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October 5, 2008 | 9:42 am
Remember that video for The Great Schlep in which Sarah Silverman says Jews should stop being scared of Barack Obama and vote for the Democratic nominee for president, who is, as she informs us, “circum-supersized?“ Well, Jackie Mason, a Jewish comedian from a much different era, didn’t like Silverman’s politics or her insinuation that Jews who don’t vote for Obama don’t like black people:
“You’re not a bigot and don’t let her convince ya you are,“ Mason says in the above video, the fastest two-minute rant I’ve ever seen. “She’s a sick yenta for mentioning it.“
Mason says you should vote for John McCain, but not because he says so; because your conscious does. The video was produced for the Republican Jewish Coalition—they don’t like Obama—and sent to its subscribers. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks explains:
“Jackie Mason tells it like it is and there is no one else like him in the Jewish community. A central theme of this video is Mason’s outrage at the arrogance and self-importance of Sarah Silverman and her Hollywood friends for telling people whom they should vote for. In addition, Mason points out that Silverman fails to make the case for why Obama should be president. While it is our hope that people will be entertained by this video, the message is a serious one. At the end of the day, no amount of Hollywood star power will erase the fact that Barack Obama continues to have a problem in the Jewish community.“
Thanks also to the Web Guy for sending the video along. Click here to see the Silverman video that got under Mason’s skin.
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All aboard the Straight Talk Express. Woo hoo!
About that Sarah Silverman video - ‘patronizing!‘ - that’s the word I was looking for. She forgot that she is her Nana and her Nana was her. Her Nana lived by her wits and sent over for relatives and brought in the union and maybe even witnessed or faced death. Does she really think a little nagging and blackmail is enough to flimflam the old people? Not our old people.
I like how Jews use humor to get their points across.
Sure. Everyone saw from the VP debate that Sarah Palin just LOVES Israel!
And Israel loves her back. I liked a comment I saw somewhere “Jews voting Democratic are like the ones who went into the gas chamber and expected water to come out of the showers”
She f’d Matt Damon, so why should we care who she’s voting for.
Jackie Mason is awesome… He was perfecting comedy when Sarah Silverman was still crapping in her pants, wait that was just yesterday… well, you get my driff.
As a Jew who will vote for Obama, I am saddened by Jackie Mason’s video and the comments in support of his position. If my grandparents were still alive, I would urge them with all my heart to vote for Obama. And I believe they would have, thank God. Republicans have been playing the fear card against Obama and it is not going to work this time. Nor will the slime that is being thrown around.
Unfortunately the problem with Obama is not his positions, some of which have merit and I agree with as well. The problem is twofold; the minor one being his ability accomplish anything he proposes in the absence of a record of accomplishment in the political system, and the more serious and related one of trust and integrity in light of the tactics and alliances he HAS had in the course of gaining his rather junior position.
For Jews and their interests this absolutely includes the supporting cast of antisemitic, antiIsrael and antizionist handlers Obama has just waiting to jump into the drivers’ seat of his foreign policy. And no, I don’t mean Paul Volker.