“Personally,” he shrugged, “I don’t see any problem with pointing out what a clever little people the Jews are. I mean, am I wrong? — or have they not done extremely well as capitalists by mastering the finer points of…well, let’s just call it supply and demand and interest…?”
I nodded. “True. Not to mention that some of your best friends are probably Jews.”
“Well, let’s not go getting carried away here. There’s no telling who might be listening…”**
~finis~
thanks to geoff b.
Insty’s still calling him Wes?
Using my favorite metric, imagine if Bush had done this.
Cap’n Ed has thoughtful ovaltine-fueled musings plus bonus READER POLL!
Some people shouldn’t tell jokes. Jones is one of them, unless he knows a good one about Kool Aid.
” Friend-ly anyway. Really helped out with the first divorce. The podiatrist was a quack though.”
Rev. Wright, the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson walk into a bar.
more wrongses
Some enterprising reporter ought to ask Mahmoud Abbas if he’s got any good jew jokes he’d like to share with Jones?
I saw that one coming a mile away. Those Taliban guys must be really dumb.
Sometimes it is best to just make your remarks and skip that which you are utterly unprepared for, unable to do and happens to be poorly thought out, eh General?
Military brass have a truly dismal track record as political functionaries. Why do people not learn from this?
…now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go look for my little dog, Kighk.
Is there a variant that involves “comfortable shoes”, “good sex” and a “warm bathroom”? No butts allowed however.
“Thou didst call me dog before thee had cause –
Well, if I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
— The Merchant of Venice
Is it anti-Semitic?
Maybe yes, maybe no.
Presumably, the Taliban member was of Arab descent (or not, it seems, see comments), which would make him a Semite, as well. If one takes any of the views listed above, then the joke portrays both Arab and Jew negatively, and it is anti-Semitic.
I am so tired of this flea bitten old donkey. Is there anyone this side of Sayid Qutb that believes this old trope?
I thought they were getting on a bus. Or was it a Sbarro’s pizza place?
As I’ve said before — the Jews suffer from success.
Deprived of opportunities to own land or businesses, they worked out ways to make a living in the Church’s Europe, in the process inventing the modern economic system. The two constants in a European noble’s life were (a) running a pogrom and (b) going to the Jews to borrow money. (b) tended to lead to (a) when the noble in question couldn’t repay the loan.
Americans, at least until recently, had or have pretty much the same problem. Our economic system worked, generated prosperity and wealth and therefore power, and was resented on that basis. In essence, any American not on welfare is Jewish.
Regards,
Ric
Be careful, or someone is likely to get all splodey, just on principle.
No, I’m not sure what I mean.
I like that perspective, Ric. I shall integrate it into my own and pretend it was my idea once I get really old and forget where it came from.
I have heard similar jokes with the ethnicity of the players changed, but it is amazingly stupid by a senior administration official discussing middle east diplomacy. And why use it in a Taliban-Jewish context? Did Danny Pearl “ask for it” when he got his throat slit by KSM?
OT: (Inspired by Ric’s comment) Just to barf out what others have probably said, the background of hatred against the Jews, who were often much more successful than those around them (as a result of principles which resulted in success), most likely arose from the thought of their success as being at the expense of others. Someone had to have been hurt, cheated, or coerced in some manner to bring the Jews that success. Whether or not the person who called for the porgrom believed that, the people who actually did the leg work probably did.
The funny, or not so funny, thing is that obvious success in any system other than capitalism (excluding the black markets that inevitably arise in those systems) would likely be the result of someone being hurt, cheated, or coerced. Capitalism is based on voluntary transactions, while in other systems of governance many transactions are no longer voluntary with regards to either the item purchased or the source of said item.
Nothing new here, of course.
Perhaps successful people aren’t “acting white” as much as “acting Jewish.”
“I am so tired of this flea bitten old donkey. Is there anyone this side of Sayid Qutb that believes this old trope?”
Some anti-semitic 9/11 Truthers.
But they’re shit-house rat crazy already, so take that as you may.
“The anti-Semite necessarily defines himself as monumentally inferior to the Jew.”
-Shrinkwrapped Blog
Woe, Breitbart takes the gloves off:
http://tinyurl.com/2b5qroy
cew video of the three “insulted” black Congresscritters not being called the “N” word.
Bottom line:
“The press is drawing a line in the sand for those that are doing the job the press should be doing: “Are you calling a civil rights legend a liar?”
Unfortunately, I am. And the mainstream media are as complicit in this lie as Congressman Lewis.”
Oooof.
woe = WOW
“Rev. Wright, the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson walk into a bar.”
“‘OUCH!’ they all cried.”
@16 SW:
Is it anti-Semitic?
Time to 86 that term, I’d say. “Anti-Jew” will do just fine.
