Just when you thought you couldn’t find a Jewish pundit more and blind to the danger getting into bed with right-wing populists than Ben Shapiro, we have this guy. As deluded as he is, I doubt that little Ben would have hung about with the likes of Pat Buchanan and Richard Spencer and Tom Tancredo to advance his career.
Kapos like Epstein and Shapiro foolishly believe they’re such brilliant debaters that in the end they’ll finally convince their fascist allies that Jews (or at least “the good ones”) are white. Of course, it never works out that way.
The WSJ op-ed page has been a right-wing loony bin for decades, so the choice to publish someone with his CV and slimy associates is a typical one. Forbes.com, meanwhile, is as much a borderline content farm/vanity press these days as it is a business magazine:
Forbes.com - although a branch of the Forbes magazine, its website also contains articles by paid “contributors”—similar to a content farm (see below). However, in contrast to sites like Examiner.com, its authors are professionally vetted and, in most cases, may have credentials that allow the specific author to qualify under the self-published source criteria (established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications, but must never be used as third-party citations on statements relating to living persons).
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In both cases, Epstein is basically riding established brands by exploiting holes that allow dodgy characters like him to slither in. It’s a kind of media privilege-escalation hack.
