Posted on 04/25/2010 5:38:06 PM PDT by Nachum
National Security Adviser James L. Jones doesn't necessarily come across as the amusing guy at policy events. Rather, the veteran general is known for his measured and careful wording, and his somewhat monotonic delivery.
Maybe that is why some were surprised when Jones decided to open his remarks at the 25-year anniversary gala of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy with a joke. Not just any joke - a Jewish joke that some say was in poor taste.
And here is how it goes:
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
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
I thought it was really funny—I’m a big fan of all ethnic humor. It lives in a separate space of unreality.
I haven’t read the whole thread so this may have been mention, but lGabriel Malor at Ace of Spades HQ does a good
job with this. Here is the money quote:
“The putative lesson of NSA Jones’ joke is that crafty and heartless Jews give people the runaround and make a buck off it. Yes, it’s offensive. It feeds a stereotype Older Than Print that became the justification for quite a bit of bad behavior toward Jews. And NSA Jones thinks this particular story has an element of truth.”
It’d be funny if a Jew told the joke to fellow Jews. It seems to me that, then, they’re poking fun as much at a stereotype as they’re enjoying a rather simple-minded joke. With GEN Jones (Ret), it isn’t funny. There is an underlying cavalier attitude about Jews by Obama and his cronies. I guess with the Liberal ones in America, it makes sense for Obama to be cavalier. They don’t care, and he doesn’t care. For pro-Obama Jews, it seems, being a Jew is like being in the red head club, or the right hander’s club. It’s no big deal; it’s just another distinction. But they’re not the only Jews in the world, and many of these other Jews are in mortal danger all the time. Maybe Obama and the boobs in his administration could consider that fact.
Now Obama will fire James Jones, and thereby “prove” how sensitive he is to anti-Semitism, as he continues to stack the deck against Israel.
I thought it was funny.
Two black czars and Bill Ayers walk into an illegal arms facility....Obama is sweeping...eh nevermind, was going to try this one at CAIR, and ACLU meeting or maybe a black panther meeting.
I am sure he thought it was OK, because, he probably heard it from DumBO.
a neutron walked into a bar and ordered a drink.
He received it and asked, “How much?”
The bartender replied , “ For you, no charge”
A horse walked into a bar and turned his tail to the bartender.
The bartender asked “ Why the Kerry Face?”
Did you hear the one about the Senator who went into a 7/11 and said...?
Or the one about the DNC chairman who joked about the hotel staff?
-PJ
Imagine the howls of protest had a Republican NSC guy said that.
Pretty funny - my French is a little rusty - what was that - the latest meeting of the DNC?......
I thought it was funny.
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