The
Video Norman Lear Doesn't Want You To See!
Most Americans are now aware that the
Hollywood TV and movie industries are intent on pushing sex and violence
on the American people. Scholarly studies such as the famous
Lichter-Rothmann polls have shown conclusively that the great majority
of media producers and directors favor the left wing, humanistic agenda
and oppose Christian values.
When most Americans think of the one producer who has done more to
"push the limits" of anti-Christian and anti-patriotic television, the
name Norman Lear first comes to mind. Through such TV sitcoms as
"Soap" Norman Lear has thrust profanity, adultery, even homosexuality
into the living rooms of Americans as never before.
 Yet Lear is
not content merely to broadcast his smut. Nearly a decade ago he founded a
political organization called "People for the American Way" (PAW) to
help beat back the forces of decency which oppose him. PAW, with 275,000
members has become the most outspoken antagonist of Christian patriotic
values this nation has ever seen, rivaled only by the ACLU.
As an ultra liberal "civil liberties" group, PAW stands up for
gays, abortionists, and the right to burn the flag. It ridicules
Christian, conservative values like prayer in the schools, Biblical
creationism, and a baby's right to be born without first encountering a
suction tube or forceps.
PAW has attacked many "new right" televangelists including
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, videotaping the TV programs of such
Christian leaders in hopes of ruining their ministries.
But now "People for the American Way" has a new enemy, an enemy
so threatening that on May 11, 1989 they issued a special 3-page press
release from Washington, D.C. alerting Americans to beware of the
enticements of its message.
 New Enemy
For Norman Lear
That
enemy is Ted Pike and his 60-minute video, "The Other Israel", which
PAW describes as "particularly dangerous." Why so dangerous? Because
"The Other Israel" exposes the real masters behind communism,
liberalism, and media control in such a devastating manner that PAW also
feels threatened. For the last year, while thousands of copies of "The
Other Israel" have sold, opening the eyes of tens of thousands, PAW has
given it the "silent treatment," hoping it would fade away. To the
contrary, it continues to sell rapidly, largely through word of mouth.
This video flourishes because it confirms with irrefutable documentation
what thinking Americans already suspect. That an elite of "insiders"
in the mass media are consciously working to move America away from its
Christian roots toward the humanistic values of a "new order."
This is why PAW is determined to prejudice you against seeing this
video. To do that it is taking drastic measures to ruin the reputation of
Christian author and filmmaker, Ted Pike. In PAW's recent press release
it brought out its big guns by calling Pike "anti-Semitic" - an
accusation which is the "kiss of death" to the career of any public
person.
Is
it "anti-Semitic" to protest Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians?
No
Quarrel with the Jewish People
Yet Ted Pike rejects their smear tactics: "I have no quarrel with
the Jewish people, a gifted race which has contributed to human progress
in countless ways. I am concerned with the behavior of certain Jews in
high places.
 "I condemn the behavior of Israeli leadership which has
encouraged the breaking of bones of Palestinian youths. I protest the
behavior of the Jewish owners of MCA-Universal who blaspheme my Savior
through the movie The Last Temptation of Christ. I object to the behavior
of a monopoly of Jews who have founded and controlled the big three
television networks, manipulating the news and polluting the American mind
through sex and violence.
"And I object to the behavior of certain Jewish groups which
smear me as "anti-Semitic" merely for quoting in context from
Judaism's most authoritative religious, cultural, and historical
sources. I have spent many years studying the three major Jewish
encyclopedias of this century, as well as the vast, rambling Talmud,
and the mystical Zohar or
Kabbalah. Both my book and video are compendiums of such Jewish sources,
simply relaying to the outside world what many Jews believe privately."
Your
Right to Know
Pike continues: "Since Israel receives an average of three
billion dollars annually from American taxpayers, and since the behavior
of Israel in the Middle East could trigger a mid-East war, I believe that
Americans have a right to know all the facts concerning Jewish attitudes
and ambitions. Israel is in the public domain. And Americans have a right
to know every fact relevant to their investment in the cause of Israel
without being hysterically smeared "anti-Semitic" as soon as their
quest for truth goes a little deeper than the Jews feel comfortable
with.
"Such inquiry is the task of my researches, undertaken in a
spirit of moderation and respect for much that is good in Jewish thought
and culture. As a Christian, I bear only good will toward individual Jews,
most of whom are innocent of the misdeeds of a minority. Because my
concern is primarily against evil systems, and not individuals, I utterly
reject the notion that I have anything against my fellow human being,
the Jew."
Who
Is Right?
Is "People for the American Way" accurate in its description of
Pike and his video as "blatantly and repugnantly anti-Semitic"? Most
Americans who see the video have the opposite response. A recent letter to
the National Prayer Network from a professor at one of America's largest
and most prestigious universities is typical: "I have just viewed "The
Other Israel" - a most impressive and professional work. I want to
commend you on your sublime treatment of an issue, which could easily
become heated with emotion. I am now anxious to read Ted Pike's book,
which I understand contains full documentation for the video.'
The book this professor refers to is Israel: Our Duty... Our
Dilemma, Ted Pike's easy-to-read, yet exhaustively documented paperback
on the history of Israel, past, present and future. Now ordered by more
than 18,000 pastors in America, Dr. Everett Sileven, defender of liberty
in Nebraska, sums up what thousands have felt: "This is the one book
every Christian should read."
Don't let Norman Lear and "People for the American Way" make
up your mind on this crucial issue. Discover for yourself why Ted Pike's
video and book have become "too hot to handle" for those who would
like to control what you read and see.
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