“Domestic Goddess Hitler” eats a “Jew Cookie” fresh from the oven.

The director may have captured our cinematic imagination throughout most of the 70s and 80s, but the creator of “E.T.” has a dark, troubling side when it comes to personal politics. He is, after all, the Useful Idiot who had to be shamed out of putting a pretty face on one of the most oppressive governments in the history of mankind — he is, after all, the director of “Munich,” an exercise in moral equivalency and historical revisionism written by a screenwriter who, after claiming he wanted Israel to exist, said, “…the founding of the state of Israel was for the Jewish people an historical, moral, political calamity.”

Barr’s Jewish Cookies-In-The-Oven photo can be found in the latest issue of “Heeb” (which, if my third-grade, summer camp fat lip recalls correctly, is a slur), a publication ”backed financially by Steven Spielberg“. In fact, there might not have been a “Heeb” without him:

The magazine was criticized for such a controversial name mostly because The Joshua Venture, a non-profit group backed by Steven Spielberg, granted them $60,000 to start up a business.

Somehow it gets worse. Spielberg’s prodigy refuse to limit the hate to their own (something that used to be called “unacceptable prejudice”). In 2004, the magazine took a vicious swing at Christians with a photo spread depicting Christ and the Virgin Mary in such unspeakable ways the Anti-Defamation League felt compelled to speak out [emphasis added]:

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed outrage at a shocking parody in the winter 2004 issue of Heeb Magazine that plays on the recent controversy surrounding Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ.”  Among other destructive images, the magazine’s “Crimes of Passion” photo display portrays Jesus as a sex object with his genitalia wrapped in a Jewish prayer shawl.  The Virgin Mary is shown as a seductress with exposed breasts and body piercings. 

“Heeb Magazine’s irresponsible attempt at parody is deeply offensive and blasphemous to both Christians and Jews,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.  ”There is a point when parody crosses the line into tastelessness.  With this issue, Heeb not only crosses that boundary but engages in highly destructive anti-Christian themes that are both insensitive and ill-timed.”

To avoid honest work, somewhere along the line the lazy and untalented got away with calling “shocking” and “offensive” art, and this is where we find ourselves today.

The benefit, I guess, is an honest look at the Palace Guards of our culture. When the mask slips, our Spielbergs are a pretty ugly bunch.

Debbie Schlussel, who brought this to my attention, has more.