One week after the full-page ad appeared in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal condemning Fox News for trafficking in offensive and inappropriate Nazi rhetoric, conservatives are still scrambling in an attempt to undercut Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), which sponsored the ad. It was an ad that featured the signatures of 400 rabbis who condemned Fox News.

The sweeping denunciation clearly touched a deep, right-wing nerve, since it prompted hysterical reactions like this one:

[T]he rabbis efforts brought shame upon themselves, their holy profession and the entire Jewish people.

A bit over the top, no? Or do rabbis no longer enjoy the freedom of speech if that speech includes criticizing Glenn Beck and Roger Ailes?

Now, the latest, heavy-handed attempt to undermine the JFSJ's actions are to claim that people and organizations involved in the full-page ad are voicing their disagreement and that there's dissension within the ranks.

From the site Yid With Lid:

Groups Whose Quotes Used by Soros Group to Attack Glenn Beck, Repudiate Anti-Beck Effort

And this [emphasis added]:

Over the past few days, three of the groups used to corroborate the false charges raised by Jewish Funds For Justice have repudiated the letter arraigned by the George Soros proxy. All three weren't contacted prior to the use of their names, disagreed with the thrust of the letter and were not happy that they were included. A fourth came out and said the letter was too one sided.

And...this is just dopey for the very simple reason that all the JFSJ did in its ad was reference public quotes attributed to the three Jewish organizations (the Anti-Defamation League, Commentary, and the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors). They are quotes critical of Beck's Nazi rhetoric.

From the JFJ ad:

Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, a child survivor of the Holocaust, described Beck's attack on George Soros as "not only offensive, but horrific, over-the-top, and out-of-line." Commentary magazine said that "Beck's denunciation of him [Soros] is marred by ignorance and offensive innuendo." Elan Steinberg, vice president of The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, called Mr. Beck's accusations "monstrous." Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, called them “beyond repugnant.” And Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University, says Beck is using traditional anti-Semitic imagery.

Those quotes are all on the record, and none of them are in question. Why would JFSJ need to 'contact' the groups before referencing their quotes? Why would JFsJ need to make sure the groups would be “happy” to be mentioned in the ad? It's absurd. The JFSJ never claimed the groups were sponsors in the ad in any way.

I suggest Beck and Fox News apologists who want to defend the channel's Nazi obsession come up with a better argument than this one.