Joe Klein says McCain is "surrounded with Jews"

Joe Klein, TIME glossy infotainment magazine columnist, is so enthralled with Barack Obama that it has driven him to anti-Semitic accusation.. In his counterfactual column of yesterday, McCain's Foreign Policy Frustration, Klein announces: The strategic question here is whether to go for regime change [in Iran] or diplomatic engagement. McCain hasn't said he was for regime change, but he has rattled sabers noisily, joked about bomb-bomb-bombing Iran and surrounded himself with, and been funded by, Jewish neoconservatives who believe Iran is a threat to Israel's existence. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters.org asks, "Forgive me, Joe, but was the "Jewish" necessary in this rant against neoconservatives?" I'll ask: Which ones were Jewish, Joe? All? Some? Does it matter to anyone but to you and, perhaps, to Barack Obama? As Sheppard... [read full story]