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Obama’s National Security Advisor Tells Joke Depicting Jews as Greedy Merchants
Breitbart.tv ^ | April 25, 2010 at 11:32 pm | C-SPAN3/Yid With Lid

Posted on 04/26/2010 12:10:58 AM PDT by counterpunch

Yid With Lid: He was giving the key note speech at a Washington Institute For Near East Policy and started it out with a "joke" that borders on anti-Semitic, teaching the crowd that Jews are just greedy merchants in the same vein as Shakespeare's Shylock...

Editor's note: For Yid With Lid's full post on "The Joke" see the related link below.

"• Yid With Lid: Jews are greedy merchants

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To: cbkaty

You’re right, this time it didn’t happen to me. Imho, a site this large must be very difficult to moderate. The sheer volume of posts and threads has to be almost overwhelming at times. Still, I believe our Mods do an outstanding job.

We’re all human.


121 posted on 04/26/2010 8:50:50 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: drpix

Well said.


122 posted on 04/26/2010 8:52:00 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: counterpunch
Well the Jews love Obama so what can I say.
123 posted on 04/26/2010 8:52:40 AM PDT by angcat (GOD SAVE US!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
What world are you reading this joke in? The world is awash in the blood of the victims of Muslim outrage against infidels and you think an American General telling them about how “Jews {who} got over” a Muslim desperate for water is harmless humor that Muslims will merely chuckle at.

No, even an ounce of realism should tell anyone that it will be seen as an affirmation of all the reasons that they hate and murder Jews. An American General should be confronting our enemies not humoring their bigotry.

124 posted on 04/26/2010 8:53:15 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
CORRECTION: how “Jews {who} got over” a Muslim desperate for water is harmless humor that Muslims will merely chuckle at.
125 posted on 04/26/2010 8:55:00 AM PDT by drpix
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To: rmlew

I do think Jones’s telling of the joke depicts the blase manner that Obama and his cronies feel about Jews. Think of him telling a Mexican or Black joke. It’s not going to happen. They aren’t as cavalier about Latins and Blacks. They obviously feel they can do this with Jews, and, considering the voting patterns and insane attachment to the Democrat Party, they probably can.


126 posted on 04/26/2010 8:56:51 AM PDT by elhombrelibre ("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
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To: unspun

Without the stereotype of greedy Jewish merchants there is no joke.


127 posted on 04/26/2010 9:02:36 AM PDT by Chunga (Any IDIOT who says Obama would be better for the country than McCain is a disgrace - Mark Levin)
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To: trisham

I agree the Mods do a fine job...but this one crossed the line...A) he/she did not know who Frederick Douglass was, B) He/she made the swipe at me about mispelling Moderator....then refused to repost my post.

One word...”unprofessional”....comes to mind.

This site’s integritity is normally beyound question....


128 posted on 04/26/2010 9:12:20 AM PDT by cbkaty
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To: rmlew

This is neither “getting one over on our enemies or showing them to be fools.”

This depicts greedy Jews who have no humanity.

More to the point, if Gen Jones had a better record on Israel I would be more forgiving. But he is an Arabist with an anti-Israel bias. Jokes like this confirm that anti-Israel = anti-Semitism.


129 posted on 04/26/2010 9:12:49 AM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: Yehuda

GOOD on you, Yehuda.

Jones is disgusting.


130 posted on 04/26/2010 9:16:32 AM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: TalBlack; Cinnamon Girl; Chunga
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. The Jewish vendor tells him he doesn’t have any water but can gladly sell him a tie. The Taliban, the jokes goes on, begins to curse and yell at the Jewish storeowner. The Jew, unmoved, offers the rude militant an idea: Beyond the hill, there is a restaurant; they can sell you water. The Taliban keeps cursing and finally leaves toward the hill. An hour later he’s back at the tie store. He walks in and tells the merchant: “Your brother tells me I need a tie to get into the restaurant.”

Thank you for recounting the joke. It's a funny one, though I'd heard it before the General's rendition, too.

This “joke” and it's subject did not spring into existence yesterday. It plays upon millenia of stereotype regarding Jews.

