Regarding the Easterbrook incident, as one of the bloggers who started the pebble rolling down the hill, no, it wasn't "one innocuous sentence."

Here's the full quote:

"Set aside what it says about Hollywood that today even Disney thinks what the public needs is ever-more-graphic depictions of killing the innocent as cool amusement. Disney's CEO, Michael Eisner, is Jewish; the chief of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, is Jewish. Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence. Does that make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else, by promoting for profit the adulation of violence? Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice. But history is hardly the only concern. Films made in Hollywood are now shown all over the world, to audiences that may not understand the dialogue or even look at the subtitles, but can't possibly miss the message--now Disney's message--that hearing the screams of the innocent is a really fun way to express yourself."

Setting aside the blaming of Jews for all the violence in Hollywood, and then relating it to real-world violence (Jews cause terrorism! See?), Easterbrook wasn't pilloried just for the above.

He was also dumb enough to slam his boss.

I am sorry he was fired, and never sought that. But he did far more than express one "innocuous" sentence about powerful Hollywood Jews.