The media is fixed on Bloomberg becoming a candidate and on the racial, religious, ethnic & gender differences in 2008.

The big thing now is throwing in descriptors about Bloomberg for articles including of course the fact that he is Jewish.

Reuters: He’s from New York, an independent and Jewish.

But best of all the candidate himself remarked a couple of times on the liklihood of a short, jewish man winning the president which seemed to open the floodgates.

Eric Alterman: “Short Jewish billionaires from Manhattan who love gun control, gays and abortionists don’t win national elections.”

New York Sun: “Never mind that there’s no national constituency in American politics for a four-foot-tall nasal Jew with a Boston accent”

I can see the campaign sign now: Vote Bloomberg the short, nasal, abortionist loving, gay sex having chosen person!

At least The Toronto Star did at least use the quote on the side in H1 “A short, Jewish billionaire from New York? C’mon. Michael Bloomberg, New York mayor, on his chances of being president”