"At a conference marking the 40th anniversary of the Legal Services Corporation, Biden recalled anecdotes from his son's experience serving in Iraq and meeting members of the military who were in need of legal help because of problems back at home.
"That's one of the things that he finds was most in need when he was over there in Iraq for a year," Biden said, "that people would come to him and talk about what was happening to them at home in terms of foreclosures, in terms of bad loans that were being...I mean these Shylocks who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas."
ADL National Director Abraham Foxman issued a mild reprimand later Tuesday.
"When someone as friendly to the Jewish community and open and tolerant an individual as is Vice President Joe Biden, uses the term 'Shylocked' to describe unscrupulous moneylenders dealing with service men and women, we see once again how deeply embedded this stereotype about Jews is in society," Foxman said in a statement, first reported by Yahoo News."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/...e-biden-jewish-term/
Poor old Joe, I doubt the man is truly an anti-Semite. Most likely, its either age, the hair plugs were inserted too deep, or his inherent ignorance.stupidity.
Must be embarrassing to the Dems, they elected as VP someone dumber than the character on SNL that played another VP candidate.