Leftist hypocrisy, Again

Forgiving Biden:
Media that lean left will react differently to their friends than to their enemies.

"Vice President Joe Biden, who in our kingless nation has been sent to play the role of Britain’s Prince Philip, condemned unscrupulous bankers earlier this week and, in doing so, caused something of a flap. While eulogizing his son Beau, Biden spun into a roving digression, lamenting that the United States was being torn asunder by a class of unscrupulous and avaricious bankers — dastardly men who spend their days tricking the public to take “bad loans,” taking advantage of the ignorant and the needy, and foreclosing the homes of military heroes while they serve overseas. Searching for a verbal shortcut with which to button his image, Biden plucked a Shakespearean name from the air: “Shylock.”

The invocation made waves. Describing Biden as “a stalwart against anti-Semitism and bigotry,” a man who is “friendly to the Jewish community,” and an “open and tolerant” individual, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman nevertheless contended that the allusion served only to remind him “how deeply embedded this stereotype about Jews is in society.” Biden, Foxman ultimately charged, “should have been more careful.”

Reading these words, one can only marvel at how exquisitely thinly Foxman has managed to slice the critique: ensuring with his throat-clearing that his friend would be protected from any serious repercussions, while managing to extract his pound of outrage nonetheless. But, impressive as the balancing act was, there was really no need for comment at all. For all the hand-waving that it elicited, Joe Biden’s crime was little more than to have employed a literary reference in order to bolster his message — that is, to have permitted the infinitely more talented William Shakespeare to illustrate his point. Politically and critically, that point was self-serving and ham-fisted. Literarily, his invocation of Shylock’s name was both hyperbolic and out of place. Nevertheless, Foxman was not complaining about these things. Rather, he was objecting to the use of a word. For shame."

Also ignored is the fact that the Obama/Biden administration has not punished a single banker, but has profited greatly from bank donations.

And this:

"Once upon a time, Slate got very upset by any hint of a Jewish stereotype. But that was before Vice President Joe “Archie Bunker” Biden’s latest doozy complaining “unscrupulous bankers” were a bunch of “Shylocks.”

There is not a mention (so far) of Biden’s latest gaffe to be found at Slate today."

And there's this:

Elizabeth Warren: It’s “Fair” to Compare Israel to Nazis