George Allen: Dirty Religious Politics Erupt in Virginia
I am no great fan of Senator Allen, who I personally believe is not ready for prime time, but what is being done to him in the final weeks of his re-election campaign in Virginia seems pretty despicable to me. There's a lot going on; here's just a snippet from Opinion Journal's Political Diary (a subscription service):
Another issue of timing is raised by an interview with Eve Kessler, author of the Jewish Forward article last month that detailed Senator Allen's Jewish ancestry, a secret kept by his mother. Ms. Kessler told the Columbia Journalism Review this week that she "learned about it probably more than a year ago, so I knew about it and had done this research long before the 'macaca' episode." She went on to say she waited to run the piece until a time it was "going to become relevant." That sounds like journalism-speak for "most damaging."
Indeed.
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