As many of you know, on at least two occasions, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey has made statements that more than a few people have suggested are redolent with the stink of anti-semitism. Generally, when I interpret such statements, I appeal to the writer’s intent: was the statement signified in such a way that the anti-semitism belongs to its author, or am I merely imagining anti-semitism in
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Fre
abuse of language, and how some purported conservatives have adopted — and deploy, against other “conservatives” — a dangerous set of linguistic assumptions.