer,
seems pretty unfair. More interesting, as Gautam points out on instapundit,
Easterbrook's been "disappeared" from the ESPN web site. All links to his articles gone,
and the ESPN search engine won't turn up his name anymore.
A lot of speculation is going that this isn't so much a general reaction for a perceived
anti-semitic statement, so much as Disney retribution for badmouthing Eisner and slamming
the Disney/Miramax film.
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