A Response to Max Blumenthal

Some of the press has been commenting on a video filmed by Max Blumenthal, the genius political commentator who went around the most touristy stretch of bars and nightlife in Jerusalem to coerce some drunk American yeshiva kids and recent Western emigres to tell us their drunken opinions on Barack Obama's upcoming Cairo speech and their general political insights on the Middle East. The final product is, of course, a ridiculous collection of racist, narrow-minded, moronic ramblings.

There is no defense for this. I am sure if they hadn't been screaming into a microphone at a bar in front of their friends the answers would have been a little more cogent, a little more restrained, but more than likely conveying the similar sentiments and purviews...as ridiculous as they were.

So to Max Blumenthal...if all it takes is a video camera to make a demographic look atrocious, then I offer this:

I'm not sure I've ever said this, but...I think the Huffington Post is right on this one. This really isn't journalism.