Big Media's Madoff dillemma

And the American Jewish Committee's executive director, David A. Harris, wrote a letter to The New York Times criticizing what he saw as "a striking emphasis" on Madoff's faith in one of the paper's many stories about the scandal.
The case is "fodder for the bigots," Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director, said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. "It's both embarrassing and it's painful."

Though the extent that Madoff made substantial contributions to Jewish charities and organizations merits mentioning as the holdings of many of those charities and organizations have been decimated and in the case of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, completely wiped out, we also found it somewhat odd the number of times we saw Madoff’s faith mentioned in news articles about his Ponzi scheme scandal. We know, for instance, that Governor R-Blag has met in the morning for prayers with a number of ministers and pastors, but we’ve never been informed of what particular faith or denomination they are.

But considering the other juicy side bar to this unfolding drama is the amount of contributions he has made to Democrats and Democratic fundraising organizations, including $100,000 alone to a committee run by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) dedicated to getting Democrats elected to the Senate and what those Democrats intend on doing with that tainted money that has not already been spent.

Sooo…… have you heard? Madoff’s a Jew.