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I’m not normally a huge fan of New York Times columnist Bob Hebert. Yet his piece on Saturday caught my eye when its call out in large type had the words “anti-Semitic campaign.”  When I saw the African-American OpEd writer tackling the nasty congressional primary in Memphis, Tenn., I assumed he would side with candidate Nikki Tinker, the challenger to freshman Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.). Tinker, an African-American, ran TV ads that compared Cohen, who is Jewish, to the Klu Klux Klan. That’s because in 2005, as a member of a development board in Memphis, Cohen didn’t vote to remove a Confederate General’s name, statue and body from a local park. That long-dead general is one of the men who formed the Klan. In Hebert’s great column, he takes Tinker to task for this ugly campaign for distorting a… read more