SF CHRON ACCUSES WHITE HOUSE OF ANTI-SEMITISM

WHAT A BUCKET OF HORSE MANURE. SAY WHATEVER ELSE YOU WANT ABOUT GEORGE BUSH, BUT HE HAS BEEN A STEADFAST FRIEND OF ISRAEL AND JEWS. MY GOODNESS, BUSH'S CHIEF OF STAFF IS JEWISH (NOT TO MENTION THE HEAD OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE).

Columnist: ‘New York Times’ code for ‘Jews’ (JTA)
A newspaper columnist said White House attacks on the New York Times were code for attacks on Jews. “Many members of the president’s base consider ‘New York’ to be a nifty code word for ‘Jewish,’ ” Jon Carroll wrote in Thursday’s San Francisco Chronicle. [ED. REALLY? WHO WOULD THAT BE?]

“It is very nice for the president to be able to campaign against the Jews without (a) actually saying the word ‘Jew’ and (b) without irritating the Israelis. A number of prominent Zionist groups think the New York Times is insufficiently anti-Palestinian, so they think the New York Times isn’t Jewish enough.” [ED. WELL, WHICH IS IT? DOES BUSH HATE THE JEWS OR IS HE BEING CONTROLLED BY "PROMINENT ZIONIST GROUPS?"]

Carroll said the attacks were an attempt to rally Bush’s Republican base.

The Republican Jewish Coalition called Carroll’s charges “reckless and irresponsible.” Bush has called “disgraceful” recent Times’ reports revealing anti-terrorist practices, including domestic wiretapping and secret monitoring of bank transactions. “This is not in any way having to do with an attack on the Jewish community,” the coalition’s executive director, Matt Brooks, told JTA.