Word: hymietown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tape? Not a bit. None of the Republican presidential candidates have dared to challenge Robertson on the church-state issue, even though the former televangelist may run third in Iowa. This seeming immunity from reproach is reminiscent of the see-no-evil response to Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" slurs about New York City in 1984. The Democrats running last time out made only muted responses to those anti-Semitic comments, nor did they stress Jackson's ties with black Hatemonger Louis Farrakhan. Last fall Jackson received a similar free ride about a far more minor peccadillo: his brief...
Mistakes he made in his past campaign,including a reference to New York City as"hymietown"--considered to be an antisemiticepithet--may haunt him in this election...
...landscape for almost as long as anyone could remember, or so it seemed: through snowy primaries and caucuses, through the various carnages of Iowa (Glenn nearly gone) and New Hampshire (Hart a sudden phenomenon, the "Mondale juggernaut" confounded), through Super Tuesday and Farrakhan, through Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" and San Francisco and Dallas and Louisville and Kansas City...
There is the Jesse Jackson that many whites distrust and some even fear. He is the former black radical, the civil rights leader who threatened white businessmen with economic boycotts, the presidential candidate who called Jews "Hymie" and New York City " Hymietown." In his shadow, neither embraced nor disavowed, stands Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim sect, who has praised Hitler and seemed to threaten a black reporter with death...
...Jackson's unattractive waffling in re Hymietown, it is of course indefensible, but it certainly doesn't disqualify him from American presidential politics. Hirschorn, like most of his professional colleagues, professes outrage at the hypocrisy the candidate displays in touting his morality and then employing detestable language. Well, if anyone accepted Jackson's rhetoric as face value, they're now forewarned: he's more politician than clergyman. But we've all known for years that every American president in recent memory relished the use of this kind of language in private; perhaps it's part of some macho politician...