Our friend Michael Graham (or is it now Michael "Code Talker" Graham?) has become the latest victim of the last refuge of a liberal (or is that the first refuge?) -- no, he hasn't been accused of racism...quite...but...cue drum roll...anti-Semitism. In this case for speaking a simple truth -- that Newton, MA is full of dopey liberals! I am reminded of the newspaper headline, "World to End Tomorrow, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit!"

In a post at lefty blog Blue Mass Group: Glen Beck and Michael Graham - The New Anti-Semetic [sic] Joe McCarthy's and Father Coughlins ?

Take that Graham, you racist...CRACKER!

All this for the brilliant job Graham did this morning in exposing the extreme hypocrisy of Newton's State Rep. Ruth Balser (apparently, but merely coincidentally, a Joo). For those not in the local know, the issue stems from the state legislature's own absurd flip-flopping on the issue of just what happens when the state loses a Senator. When Mitt Romney (R) was governor, the massively Democrat State Legislature voted to strip the governor of his power to appoint a successor (at the time it looked like John Kerry would be going to the White House...phew), but now that there's a Democrat in the corner office, and at the behest of a then dieing Ted Kennedy, the legislature wants to put the old rule back. How conveeenient.

Sadly for Balser, she got caught out as a flip-flopping hypocrite, and now liar, not just in the House roll call, but on TAPE as well:

Hey, dishing on liberals isn't my "thing," (seriously, look carefully) -- for various reasons but mostly because I find the term grossly inaccurate -- but then, hey, I'm not a radio talk show host -- for those guys it's bread and butter. But guess what? Doing so doesn't make you an anti-Semite (even if, by pure coincidence, Jews are "disproportionately affected" by said liberal-bashing). And I'll tell you something else, pointing out the simple fact that Newton is full of doofy liberals who will put this woman back into office year after year doesn't make you Father Coughlin incarnate, either. Hell, that's just unfair to Father Coughlin who was a real fascist-supporting anti-Semite -- no secret decoder ring necessary.

Everybody knows what type of Homo Sapien inhabits Newton and environs. Crack open any sedimentary rock and there are the bones (sorry Michael, no insult intended, but it's an evolution thing cracker-boy, you wouldn't understand): Species: Liberal, Genus: Limousine, as evidenced most vividly by the new High School project now rapidly closing in on a $200 million price tag (that's right, a 200 Million Dollar Public High School).

Now sure, Graham once asked if he could see my horns, and I had to explain that they only pop out on the Sabbath, and anyway I had mine permanently filed off so I could "pass" (I'm still saving for the rhinoplasty)...but really, LOTS of people from the South ask me that. (<= Note: Typical Northern bigotry against Southerners alert.)

Now I know what some of my critics are thinking, "Hey, but you call people anti-Semites (or antisemites if you prefer) all the time!" Yeah, because that's one of the things this blog concentrates on, we gather the examples from all over the world, and guess what? There are a lot of real, honest to goodness Jew haters out there. But guess what else? Michael Graham ain't one of them.

Michael, in his own response to this silliness, posts the following picture of himself:

Hands off the Jewish girls, hayseed! So it's the "Some of my best friends are hot chicks in the IDF" defense is it now? That's low. And how low do your hands go in that picture anyway? (How pathetic is my life that I spent more time staring at that picture than I did reading the accompanying text...I digress.)

All kidding aside, in my experience, if anything, Graham is a philo-Semite. He loves Jews, and he's as much of a supporter of the Jewish State as a self-described tall geeky white dude has any right to be. So let's stop being silly. It's not his fault that some people's Jewish identity is so tied up in "liberalism" that when he goes after the latter, some people think he's talking about they and their religion, personally.

I have some advice for any of you sensitive folk who did take offense. There is one sure way to have it so that people don't associate Jews with liberalism so closely in the future. Vote Republican! hth

And to Michael I am reminded of the words of Voltaire who said, "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

L'Shana Tovah!