Halle Berry Apologies For 'Jewish Nose' Gaffe

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-25-2007 | Matthew Moore

[Eagles Talon IV]

Rickles was my all time favorite comedian. My wife absolutely detested him. She said he was so rude and could not understand how anybody could think him funny. No amount of explaining that it was all an act ever got her to change her mind. She was raised in the South in the mid 40’s to early 50’s before moving North and would rather die then ever be rude to anybody.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

John Kerry would have said: “It was a nose joke, and I blew it.”

[roses of sharon]

She did a tour of the nation after her Oscar nomination threatening that if she did not win, it would be racist.

Nice to see her squirm!

[Bratch]

[Sue Perkick]

O-M-G! Somebody said Halle Berry. This thread is useless without pictures ;)

good times...good times

[LS]

Right: Muslim humor---What do you call a first time offender in Iran?

Lefty.

[wardaddy]

well...i’m very southern and I liked Rickle’s rudeness and neurotic exaggeration....he is very funny

this Halle gaffe is no big deal to me at all

i could care less

stereotyping about noses is no worse than doing it about dingalings

that said...Berry is moonbat like the rest of them out there

she’s Obama black (when it suits her)

[SE Mom]

Good grief- America, LIGHTEN UP!!!!

PC is killing us.

I don’t believe for one second that she’s anti-semitic..particularly considering her jewish assistant made the remark first- AS A JOKE!

[laweeks]

Oh, is she the actress whose black father left her stranded with her white mother, and who now continues to call herself black, because all black things are good, and whites things are not good? Isn’t she the one who is flaunting her unwed pregnancy to the public even though unwed pregnancies are a MAJOR problem in the black communities nation-wide (70%)?

Too bad we are still counting blacks and whites because NONE of us are black or white. Basically, we’re all Americans (well, most of us). So she’s displaying the trendy and highly accepted black racism that so permeates America today.

Of course, if she were a smart as she is beautiful (and she IS beautiful), she wouldn’t make such stupid comments. But she’ll be excused . . . she’s “black.”

[DemEater]

She doesn’t look Druish to me?

[Piranha]

I remember Paul Lynde on the Hollywood Squares. The question was what those things are that little Mexican children like to break with sticks. His answer was, “Church windows.” Nowadays...

[Red Badger]

Bumper sticker on muslim car:

My wife is an honor student at Abu Abbas Elementary School.....

[Sue Perkick]

I loved Rickles when I was a kid. Funny guy. And probably still funnier than half the ones out there now.

[scrabblehack]

A long time ago, I was listening to the Jim Bohannon show. He had an expert on terrorism on his show, and a caller asked if it was possible to hide plastic explosives up your nose. Bohannon seemed extremely offended at the question, and did not ask the guest for comment.

I thought to myself, “Plastic explosives that look like boogers...I guess that would be hard to detect.”

It finally dawned on me that Middle Easterners have larger than average sized noses.

[savedbygrace]

It’s Steve Jobs’ fault.

Well, she did the photo funnies on a Mac with an iSight camera, right?

[gitmo]

[dennisw]

That's the best photo I've ever seen of her. She looks like someone from India. In "Swordfish" and the usual photo her hair is way too short.

[windcliff]

ping

[bootless]

That last one looked like Rosie O’Doughnut.

[RockinRight]

Oh hell it’s just a damn joke.

Watch an SNL episode from the 70s...or Blazing Saddles...and realize that half that stuff would be “offensive” today.