JustASC

TPM reports:

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.”

It gets better. Here’s what he tells the A.P.:

“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.”

That’s why? Because it “distracts from the issue”? How about, “I shouldn’t have gotten into this Jewish business because it’s hateful and wrong.”

By the way, every time I look at my paper’s profit and loss statement, I wish I hadn’t gotten into this Jewish business either. BA-DUMP BUMP!

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