Everyone gets a bit of stereotyping and it can be decent and innocent. There are many Jewish merchants in history, just like there are many black American basketball players and many white Canadian hockey players. Cool. No harm, no foul, no one in the penalty box. (Hockey players rarely have to jump, after all.)

Moreover, in the joke the Jew is a man with capital and ease (he MUST have water or he himself would be searching for water) who turns away a bedraggled sufferer, to his own Jewish brother, who then turns away the sufferer on (nudge smirk) a sartorial technicality. The sufferer is trapped and helpless between the two powerful Jews who merely play with him.

Bugs Bunny humor. And who's to say he had any water? He might have been counting on going to his brother's restaurant soon, too. We sure know he had a tie, for it.

This man is an avowed enemy. But, the merchant didn't kill him, he offered to sell or him a tie, a proper thing to do, even an equitably kind thing -- and let the joke be on (are you seeing you have admitted it?) the nasty Taliban!

If the two Jews AREN'T selfish, uncaring and greedy then there is no “joke”. Greed is the tiny jewel upon which the big “joke” turns.

Utterly wrong, IMHO, sorry -- and I've laughed a lot so I kind of know humor in my beholder's eye. The implied contest of the enmity of the two is the backdrop, the nastiness of the Taliban and the niceness but cleverness of the Jew are the hinges.

This joke could have been about a Sears Roebuck employee vs. a Montgomery Wards employee, for that matter. Beyond the Jewish or even the Taliban issue, it's essentially about getting the upper hand while being neighborly. The irony of the merchant's fair neighborliness, as it turned out, is the most core of the funniness!

IOW, anyone smearing this fine General as bigoted should get chips off shoulders! And the "greedy" comment is uncalled for -- and indicates excessive defensiveness.

Case dismissed.

BTW, in another thread, at this same time (about South Park) I've been speaking up for civility in humor, vs. maliciousness, so that irony is kind of humorous, too -- well, to me.

So long. Hm... maybe I'll have a Mai-Tai, later today.

131 posted on 04/26/2010 9:17:29 AM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: counterpunch; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


132 posted on 04/26/2010 9:18:10 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: counterpunch

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf


133 posted on 04/26/2010 9:18:47 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: counterpunch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMvuGMMFEzk


134 posted on 04/26/2010 9:19:55 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: cbkaty

Are you sure he was black?

It its original color, judging by the age and style of this photo, I'd say he was a deep sepia.

135 posted on 04/26/2010 9:23:22 AM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: rmlew

If you are Jewish, you are entitled to chuckle at the joke. It is the place and the audience to which the joke was told that is not funny.

Let’s imagine that the Obama official went to a Jewish gathering and told a joke about Muslims.


136 posted on 04/26/2010 9:28:58 AM PDT by Eva
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To: StopObama2012
If someone under Omoslem’s command told a joke about Moslems.

Don't hold your breath waiting for a Muslim "joke". Look what's happened to South Park.

Tagline: "Everybody Draw Mohammad" Day - - May 20, 2010 - Draw for freedom - draw for America...

137 posted on 04/26/2010 9:34:50 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Everybody Draw Mohammad" Day - - May 20, 2010 - Draw for freedom - draw for America...)
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To: unspun

Frederick Douglass just happens to be one of my heros.... Black, White, Sepia, Bronzetone, tinted, or green....his words stand on their own power.


138 posted on 04/26/2010 9:38:16 AM PDT by cbkaty
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To: counterpunch

HAHAHA !


139 posted on 04/26/2010 9:49:07 AM PDT by traumer
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To: Yehuda

Couldn’t agree MORE!!!
This guy is another USNA grad gone bad like J. Carter...
Jones is going to be lauded FOREVER by the Naval Academy Alumni Asso as a “distingushed grad” and we will all have to oooo and ahhh just like they fawned all over J. Carter and yet we all REALLY know that Jones is tacky at best, a muslim prez lover at worst...Gen Jones, you could have always said NO!!!!!!ed


140 posted on 04/26/2010 9:50:07 AM PDT by matginzac
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