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(Vote for the Combat Clothes, NOT the Hook Nose!) Today's Virginia Democratic Primary Gets Nasty
Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star ^ | 6.8.06 | Edie Gross

Posted on 06/13/2006 10:37:41 AM PDT by meandog

The flier put out by Jim Webb's campaign for U.S. Senate described his opponent as a corporate lobbyist who made money by sending American jobs overseas.

But what caught Dan Smolen's attention was the cartoon that accompanied the text: That of a man with a hook nose and money spilling from his pockets.

It was a caricature of Harris Miller, Webb's opponent in Tuesday's Democratic primary who happens to be Jewish.

The image made Smolen, who is Jewish and Stafford County's Democratic chairman, uncomfortable.

"I don't think whoever did the cartoon caricature meant this as an ethnic slur," he said, "but the effect of it was very troubling."


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; cartoons; democrats; dirtytricks; harrismiller; jew; miller; propaganda; racism; rattricks; smearcampaign; stereotypes; webb

Webb campaign highlights fact that Miller is a Jew...(whisper campaign goes: Vote for the new boy, not the Jew boy)

1 posted on 06/13/2006 10:37:46 AM PDT by meandog
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To: meandog

I am not Jewish, but OY!


2 posted on 06/13/2006 10:40:10 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: meandog
Does anybody have access to the "national socialist party of Hitler" Jewish cartoons?
3 posted on 06/13/2006 10:41:17 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: meandog

So, describing a hook-nosed person as "hook-nosed" is somehow a racial slur???

SOMEbody needs to get a little bit thicker skin!


4 posted on 06/13/2006 10:43:51 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: meandog
Caricatures are never flattering. I could find a caricature of Elvis Presley with a hook nose, too.

It does sound like it's getting nasty, though.

5 posted on 06/13/2006 10:43:53 AM PDT by TNdandelion
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To: Redbob

Or a rhinoplasty...


6 posted on 06/13/2006 10:44:29 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: meandog

I saw Webb's response to this on TV. Says it's not anti-Semitic in his opinion. So it looks like he stands by it.


7 posted on 06/13/2006 10:45:03 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

I am voting for a dem today(UGH) to ensure the traitor Webb is not elected and then of course will vote for my guy Allen in Nov.


8 posted on 06/13/2006 10:47:25 AM PDT by dubyawhoiluv
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To: Brilliant

Does he smoke cigars and have cash sticking out of his pockets?


9 posted on 06/13/2006 10:48:15 AM PDT by weegee ("Hitler dead in bunker by own hand, war rages on")
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To: meandog
"I don't think whoever did the cartoon caricature meant this as an ethnic slur," he said...

Uhhhh?? Then WHAT exactly was meant by it?

10 posted on 06/13/2006 10:51:18 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (Freerepublic - The website where "Freepers" is not in the spell checker dictionary...)
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To: meandog
Oh, for Ghu's sake, here's what the man actually looks like:

(Full Article link to verify identification.)

This accusation that an accurate (both physically and politically) caricature represents "an anti-Semitic stereotype" is dirty pool even by 'Rat standards.

11 posted on 06/13/2006 10:51:33 AM PDT by steve-b (Hoover Dam is every bit as "natural" as a beaver dam.)
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"Oh, for Ghu's sake, here's what the man actually looks like: "

Looks like the cantor at my temple.


12 posted on 06/13/2006 10:57:09 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats - The reason we need term limits)
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To: Brilliant
I saw Webb's response to this on TV. Says it's not anti-Semitic in his opinion. So it looks like he stands by it.

I'm surprised that Webb didn't feature Miller with a yarmulke...he's definitely not derided his minions from publishing Miller's faith.

13 posted on 06/13/2006 11:05:14 AM PDT by meandog (If I were to draw the odious Islamic prophet Muhammad, he would have horns, a tail, and a pitchfork!)
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To: meandog
The problem with people getting offended is that the caricature looks almost exactly like the guy.

The reporters are writing this story like they made this guy look like the Jews in posters the Nazi's used. (where the drawings really were offensive. )
14 posted on 06/13/2006 11:07:21 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Lx

Vote for the weaker candidate, Miller, today, NOT the traitor, Jim Webb.

Then tomorrow, we begin the George Allen campaign FULL SPEED AHEAD.


15 posted on 06/13/2006 11:37:41 AM PDT by Gopher Broke (I would rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Teddy Kennedy)
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To: Redbob

you Bob Hope-a-phobe you


16 posted on 06/13/2006 11:38:55 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: meandog

WTF?!?!??! It looks like him. If the dems want to cry, complain about cartoons of W looking like a monkey. But wait, they are hypocrites.


17 posted on 06/13/2006 12:22:58 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: Brilliant

I used to like Webb, but now I hope he loses.

Semper Fi,


18 posted on 06/13/2006 2:11:47 PM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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