Still undecided whom to support in the national Connecticut Senate race (residency apparently not required) among Democratc Ned Lamont, independent Joe Lieberman, and Republican Alan Schlesinger?

Here’s a blue chip reason to gamble on blackjack enthusiast Schlesinger.

He tells the Weekly Standard:

“Card counting, he said, ’should be applauded.’”

I like.  Now if he would only outlaw hitting 22 with a face card showing.

The new issue of Washington Jewish Week:

The Anti-Defamation League is welcoming MoveOn.org Political Action’s removal of anti-Semitic messages from the ActionForum portion of its Web site.  ADL national director Abraham Foxman had written MoveOn.org Political Action executive director Eli Pariser on Thursday of last week after receiving complaints that such comments as “media owning Jewish pigs,” “Jew Lieberman” referring to Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), “Zionazis” and “why are the Jews so Jew-y?” had been posted to the site.”  Foxman noted that while the site is an open forum “intended to foster the free flow of ideas,” MoveOn should “exercise your own First Amendment rights and issue a statement making it clear that your organization finds such messages abhorrent.”  Pariser responded last weekend with a statement on the group’s Web site, saying that “a few of the thousands of comments that are posted every week” were “abhorrent” and that they were removed “as soon as they came to our attention.”   The comments “identified were not, in fact, made by MoveOn members,” he said, noting the nonprofit was “working to discern whether they were made as a part of a right-wing campaign to target the organization.”

Moveon is still “working to discern” who is to blame for the anti-Semitic foul-up.  Here at Extreme Mortman, we’re eager for the investigation to be complete.  We know these things can take a while.  Perhaps in the interim they can serve up one name of a right winger to blame?

Interesting letter in today’s Washington Times about anti-Semitism on Moveon.org’s website:

Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org’s political action executive director, has been somewhat disingenuous in disclaiming MoveOn.org’s responsibility for the anti-American and anti-Semitic slurs that have been appearing all over its Action Forum (”MoveOn and hate speech,” Letters, Saturday).
First, MoveOn.org has always had the power to moderate this forum. Objections to slurs like “Jew Lieberman” were in fact removed while the slurs themselves were allowed to stand. Only when Robert Goldberg’s “Donkey See, Monkey Do” Op-Ed (Aug. 29) exposed this scandal did MoveOn try to sweep the worst of the evidence under the rug. Unfortunately for MoveOn.org, much of it is still cached on Google and has been downloaded and posted elsewhere for all to see.
The MoveOn community shows overwhelming approval for accusations that Jews do not serve in the U.S. military, Jews are loyal to Israel instead of the United States, America is a war criminal country, and other, often worse, critcisms.
It is time for all liberals who consider themselves ladies or gentlemen to walk away from MoveOn.org’s anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. Candidates like Ned Lamont and Bob Casey cannot control who endorses them but they can reject MoveOn’s endorsement the way President Reagan rejected the Ku Klux Klan’s.
WILLIAM A. LEVINSON, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

New York Post today reports on this letter sent by the Anti-Defamation League to Moveon.org: “A string of anti-Semitic rants about Sen. Joe Lieberman have popped up on the liberal MoveOn.org’s open forum Web site.”

Always on the lookout for the cutting edge in liberal anti-Semitism, Extreme Mortman eagerly read the article.  Alas, our search just turned up this meager offering:

[ADL head] Abraham Foxman cited examples from the site’s Action Forum, including “media owning Jewish pigs,” “Zionazis,” a reference to the senator as “Jew Lieberman” and the question, “Why are the Jews so Jew-y?”

So sad.  How boring.  How pedestrian.  How, um, Islamic fascist?

So a challenge to moveon and liberal anti-Semites — take your best shot at Extreme Mortman.  I’m Jewish.  But sorry — my nose isn’t really all that big.  You’ll have to think outside the box.

AP: “Sen. Joe Lieberman, running for re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic primary and being abandoned by top-ranking Democrats earlier this month, will campaign with former Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp.”

A search of Opensecrets.org reveals this: Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth, whom Sen. George Allen called macaca, gave $2,000 to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s presidential campaign in 2003.

And, today’s Washington Post reports, the next summer, he was an intern in Lieberman’s office.

Allen’s apology tour aside, does UVA student Sidarth mind being called macaca?  Not according to this conclusion to the Post story:

Larry J. Sabato, an oft-quoted political pundit who teaches a small, popular seminar on campaigns and elections, said he asked students to write an essay as part of the admission process. Eighty people applied for the course, including Sidarth. His essay was just three words long — but it was enough to clinch one of the 20 coveted spots in the class.

“I am Macaca,” he wrote.