Jonah's reader makes some great points over in the Corner, but it's more than reporters and bloggers making these insinuations. It's the Webb team itself.
Lowell Feld is Webb's [note: I accidentally wrote "Allen's" in the original post] paid "netroots coordinator".
Here's what he had to say on Allen and race:
Finally! I mean, seriously, how long does it take the supposedly "mainstream media" to pick up on evidence that a man who wants to be President is a racist?
And here's
Feld endorsing the idea that Allen is hiding Jewish roots to win votes:
Interesting comment on... (4.00 / 4)
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Daily Kos (bolding added for emphasis). Surely, Dick Wadhams and George Allen wouldn't stoop to this level, would they? Uhhh...would they? The one thing that seems overlooked in the Macaca episode is that, in between referring to Sidartha s Macaca, Allen said Webb was "meeting with Hollywood movie moguls!" Superficially, Allen was saying that Webb was meeting with people who are very different than the so-called "real" Virginians that Allen was addressing. If you think about it for a moment longer, you have to wonder whether Allen was deliberately choosing an example and language that white racists use as codespeak for rich Jews that supposedly control Hollywood, the media, and anything else worth controlling if you're part of some anti-white conspiracy. I have written about this numerous times — here, on my own blog, and on the Washington Post site (including letters to the editor — not published). I have always understood that it was known and accepted that Allen's mother came from a Jewish family. I am disturbed to learn that he is denying that part of his heritage , assuming that the research is accurate. I have stated that he is clearly pandering and catering to anti-semitic attitudes that he must believe his audience holds. If he is denying a family history just to preserve his his 'pure Christian' appeal, his conduct begins to look far darker and deliberate than I had suspected. By the way, I'm a Jew who went to law school in that part of Virginia. I have never felt like anyone there had a problem with me because of my heritage. I think Allen underestimates these people and overestimates their supposed anti-semitism.
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by: Lowell @ Sat Aug 26, 2006 at 15:30:28 PM MDT
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If Webb's campaign team believes these things, does Jim Webb? The easy way to end this it to have Jim Webb come out and answer two questions, 1. is George Allen a racist? and 2., Do you think George Allen is anti-Semitic? |
