Through its surrogates, the Harris Miller for Senate campaign has somehow managed to sink even lower than Jerry Kilgore did last year with his infamous "Hitler" ads against Tim Kaine. This year, we've got a supposed "Democrat" - yeah, right, and I've got some nice swampland in Iraq to sell you! - using surrogates to call Jim Webb a misogynist, a racist, and most recently an anti-Semite. All without the slightest scintilla of evidence to back up these outrageous and cowardly charges. Just yesterday, one of Miller's more rabid surrogates even claimed that Webb's use of the phrase "antichrist of outsourcing" to describe Harris Miller was "anti Semitic." Amazing.Anyway, aside from the complete absurdity of this charge, the concept that "antichrist" equals "anti-Semitic" is utterly ridiculous. In fact, the term "antichrist" is used widely in pop culture. From Wikipedia, here are a few examples, none of which have anything to do with Jews or Judaism:
*"The Devil's Advocate has Al Pacino as Satan attempt to lure Keanu Reeves' character into joining him and fathering the Antichrist."
*"In The Seventh Sign, the idea of the Antichrist is tangentially referred to as a child conceived without a soul, whose birth will signal the end of all life."
*"The Antichrist is a central figure in the Left Behind series of books and movies; in this series the Antichrist figure is a Romanian politician named Nicolae Carpathia."
*"The satirical comedy series South Park has used the idea of the antichrist, who in his first appearance, clearly modeled after Damien Thorn of "The Omen" series, ends up drawing out Jesus Christ for a boxing match with Satan, which takes place in South Park. In another episode, Woodland Critter Cristmas, Stan helps a group of cute animals to give birth to their savior, who turns out to be the anti-christ. This is not a continuity error, as the latter episode was revealed to be a story made up by Eric Cartman as a class assignment."
That's right, no mention of Jews or Judaism to be found. More to the point, perhaps the following definition is more what labor unions mean when they call Harris Miller the "antichrist of outsourcing:"
In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist has come to mean a person, image of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil and utterly opposed to truth, while convincingly disguised as wholly good and a bringer of truth.
Yeah, sure sounds like ol' Harris Miller to me!
I also sincerely doubt anyone was even aware Miller is Jewish. I certainly was not, his name doesn't indicate it and why would any engineer even bother to check that?
Miller is clearly trying to lower the debate to it's most base "McCain has a black baby" smear tactics and also to avoid the fact he is most hated. His crafting of public relations buzz words, such as "retraining" and "Americans need to be more competitive" to hid the fact the ITAA wants to treat highly skilled engineers and computer scientists like McDonald's burger flippers is most hated by the engineering and computer science community.
You're missing the point. Of course the two terms are not synonymous. If you understood anything about the book of Revelation, you'd know what the antichrist is (or will be). Presumably, the antichrist is suppost to BE Jewish. That's what makes Webb's statement anti-Semetic.
Or maybe he's just ignorant. Take your pick -- it's one or the other.