McCain hires Nixon's Jew counter

Really, it's not as if McCain didn't already have enough trouble with his ridiculous claim that there are parts of Baghdad that are safe for Americans to walk around in (but only if you have 100 troops, 3 Blackhawks, and 2 Apache gunships providing security--the story is worth a read). But now he's hired Fred Malek:

[...]McCain campaign's press release "left out an interesting piece of Malek's history: when he counted Jews for President Richard Nixon." As Corn reported, Nixon suspected that a "cabal" of Jews at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was skewing economic figures to make the administration look bad and assigned Malek to report back on how many Jews were employed at BLS.

When former President George H.W. Bush hired Malek as a top official at the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 1988, revelations in the press regarding Malek's work for Nixon reportedly led him to resign. McCain's hiring of Malek would seem to warrant the same disclosures from the media, but so far, only one news outlet other than The Nation has reported it.

[emphasis added]. It seems like the Republicans are doing everything they can to emulate the worst aspects of Richard Nixon. Maybe they would be so good as to impeach Bush for us and make the parallels even stronger.

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