BIGGIES

I love this comment made by Paul Begala on CNN's "Crossfire" on February 3, 2005:

BEGALA: My friend Congressman Rahm Emanuel has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to investigate why a professor who has been accused of anti-Semitic remarks was part of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. "The Forward" newspaper describes Myron Kuropas this way -- quote -- "a frequent critic of -- quote -- 'Holocaust industry.'" -- unquote. He has suggested at times that Jews played an -- quote -- "inordinate role" -- unquote -- in the rise of Soviet communism. And, in a 1998 speech, he declared that -- quote -- "the crimes of their people cannot be explained away easily" -- unquote. "The Hill' newspaper on Capitol Hill reports, in 1994, Kuropas wrote -- quote -- "Jews helped Stalin engineer Ukraine's genocidal famine" -- unquote. Now, Professor Kuropas says he was taken out of context. The State Department claims the delegation was selected by the White House. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's spokesman says Kuropas was chairman of something called Ukrainians for Bush/Cheney. He should have been chairing "Bigots for Bush/Cheney" and he should never have been asked to represent our country.