As we noted yesterday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced an attack piece on internet commenters recently, singling out Tim Blair’s blog and several Australian newspaper web sites for special attention. Tim’s reply is a must-read.

Now the Daily Telegraph fights back too, taking a look at some of the sick antisemitic and pro-jihad comments that are posted at ABC’s Media Watch web site: Media Watch fails racism test.

THE ABC’s Media Watch is fighting claims of hypocrisy after its website published anti-Semitic comments mocking the Holocaust and claiming a Jewish conspiracy.

The comments were published a day after the taxpayer-funded media watchdog accused news outlets including The Daily Telegraph of publishing racist reader comments on their websites.

In a major embarrassment, the program is accused of the same conduct and faces attack from Jewish leaders and federal Labor MP Michael Danby after its viewers suggested “Zionist groups” had taken over the ABC.

“ABC is starting to show a disproportionate number of Jews in the places of power in the ABC,” one viewer said on the Media Watch website. “The only understanding I can make is that Media Watch carries the torch for Globalism and maybe even Zionist groups as they are known to push Hate Speech laws so they can’t be questioned themselves in crime.”

Media Watch also willingly published comments by another viewer slamming media outlets for the “vilification of Muslims” and claiming Islamic Australians were being treated in the same way as the Jews in Nazi Germany.

“The Muslims are used as scapegoats domestically, and internationally to defend the crime of the war in Iraq. They serve the same purpose as the Jews of Hitler’s Third Reich,” the post said.

The comments were posted the day after the show took aim at The Daily Telegraph by gathering a tiny sample of racist reader comments, posted over an extended period, and holding them up as indicative of the site’s content.

This is exactly the technique used by Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post against LGF—and it backfired in exactly the same way: The Beam in the Washington Post’s Eye.