Arkansas GOP Senate Candidate Apologizes For Calling Schumer "That Jew"
Arkansas state Sen. Kim Hendren, who is currently the only announced Republican candidate for U.S. Senator against Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln in 2010, has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as "that Jew," at a county Republican meeting last week.
"I don't use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month," Hendren told Arkansas blogger Jason Tolbert.
"At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on 'The Andy Griffith Show,'" he explained. "I made the mistake of referring to Sen. Schumer as 'that Jew' and I should not have put it that way as this took away from what I was trying to say."
Late Update: Hendren gave a further apology to the Associated Press. "When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn't because I don't like Jewish people," he said. He also added: "I shouldn't have gotten into this Jewish business because it distracts from the issue."
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May 14, 2009 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
The values Sheriff Taylor embodied were kindness, patience, Christian mercy, tolerance, love of family, civic responsibility, honesty, integrity, moderation ... Abe Lincoln values for the Viet Nam era.
How a Repug can claim to embrace (much less embody) the values of the "sheriff without a gun" in this political climate -- while referring to a sitting US Senator as "that Jew" -- is absurd.
Aunt B would take a switch to his backside!
May 14, 2009 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Christian mercy? You are Hallucinating! Must you include religion in your arguments? You lose all credibility by doing so.
May 14, 2009 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure why I might have had any credibility to begin with, I'm just a dork commenting at TPM like anybody else!
Seems to me Sheriff Taylor was a churchgoing man, pretty sure he was a Christian. Never heard him call anybody "that Jew." Maybe people talk like that up in Mount Pilot, but not in Mayberry.
People of faith can be credible. Obama's a believer I think, and I have a lot of respect for him (see my icon).
I'm a Jew myself.
May 15, 2009 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
To ManOutOfTime: Why must you use names like "Repug"? It's childish and mean-spirited, and invites similar name-calling from Republicans.
I left the Democratic party in part because so many in the party speak as you do. I'm embarassed that a fellow Jew uses such terms.
Please, grow up.
May 15, 2009 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
BallToad, if cared at all about name calling you'd have nothing to do with the GOP and you certainly wouldn't be concerned about the term "Repug."
If you want to pick on somebody, go pick on KKKim Hendron.
And yeah, right: you're a former Dem and you left because of OUR name-calling? I don't believe that for a minute. I think you are what the kids call a "concern troll." Oh, my, if we Dems would just be submissive little sweetie pies and stop being mean to poor old Rush Limbaugh and anti-Semite pigs like this idiot Hendron, maybe the GOP would stop calling us names.
Whatever.
May 15, 2009 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, BallToad, I just realized I mixed up my argument a little: if you cared about name-calling you wouldn't associate with the GOP; if you were a former Dem, you wouldn't be bothered by term "Repug," which is a relatively mild slur as these things go.
I certainly would not call Colin Powell, Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Snowe, Ron Paul, or Schwarzeneggar repugnant. Is Bruce Willis still a Republican? I like him.
In KKKim's case, though, repugnant is an apt description, hence Repug.
May 15, 2009 6:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Strange, I just left the Republican Party and re-registered as a Democrat for that very reason. The obvious racism of so many Republicans. People are free to say what they want, but if they want my support of even if the party wants my vote, they have to be Christian in their treatment of others. Racist remarks are just plain racism and nasty racial cracks like this guy made come out of the heart of a racist or someone who had no decent rearing. With those sorts of comments coming from Republicans like him, we can be assured that Republicans will be out of power for years and years because, alas, the racist era in our country is behind us as demonstrated by the landslide win of Obama, our wonderful newly elected President.
May 19, 2009 1:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Really, this guys BIGGEST problem is that he is an anti-Semite. He should never be allowed within miles of the U. S. Senate. We already have enough racists there now. Let us not increase their number. I am certain the good people of Arkansas will defeat this racist and select a Republican who is an even handed candidate that can be a great supporter of their state. Hmmm, is there such a Republican in all of Arkansas?
May 15, 2009 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's obvious that disparaging remarks to belittle and destory another person who, unlike you does not make any mistakes, said the wrong thing.
The guy mispeaks, again something that you don't do, and inserted his foot. Now he is a racist! At least your true colors come out.
May 16, 2009 1:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's obvious that disparaging remarks to belittle and destory another person who, unlike you does not make any mistakes, said the wrong thing.
