Marci McDonald can't be a bigot -- some of her best friends are Jewish!

I was on CTV's Question Period today with Marci McDonald, the author of a new, anti-Christian book. It's basically a Richard Nixon-style enemies list of Christians in politics, filled out with plenty of conspiracy theories and plain old bigotry.

You can see it here.

I called McDonald a bigot again today, and her rebuttal was to tell me that she has some Jewish friends.

Seriously.

What a fossil from the 1960s.

The only thing missing was her saying something like "I admire some of you people", or some other clanger like that.

I'm really embarrassed for her.

I note, however, that she has changed her spin in the past week.

When she first debuted, she was bashing the "Christian right". Then a few people pointed out that half of the malefeasors she lists actually aren't Christian at all. So she has broadened her attack to the "religious" right.

In the U.S., that term is a synonym for the Christian right. But McDonald is explicit: she's attacking Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and Jews, too.

In other words, anyone who isn't a secular liberal post-Christian like her.

She's a Christian hater -- that's a given.

But she has essentially come out denouncing multiculturalism as part of this hostile takeover of Canada.

Sort of weird, coming from a liberal. But you just know that she's lived a pretty white life. I bet those Jewish "friends" she has are a lawyer or a banker; I bet any black "friends" she has (in fairness, she claimed none), are probably servants.

It's not surprising to find people who have hard feelings about others, especially people different from them. What is suprising is that McDonald managed to get a reputable publisher to put her hateful screed out under their name. It's more suitable for the Internet, right alongside JewWatch and other such sites -- and is about as accurate.

She is more polished than JewWatch, but not by much. She reminds me of the well heeled objectors to John F. Kennedy's presidency, who noted his Catholicism and politely inquired as to whether he would be loyal to America -- or loyal to the Pope in Rome. Like McDonald, they claimed they weren't bigots -- heavens, no! -- they were just asking questions and making lists of nefarious Catholics.

McDonald was just in her twenties back then, but had she written this book in 1960 instead of 2010, she surely would have denounced Kennedy and his brother Robert as a threat to American values because of their faith.

I'm so glad that McDonald's generation of journalist -- bigoted, sloppy, error-prone, smug -- is going the way of the dinosaur.