No one in the media seems to think that Congressman Moran's anti-Semitic canard has anything in common with Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson's 1984 reference to New York as "Hymietown," or current Democratic presidential hopeful Al Sharpton's vicious campaign to drive a Jewish storeowner out of Harlem in 1995, which ended in an arson attack that killed eight people at Freddy's department store.
What about Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings' crack about his former colleague Howard Metzenbaum being "the senator from B'nai B'rith," or Democrat senator and former majority leader Robert Byrd's role as an organizer for the infamously anti-Semitic (and anti-black, anti-Catholic) Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s? How many times do Democrats have to evince anti-Semitism before someone wonders aloud whether the Party itself ought not to do some soul-searching?
Congressman Moran is likely to survive this flap. After all, he's weathered other allegations about his fitness to serve, including charges that he accepted personal loans from individuals who had pending business before Congressional committees on which he served.
The bigger question is, why doesn't the media hold the Democrats to the same standard as they do Republicans by insisting that Democrats rid themselves of bigotry in their ranks as well?