Washington – State Sen. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, the candidate for the U.S. Senate who admits to being gaffe-prone, says he regrets statements he made last week at the monthly Pulaski County GOP meeting, where he referred to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as “that Jew.”
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The statement was first reported on the political blog the Tolbert Report after Jason Tolbert called Hendren to ask him about negative reports about his speech made by people attending via Twitter.
“I don’t speak with a TelePrompTer, and if I had, that reference would have never made it in there,” said Hendren in an interview with the Arkansas News Bureau. “I know I referred to him as Jew or Jewish and I should not have done that. I got my foot in my mouth.”
Hendren said that he was referring to Schumer’s comments made on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, in which he said that “American traditional values” were behind them, a point Hendren says he strongly disagrees with.
“I was simply making a point about those two points. I believe in those traditional values like Andy Griffith, Aunt Bea, Barney and Opie,” Hendren said. “But now all that was lost with this statement.”
“I don’t care if he’s Jewish, Muslim, Catholic or whatever,” Hendren said. “Although I said there was another Jew that I did agree with, and that was Jesus Christ.”
If you need a teleprompter to avoid making bigoted comments, it’s because YOU’RE A BIGOT!
Mr. schumer, you should be proud to be called a J
Schumer’s Jewish ?? Coulda fooled me.
Big deal!
Can you imagine if he would say that black guy! I would never take the extreme side, but you can’t give a green light to Mack Jewish people. We have suffered to much!
Anti Semite, Nazi Republicans. All of those Bible thumping Christians that Frum Jews think are our friends are in fact the biggest Jew haters. Keep your enemies far
Schumer is a moron and makes us all look bad… Who cares what a goy( who probally has more jewish values then schumer) calls him?
Typical southern Republican. I hate to say it, but outside south and central FL, the rest of the south really does think in those terms… especially the xian “born-again” southern Republicans. I have had to spend a fair amount of time in northern FL and GA for business. It is amazing what people will say in front of you when you are wearing casual clothes and a baseball hat.
I’m not a fan of Schumer’s policies (we disagree on just about everything), but he is a good, honest yid.
I grew up on the same block that Chuckie did. His parents were (are they still alive?) very friendly, always saying good morning to all the neighbors as they went for their morning stroll. They were not religious, but they carried themselves in a very Eherliche manner. Hopefully Chuck can emulate them a drop on the hill, to make us proud.
There is nothing wrong with saying that Jew !!! although he is not Orthodox But he should be proud of it !
Left cross (liberal communists), right hook (conservative fascists). Sadly, we’ve seen this all before.
Maybe it is worth considering why liberal Jews do take positions in opposition to traditional American values. Every Pro-abortion, liberal or homosexual group inevitably has many Jewish members.
It’s not so terrible. Big deal, so he called him a Jew.
Now that I’m writing, I’d appreciate it if Mr. Schumer would stop being sop overly liberal. He would have many more advocates if he moved more towards the middle if not to the right.
Shumer is a leftist who happens to have jewish genetics – calling him jewish is an insult to all practicing jews; betcha Shumer couldn’t find a shul without a camera crew and a vote to get.
Raboysai!! They all love us like Eysov loved Yaakov! What else is new under the sun? Who Schumer is or not is not important just a reminder of what every Goy thinks of us Jews and what only a few have the courage or slip with their tounge!! Are u guys really surprised? Why ? A goy bleibt a soyne yisroel! Sometimes there is an exception but the balance 99% sonim!
I’d take State Sen Kim Hendren anyday over that weasel Schumer. Whats the big deal anyways.
big deal out of nothing. SO HE SAID THAT jeW WHO CARES??????? I DONT THINK Shumer is a very proud jew anyway
Where is everyone’s brains?
When I watch the news and I see Chuck Schumer spouting anti-American hate speech against traditional values, religious values, I say to myself this communist is going to awaken hatred of Am Yisrael !!!
Why are we then surprised when Gentiles then have this reaction? I have this reaction against Comrade Schumer.
My Zeide fled the Communists to come to the land of the free. Why do you think America closed its doors before the war? Jewish Communists were agitating for revolution here in the USA !!! This is happening today in the Obama Administration. Look at all the Communist Jews he has surrounded himself with. May HKBH protect us from these Communist Jews. We need to be mispallel so we are not plunged into another disaster. Kal bday shomayim chutz m’yiras shomayim. Chuck Schumer has no yiras shomayim. Stop supporting him frum yidden !!! He is
To # 19: The constant commentary about how every goy hates Jews is not only idiotic, ignorant and bigoted, it goes against what every one of us knows from our own experiences with decent, kind, charitable non-Jews and it’s an insult to the many ohovei Yisroel out there. It also becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we walk around all day telling ourselves and others that every single human being who happens to have a non-Jewish mother hates us, we become hateful ourselves and almost develop an aura of hostility. I’ve had a number of potential baalei teshuva remark to me that they’ve never met people as hostile and paranoid toward others as frum Jews. A young man last week asked me, “If Torah is supposed to make one spiritually content and raise one to a higher madrega, why is it that some of the most thoughtless, selfish and bigoted people I’ve met are Orthodox Jews?”
I disagree with some of Schumer’s political views but in this case I am on his side because from the article you get a sense that the word Jew was used in a negative sense thus Hendren is a bigot. Another comment of his at the end of the article also says about it when he mentioned that the Jew he agrees with is Christ. We as jews sense hatred when it is not that obvious. In this case I sense it.
…It seems that the “esteemed” candidate agrees with any dead Jew…!
I’m a Jew my self; and please stop being so hysterical.
Now he is an anti-Semite because he called some one “the Jew”. How many times did you say the word “Goy”?
Please leave the title “anti-Semites” for real anti-Semites. If you use it every time someone is not that respectful, than we just marginalized real anti-Semites.