Ralph Nader: Jackass and Anti-Semite

Nader vs. the ADL (washingtonpost.com): "Ralph Nader, that master of controversy, has a new bete noire: the Anti-Defamation League. The independent presidential candidate has become embroiled in an ugly exchange with the Jewish organization, after he suggested that President Bush and Congress were 'puppets' of the Israeli government.
'The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced,' Nader said earlier this summer. That prompted an angry letter from the league, which complained that the 'image of the Jewish state as a 'puppeteer,' controlling the powerful US Congress feeds into many age-old stereotypes which have no place in legitimate public discourse.' "