Bobby Fischer dead at 64
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:45 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/obitu ... yt&emc=rss
Probably the best Chess player ever. But the guy had gotten pretty nutso towards the end...
Edit: I found a video on Youtube of Bobby Fischer actually saying the quote attributed to him above...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4365506699
The rant starts at 1:44. What he actually says is...
“...where the country will be taken over by the military, they’ll close down all the synagogues, arrest all the Jews, execute hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders...”
Misquoting that one word "execute" as "secure" drastically reduces the vileness of the statement.
Probably the best Chess player ever. But the guy had gotten pretty nutso towards the end...
...and his mother was JewishIn 1999, in a series of telephone interviews he gave to a radio station in the Philippines, he rambled angrily and profanely about an international Jewish conspiracy, which he said was bent on destroying him personally and the world generally.
On Sept. 11, 2001, he told a radio talk-show host in Baguio, the Philippines, that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were ”wonderful news,” adding he was wishing for a scenario “where the country will be taken over by the military, they’ll close down all the synagogues, arrest all the Jews and secure hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders.”
Edit: I found a video on Youtube of Bobby Fischer actually saying the quote attributed to him above...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4365506699
The rant starts at 1:44. What he actually says is...
“...where the country will be taken over by the military, they’ll close down all the synagogues, arrest all the Jews, execute hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders...”
Misquoting that one word "execute" as "secure" drastically reduces the vileness of the statement.