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The wall street journal and joined me. I asked if he regretted the comparison. Yes. I talked to the head of the antidefamation league, this morning following up on a letter i sent over the weekend apologizing for the use of the word kristallnacht. It was a terrible word to have chosen. I like many have tried to understand the 20th century and the incomprehensible and evil of the holocaust. It cannot be explained, even to try to explain is questionable. It is wrong. It is evil. I used the word because during the occupy of San Francisco by the occupy wall street crowd, they broke the windows into the wells fargo bank. They marched up through our automobile strip. And they broke on the windows in the luxury car dealerships. I saw that and i remember the police stood by frozen. I said, well, this is how kristallnacht began. I do not necessarily need to read from this letter. If youre interested, i can. Well, i deeply apologize. This the letter i wrote to the antidefamation league. I apolog