Posted on 09/17/2014 8:51:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
The politically incorrect and offensive word the vice president used this time was “Shylocks.” During a recent speech, he was trying to describe the dishonest and greedy bankers his son warned him about, while deployed in Iraq, who knowingly took advantage of American soldiers. It’s unclear whether he was reading from prepared remarks, or speaking off-the-cuff, but the characterization has at least one Jewish group wondering what in the world he was thinking (via Yahoo News’ Olivier Knox and Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey):
Biden - Shylock comment to Legal Services Corp
“Shylock represents the medieval stereotype about Jews and remains an offensive characterization to this day. The Vice President should have been more careful,” Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman said.
Shylock, the villain in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” is a Jewish moneylender who mercilessly demands a “pound of flesh” from the merchant who defaults on a loan. Whether the 16th-century play is anti-Semitic or reflects the anti-Semitism of the time is a subject of frequent, bitter debate, but the term Shylock is offensive enough that Florida stripped it from state law back in 2009. (Not everyone has gotten that memo). …
Biden’s slip came in a speech to the Legal Services Corporation, which provides lawyers to Americans who could not afford them otherwise. In his remarks, the vice president described the experience of his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who was deployed for one year in Iraq.
“Stand up Shylock.”
There is no doubt in my mind that if Joe Biden had been a republican he would have been run out of politics in disgrace a long time ago.
“In my state it’s a fact that if you sell slurpees in a gas station you MUST have an Indian accent...!”
I think “gaffe prone” is too nice a description for Joe...
The voices keep him awake at night.
He probably meant “shysters,” which is a term for piranha-like lawyers. It’s derived from the German word for - er, defecation - and has nothing to do with Jews.
Joe’s synapses were just doing their own thing again.
What has happened to our country such that neither party appears to pick anyone of real intellect and accomplishment?
In a just society, Biden would be schlepping burgers.
And a good percentage of both party congresscritters would be in jail.
“I think “gaffe prone” is too nice a description for Joe...”
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Yes, F’ng idiot is much better.
Recall his infamous and idiotic outburst that “J-O-B-S is a 3 letter word”.
Recall also how the media revelled in beating up on Dan Quayle and Gerald Ford for every minor misstatement. They will give Old Uncle Joe a pass however because he is one of them.
They have all the “power”. Which is why the people feel helpless. We have all the power, we just are too good for these people and will not use ours. Otherwise this country wouldn’t be the way it is today. If they get away with high crimes and misdemeanors, they can get away with whatever they want. Tar and feathers are too good for this scum.
The nicest thing you can say about him is that he is a bombastic buffoon.
Good thing he didn’t say, MACACA, right..?
Then he’d lose his job.
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
Biden is a poster boy for the Peter Principle.
This is not accidental. One of the practical prerequisites for impeachment is a competent vice-president. Sometimes a vice-president is an insurance policy.
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