Earlier this week we may have gotten some insight into why Jones is not a fan of the Jewish Homeland. He was giving the key note speech at a Washington Institute For Near East Policy and started it out with a "Joke" that borders on anti-Semitic, teaching the crowd that Jews are just greedy merchants in the same vein as Shakespeare's Shylock:
I'd like to begin with a story that I think is true, a Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water. He finally arrives at a store run by a Jew and asks for water. The Jewish vendor tells him he doesn't have any water but can gladly sell him a tie. The Taliban, the jokes goes on, begins to curse and yell at the Jewish storeowner. The Jew, unmoved, offers the rude militant an idea: Beyond the hill, there is a restaurant; they can sell you water. The Taliban keeps cursing and finally leaves toward the hill. An hour later he's back at the tie store. He walks in and tells the merchant: "Your brother tells me I need a tie to get into the restaurant."
Breitbart has the C-Span video. Judge for yourself.
After the speech, two participants suggested, in private conversations with the Forward, that Jones' joke might have been inappropriate. After all, making jokes about greedy Jewish merchants can be seen at times as insensitive.
A prominent think-tank source who attended the event said the joke was "wrong in so many levels" and that it "demonstrated a lack of sensitivity." The source also asked: "Can you imagine him telling a black joke at an event of African Americans?"
Was the Joke Anti-Semitic? Well, the White House must have thought so. The White House transcript sent to reporters after the event conveniently began a couple of minutes into the speech. The video of the event posted on the Washington Institute Web site started right after the Joke, you can even hear the end of the laughter.
Its interesting that the same President that sees racism in the legitimate actions of the Cambridge Police and the State of Arizona, hides the anti-Semitic prose of its National Security Adviser.
The man is a Marine. So a question for those here who are Marines or know Marines: is this the kind of blunt obliviousness that is to be expected from such a man, or is this an indication of underlying nefariousness?
#7
I think the joke is on the Taliban and it is indeed funny. If they were smart they'd become merchants, make some money and make better lives for their families instead of blowing up schools, strapping on boom vests and murdering people for listening to the Beatles.
#8
#6 I'm a Jew. It's not a big deal. When people can't laugh about ethnicity, that's a big deal. Posted by Penguin
I'm a protestant, and it IS a big deal. When do you suppose he'll poke fun of Arabs or African Americans? Here, let me take that question...., phueching NEVER, that's wen! He's a retired General Officer nearly 60 years of age and still stuck on giving ethnic jokes in public? Get a life you bone headed bugger!
#9
Those of us who can laugh and say no big deal is because we treat group indentity/individuals equally. However, when a govt official of a regime that has unequivocally annointed certain groups as being "more equal" than others then goes on to make jokes against a group that is "less equal" ...that is not permissable. Right... make fun of the Jews while exhorting Latinos and African Americans to turn out the vote in November to keep the gravy train rolling? I call BS.
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#10
The big deal is this:
Bambi administration big tells ethnic joke --> ignored by MSM, cut out of official history by administration.
Republican pol tells ethnic joke --> usual outrage, howls of anger from MSM, demands for the pol to resign.
Did I miss something?
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Permit me if I may, add a little uniformed perspective. If this clown had pitched that "joke" in a public setting as an Army or USMC Colonel on active duty.... his career would be OVER! No promotion to General Officer, career ended!
#12
I thought it was pretty funny. And I've got some material the general might want to use at a future briefing: "The Prophet Mohammed and two hookers walk into a bar ..."
#13
Shecky Jones might wanna polish that act at the Catskills before hitting the bigtime
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#14
Let's see, it's O.K. to tell an anti-semitic joke based on some stereotype the general holds but one can't profile hispanics who might be illegal at the border or muslims at airport security checkpoints. When in fact many hispanics at the border do come across illegally with and without drugs. It ain't the Amish. 911 and many other terrorists activites was done by muslims. It ain't the Mormons. Seems screwed up to me.
#15
I personally think there is a place for such jokes in society - some are humurous, some are wicked, most are generally dumb, all should be dismissed, and none belong in any setting from such officials. This administration is just a pulled finger away from 3rd 2nd grade decorum.
#16
When do you suppose he'll poke fun of Arabs or African Americans?
Well, yeah, that is a point.
I guess my problem is I thought it was funny for another reason than what the general had in mind.
I mean, here's a guy and his brother with an effective, profitable, operational business model while the Taliban are wandering lost in the desert looking for water. That's not greed. That's just being on top of things while the schmucks still have their heads up their butts.
Carried over to Monday. AoS. And mind the warning on that pic ...
What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon? Why, that would be the Hub's favorite Pats fan, Gisele Bundchen! (Warning: not safe for work)
And a paparazzo's sneak pics of Bundchen and hubby Tom Brady [stats]'s gargantuan new Brentwood, Calif., chateau has green activists seeing red.
"How big a space do two people need?" asked Philip Dowds, a Massachusetts Sierra Club official and professional architect. "A 20,000 square-foot house - the resources that it takes to put it together and the land that it needs, this just can't happen anymore."
According to photos taken by Los Angeles shooter Alec Byrne, who said he got a peek at the blueprints, the new West Coast lair of the Patriots [team stats]' star quarterback and his glam wife will feature amenities including:
a wine bar and gallery
a six-car garage
a service kitchen and butler room
a pool house and lagoon-shaped swimming pool and spa
a recreation room with 19-foot ceiling.
And the manse will have an elevator - even though that seems to contradict environmental advice Bundchen offers on her own Web site to "take the stairs."
"In addition to exercising, you save the electric power of the elevators," she says on giselebundchen.com, which is currently festooned with references to Earth Day.
It's not the first time Bundchen has taken flak for being less than fabulously energy efficient. Last year, shortly after being named to her U.N. post, the Herald's Inside Track revealed the supermodel enjoys piloting a private helicopter.
Meanwhile, their new two-story Mediterranean-style home could end up costing the couple $21 million, according to estimates.
#6
Besoeker, you can't be bought off that easily by Giselle can you? She is part of the global warming problem. After all, she is contributing to the earthquake epidemic.
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