• Exhibit A: While driving home from work on Friday night, December 22nd, 2006, I tuned in late to a local  talk radio program on a major talk radio broadcast station located in Las Vegas. The host of this particular show is one of the new guys at the station. I've listened to his program in the past, and he's always seemed like a reasonably intelligent sort - until this particular evening. I flipped on the radio, only to hear the host tell - and laugh at - a "joke" that went something like this: "How do you know if you've got a Jewish Santa Claus? The kids are up in bed, Santa comes down the chimney, lays out all the gifts around the tree, the kids wake up and come down the stairs, only to hear Santa ask. "Hey kids! Would you like to buy some toys?" (Laughter).
  
  Not believing what I'd heard, I called the program, thinking that I surely missed the opening, and that the host must have been trying to make a point about the kind of idiocy that some anti-semites consider intelligent thought. He wasn't. The conversation went swimmingly:
  
  SpartRan: Hi, my name is SpartRan, and I'm a big fan. I've listened to your program on several occasions, and always enjoyed it. I'm just curious, however - I tuned in late to your program this evening, and I overheard your joke about the Jewish Santa Claus. Could you please explain exactly what your point was by telling it?
  
  Host: I thought it was funny.
  
  SR: You did? Let me run another one I heard by you: Have you heard the one about "How do you play Jewish Football?"
  
  Host: No.
  
  SR: "Get the quarter back."
  
  Host: (Laughter)
  
  SR: Did you think that was funny, too, sir?
   
  Host: I laugh at a lot of things. I don't understand the joke.
  
  SR: But you just laughed at it.
  
  Host: Sometimes you can laugh at someone's joke, just to be polite. I still don't understand the joke.
  
  SR: Did it ever occur to you that certain members of your audience might be offended at the joke you told?
   
  Host: Oh, members of the audience get offended by stuff we say all the time! I still don't get the joke-
  
  SR: Okay, thank you very much. 
  
  And with that, having realized that this fool was incapable of recognizing that what he'd said over the air was wrong, I could think of no more appropriate response than to hang up the phone.

• Exhibit B: Less than two weeks into the new year, former Democratic Presidential contender Wesley Clark manages to pull a General Brown out of his hat by insulting every Jew on the planet. How? Clark was quoted in several accounts on the web as blaming the current state of affairs in Iraq on neo-con advisors to the Bush Administration, the coverage of the Israeli press, and on what  Clark  disingenuously described as "New York money people." The story is inexplicably ignored by most of the mainstream media.

• Exhibit C: Ex-president Jimmy Carter reveals his true anti-Semitic colors by authoring a one-sided best-seller (financed by Arab supporders, yet ripped for its inaccuracies by former Ambassador Dennis Ross, among others) that lays the blame for the failure to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority squarely on...Israel. Challenged to debate the book on its merits by Professor Alan Dershowitz - and despite a flood of resignations in protest of the book's inaccuracies by many key staff members of The Carter Center - Carter declines. In an interesting aside, it is revealed that Carter once disapproved in writing the nomination of a key expert on the Holocaust to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, because there were supposedly "too many Jews" on the Council. Once again, the mainstream media largely ignores the story.

It is remarkable to behold events of this sort occurring in today's modern age. Somehow, it seems that the more we try to ignore these kinds of problems, the worse they tend to become.