More recent than the William Cash case was the excoriation in 2003 of liberal gentile pundit Gregg Easterbrook for one innocuous sentence about Jewish movie executives on his blog at The New Republic (that viciously anti-Semitic publication!). He was widely denounced for reviving the stereotype that Jews have a lot of power in Hollywood. Michael Eisner's Disney corporation immediately fired Easterbrook from his columnist job at ESPN.com and, in an amusingly Orwellian touch, deleted all his archives. Most commentators seemed to feel he had it coming. (Easterbrook finally got his football column back at ESPN a few years later, after Eisner lost power at Disney.)

Going farther back, in the 1990s there was the hilarious Marlon Brando brouhaha, in which Brando went on the Larry King show and argued that Jewish movie executives had done a good job of pushing civil rights in the early 1960s by casting blacks in unexpected roles, and that they should do the same for Latinos today. Brando was widely denounced for reviving the old stereotype that Jews had power in Hollywood. What does Marlon Brando know about Hollywood? was the general tenor of the denunciations. He had to make a ritual humiliation of himself at a Jewish institituon to save his career.