Fred Malek -- who counted Jews in the BLS for Nixon -- Named McCain Co-Chair; report Media Matters and The Nation

Media Matters for America and The Nation are reporting that the McCain campaign has hired Fred Malek as its national finance co-chairman.  Malek was dispatched by President Nixon to count the number of Jews working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after Nixon accused a "cabal" of Jews at BLS of skewing economic numbers to harm the image of the administration.

From Timothy Noah in Slate:

It's one of the more gothic stories about Nixon related in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's The Final Days. As they tell it, late in 1971—the same year, coincidentally, that the Washington Senators moved to Texas and changed their name to the Rangers—Nixon summoned the White House personnel chief, Fred Malek, to his office to discuss a "Jewish cabal" in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The "cabal," Nixon said, was tilting economic figures to make his Administration look bad. How many Jews were there in the bureau? he wanted to know. Malek reported back on the number, and told the President that the bureau's methods of weighing statistics were normal procedure that had been in use for years.

In 1988, when George Bush père installed Malek as deputy chairman for the Republican National Committee, Woodward dusted off his notes and, with the Washington Post's Walter Pincus, further revealed that two months after Malek filed a memo on the matter—he'd counted 13 Jews, though his methodology was shaky—a couple of them were demoted. (Malek denied any role and said Nixon's notions of a "Jewish cabal" were "ridiculous" and "nonsense.") The 1988 story raised a predictable ruckus, and Malek beat a hasty retreat from the RNC. As exiles go, Malek's was pretty painless. He still got to run the 1988 Republican Convention (and in 1992 he would be Bush père's campaign manager). He joined George W. Bush's syndicate to purchase the Rangers, he went on the board of the American-Israel Friendship Society, he took over Northwest Airlines, and he started an investment firm, Thayer Capital Partners.

Malek was Deputy Director of CREEP, Nixon's corrupt "Committee to Re-Elect the President"

Comments

[Brian Globerman]

Why aren't mainstream Jewish organizations like Anti Defamation League demanding the McCain team explain why this anti-Semite Malek was given this high-level position?