The guy mispeaks, again something that you don't do, and inserted his foot. Now he is a racist! At least your true colors come out.
May 16, 2009 1:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I don't use a teleprompter..."
You might consider changing that policy, you yee-haw cracker head. And get keep your hands off your sister's drawers.
Woops, I guess I need a teleprompter too.
May 14, 2009 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your comments belong in an outhouse! Hrumph!
:)
May 14, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
For Hendren, the truth is like a local wedding... it's all relative.
May 14, 2009 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Andy Griffith? Really? Well I guess he'll get the over 80 set to vote for him at least...
May 14, 2009 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Andy Griffith should kick that guy's ass for associating himself with that show.
May 14, 2009 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
This joker's father IS his mother.
May 14, 2009 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Kim" is a man? A cave man to be sure.
May 14, 2009 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
The rumor I'm hearing is Hendren doesn't just have a shoe fetish, she actually enjoys eating them. I heard she was treated by a doctor who warned her of the toxins in the dye after ingesting a pair of black leather pumps. How long can she keep this aberrant behavior hidden from the public?
May 14, 2009 12:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean "he".
May 14, 2009 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You shouldn't need a teleprompter to prevent you from making a dumb ass remark like that. He's making a faux apology to Schumer while taking a jab at Obama - very classy.
May 14, 2009 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
To the Jew-haters in his constituency (and by extension, also the Yankee-haters as it's also all about the despised NY and Jews symbolize the place for these yahoos), this is two-fer:
He appeals to them by being so obtuse as to pronounce the slur, then reminds everyone he was so obtuse in his phony, pro-forma "apology." More informally, he and his agents will be snickering along with such people.
May 14, 2009 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kim Hendren; "Harumph, why kikes and darkies are among some of mah best friends!"
May 14, 2009 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
This just in, he's apparently a crossdressing shoe eater too.
May 14, 2009 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
ROTFLMAO!
May 14, 2009 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who needs a teleprompter to avoid revealing bigotry? Only bigots.
May 14, 2009 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Plus, it's hard to read a teleprompter through the eye-holes of a sheet.
May 14, 2009 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was hilarious!
May 15, 2009 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I didn't mean to sleep with your sister. I guess I never should have gone off the teleprompter."
May 14, 2009 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a complete jackass for the teleprompter statement, in any case.
May 14, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bruno2 is a jackass!!!!
May 14, 2009 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Klondike Barbie always used a teleprompter, and that didn't turn out too well.
May 15, 2009 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
I checked the link to make sure Eric didn't leave anything out of his write-up, but I am just not seeing any kind of "apology" in Hendren's statements. Saying you "made a mistake" by saying something is NOT an apology. I think we have our first major "macaca moment" of the 2010 campaign and Hendren rather than stopping the bleeding by issuing a clear, full-throated apology (perhaps with a cessation of campaign activities for a week while he contemplates the impact of the statement - and maybe a $10k donation to the ADL), he is just trying to spin this as a misstatement.
In 2009 this should not be acceptable speech by anyone seeking Federal office. If Blanche Lincoln supported EFCA I'd be on her website making a donation right now.
May 14, 2009 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's another story http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_05_14_GOP_Senate_candidate_referred_to_NY_Sen__Schumer_as_%E2%80%98that_Jew_/ with excerpts from what seems to be another statement or interview on the matter. Yet again, no apology - just "regrets" that he said it (which doesn't exactly admit to, though he does acknowledge noting Schumer is Jewish). Expressing regrets about the impact the statement had on YOUR campaign, is NOT an apology.
And here another blogger http://arkansasnews.com/2009/05/14/kim-implodes-gilbert-gilbert/ has interviewed Hendren and again his statements seem more along the lines of regret that he made the statement, not an apology - though he does throw in a kind "some of my best friends are Jewish" line (he includes Jesus - I am NOT kidding), and an inexplicable reference to Carrie Prejean (WTF?).
May 14, 2009 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Saying you're sorry that Schumer is Jewish isn't quite the apology that would be appropriate in this situation.
May 14, 2009 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I don't use a teleprompter and occasionally I forget that I'm not surrounded by my Klan brothers."
May 14, 2009 1:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
And, you know, those Klan brothers are really OK guys except when they smoke dope. Jeff Sessions told me so.
I love it when these guys let the mask slip.
