You can disagree with McPeak but he is hardly an anti-semite. I’m sure half the people ready to call him an anti-semite are the same ones ready to give Ann Coulter and Mel Gibson the Victim of the Jewish Liberal Conspiracy card. There is no doubt Jews have a lot of influence in this country for such small numbers, due to organization, literacy and activism. And as a Jew I am proud of that. It’s only anti-semitic when you claim that the jews are running the country.
As far as labeling this comment goes:
““[I]t would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country,” which of course carried the clear implication that Obama doesn’t love his country and isn’t devoted to its interest. This may be low and disingenuous, but the word for it, as ever, is “Clintonian” not “McCarthyite.”
I would phrase it this way:
“This may be low and disingenuous, but the word for it, as ever, is “AM talk show neocon style” not “McCarthyite.”
