JONATHAN CHAIT ON THE NEW YORK MONEY PEOPLE: “We could argue about whether Clark’s analysis is anti-Semitic; I think it is. But I don’t see how you can say it’s obviously true.”
UPDATE: A reader emails:
New York Money People? That’s me!
I live on Park Avenue in Manhattan, run a hedge fund, consort with the upper strata private school crowd in NYC, and am the son of Holocaust survivors.
I have yet to meet a single “rich Jew” (I am one myself) who has had a kind word for W, the war, or anything at all related to the GOP.
Rich Jews in my building have donated money to Clark!
His comments are weird and scary, apart from being utterly untrue.
It’s been a while since I ran with that crowd, but this seems right to me.