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Sunday, November 9, 2008

[Note: The following is a guest-post by Mark Nystedt, the philosemitic Christian activist who has taken his love of Israel and the Jewish people to the point of arrest for peacefully protesting outside a Boston Episcopal Church, not to mention his many other activities in the same vein. A frequent caller to local talk radio, Mark is clearly emotional on the subject he's writing about, and this posting represents his views and only his views on the subjects and individuals mentioned. I post it by request out of respect for his energy and deeds. ('Stoogahs' is Mark's play on the word 'Stooges') -S]

WRKO's FOUR STOOGAHS

For three or four years I've been politely nudging Boston's WRKO AM680 talk show hosts to talk about anti-Semitism - the slanderous blaming of Jews and Israel for the problems in the Middle East and the world, and the making of excuses for the Arabs who wish to exterminate Israel and commit Jewish ethnic cleansing in the Middle East and the World - within Liberal Protestantism; without success. (See: camera.org, search by denomination; and google denomination with palestinian.) WRKO's four most conservative talk show hosts are the former MA House Speaker Tom Finneran, Todd Feinberg, Howie Carr, and Avi Nelson (sad when a MA Democrat ranks in the top four radio station's conservative talk show hosts; WRKO's other local hosts are off-the-chart to the left kookoo). This diplomatic effort is now turning blunt and sarcastic. They are now the WRKO four stoogahs.

The election of Sen Barack Obama, a Liberal Protestant anti-Semite, to the Presidency is the straw that broke the diplomatic camel's back. On the day after the election, three of the four stoogahs zinged the main/lame stream media for not zinging Obama's association with Rev Jeremiah Wright, a transgression that they themselves are guilty of; and then yukked it up with MA Gov Patrick on air not confronting him with his association with Boston's anti-Semitic UCC Old South Church. Gov Patrick was one of Obama's presidential co-chairmen; and Old South hosted a Sabeel Israel-apartheid conference and Gov Patrick's Inaugural Service. The forth stoogah Howie thinks that Congregationalists are Typical White People. Obama, MA Gov Deval Patrick, Patrick's UCC Old South Church (like Obama's TrinityUCC, except that its anti-Semitism is white and polite), Rev Wright and his TrinityUCC, and WRKO's UCC Rev Yvonne Eschner are Congregationalists and not hardly Typical
White People. Dah.

Had the four WRKO stoogahs talked about Liberal Protestant anti-Semitism during the past year, maybe we wouldn't have elected this Jew-hating blah blah blah as president. Now, I'm worried about what Obama might and might not do.

The four stoogahs are clueless that Liberal Protestants regard their God and the God of Mohammad as one and the same and consider the divisions of world religions to be the result of human ignorance. The Quakers and Mennonites with Iranian President Ahmadinejad gave thanks to and asked a blessing from their COMMON God. [See UUA.org, VISITORS, 'Beliefs within our faith' list of religions. any-god-'ll-do.] After all, Liberals are smarter than regular people. With that understanding of God by Protestant Liberals and Obama's vagueness of his religious beliefs, what does he mean when he says that Jesus was Messiah and his personal Savior? That we are all Messiahs on our own paths to Nirvana? EVERYTHING ELSE OBAMA HAS SAID HAS BEEN WITH BUTS AND HOWEVERS THAT HAVE REVERSED THE MEANING OF HIS INITIAL ASSERTION. WHY NOT THIS ONE? When he told AIPAC that Jerusalem would remain undivided; and the next day had an aide clarify that Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods would
be under Arab control, i.e., that Jerusalem would be divided. When he said that the abortion issue was above his pay grade and that he was pro-life - who isn't? - he said he wouldn't slide down the slippery anti-Roe-v-Wade slope. He spearheaded Illinois legislation that prohibited the sustaining of the lives of babies who somehow miraculously survive an abortion. Pro-life my ass. And some compare him to Honest Abe. I digress.

The four WRKO stoogahs won't talk about Liberal Christian anti-Semitism and remove all doubt in the uninformed minds of their listeners - and America - that Obama was a knowing member of an anti-Semitic organization, TrinityUCC and the United Church of Christ denomination. Shame on the four stoogahs. Please call WRKO at 617 977-3400 and share this concern.

The only thing that can save these four's butts is for them to have a come-to-Jesus road-to-Damascus epiphany; and talk about Liberal Protestant anti-Semitism on air, frequently. I don't think that's too much to ask the four WRKO conservative talk show stoogahs.

Mark Nystedt. Haverhill MA.

3 Comments

What a hero you are. I am so used to seeing anti-heroes day in and day out. Thank you on behalf of one Jewish woman.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I never hear anything , let's say pro arab or palestinian on WRKO, I just think maybe your are a bit over the line, but please if you see things in this area =MAYBE IM WRONG. It seems they have a common neo con thread. Same as Rush , they are all in the tank , and they have a right . I feel they are all stooges for the Republican Party and not anti-Jewish. They stay away from that subject to my estimation. I don't think the management, that Jewish woman running or owning the station would put up with anything like you mentioned

Dear Mr. Nystedt,
At this late date, I happened upon your comments about the United Church of Christ as an anti-Semitic denomination. You know absolutely nothing of which you speak. Having taught UCC History, Faith and Polity for 15 years at Harvard Divinity School, and without writing a tome of the UCC's long and impressive history regarding it's historic abolitionist stands, as well as it's contemporary stands against racism, I shall simply refer you to Spielberg's movie: The Amistad. While Spielberg does not get into the particular church folk involved, it was the Congregationalists who were instrumental for the return of the slaves to their homes in Africa. They were the ones who stood on the docks of NYC until they learned the language of the imprisoned slaves -- which the Congregationalists did. They then pressed upon John Quincy Adams to take the case to trial - which he did thereby winning the freedom of the slaves. This denomination has not wavered in it's understanding of the horrors of racism, nor has it wavered in taking stands toward its elimination in our society.

I think it best that you do some homework before throwing arrows across the yard.

Sincerely,
Rev. Yvonne V. Eschner
FORMER Host of "Talking Religion" on WRKO, the station with numbered days.

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