Will Senators Succumb to ADD (Adelson Dollar Disorder) on Hagel?

It was Eric Alterman who observed
in The Nation a year ago:

If a Jew-hater somewhere, inspired perhaps by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, sought to invent an individual who symbolizes almost all the anti-Semitic clichés that have dogged the Jewish people throughout history, he could hardly come up with a character more perfect than Sheldon Adelson.

Adelson
, of course, is back in the news — on the front page of the Sunday New York Times — for his suspected role as one of the anonymous donors behind the ongoing ad campaigns in key states and related efforts against the nomination of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense. We don’t know whether Adelson, who, as Alterman noted, likes to boast that he is “the richest Jew in the world,” is indeed providing actual financial support to these mysteriously funded campaigns, although the Times confirmed that he is definitely part of the effort to defeat Hagel’s nomination:http://www.lobelog.com/will-senators-succumb-to-add-adelson-dollar-disorder-on-hagel/