How Antisemitism Turned CBS Against the Left
Every systemic change has a dividing line and that line arrived for CBS on September 30, 2024. Ta-Nehisi Coates, a black supremacist author, whose books had taken off in the era of BLM, had made the same post-BLM shift as many others of his ilk, and had come out with a book, ‘The Message’, denouncing Israel and Jews, he claimed that Jewish history was “an enormous con” and suggested that he might have joined in the murdering and raping on Oct 7. No one in the media, which went on hailing Coates as an “acclaimed author” and “public intellectual” (and recently trotted him out to attack the deceased Charlie Kirk as a racist) thought that there was anything amiss here. Coates had enjoyed immunity for previously suggesting that 9/11 first responders were less than human so hardly anyone objected to this latest racist rant. Like most big woke authors, Ta-Nehisi Coates was published by Random House , a front for the ex-Nazi German publisher, Bertelsmann, which had more than enough juice to ge...