11 Replies to “"New gaffe: Obama confuses Jews with janitors"”

1. cranky-d says:

   September 26, 2011 at 11:16 am

   He has a lot on his mind. The fate of the Universe rests on his shoulders. We need to cut him some slack. One little slip about Jooos isn’t a big deal.

   Besides,Jews have a lot of money, right? So, they should be taxed more, for the fairness and stuff.

2. NoisyAndrew says:

   September 26, 2011 at 11:23 am

   The president has the highest respect for the Jews. Really. They helped build the Intercontinental Railroad through all 57 states.

3. Obstreperous Infidel says:

   September 26, 2011 at 11:33 am

   NoisyAndrew, you forgot about the Jews building the intercontinental railroad through all 57 states speaking with their Austrian masters in, well, Austrian.

4. Abe Froman says:

   September 26, 2011 at 11:34 am

   If you’re thinking dentist, lawyer or Hollywood mogul, it’s an honest mistake. But Obama is clearly the worst kind of anti-semite, he hates them so much that he confuses them with Italians.

5. NoisyAndrew says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:03 pm

   There are a couple of ways to explain this:

   1) Obama thinks that Jews are heavily represented in the sanitation industries
   2) “Jews” pop instantly to mind whenever the world “Billionaire” is uttered.

   Can you feel the post-racialness?

6. Mueller says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:12 pm

   “New gaffe: Obama confuses Jews with janitors”

   I know. I do it all the time.

   “Hey Jose are you a jew?

   Que? Chew talk to me?

   What chew want?”

   Hilarity ensues

7. ProfShade says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:21 pm

   He really needs to bump up the font size on that teleprompter.

8. alppuccino says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:21 pm

   The janitor at my grade school was Mr. Schmidt, and he did not have a tongue. The legend was he lost it eating too much peanut brittle. But now I’m wondering if he was some kind of Nazi-hunter using a very clever cover.

   There wasn’t a puke splotch that ever got the best of Ol’ Schmitty, though. He could sprinkle that pink powder with the best of ’em.

9. Squid says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:25 pm

   The legend was he lost it eating too much peanut brittle.

   Mr. Schmidt used to be the best science teacher in the school, ’til the Union caught him squealing to the District during contract negotiations.

   True story!

10. geoffb says:

    September 26, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    Would Obama be arrested if he gave that speech at the University of Wisconsin- Stout? Would it be a crime to post a copy of it or play its audio in public?

    Even-handedness of law enforcement might say yes.

11. geoffb says:

    September 26, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    I was kidding above but some aren’t.

    [W]as the AP transcription of Obama’s remarks racist?

    That’s the subject currently being debated after the issue was raised on Chris Hayes’ MSNBC show on Sunday.

    On MSNBC, the African-American author Karen Hunter complained the news service transcribed Obama’s speech without cleaning it up as other outlets did–specifically including the “dropped g’s.”

    Via the AP version:

    “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

    Hunter called the AP’s version “inherently racist,” sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version “is actually the correct one,” noting that the president’s victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly “he can switch into that [black] dialect.”

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