Maybe the controversy the lyrics stirred up is one of the reasons you like him? Maybe you're just like him, a bigot but when confronted unwilling to admit it and coyly denying the obvious? I didn't hear you condemn the slanders his lyrics contain.
Nonsense. I’ve known plenty of Catholics who love that song. As I said earlier, he writes from the point of view of various characters. Do you think he was an unemployed steel worker as well? And there is plenty of much more acerbic humor about Jews in various films.
BTW, do you think Randy Newman wanted short people to die and approved of the Slave Trade as a couple of his songs seem to suggest?