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Anti-Semitism In Virginia Democratic Primary? (Another Dem sticks foot in mouth..)
Captain's Quarters Blog ^ | 6-10-06 | Captain Ed

Posted on 06/10/2006 9:54:59 AM PDT by Renfield

Forbes Magazine reported on a potentially explosive story when it relayed accusations that campaign material for James Webb used anti-Semitic imagery to combat his opponent in the upcoming Virginian Democratic primary for the Senate, Harris Miller. According to Forbes, the drawing used stereotypical cartoon images about Jews to show Harris as a greedy manipulator, charges that came from the Harris Miller campaign itself:

Senate candidate James H. Webb, President Reagan's former Navy secretary, was criticized by his Jewish opponent Friday over a campaign flier that depicted the opponent with a hooked nose and cash spilling from his pockets. The flier was intended for distribution among labor groups. It was titled "Miller the Job Killer," referring to Webb's opponent for the Democratic nomination in Tuesday's primary, businessman Harris Miller.

The flier, drawn in comic-book cartoon style, depicts Miller with a grotesquely hooked nose and cash overflowing from his suit pockets as he orders an underling to find ways to export U.S. jobs overseas. The flier refers to Miller as the "anti-Christ of outsourcing."

Miller called it "despicable."

"One of the things I hoped we would keep out of this campaign, because it has nothing to do with the campaign, is my religion and my background," Miller said.

(Excerpt) Read more at captainsquartersblog.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; miller; stupidity; virginia; webb
I'll just excerpt this here...be sure to go over to Captain's Quarters and explore the links that Captain Ed includes. I laughed my rear end off reading this one. It won't be long before the Democratic Underground folks are blaming Karl Rove for getting Jim Webb to run....
1 posted on 06/10/2006 9:55:01 AM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield
Link to the flyer mentioned:
http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/files/miller_flyer_color.pdf
2 posted on 06/10/2006 9:58:08 AM PDT by Renfield (If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
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To: Renfield

"accusations that campaign material for James Webb used anti-Semitic imagery"

I don't know what happened to Webb.

This guy had a distinguished service record in Vietnam as a Marine captain, was Secretary of the Navy to Reagan, wrote some of the very best war novels I've ever read, including THE classic on Vietnam, Fields of Fire, but another really great one about West Point that I read. Now he's running as a Democrat, trying to unseat George Allen, probably the best potential presidential candidate we have. And he prints something like this up for his campaign.


3 posted on 06/10/2006 10:10:37 AM PDT by strategofr (H-mentor:"pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it"Hillary's Secret War,Poe,p.198)
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To: strategofr

Maybe he's being paid to run by the Democrats.


4 posted on 06/10/2006 10:14:45 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: Suzy Quzy

"Maybe he's being paid to run by the Democrats."

Don't know.


5 posted on 06/10/2006 10:15:50 AM PDT by strategofr (H-mentor:"pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it"Hillary's Secret War,Poe,p.198)
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To: Renfield

From that pdf file, look at the man standing in the upper right hand frame. What historical figure comes to mind?
;)

http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/files/miller_flyer_color.pdf


6 posted on 06/10/2006 10:29:48 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = begin with the end in mind)
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To: bwteim

Oh brother! So now you're claiming that they've intentionally made the man to resemble Schicklgruber?


7 posted on 06/10/2006 10:36:45 AM PDT by jla
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To: jla; Renfield

Of course not - but you came up with a name ;)
shows you the power of suggestion....


8 posted on 06/10/2006 10:43:14 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = begin with the end in mind)
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