"That Jew" Schumer

A Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Arkansas is apologizing for referring to NY Senator Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” during a GOP event.

State Senator Kim Hendren has since apologized and made this statement to the Associated Press:

“I ought not to have referred to it at all,” Hendren told the AP. “When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn’t because I don’t like Jewish people.”

In an interview with an Arkansas blogger, Hendren added this:

“At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on ‘The Andy Griffith Show,'” he explained. “I made the mistake of referring to Sen. Schumer as ‘that Jew’ and I should not have put it that way as this took away from what I was trying to say.”