[Right Wing Professor]

Another thought: do you think Keillor's emphasizing that Coleman was from Brooklyn was meant (for Minnesota consumption) as a veild anti-Semitic comment?

Who knows? Clearly he's couched it in such terms as to make the accusation of antisemitism deniable, and I'd hate to go on the sort of witchhunt for 'code words' the left is so fond of. One of our African-American football players said the other day that the word 'thug' is racist when applied to the quite frequent antisocial behavior of him and his friends - amusing to anyone with even the slightest exposure to Indian history (or the Indiana Jones movies).

Antisemitism is alive and well out here on the prairie. One of our former Democratic governors' wives writes monthly letters to the newspapers attacking Israel, often in terms in which the antisemitism is scarcely veiled.

[NativeNewYorker]

One of our former Democratic governors' wives writes monthly letters to the newspapers attacking Israel, often in terms in which the antisemitism is scarcely veiled.

Would love to see you post one, if possible.

[CatoRenasci]

Indeed. I detest such witchhunts as well, but I have certainly heard midwesterners and westerners make cracks about "New Yorkers" where the they obviously meant Jews. I would imagine that outside of Minneapolis-St.Paul, Jews are pretty scarce on the ground in Minnesota.