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...record, and as much energy, ambition and shamelessness as D'Amato. (The most dangerous place in Washington, Bob Dole once said, is between Schumer and a TV camera.) And this time, some of D'Amato's old tricks haven't been working. He and his consultant, the reclusive Arthur Finkelstein, like to brand opponents as hopelessly, shamelessly, endlessly liberal, but Schumer supports the death penalty and wrote the 1994 Crime Bill, which put 100,000 cops on the beat, so the charge hasn't stuck. Schumer has authored major gun-control legislation (the Brady Bill and the assault-weapon...
...funny part is that all this stufflust is covered over by a sheen of hauteur, loads of English accents and names like Sotheby's and Christie's. No one ever got a catalog from Finkelstein's or the House of Lopez...
...broad range of solid scholarly research has concluded that popular German anti-Semitism neither accounted for Hitler's triumph nor was it the impetus behind the Final Solution," writes Finkelstein, who is the son of Holocaust survivors...
...Finkelstein, who is known as an ardent critic of Israel, also wrote in the article that the Holocaust was "seized upon and methodically marketed because it was politically expedient," by Zionists...
...German newspaper, Goldhagen called Finkelstein's piece a "gross misinterpretation" of his book that "has little to do with any knowledge of and concern for scholarship on the Holocaust and everything to do with his burning political agenda...