May 14, 2009 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Burn crosses, not weed!
(as another commenter said).
May 14, 2009 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans apologizing to Democrats? What?
Does this mean that Chuck Schumer is the new de facto head of the GOP?
May 14, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Goober.
May 14, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Republican grass roots at it's finest! We have all seen what it is like to let these brain dead rednecks run this country into the ground, and we can never allow Republicans to run anything here again. They are the party of stupid bigots, greedy corporations, and religious fanatics.
May 14, 2009 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Kim Hendren should start up a club with George Allen. And they could bring in that guy during the presidential campaign who kept using Obama's middle name during a speech at a rally.
May 14, 2009 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
And what is it about television progams with these guys? 24, Andy Griffith, Mama's House...
They think they're real.
May 14, 2009 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
You raise an interesting point. He may not be able to distinguish fiction for reality but maybe we should give Gingrich some credit for voluntary exercising his literacy. No wonder he's floating to the top of the current GOP.
Oh wait. Forgot about Palin practicing her love for newspapers.
May 14, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gingrich may be 'rising' but isn't because he is cream; turds rise and float too.
May 14, 2009 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't Hemingway write a book about that? The Scum Also Rises?
May 14, 2009 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Doesn't sound much like an apology to me.
May 14, 2009 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah yes, what a different century, the 20th, had Hitler a teleprompter.
May 14, 2009 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, I think Hendren is unusually enlightened... he could have referred to Schumer as "that Christ-killer."
May 14, 2009 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I believe that all these comments that imply that Sen. Hendren is a cracker or a woodchuck or a backwoods mouth-breather or a good old-fashioned southern bigot who was taught this vile by his ancestors and is passing this vile on to his children for them to pass on to their children, are extremely unfair. Sen. Hendren is a member of the RealRepublicanMajority which has as one of its stated goals the pursuit of "tolerance not bigotry." See, this fair-minded white man is willing to tolerate black people (and I assume other minorities as well). We should embrace this man's level of tolerance, not eschew it! Right?
Or, is that the message of Attorney General Holder; that we should no longer be speaking of mere tolerance of others but rather knowing and willing acceptance of each other as equals. The mere suggestion that someone is willing to tolerate me even though I am not identical to that person is so extremely offensive.
May 14, 2009 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Chris, wake up man, will you? He's "willing to tolerate black people"? What does that mean? He's willing to tolerate using the same bathroom/bus/eatery? Just not as a neighbor, right? Listen, this "slip" is just what it seems, a view of what this guy really thinks of Jews, blacks or anyone not considered "traditional" (whatever the fuck that means).
Your post seems to be saying, hey he's not so bad because he said "that Jew" instead of that "kike"! Grow up! He is everything he's been accused of here and more. As for being a "real republican", on that we actually agree!!!
May 14, 2009 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
You might want to tune your snark meter.
May 14, 2009 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
If might help if you read the last line of his post which says: "The mere suggestion that someone is willing to tolerate me even though I am not identical to that person is so extremely offensive."
Get it.
May 14, 2009 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Everyone knows that the "Judeo-" in "Judeo-Christian" means that Jews don't have traditions or traditional values.
May 14, 2009 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I actually think there were some pretty good values on The Andy Griffith Show--friendship, tolerance, respect for others, and everything leavened with gentle humor--it's a great show.
It was created by Sheldon Leonard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Leonard
So who's going to break it to Hendren that "God Bless America" was written by 'that Jew' Irving Berlin?
May 14, 2009 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to mention "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade"!
May 18, 2009 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I made the mistake of referring to Sen. Schumer as 'that Jew' and I should not have put it that way as this took away from what I was trying to say."
He's not sorry he said it, he's not saying he didn't mean it, he's just sorry that, by saying it, it took away from what he was trying to say.
Which was that he's a traditional values/Andy Griffith kinda guy and Mayberry didn't have no Librul Jews ruinin' the place.
Sounds like the perfect GNOP candidate.
PEACE
May 14, 2009 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
But again, a Librul Jew WAS running the place. The showrunner/creator of The Andy Griffith Show was Jewish. It was a spin-off of another Sheldon Leonard sitcom starring Danny Thomas. Who was not Jewish, of course. But how much you want to bet Hendren thinks he is?
May 14, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's glad he said it. Dog-whistling. He's real glad he got the opportunity to apologize and then pointedly decline to do so. Could be headed to Washington.
