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Saturday February 24, 2007 · 12:29 PM PST

2007/02/24 · 12:29

The Carpetbagger Report and The Right's Field take on the addition to Duncan Hunter's presidential campaign of a man who intentionally went on the record saying "Screw the Buddhists and kill the Muslims."
Right's Field:

In a media environment where Republican staff hires were given 1/100th the scrutiny of Democratic staff hires, this story would lead to bad press for Hunter and boisterous cries by Muslim and Buddhist Democratic activists for Hunter for fire Jordan. Those calls would be broadcast in print and TV outlets and eventually Jordan would be fired or resign in disgrace. Both Roger Ailes and Duncan Black agree that there’s no chance in hell that will happen and I concur.

Carpetbagger Report:

In 1997, shortly after I finished grad school, I started working at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. My very first project, literally in my first week, dealt with a Republican member of South Carolina’s Board of Education, who wanted to impose Christianity on public school students. When one of his colleagues on the board alluded to concerns about religious minorities in the state, this board member said, on tape, "Screw the Buddhists and kill the Muslims. And put that in the minutes."

The guy’s name was Henry Jordan. I got to work trying to force his resignation, but to no avail. I helped drum up some media interest, but the GOP establishment in South Carolina stood by Jordan, the response from local voters was tepid, and he kept his job looking out for the educational needs of children.

James L. is on a roll over at Swing State Project, today looking at a possible Congressional run by perhaps-legendary New York Rangers goalie Mike Richter.

The New York Times Caucus blog explains "sock puppets", which the McCain campaign seems to be specializing in.

A truck bomb killed at least 35 people at a mosque in Iraq.

Read Rajiv Chandrasekaran's important Washington Post article on the lack of qualified civilians for reconstruction of Iraq.

For the aspiring journalists among us:

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The Albany Project and Calitics both look at campaign finance issues.

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