This is one of the men who is guiding 0bama’s anti-Israel policies.
No, no more than it makes me a bad Irish woman for laughing at Irish fighting and drinking jokes. We all used to have a good time laughing and joking with each other but...no more. The leftist ploy, Political Correctness, has stopped it all.
Now we’re just playing payback. Anything they say that’s even slightly derogatory will get bounced right back at them. It’s playing the Alinsky game. :)
Agreed.
The joke is merely a rehashing of an old and often harmless theme. But what makes this version dangerously different is that here a Jew hating Muslim terrorist - wandering in a desert & desperate for water - is made to be the victim of Jewish greed & deceit. The fact that this version is told by Obama’s National Security Advisor make it astoundingly revealing.
Excellant post. I agree with you.
“Seriously, Jones, Zib and Obama are enabling a nuclear Iran. Tha’ts what I’m angry about”
That sums it up nicely.
It is not the joke itself that is the problem. It is the mindset that believes that making jokes that feed the old stereotypes that is the problem.
The cynical belief in this admin that Americans (and the people in the room) are nothing more than anti-semites or racists. That is the problem. It feeds their belief that but for their boots on the necks of the people all sorts of bad things would happen.
Zeros campaign against WS is not about financial overhaul, but a sohpmoric belief that WS is just a bunch of “Jewish Bankers” that need to be stopped from their greed. Reminds me of the 1933 actions by the National socialist to remove ALL Jews from the courts and Law profession.
I wouldn’t take this so lightly. Carrid to it’s extreme bad thing happen. I wonder if the ancient Black stereotypes would be so accepted.
I’m with you.
I grew up on ethnic jokes. We all made them or laughed about every group there was, including our own. Political correctness has made that a no-no. PC has, in fact, made having a sense of humor a no-no.
As you point out, there are incredibly serious issues to worry about; getting one’s panties in a knot over this is ridiculous.
This joke is disturbing because of who is telling it and also because of the subtle messages contained. He refers to the Taliban guy in the joke as a “militant” and “warrior.” Why are these positive modifiers used for the killer and a Jew used as the butt of the joke?
If the joke had been set in some neutral setting like the American desert it might have had a chance at being funny. But you cannot get around the insult of implying that a race of people would try to profit from someone’s starving for water.
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.
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.
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.
Me too. But I did more than chuckle. I LMAO. The trouble with liberals is that they do not get humor. I hope that we never become like them.
BTW, I took the joke to be pro Jew, not anti Jew.
Nope, I laughed.....