Also, I suppose, unfortunately, religion has to come into this thing, although, good lord, I wish it didn’t. Also the fact that Jack obviously is Jewish, so am I, and so were his two competitors, and Jack is—I don’t know how to word this—militantly Jewish. In other words, he is going to make an issue of this. He thought it was terrible that Jewish people should show such disrespect.
Mr. Griffin. Did he specifically mention this Jewish aspect?
Mr. Meyers. He didn’t specifically mention it but, Mr. Griffin, it is a difficult thing to say, but in my understanding of Jack, this is what I assumed he was talking about.
Mr. Griffin. What was it that he said that led you to think he had some reference to the fact——
Mr. Meyers. Well, “these poor people, and wasn’t it”—you see, you are putting words in my mouth now.
Mr. Griffin. I don’t want to do that.
Mr. Meyers. I am putting words in my own mouth actually. He had many times intimated to me or indicated to me that it was a damn shame, to use his words, that his competitors were such money hungry Jews, and, of course, we could get into quite a discussion about technicalities in this and feelings in this matter, and I of course—you see, my background and Jack’s is so completely different. It is so difficult for me to sometimes see his way of thinking. Do you follow what I am trying to say?
Some things that Jack said I would have sympathized with him. Other things that he said I might have sympathized with him but certainly not like the way he said it. Do I make myself clear? There were just, in other words, just as many money hungry Christians as there are Jews.
Mr. Griffin. Is this opinion that you are giving us, that Jack was upset about the Weinsteins being open, in part because they were Jewish, is this an opinion which you had at the time that you talked with Jack that night or is that one that you formed later on after reading——
Mr. Meyers. No, no; that is an opinion I had that night when I first thought that he was talking about the Weinsteins.