May 14, 2009 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is revealing that, when a Republican talks about "traditional values," he has to cite a make-believe fantasy television show, since that's the only place his "traditional values" ever existed.
Traditional "values" in this country include slavery, genocide of the indigenous population, women being forbidden to vote, red baiting, enforced conformity, anti-miscegenation laws, anti-"sodomy" laws, bluenose censorship, prohibition, and the compulsion to inflict 2,000 year old religious superstitions and taboos on the general public.
Both the Old and New Testaments support everything from witch burning to slavery to polygamy. Traditional values, my ass.
All things considered, I'm all for tossing "traditional" values over the side as fast as I can, and substituting enlightened 21st Century values.
May 14, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's telling is that he doesn't even understand the TV show he's referring to, or realize that it doesn't support his values, and was created by a Jewish American, or that Griffith and Ron Howard openly supported Obama.
May 14, 2009 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ron Howard was recently interviewed by Bill Maher. Among other things, talked about Andy Griffith, who usually was reserved about his politics, collaborated on the video they did as an endorsement for Obama. I think he mentioned Griffith being a lifelong Dem.
Referring to other's religon in a derogatory fashion, while it may be a "traditonal value" in certain parts, it's not a good value.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgbvIasKUA
May 14, 2009 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
This assclown knows Andy Griffith is a Democrat, right? Did he miss the video Andy and Ron Howard made for Obama?
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d/ron-howards-call-to-action-from-ron-howard-and-henry-winkler
May 14, 2009 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to party with Otis and Ernest T. Bass.
May 14, 2009 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even in his apology he had to give a shout out dig to Rush and Co with the "I don't use a teleprompter" quip. That was a plea for help from El Rushbo.
May 14, 2009 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
He would have been much better off calling Obama "that Muslim." It is far more socially acceptable.
May 14, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like it was made for Jon Stewart.
May 14, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well you know what the say "If the Jew fits".
I wonder how many here were as outraged when Hilton and the other lefties were calling Prejean a bigot and all kinds of hateful things. How many condemned Churchill for calling the 911 fatalities "little ikeman”? How many condemned Garofalo, and Oberrman for calling the Tea party protesters bigots and teabaggers, and on and on and on…..
I bet none or very few. So, I see inconsistencies here at best and at worst hypocrites.
One little two little three little Jew boys……
May 14, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just to point out, the tea party people called themselves teabaggers first. You can't blame liberals for pointing out conservatives' slipups. I don't recall anyone calling them bigots either, just morons, which is entirely appropriate (much like your handle).
May 14, 2009 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder how many here were as outraged when Hilton and the other lefties were calling Prejean a bigot and all kinds of hateful things.
Why should I be outraged? Prejean is a bigot.
How many condemned Churchill for calling the 911 fatalities "little ikeman”?
Ward Churchill was condemned, you moron. And fired. And it's "Eichmann". What are you drinking?
How many condemned Garofalo, and Oberrman for calling the Tea party protesters bigots and teabaggers, and on and on and on…..
Geebus, J_S, they called themselves teabaggers. And if you paid attention, Garofalo specifically pointed out racist posters they were carrying. I axe ya again, what are you drinking?
I bet none or very few. So, I see inconsistencies here at best and at worst hypocrites.
Not inconsistent, and not hypocrisy.
May 14, 2009 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Prejean is more homophobe than bigot... and Hendren, though possibly a homophobe too, is likely an anti-semite. Of course if he's a homophobe and anti-semite...he's moving into bigot country. Oops...Arkansas...already lives there.
May 14, 2009 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jack! As in you don't know....!
May 14, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Well you know what the say "If the Jew fits"[...]
One little two little three little Jew boys…… "
Very clever. I just reported you for abuse. You need to be banned from here
May 15, 2009 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new South." "You know... morons."
with apologies to Mel Brookes
May 14, 2009 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not be prejudiced, Mudhead. Not only do I live in Arkansas, but I know the farmers. They have college degrees. And they're going to vote for Blanche.
May 14, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I suppose she will have to depend on the kindness of strangers.
May 14, 2009 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hitler is alive and well inside the heart of every Republican.
May 14, 2009 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you trying to criticize Hendren or emulate him?
May 14, 2009 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really? Referencing Andy Griffith? Let's not forget how wonderful North Carolina circa 1955 must have been for everyone who wasn't a white Christian male.
