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The Old Tone in Washington

Monday, September 23, 2002

• TITLE: "The Old Tone in Washington" Racial politics is never good for the system. Period.

• "... Kathleen Kennedy Townsend ..." Here's a link to the Washington Post piece on the consultant to Townsend.

• "... Ron Kirk ..." Here's a link to the Dallas Morning News piece on Ron Kirk's insertion of race into the U.S. Senate contest in Texas.

• " ... GOPAC ..." Here's the AP piece on the GOPAC ad which the Democrats think is reeeeeaaally bad.

• "... Jesse Jackson ..." Here's the Black Voices link to the Jesse Jackson position on Blacks and Jews.

• "... Hymietown ..." From Rod Dreher's National Review Online piece:

  Jackson's most notorious anti-Semitic comment came in 1984, during his first run for the presidency, when he made what he assumed was an off-the-record comment to a black reporter in which he called Jews "Hymies" and New York "Hymietown." He publicly apologized for that, and in ensuing years has made efforts to overcome Jewish mistrust of him and his motives. He has been largely excused by the media, even as Jackson insists that whites like the recently defeated Charles Pickering are unfit for government office because of racist views they might have held 40 years ago.

  
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•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  New Miss America, Ericka Harold,
  demonstrates the move which led
  her to her previous title,
  "Miss Volleyball Annual."

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