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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6147487

Listen to that story. It's obviously not black and white and some people will hear what they want to hear. However, I think a very strong argument can be made that the main purpose of this story is to turn the table on the reporter who asked about religion to make it seem like it was an invasion of Allen's family's privacy to aks him that question, that it's almost an attempt to reinflict the holocaust on them, and that it could be considered anti-semitic.

And, mind you, I think the real story is that Allen has revealed himself to be a racial and religious bigot and I also think there's absolutely no reason to believe a bigot would tell the truth when he says his mother never told him she was Jewish, and there's no reason to believe that, even if she didn't tell him, protecting him from the holocaust was the reason. (Judging from George Allen's sisters biography in which she said Allen was physically abusive as a child and teenager, I'd be more inclined to believe his mother was afraid of George than I'd believe the NPR spin on this story!)