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Its never a good idea for any administration official to tell an ethnic joke.
The Jews will laugh since it’s a DEMOCRAT telling it.
Not particularly funny. Rather stupid. But, I don’t much like ethnic jokes .
It is noteworthy that Haaretz would take even mild umbrage at someone telling Jewish jokes.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a joke about Jews, Italians, Irish, Polish or Scandinavians- you just don’t do it.
Well, he’s no Earl Butz...
I am not particularly MR. PC, but seriously if you are National Security Advisor, you give up the right to tell jokes about any group.
I found the joke amusing. The Jewish merchant was just trying to help the fellow. Perhaps the Taliban guy already had a tie. Everybody carries an extra tie! Ha ha.
Government officials telling jokes in public does not work any more. Inadvisable.
Now, off the find my paternal grandmother's recipe for ice cubes, right after I put on my maternal grandfather's guinea-T...
Well, yes, we all agree—no jokes allowed.
But it’s actually a pretty funny joke. It makes the Jews look smart, and it makes the Taliban guy look stupid. He’s mean and stupid and he gets what he deserves.
That’s OK with me.
Very very old joke.
In fact, the first time I heard it, it was told to me by a Jew.
This reminds me of Hillary’s joke about the people who work at 7/11s.
I get that the Jewish guys are not really the butt of the joke. If anything, they’re messing with the Tali. Even so...some jokes are more trouble than they’re worth. Especially when you’re someone like the National Security Advisor.
I can see a deeper meaning in that joke. Using a Taliban as the foil makes little sense, because properly he should be a Palestinian.
A Palestinian beggar goes into a Jewish store, finds the storekeeper, and demands that the storekeeper give him the store. The reason he gives is that he says his great grandfather once owned the store, and once a store is a Muslim store, it is a Muslim store forever.
“I will not give you my store,” says the Jewish storekeeper, “because my grandfather bought it from your great grandfather. Your great grandfather then rounded up a Muslim mob, and demanded the store back, but he kicked them out. Then years later, your grandfather rounded up another Muslim mob, who tried to take the store from my father, but he kicked them out as well.”
“But I cannot get another store,” complained the Palestinian. “The Muslim Storekeepers will let me sit in their stores, but when I demand their stores, they beat me and throw me out.”
“So this is why you live on my curb, drink the water from my hose tap, and curse me and throw rocks at me? But people give you money all day, why don’t you take that money and live a good life?”
“Because rocks are expensive, and I spend all my money on them, so I can throw them at you so you will leave and the shop will be mine!”, said the Palestinian. “At least the curb is mine, so that you can’t put anything on it!”
“I got news for you, said the Jew...”
A Rabbi, a Priest and a Minister walk into a bar.
Bartender looks at them and says, “What is this, some kinda joke”?
That was my first thought as well. It'd never happen, obviously.
It was a pretty good joke in that it just shows how clever the jewish people are and how stupid that other ethnic group is.
Is the joke funny when told by someone working for an anti-semite? No.
OK. I’m a Jew and I’m offended. Who do I sue?