BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Vice President Joe Biden’s casual use of an expression some deem anti-Semitic has drawn sharp criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, after he referred to bankers that take advantage of military men and women serving overseas as “Shylocks.” The term comes from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, in which the villain, Shylock, is a greedy Jewish money-lender that asks for a “pound of flesh” as payment. Biden later apologized, explaining that he as well as most Americans are envious of how these respectable misers are genetically predisposed to manage money efficiently. Last month, he offended a large audience of blacks, when he referred to NBA coaches as “taskmasters”.