Comic’s Appeal to Jewish Voters for Obama Is Careful

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Here's a video by comic Sarah Silverman urging Jews to fly to Florida to push their grandparents to vote for Obama. "The great schlep," it's called. A few comments: Silverman is supposedly out there, says anything she likes, so of course there's sexual shtik here, but the video is actually very parochial and circumspect, and says that there's a difference between "liberal" Jews and the "whole large group" in Florida who are by implication a little racist and rightwing on Israel. In fact, the first issue Silverman actually touches on is Israel, saying Obama is "much better for Israel." That's all. So let's not say anything about human rights in the occupied territories, a good Jewish issue, or the Iraq war... The feel-good part of the video is when Silverman sits on her couch with a black man and a Jewish grandmother and explains that deep down there's no difference between the two. Good. Next time, what about an Arab? Forget about it. Says Jack Ross, who sent this along: "The reason Obama may yet still get 60% of the Jewish vote and at least one reason why Florida is so close now is because the Jews like Biden and are scared by Palin."

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics

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  1. jonathan ekman says:
    September 25, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Jews are frightened by Palin, whose views of
    the Middle East are neoconservative and
    Zionist, for only one reason, i.e. the traditional Jewish antipathy towards Christianity (a variety of anti-goyism), as
    evident in the nauseating tirade against Palin last week by the egregious Sandra Bernhard.

  2. Richard Witty says:
    September 25, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Definitely, Jews fear Christians siting scripture (rather than reason).

    Personal experience and reliable stories from parents and grandparents are compelling.

    I definitely fear the invocation of scripture as fact. Don't you?

  3. Ed says:
    September 25, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Witty: "I definitely fear the invocation of scripture as fact."

    This from a staunch supporter of an institutionally discriminatory religious state that regards the Torah as the Jewish deed to Israel.
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    Sandra Bernhard and Sarah Silverman are prototypically left-liberal, foul-mouthed, money grubbing Jewish Hollywood porn-dispensers, two in a long line of Jewish Hollywood smut-peddlers. They and those like them have done everything they possibly could to trash all notions of morality and decency in America, (and made tons of money doing it) and then they profess to be dumbfounded as to why the Neocon rhetoric of "moral clarity" has resonance for so many in "flyover country," rhetoric that was leveraged to put us in Iraq.

    I sometimes wonder of left-liberal Jewish smut peddlers and crude media personalities aren't really (knowingly or unknowingly) Zionist operatives, programmed to turn America into a whorehouse that can be easily prostituted on behalf of Israel.

  5. John Dickerson says:
    September 25, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    "Fogitobout" Wasserman-Schultz, Sarah Silverman is so cute!!!!!

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  6. John Dickerson says:
    September 25, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Posted by: Brad A. Greenberg

    circum-superspect?
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    No, circum-supersized! (LOL)

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