god bless sports radio

Last week local sports radio muckraker Angelo Cataldi, after hearing of the food policy at the Eagles' new football stadium, said that he expected the security guards to be wearing swastikas. For his comments Cataldi was suspended by the station for two days.

I'm not really surprised that he said something like that. Cataldi's always been a crass bozo. He tends to talk about women (particularly scantily clad ones) as much as sports. Hyperbole is his schtick.

What's really been bothering me is how every article I've read about this references the fact that both Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and president Joe Banner are Jewish, as if comparing the Holocaust to keeping Eagles fans from their hoagies is something that only offends Jews. Listen. When you make light of an atrocity like the Holocaust, it's offensive to all segments of the population, not just one that was particularly hard hit by it. To suggest otherwise is to set off the Holocaust as an aspect of Jewish history rather than an event that needs to be remembered by all.