TMQ IS NO MORE

A note on yesterday's ESPN Page 2 said there would be no more TMQ. Easterbrook's old columns have disappeared, and he has been airbrushed from the columnist roster with Soviet efficiency. It was apparently due to this review he wrote on Kill Bill. The offending passage:

"Set aside what it says about Hollywood that today even Disney thinks what the public needs is ever-more-graphic depictions of killing the innocent as cool amusement. Disney's CEO, Michael Eisner, is Jewish; the chief of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, is Jewish. Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence. Does that make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else, by promoting for profit the adulation of violence? Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice. But history is hardly the only concern. Films made in Hollywood are now shown all over the world, to audiences that may not understand the dialogue or even look at the subtitles, but can't possibly miss the message--now Disney's message--that hearing the screams of the innocent is a really fun way to express yourself."

Easterbrook's comments/apology on this appear here (see 10/16/03 entry).

[I think we have Rush to thank for this, too. -CCPC]