Posted on 05/14/2009 9:18:23 PM PDT by Nachum
A self-professed gaffe-prone Republican state senator who is challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s re-election bid said Thursday he regrets referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as “that Jew” at a Pulaski County GOP meeting last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkansasnews.com ...
I refer to Jewish people as Jews pretty frequently.
call me guilty of that most of my 51 years
I’ve called Catholics Catholics too.
and down here we constantly call Church of Christ ...those you know “Church of Christ folks...no dancing, the only ones going to heaven (well, not really anymore)
We call Mormons Mormons....
and I have even been known to call a spade a spade...I know, I am the epitome of evil now.
But I do not call Jehovah’s Witness Jehovah’s Witness, I call them Kingdom Hall people
once at a law office on Park ave in the 50s....I called a group of Lubavitch or Satmar style Jews Yiddish....lol...man, the looks on their faces.
it was pure innocence, I had no idea about Yiddish as the language and the Yiddish thing as being associated with Yid...whoops
Nachum with all due respect, I’d worry more about Moon rock worshipers wanting to annihilate your race or the rise in black hostility to Jews than some southern cracker kin of mine who in all likelihood is willing to spend America’s last dime defending yer tribe against said maniacs not being real sensitive about calling one of America’s enemies “that Jew”
I never got bent when I was “that goyish” at Seder.
but if you had when your own prejudice having said that which sounds far worse than what he said be justified.
I see this on FR all the time especially on race threads ...the indignant call racially insensitive folks toothless inbred redneck hick Deliverance type s who screw their sisters and cousins as though that sort of bigotry is excused somehow.
That sort of stuff is even worse on lib forums and IMDB (redundant I know)
Politically correct indignation is fraught with hypocrisy.
My personal opinion is that folks should get over it...everywhere and deal with being offended. I'm offended daily....hourly even when asleep...my dreams are offensive.
I doubt seriously this guy is a proponent of Jewish Extermination.
I agree. Any reference to Schumer as “That Jew” has to include “self-hating”. So “That self-hating Jew” is acceptable.
Hey, at least he didn’t call Schumer a “Hymie” like Jessie Jackson did.
I was just surfing through trying to get caught upon the latest news. This is the second time I see the 'headline' of this story out of Arkansas posted. So I decided to see who, what, where, when and WHY.
It sounded particularly 'stupid' for anyone to refer to another by 'that' this or that. But after reading the article sounds to me there was this 'natural' expectation that this office seeker had regarding 'traditional values' of which dear old Chuckie had just pronounced as DEAD.
I do not naturally think 'religion' ethnicity, or whatever when I met or read about news or society at large... I assess things based upon conservative - right and liberal - wrong. And all things considered Chuckie is just plain WRONG, and this ninny in Arkansas had better get himself indoctrinated into political correctness or he will be chewed up and spit out even if his desire is to reclaim 'traditional values'.
I think political correctness is killing our culture and got Obama elected.
It may be our greatest threat since Bush and Cheney seem to have tortured the poor Muzzies into behaving for now.
Seriously, he won’t win in this “political correct obsessed” world. He’s done.
Actually, this person should withdraw. If they’re stupid enough to refer to someone as ‘that Jew’, they have no business in a position of authority.
No, it’s not okay. But isn’t it interesting how nobody takes Hillary to task from the left side of the isle when she did that. And yet we trash people on our side who should know better.
We have a moral compass. The people on the left are morally adrift.
There is political correctness and then there is being politically astute. Political correctness is a tool used and perfected by the left out of the 'rules for radicals' of Alinsky fame. There is NO sense in walking right into that trap and this guy does not have the common sense to understand that running for Senate is the big leagues. Even in 'hickville' Arkansas. There are any number of ways this man could have brought Chuckie to task for being liberal than to stamp a label that easily offends and ends up making Chuckie appear to be a victim.
Most especially since the liberals are drunk on their power trip will they allow anything rightly or wrongly go by without using it to maintain their power.
The up side is that Jewish voters in the US largely vote for the dems so few votes will be lost.
He should have used the more accurate “that putz”..
You forgot "slope-headed" and "slack-jawed".
He sould apologize. Shumer is no Jew. He’s have to be human to be a jew, and he isn’t either. He’s one of the No Longer Chosen.
he could have said the “camera bully jew” or conservatives support the jewish state of Isreal even though 78% vote for Obama who supports the enemy
"The Shmuck.." works for me.
Both would be accurate..
Bill Clinton - 236,961 (41.78%)
Joe Purcell - 166,066 (29.28%)
Jim Guy Tucker - 129,362 (22.81%)
Kim Hendren - 21,829 (3.85%)
Monroe Schwarzlose - 12,907 (2.28%)
Same Kim Hendren ~ one of THEIR boys. See that Line up ~ two criminals in it ~ Clinton and Tucker.
That last guy, Schwarzlose, is dead.
He was a turkey farmer in Cleveland County, Arkansas, who got 31 percent of the vote in the 1980 Democratic primary against Governor Clinton
He, Clinton, LOST to the late Frank Durward White, a former savings and loan association president. Did you see that ~ we look up Hendren and whadda' we get ~ TWO DEAD GUYS whose only sin seemed to be to run against Bill Clinton and "unseat him" or "embarrass him". Well hot dampt! Sounds like the Clintons eh?
Hendren does not deserve our support.
There are a lot of sources on the net concerning Bill Clinton's primaries and general elections. It's all there ~ right along with the bodies!
LOL!! With Schmuckie, I believe that would work quite well.
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