She's pro Likud. Therefore she's a friend of the Jews, and any Jew who does not like her is self-hating. Over/Under on how long it takes for this line to emerge?
>
> <http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Palins_source.html?showall>
>
> September 10, 2008
> Categories: Sarah Palin
>
> Palin's source
>
> Thomas Frank noticed in the Journal today that Sarah Palin used an odd
> source for a quote in her announcement speech attributed only to a "writer."
>
> "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and
> dignity," she said, drawing from a once-powerful, now forgotten mid-century
> conservative columnist named Westbrook Pegler.
>
> It's an odd source because Pegler, who moved further right as his career
> went on, ended up very, very far out. Frank notes that he talked hopefully
> of the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt.
>
> He was also known for what Philip Roth described as his "casual distaste for
> Jews," which had become so evident by the end that he was bounced from the
> journal of the John Birch Society in 1964 for alleged anti-semitism.
> According to his obituary, he'd advanced the theory that American Jews of
> Eastern European descent were "instinctively sympathetic to Communism,
> however outwardly respectable they appeared."
>
> It's unlikely that Palin wrote the speech or dug up the quote, though it's
> possible. The line does come from a strand of conservative populism that
> isn't particularly native to McCain or his usual rhetoric: The only other
> source for that Pegler easily available online is a 1990 book by Patrick
> Buchanan.
>
> In any case, it won't calm Ed Koch any.
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