Jewish Media Stranglehold? NIXON THOUGHT SO; OTIS CHANDLER DOESN'T. MAYBE IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU STAND.
Nation, The, July, 2002 by ROTHMAN, CLIFF
The curtain is pulled back, like the famous scene in The Wizard of Oz, to reveal Billy Graham spouting an anti-Semitic rant with Richard Nixon on newly released White House tapes ("the gift that keeps on giving," quips former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee).
Graham and Nixon are heard agreeing that left-wing Jews dominate the news media. The Reverend then warns: "The [Jewish media] stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain." He confides to Nixon that his Jewish acquaintances and colleagues--mentioning A.M. Rosenthal, then executive editor of the New York Times--don't know his true feelings.
"A lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm...
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