In the Oscar-winning 1976 movie Network, Howard Beale, the "mad prophet of
the airwaves," becomes consumed with the idea of exposing an insidious danger
facing America: the takeover of American television by Arabs through their
petro-dollars.
The film was based on an Oscar-winning screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, who
depicts a dark plot by Arabs to buy and control the TV networks. Howard
Beale, played by Peter Finch, is a deranged news anchorman who speaks his
mind about any subject, resulting in skyrocketing ratings. Raving about the
inequities and corruption in American life, Beale would cry out: "I’m mad as
hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!"
Imagine if Iraqi-American supporters of Saddam Hussein had control of the
American media. Suppose they controlled the national television networks and
were a majority of the owners, producers, and writers of television
entertainment and news. TV is an irresistible power that reaches into every
American home — the primary source by which most Americans learn about the
world. Consider the dangers of that enormous power dominated by a tightly
knit, Iraqi, Muslim minority that supported the Hussein regime.
If the non-television media were still free, they undoubtedly would treat
Iraqi media domination as a great danger to America. Every non-Iraqi source
of media would proclaim that such control threatens our freedoms. Congress
would likely draft legislation to break up the Iraqi stranglehold on
television. Patriots would remind Americans that if we were not free to
obtain unbiased news, documentaries, and programming, democracy could not
work. The power of TV controlled by one point of view would erode the
foundation of all our freedoms: the freedom of speech. Pundits would be
outraged that non-Americans, people with allegiance to a foreign power, had
control over the American mind.
Taking the analogy further, imagine if the rest of the media were also in
Iraqi hands. Suppose that the three major news magazines, Time, Newsweek, and
U.S. News and World Report were run by Iraqis, that the three most
influential American newspapers, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
and The Washington Post — as well as a majority of the remaining major
newspapers and magazines — were controlled by Iraqis. Imagine that Muslim
Iraqis dominated the Hollywood movie industry as well as book publishing and
even book distribution. Picture the Iraqis as also holding immense wealth in
business and banking, as thoroughly entrenched in entertainment and
Hollywood, academia, the judiciary, and the government. On top of all this,
suppose that supporters of Saddam Hussein had the most powerful lobby in
Washington and were responsible for the bulk of the fundraising of both the
Democratic and Republican parties. Suppose a dedicated Iraqi was head of the
National Security Council at the White House. Would such a situation be
dangerous for America?
If Americans awoke one morning and found Arabic names scrawled all over their
TV and movie credits, on their magazine and newspaper mastheads and in the
pages of their books, millions would say, "We’ve been taken over!" Viewers
would suspect the motives of everything they see on television and read in
newspapers, magazines, and books. They would be especially wary of information about issues related to Iraqis, Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Middle East conflict. In very short order, many Americans would cry out in the fashion of Howard Beale: "I am mad as hell, and I am not going to take it anymore!"
When I came to the realization that the original Russian Revolution was not
Russian, that it was financed, organized, and led mostly by Jews who were
driven by a centuries-old conflict between themselves and the Russian people,
I wondered how such an important fact of history had been so effectively
covered up. Upon learning fully about the Communist murder of millions of
Christians in Russia and Eastern Europe, I asked myself why there were so few
movies, dramatic television series or documentaries, novels, books, or
magazine articles about it, but endless coverage of the Holocaust.
Then I read a copy of the Thunderbolt newspaper, published by Dr. Edward
Fields of Marietta, Georgia.1 Dr. Fields carefully documented Jewish control
of America’s three major television networks, NBC, CBS, and ABC. I carefully
checked Dr. Fields' sources, which included biographies published by Jews.
At the time of my first inquiry, Richard Sarnoff was the head of NBC, William
Paley was the head of CBS, and Leonard Goldenson ran ABC. I was amazed to
learn that all three were Jews, all were active in Zionist organizations, and
all had been honored by awards of numerous Jewish, Zionist, and pro-Israeli
groups. Then I discovered that the leading newspaper in America, The New York
Times, was Jewish-owned and -edited. So was the newspaper that has more
influence on the federal government than any other, The Washington Post. Jews
also owned the largest circulation daily paper in America, The Wall Street
Journal. They even owned my hometown newspaper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
I learned that Jews had dominated Hollywood for years. It was interesting to
find out that of the "Hollywood Ten," who took the Fifth Amendment when asked
before Congress whether they were Communists, 9 were Jewish. As I looked into
magazine and book publishing, again I discovered a striking preponderance of
Jews — most of them dedicated to Jewish interests, much like today’s Steven
Spielberg, director of Schindler’s List, who is an outspoken supporter of
Zionist causes. In fact, the most-watched movie ever made about the
Holocaust, viewed as history by millions, was entirely a Jewish production:
Jerry Molen — producer; Gerald R. Molen — producer; Steven Spielberg —
director, producer; Kurt Luedtke — screenwriter; Steve Zaillian —
screenwriter; Janusz Kaminski — cinematographer; Michael Kahn — editor; Ewa
Braun- set decoration/design, production designer; Branko Lustig — producer,
production designer; Allan Starski — production designer; Lew Rywin
co-producer.
Years later I read Jewish publications that boasted about Jewish domination
of American media. I also read An Empire of Their Own by the (honest) Jewish
writer Neal Gabler, a book that details the Jewish takeover of the film
industry.
It continues today. Each decade brings more Jewish power in the entire U.S.
media/entertainment field.