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April 03, 2006
Jack Abramoff's White Supremacist Ties
It just gets weirder. Yet, sadly, when I reflect on life in the 1980s, it all makes so much sense.
Back when he was a Hollywood producer, GOP slime lobbyist Jack Abramoff did all he could to to keep his films clean. An observant Orthodox Jew, Jack tried to insert good old American values into his final product.
For example, When he made the Reagan-era, anti-commie classic "Red Scorpion" starring Dolf Lundgren, Jack insisted that "obscenity and profanity" be barred from the screen.
Unfortunately for Jack's traditional values, "fuck-you-asshole" style dialogue was an accepted, and expected element of trashy 80s action flicks. The pressures of Abramoff's own beloved, free-market capitalism eventually forced him to cave.
Corporate obscenity and profanity prevailed, and in more ways than one.
Filmed in South Africa occupied Namibia, Red Scorpion spouted not only an an anti-Soviet message, but equated the Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and other members of the anti-Apartheid movement with a Russian plot against the good ... eh ... white-supremacist government of South Africa.
In fact, according to former South African spy Craig Williamson, Red Scorpion was funded by the South African military as part of an intelligence project designed to sway world opinion against the anti-apartheid movement. Abramoff, it turns out, was the South African government's right-hand man in Washington.
So let's recap quickly shall we? Jack Abramoff, the founder of the Committee for Traditional Jewish Values in Entertainment, worked for Nazis. This must be those shameful Hollywood values that the right wing always decries.
Read more in the Raw Story and the Mail and Guardian.
Posted by MJuhre at April 3, 2006 12:45 PM