May 14, 2009 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like Hollywood was so much better? You could actually see black people in the real North Carolina. The networks were hardly run by rednecks, but they weren't going to risk losing southern affiliates.
North Carolina circa 2008 went for Obama--with a bit of help from Andy Griffith himself. Just because this idiot wants to drape himself in Mayberry doesn't mean you have to let him get away with it. If a black person could have actually gotten into the show, he'd have been treated real decent. Doesn't seem like any of those folks even remembered the Civil War. ;)
May 14, 2009 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
For those of you too young to remember such things, The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. had regular black cast members who often appeared in shows that emphasized the need for greater racial tolerance.
May 14, 2009 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I certainly don't think the show was racist, but appearances by black characters were extremely rare. And that was true of most shows at the time. I mean, Lucy was married to a Cuban bandleader and lived in New York City--how many black people did you see on that show?
I find it irritating that this idiot thinks the Andy Griffith Show is on his side, when first of all it's just a show and isn't on anybody's side--and it's still-living star made a video IN CHARACTER as Sheriff Andy Taylor to endorse Barack Obama.
May 14, 2009 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Much of what you stated is correct. However, I distinctly remember watching the original series for most of my childhood. In addition to a number of African-American extras, the character "Rockne Tarkington" appeared in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show. "Ralph Barton" and his two children were regular characters in Mayberry, R.F.D..
May 15, 2009 1:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
"This Jewish business?" I mean, doesn't this guy know that he's just being repetitive? All business is Jewish business. Particularly show business, and international banking. Duh.
May 14, 2009 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't worry. We've got him on our radar. He'll never get a bank loan again in this town.
May 14, 2009 11:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess Foghorn Leghorn didn't see this last November:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/ron-howards-call-for-obam_n_137214.html
May 14, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Andy was always locking up big city shysters.
May 14, 2009 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shyster=Shylock=...well, you know.
May 14, 2009 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, the Republican Party is consolidating the base - it needs all of the neo-fascist religious bigots it can get.
I gotta go and belly laugh for another hour.
May 14, 2009 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just another Good Ole Bigot who's achieved high office by being blatant about his bigotry. He fits right in with the other senator (N.Carolina or S. Carolina) who said, "That boy will Never be My President."
It's obvious that the Repuglicons hate any who's not a middle-aged, white, Evangelical ultra-right bigot who really wants to go back to the good ole' days when blacks and Jews knew their place and let their white masters run things; that's what God intended, isn't it?
May 14, 2009 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
please forgive the lack of a teleprompter. in the future he will stick with thinking it.
May 14, 2009 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
"When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn't because I don't like Jewish people," he said. He also added: "I shouldn't have gotten into this Jewish business because it distracts from the issue."
In what world does this constitute an apology? He's not sorry he called Schumer "that Jew." He's sorry that calling him "that Jew" distracted from his overall idiotic agenda.
May 14, 2009 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not only is it not an apology, but it's disingenuous as hell. Of course he meant to bring in that "Jewish thing": that was the whole damn point. That Jewish guy from New York couldn't possibly understand the pure innocent values of Andy Griffith!
Oy.
so to speak.
May 14, 2009 5:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Well you know what the say "If the Jew fits".
Feel better Jack? I mean, not only did you cold tell us the what's what... dude, you put us to shame with that devil may care screen name. I can't believe nobody's thought of that before! But, hey, you'll be feelin' good, tonight when you bunk down in mom's spare room, because, my friend, you really know how to bring it.AWESOME.
May 14, 2009 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude,
I apologize for calling you that moron.
May 14, 2009 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jack can't seem to distinguish between satire and religious and/or cultural bigotry.
Let's guess what Jack's other favorite trolling screen last-name is . . . I'll open the bidding with "Hoff". (For Jack's benefit, most would classify this as sarcasm.)
May 14, 2009 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Arkansas State Senator Ziggy Heil
May 14, 2009 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Come back Blanche, all is forgiven - with this guy as the opposition you could endorse FOCA, support gay marriage and propose massive tax hikes and still win next year by a landslide.
May 14, 2009 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only if your promise to keep that horrible polack away from me.
May 14, 2009 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
That "_______"
That has become the Republican pattern of argument: losing on the facts, sow doubt and pander to prejudice.
