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How is it in this story radaronline.com totally overlooked Sheen’s “Hymie” remarks?
from www.radaronline.com – Charlie Sheen’s recent tirade against Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre was at the center of CBS and Warner Brothers shutting down the show for the rest of the season and his insistence on calling Lorre “Chaim Levine” has raised the issue of anti-semitism.
Charlie denies he is anti-semitic, pointing out that Lorre’s real name is Charles Levine and that Chaim is the Hebrew name for Charles. But his out-of-nowhere usage of the Hebrew name is raising questions and has prompted a response from the anti-defamation league.
“By invoking television producer Chuck Lorre’s Jewish name in the context of an angry tirade against him, Charlie Sheen left the impression that another reason for his dislike of Mr. Lorre is his Jewishness,” said ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman.
“This fact has no relevance to Mr. Sheen’s complaint or disagreement, and his words are at best bizarre, and at worst, borderline anti-Semitism.”
On Thursday, CBS and Warner Bros. suspended the Emmy Award-winning show in the wake of his radio rant during an interview with host Alex Jones which Sheen gave from the Bahamas while on holiday with Natalie Kenly and pornstar Bree Olson.
CBS and Warner Bros. released a statement, saying: “Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen’s statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Bros. Television have decided to discontinue production of Two And A Half Men for the remainder of the season.”
Production had already been halted last month when Sheen agreed to home rehab after he was rushed to the hospital after a days-long 36-hour cocaine and booze bender.
from www.hotair.com – I wasn’t going to write anything about Charlie Sheen’s career suicide this week, since I don’t watch Two and a Half Men or much episodic television at all these days. Sheen appeared on the Alex Jones radio show yesterday, not an unusual place for a Truther to make an appearance, and went on a bizarre-even-for-Sheen rant that included anti-Semitic comments about his show’s producer and co-creator, Chuck Lorre, calling him “Chaim Levine” (Levine is Lorre’s birth name). CBS responded by putting the show on hiatus the rest of the season, and probably won’t bring it back, at least not with Sheen.
When Mel Gibson made anti-Semitic remarks a few years ago, it became part of the running commentary at CNN on everything Gibson did.
CNN viewers must be a little confused if they don’t bother checking on the story elsewhere. The two hosts make it sound as though Sheen got fired (in practice if not in form) for merely being mean to his producer and to Alcoholics Anonymous.
ABC, in contrast, didn’t just mention the anti-Semitic remarks but led with them this morning:
Sheen addressed the suspension of the show in an open letter obtained by celebrity news website TMZ.
“What does this say about [anti-Semitic term referring to Lorre] after he tried to use his words to judge and attempt to degrade me,” Sheen wrote in the letter that came to light late Thursday. “I gracefully ignored this folly for 177 shows. …
But Sheen didn’t stop there and went on to call Lorre a “turd” and a “clown” and later used an anti-Semitic term while referring to Lorre’s name. Sheen said he is eager to get back to work, despite his escalating a public battle with the producers of the hit comedy.
Later, Sheen apparently challenged Lorre to a fight. Sheen said, “if he wins, then he can leave MY show,” according to TMZ.
Sheen told TMZ, ” I violently hate [anti-Semitic term referring to Lorre]. He’s a stupid, stupid little man and a … punk that I’d never want to be like.”
The anti-Semitism was hardly an accident, and it at least appears likely that it triggered the shutdown of the show as CBS needed to distance itself from it. So why did CNN not just avoid commenting on it, but cut the audio on the original show to keep the “Hymie Levine” part of Sheen’s remarks off the air? Given CNN’s handling of Gibson, it looks very strange indeed, and not accidental.
If nothing else, it’s worth noting that Rick Sanchez has been proven wrong.
Update: When I heard the audio last night at TMZ, I heard “Hymie,” not “Chaim”, but on a second listen, commenters are right in that he said (phonetically) “Hime”; “Chaim” is pronounced a little differently. At any rate, Chuck Lorre’s birth name is Charles Levine, not Chaim Levine, and he very clearly goes by Chuck. At any rate, a man who changed his name from Carlos Irwin Estevez has very little room in sneering at someone else’s choice to use a different name for professional reasons.