I gave a talk yesterday to a room full of visitors from China — media

types, journalists, etc. It went well — surprisingly well, considering

that I was rather rude about the Chinese govt. Anyway, I gave them a sketch

of the conservative scene & conservative media in the US, and some of the

things they might expect to read about China in our conservative magazines &

newspapers.

Afterwards one of the Chinese people came up to me and said something like

this: “I note you didn’t say much about the neo-cons. They are the real

problem, you know. These Jewish neo-cons are using Bush on behalf of

Israel. They will bring America to destruction.”

Now, I have good friends — no names, no pack drill — who hold some

similar, though more sophisticated theory, and have expressed it in writing

& blogging. It’s worth remembering how ideas get pared down and simplified

when they spread out to the general public, here and abroad. There are now

probably a couple of billion people world-wide who believe in the Great

Jewish Neo-Con Conspiracy to Hijack US Foreign Policy, in the crudely

antisemitic form that this Chinese gentleman (professional, well-educated)

presented it to me.