{"id":6354,"date":"2009-11-02T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T23:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2009-11-02T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T23:22:22","slug":"americas-next-top-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/americas-next-top-nazi\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Next Top Nazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forward.com\/sisterhood-blog\/118169\/\">this<\/a> isn&#8217;t the craziest thing you read today, then you must be scrubbing graffiti off the walls of a padded cell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the sixth season of the fashion reality show \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Project Runway\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is fast-approaching its climax, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become a running joke in my house that the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s host, German supermodel Heidi Klum, would have made a good Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an unfair comparison, to be sure, but the choice of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed German as host of this particular show was, for my sensibilities, an unfortunate one. It might not be so bad if Klum didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deliver these life-changing decisions with so much glee. Granted, no Nazi ever kissed a Jew on both cheeks after sending him or her to certain death, but most of the time Klum administers those kisses with as much feeling as a robot, and enunciates the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in tones that could send a frisson down the spine of even the most detached observer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_6359\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/klum_seal1.jpg\" alt=\"Aryan supermodel Heidi Klum with her husband\" title=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6359\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aryan supermodel Heidi Klum with her husband<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s from the <em>Forward<\/em>, one of the less berserk purveyors of reliably pro-Israel commentary in America. The author, Rebecca Honig Friedman, concludes the piece with a dash of <em>ha ha, this mannequin&#8217;s probably not going to commit genocide<\/em>, but I was stunned to find such weird prejudice and paranoia in a relatively vanilla venue. If the <em>Forward<\/em>&#8216;s contributors and readers are this terrified of the &#8220;entertainment&#8221; industry, then what are we to make of their views on Iran, the Palestinians, and \u00e2\u20ac\u201c brace yourselves for the frisson \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mearsheimer and Walt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this isn&#8217;t the craziest thing you read today, then you must be scrubbing graffiti off the walls of a padded cell: While the sixth season of the fashion reality show \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Project Runway\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is fast-approaching its climax, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become a running joke in my house that the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s host, German supermodel Heidi Klum, would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,38],"tags":[186,185],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-media","tag-heidi-klum","tag-nazis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}