Laz – Gloves are off there, huh? Carson is only marginally more inept than his familial predecessor in that congresscritter seat. I may email a copy of Breitbart’s column to the local paper, TV stations, radio, etc … and see if any of them wish to commit an act of journalism.
They won’t, JD. It’s this year’s model of “Karl Rove outed Valerie Plame as a sooper-secret agent.”
Is it anti-Semitic?
Considering the anti-Israel, anti-jewish policiies of this administraion I don’t know how else you would take it.
TRAMPLE THE WEAK; HURDLE THE DEAD!
So sayeth the Nooge.
See, I don’t think that the mere observation of how well, as a group, Jews have done in business is somehow anti-semitic.
What matters is what you do next. A lot of people go straight to envy, covetousness, and other Schadenfreude-driven ugliness. When someone says “Them Jews is purty good at makin’ money.” I say “Yep. Now, what do they know that I don’t?”
Gee, too bad he didn’t check the memo and make this a joke about reactionary, knuckle-dragging, racist, Jesus-thumping XTIANZ!1!!1!.
I mean, why isn’t he supporting Obeyme’s meta-narrative?
Must be racist I guess.
how many taliban does it take to milk a camel?
Answer: That’s RAAAAACIST!!
comedy central haters
Aw, newsrouter. I was gonna post that.
Eh. It’s just a bunch of redneck fascists saying horrible things on someone’s answering machine.
Well, Freedomworks’s answering machine.
And a remarkable number of the h8rs have southern drawls. Language warning.
Oh, c’mon Jeff!
Don’t you know that there is no such thing as right and wrong? It’s all in your own fucked up head, you know?
Wrong? I don’t know who first coined the phrase, but I hope they were burned at the stake!
Get with it, white boy…
We haven’t heard from Corey Haim for awhile. I’m worried about him.
There was a post recently on speculative fiction. Do you wonder sometimes what dystopian Alice in Wonderland death race 2000 world we are living in? If you peacably assemble because you believe in the constitution and want less debt you are a domestic terrorist proving ground, but if you wear a black mask and rampage through the streets of San Francisco or Seattle you are activists against globalization. If you think immigration laws should be enforced you are a racist profiler, when the objective reality is that support for illegal immigration is racist in effect (illegals here are in the shadows and exploitable; hardworking risk-takers left the home country, leaving the weak at the mercy of the corrupt; two generations of African-Americans have been displaced in the crucial construction business, and the middle class and wealthy (majority white) get cheap yardwork, cleaning and child care). If you think in all circumstances that all Americans should be treated equally before the law, you are racist, sexist, genderist, homophobic. It’s not just a world turned upside down; it’s like Mobius-ly twisted to do the wrong thing in the worst way.
Do you wonder sometimes what dystopian Alice in Wonderland death race 2000 world we are living in?
Yes I do. I think that a lot.
That was a most excellent synopsis.
Agreed.
I guess in “the age of Obama” Judenhass is not just an ideology anymore!
Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Edward Said, Jimmy Carter, and Jeremiah Wright wouldn’t comment; save to say that General Jones sure knows him some real knee-slappers!
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were giving each other high fives.
Slappin’ and yappin’…
RACISTS!
Bravo, motionview!
A member of al Qaeda in Iraq walks into his local mosque with a big grin on his face.
“What are you so happy about, Abdul?” Asks the Imam.
“Well, I’ll tell you,” replies Abdul. “I live by the railroad tracks and on my way home last night, I noticed a young woman tied to the rails, like in the American movies. I cut her free and took her back to my humble abode. Allah be praised – we made love all night, all around the tent. We did everything, me on top, sometimes her on top, every position permitted by Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him!”
“By the most Merciful,” exclaimed the Imam, “you have been blessed. Was she as beautiful as a desert flower?”
Abdul grimaced, “By the Jinn, I do not know – I never found her head.”
Q. How do your raise the IQ of Saudi Arabia?
A. Allow Jews to move there.
#42 is outstanding.
#52 Joe
If there are Jews in Israel who would actually want to move to Saudi Arabia, letting them do so would raise the IQ of both countries.
When my dad heard the joke in Basra circa 1944 it was an Arab and a Brit.
When I first heard it, it was Australians and New Zealanders.
Nola – Your Dad was in Basra in ’44?! I had some quality time there in 2008… I might have been out at an old RAF airfield he may have used – al-Shaiba. Small world…
From Wikipedia;
During World War II it was an important port through which flowed much of the equipment and supplies sent to Russia by the other allies. At the end of the second world war the population was some 93,000 people.
Time to 86 that term, I’d say. “Anti-Jew” will do just fine.
Indeed, dicentra, although the term "anti-semitic" has always referred to Jews in particular, and was coined as such; never was it implied to refer to all Semitic peoples. "Anti-Jew" or "Judenhass" would now perform better, until progressives also distort the meanings of those words so much that we have to coin new ones.