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  • The GOP's Jewish Slur

    10/23/2009 1:07:07 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 43 replies · 1,811+ views
    The Daily Beast ^ | 10/21/09 | Peter Beinart
    The Anti-Defamation League is up in arms over two South Carolina Republicans’ revival of an old stereotype. Peter Beinart asks: Is calling Jews thrifty really so offensive? This week, in an act of vicious anti-Semitism, Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and James S. Ulmer, chairmen of the Bamberg County and Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Republican parties, respectively, co-authored an op-ed in which they accused Jews of taking good care of their money. “Jews who are wealthy,” they wrote, “got that way not by watching dollars but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves.” Then...
  • Barrett booed at Greenville Tea Party

    04/18/2009 2:12:42 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 12 replies · 1,274+ views
    Palmetto Scoop ^ | April 17, 2009
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  • [Mark] Sanford draws big ovation at Tax Day Tea Party

    04/16/2009 1:22:36 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 3 replies · 351+ views
    Gov. Mark Sanford drew the biggest ovation during the Columbia Tax Day Tea Party rally for his stance opposing $700 million in federal aid unless the state pays off an equal amount of debt. Organizer Britton Clark told the crowd "Thank God for officials like Gov. Mark Sanford," Clark said. "They have been reviled, they have been mocked by the media for doing the right thing."