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Apollo Theater showing of the Liberators was sponsored by "Time Warner and a

host of rich and influential New Yorkers." Readers of the Ukrainian Archive

will be reminded that TIME magazine was responsible for the calumniation of

Ukraine in the Wallowing Photograph incident. From these two indications, we

may wonder whether Time Warner, and TIME magazine, are not sympathetic toward

Holocaust disinformation and hostile toward Ukrainian interests. After having

been a more than three-decades-long reader of TIME, I recently cancelled my

subscription.

Proven fraud does little to lessen propaganda value. As the Liberators film has

been discredited, it appears to stand little chance of being accepted as

history. However, this does not make the film a failure. The film continues

to be valuable as a tool for shaping public opinion, particularly for molding

the minds of the young. At the time of the writing of the Goldberg article

above, the film was about to be distributed to "all New York City junior and

senior high schools." We may expect, then, that hundreds of thousands of

impressionable students will view the Liberators and will believe it, and that

the refutations of Jeffrey Goldberg, and the soldiers of the 761st Tank

Battalion, and others will reach the ears of only a few. The film may never

succeed as history, but it has a good chance of succeeding as popular history,

and it is popular history that influences elections and that directs the

allocation of government resources.

Choosing between useful lies and harmful truths. One of the weapons within the

armamentarium of the totalitarian controller of information - that a useful lie

is better than a harmful truth - is explicitly wielded by at least one

supporter of the Liberators film:

She [Peggy Tishman] claims that the accuracy of

the film is not the issue. What is important is the

way it can bring Jews and blacks into "dialogue."

There are a lot of truths that are very necessary,"

she says. "This [that the 761st did not liberate

Buchenwald or Dachau] is not a truth that's

necessary."

However, wielding the weapon of the useful lie will succeed only in a context

in which the flow of contrary information can be choked off. In a society that

permits the free flow of information, there is no useful lie, because all lies

stand in danger of being exposed and thus discrediting the liar and his cause.

Thus, we may expect that an ancillary goal of the distributors of

disinformation will be to strangle the free flow of information - and more

specifically, we might expect that those backing efforts such as the Liberators

film will simultaneously back efforts to suppress web sites such as the

Ukrainian Archive. In a totalitarian society, the Liberators film constitutes

a useful day's work for the manipulators of mass opinion; in a free society,

the Liberators film constitutes a self-defeating miscalculation.

Furthermore, such an open avowal of the utility of lying as Peggy Tishman's

above brings to mind the question raised during the discussion of journalistic

fraud Stephen Glass of whether there may exist subcultures which by means of

their tolerance of, or support for, lying produce a disproportionate number of

great liars.

Consorting with Hasidim. In Goldberg's Liberators story above, Hasidic rabbi

Leib Glanz embraces Rev. Jesse Jackson on the stage of the Apollo Theater.

However, "the next night Rabbi Glanz was nearly chased out of synagogue by

angry Hasidim for the transgression of consorting with Mr. Jackson." This

brief description is puzzling, and from it alone we would be unable to arrive

at any strong conclusion, were it not for our having read some of the

characteristics of Hasidism in the writings of Israel Shahak.

With Shahak's description in mind, we are tempted to interpret Rabbi Glanz

being nearly chased out of synagogue by angry Hasidim as a further

demonstration that Hasidic Jews generally are hostile to the idea of any

rapprochement with any non-Jews. That is, Israel Shahak depicts Hasidic Jews

as constituting a debasement of Jewish mysticism, of being superstitious,

fanatical, mysogynistic, given to overindulgence in alcohol, and most

importantly, of being committed to the hatred of all non-Jews. I do not

venture such a description on my own initiative, as I have no personal

knowledge of Hasidism - but I do pass the description along as the opinion of a

reputable authority, Israel Shahak.

The incident of Rabbi Glanz being almost chased out of synagogue can only

remind us of the possibility that it may be one of Ukraine's many misfortunes

that the branch of Judaism which appears to have taken deepest root in Ukraine

is Hasidism. We see this in Hasidic Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich's prominence, as

witnessed in his frequent appearance on the pages of the Ukrainian Weekly, and

we see it as well in the central role he played - in undermining Ukraine, as it

happens - during the 23 October 1994 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of

Freedom.

The second-greatest calamity. And so, the second-greatest calamity to befall

the Jewish people during this century - which, after the Holocaust itself, is

Jewish misrepresentation of the Holocaust - deepens and broadens as a result of

the Liberators film. Another blow is struck at Jewish credibility. Another

burden is placed on the backs of Jews - the burden of being remembered for

their leading role during the 20th century as stranglers of information,

manipulators of truth, disseminators of disinformation, and corruptors of

history. The consequence of numbers of Jews lying about the history of their

people must be that whenever any Jew discourses upon history, he may expect to

be greeted with heightened skepticism - such is the penalty that all Jews must

pay for the sin of harboring fabulists in their midst.

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Mark Steyn National Post 15-May-2000 CBS fabricates news

"But yet again those old Soviet hardliners can only marvel:

They spent decades smashing presses and jamming

transmitters in an effort to shut down the flow of information.

Americans achieved that happy state just by leaving it to ABC,

CBS and NBC." - Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn in the National Post (Toronto) of 15-May-2000 takes the position that

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100,000, though how many actually showed up is the object of varied speculation;

and more importantly that contrary to the attempt to portray Do

as a suburban mother who had never organized anything larger than a car pool

before, she was in reality a CBS employee. In comparison to the massive

distortions of Morley Safer's Ugly Face of Freedom of 23-Oct-1994, the Million Mom

March media stunt seems like a peccadillo, but does contribute to the view of the

mass media as ready to deceive and manipulate, with the CBS perhaps playing a

leading role.

Two excerpts from the longer article:

But, speaking of Casts of Idiots, what about CBS? By now, you may

be curious about that "part-time job," as NBC coyly referred to

it. A couple of waitressing shifts? A little secretarial work

for the school district? No, Do

David Letterman's Late Show. Before that, she was a full-time