I was on the phone with my grandmother a little while ago. She's almost 80 but active as ever and is a dedicated Democrat, and we spent a lot of time talking about current events. I started reading through my blogroll after I got off the phone with her. Lots being said about the resigning New Jersey Governor, which I don't have much to say about right now, and then this little gem (hat tip - Sisyphus Shrugged) got me angry:
"The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced," Nader said earlier this summer.
The belief that Jews are secretly the puppet masters of international events and finance goes directly back to the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Certainly American-Israeli relations and the whole godawful mess in Israel is something that everyone is entitled to have an opinion on. But to express your opinion using inflamatory language that suggests Jews secretly run the world is not fine.
Yet one more reason why Ralph Nader ought to go back to writing consumer protection guides.
