tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post4386068450518682227..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Pure EvilJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-70816744365339878312010-12-16T11:08:10.761-06:002010-12-16T11:08:10.761-06:00>Nixon was pretty fond, if I recall correctly, ...>Nixon was pretty fond, if I recall correctly, of "goddamn."<br /><br />He was also quite fond of the word "cocksucker." (Not incidentally, prior to his infamous BLS purge, he <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ajLBlZwwB0IC&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq=%22that+little+jew+cocksucker%22&source=bl&ots=6l-0j4Mp69&sig=nhCkwASTmO7BLLxytnkVZ1hDXRg&hl=en&ei=nEQKTdjeJcH98Abnu6WfAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22that%20little%20jew%20cocksucker%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">referred</a> to BLS's assistant commissioner, Harold Goldstein, as "That little Jew cocksucker.")<br /><br />His anti-Semitism is not news, of course, though I never before realized how deep it was. What struck me even more were his attacks on Irish and Italians. Bashing European ethnicities seems incredibly quaint today, though I'm aware it was still common among older Americans in the 1970s. Archie Bunker regularly engaged in it, but Jack Nicholson's Bunker-esque character in the '90s film <i>As Good As It Gets</i> restricted his attacks to blacks, Jews, and gays; the filmmakers apparently believed it would have been a stretch to hear him rant about micks or dagos or polacks.Kylopodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06932528611103718373noreply@blogger.com