"She might have called him a bastard. I wouldn't rule that out. She's never claimed that she was pure on profanity. But I've never heard her tell a joke with an ethnic connotation. She's so fanatic about it. She can't tell an ethnic joke. It's not in her." Bill Clinton, in a call to
"Hillary hit him between the eyes. She was angrier than Paul had ever seen her. 'You f**king Jew bastard!' she screamed." author Jerry Oppenheimer
Gandhi, gas station attendant, was supposed to be a joke; ethnicity, i.e, exploitation of stereotype, was a crucial component; hence, hillary clinton's throwaway (you can bet she wishes she had) lines were an ethnic joke.... Q.E.D. But as I have argued ad nauseam, the implications of hillary clinton's ethnic "joke" are of greater import than the substance of the "joke" per se.
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