Time to put these guys to bed.
May 14, 2009 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, he's a Republican. He probably thinks he should be getting credit for only calling Shumer "that Jew" when he was thinking "that New York Jew lawyer."
May 14, 2009 5:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's see.... "At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike [that Jew], I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on 'The Andy Griffith Show,'" 'Cuz y'know, those people don't believe in traditional values.
Anyway, Hendren shoulda just said "that Zionist" and he coulda been an altogether different sort of household name in the blogosphere.
May 14, 2009 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah and shame on all the jews who voted republican.
May 14, 2009 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, both of them....
May 15, 2009 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lord, Congress needs Al Franken more than ever: this is the man who wrote the immortal Nixon/Kissinger skit - he'd know exactly what to say to this bigot.
May 14, 2009 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why can't they solve murders in Arkansas?
There aren't any dental records, and all the DNA is the same...
Oh, I shouldn't have put it that way. I should have said, "Why can't they solve murders committed among Kendren's family?"
May 14, 2009 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like Arkansas is the perfect place to study genetically linked diseases. Very homogeneous population.
May 14, 2009 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm 61. I loved the Andy Griffith show, and indeed, everyone on that show was treated with respect and kindness, true family values. Even Otis was allowed to dry out comfortably in the Mayberry jail.
But I think the senator was referring to another kind of 'family values.'
After all, just how many African-Americans did you ever see in Mayberry. And, come to think of it, how many Jews passed through town.
As with many of these righties who apologize for 'foot in mouth' disease, his original statements speak volumes about the real man.
May 14, 2009 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's with this guy? He on some kind of "listening tour"
What would Rush say?
"Pandership not leadership"
May 14, 2009 7:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn, I lived my whole life not knowing that Sen. Chuck Schumer was a Jew. And now this guy had to reveal that to me. The things I didn't have to know....
May 14, 2009 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I say let them keep talking. They are showing the world that they are nothing but anti-semite, racists, bigots and pond scum. Keep talking thugs, just keep talking.
May 14, 2009 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I shouldn't have gotten into this Jewish business because it distracts from the issue."
...Yeah, racisim has a way of stoping a conversation cold!
May 14, 2009 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Adding to the irony of his "apology," the main writers of the show, Harvey Bullock and Everett Greenbaum, were Jewish.
May 15, 2009 2:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
When are these people, or rather the people that vote for them going to realize that if it's not on your mind, it won't come out of your mouth?
May 15, 2009 10:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Precisely! Thank you!
May 18, 2009 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Andy Grifiths Show? I was thinking more like the Archie Bunker Show.
May 15, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to Wikipedia, people of "other" (i.e. non-Christian) religions *together* make up less than 1% of Arkansas' population.
So the guy has probably never met a Jew, and doesn't realize that there was anyone to be offended. Maybe he thinks they only existed in Bible times.
And in fact, it may be only because he's now running for *national* office that this became an issue. These guys probably talk this way all the time on their local level, and never get called on it.
May 16, 2009 12:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe I'm missing something; when did "Jew" become a negative form of address? Further, is it ok for a Jew to refer to another Jew as 'that' Jew? This is being blown way out of proportion.
May 16, 2009 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Context, koatz, context. What does Schumer's being Jewish have to do with the point that Hendren claims he was trying to make? If he wanted to take issue with Sen. Schumer over something, why not call the man by his name, rather than denying him even that much humanity?
No, the only reason for saying "that Jew" was to inflame local prejudice and rev up the Republican base.
"That Jew" is every bit as offensive as McCain's pointing to Obama during the second debate and saying "That one!"
May 18, 2009 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
In Arkansas, like many places in the South, "Jew" is commonly used because the bigotry is so inbred that they don't even realize what they are saying. Still, that does not excuse the fact that another stupid, bigoted, Southern moron put his foot in his mouth AGAIN !!!
May 18, 2009 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, wasn't "The Andy Griffith Show" created by that Jew, Sheldon Leonard?
May 18, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm confused - was that a statement in favor of or against the teleprompter?
May 19, 2009 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. I did not know Sen. Hendren owns a Deli in Little Rock!
May 20, 2009 9:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
One would think the cost of moving these guys out wouldn't be any more than keeping them in place. And if they truly are criminals, the funding should come from the DOJ budget, just like any other criminal's cost.
May 20, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink