Comments on: Let’s see: an Obama national security adviser and a Jew walk into a bar… https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Steve Rosenbach https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157943 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:15:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157943 Two aliens, strangers to each other, beam down to Jerusalem.

The first one says to other, “I’m 41297… you?”

The other one answers, “Hi, I’m 15279.”

The first one replies, “Funny, you don’t look Jewish!”

]]> By: Michael https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157711 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:41:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157711 Judithe:

Yep.

]]> By: Judithe T https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157693 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:45:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157693 Ha, ha. Now let’s substitute Moslem for Jew and watch the fatwas fly!

]]> By: Michael https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157688 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:13:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157688 I finally had time to watch the video. (We’re not all rich Democrats here. Some of us have to work for a living.) It was a funny enough joke, but I don’t see why the brothers would need to be Jewish for it to work. Also, it is set in Afghanistan, where I have never been, yet, but whence come a great may stories about wily merchants. It just seems to include the Jewish part to be ugly to Jewish people. Where’s the humor in that?
It has always seemed to me that Jew-hating was a particularly nasty kind of bigotry, even if you did not believe that G-d chose the Jewish people as a means to bless the whole world. It is rather like Norwegian-hating or Uighur-hating. There are not that many of any of those groups, and they are not really in a position to defend themselves. Just really tacky!

]]> By: Dan https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157667 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:58:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157667 What interests me is the dog that didn’t bark. You know, the MSM, which erupts in foaming frenzy anytime someone on the right makes an allegedly insensitive remark about someone in a protected class. Try doing a Google search on General Jones and see if you get any news stories from AP, AFP, Reuters or McClatchy on this non-story.

]]> By: LB100 https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157641 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:32:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157641 It would be one thing if the joke were about an Arab and a Jew, and reflected upon the age-old disputes and divisions between their peoples. It wasn’t, though. It was about a Jew and a member of the Taliban, and it seemed to me to put them on an equal footing. Dare I ask if the joke would be funny if it involved a Jew and a Nazi?

]]> By: NeoConScum https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157637 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:54:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157637 Never thought I’d take up for ANY Obammite, but Jones is fine on this one. Sheeesh, lt’s not be as whacko sensitive as them, N-N!

]]> By: LAG https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157605 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:47:14 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157605 Rick, thanks for the sanity. I recall from personal experience that Jim Jones in person is not a very funny guy. I thought Lenny Bruce put all of this sort of concern over names and race to rest long ago. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOnkv76rNL4

I guess not so much.

]]> By: J.L. https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157585 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:33:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157585 Hmmmm…. sounds like this Jim Jones wants us to drink the Obama kool aid.

Ha… I made a funny…

]]> By: Rick https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157579 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:51:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/lets-see-an-obama-national-security-adviser-and-a-jew-walk-into-a-bar/#comment-157579 I’m am a Jew, not easily offended, who loves a good joke. Here’s my take:

It was a poor rendering of an old joke that wasn’t that funny to begin with.

It was inappropriate in that context.

A fundamental tenet of public speaking is that jokes are used to make or support a point. What was his point?

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