Slog - Comments on Oy, the Jews and Their Arguments

Comment by Non

Non — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:59:17 -0800

Weirdos. Everyone go see Religulous

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:00:44 -0800

Jackie Mason is still alive?

Comment by Bub

Bub — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:01:13 -0800

Jackie Mason is the least funny comedian of all-time.

Comment by brandon

brandon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:06:08 -0800

it's a little sick the way they exhumed this man's corpse and played it like a puppet just to make a cheap political point. no respect for the dead.

Comment by jnonymous

jnonymous — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:09:59 -0800

Jackie Mason is the least funny comedian of all-time.

Meanwhile, the Sarah Silverman video is fucking hilarious.
Who knew we had so much in common?

Comment by Grant

Grant — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:13:05 -0800

I think Jackie may have missed the point of the Schlep video- Sarah wasn't trying to convince Jews to vote Obama. She was trying to convince Jews who are already voting for Obama to convince their grandparents to do the same. the pitch for "why Obama" is left up to the individuals.

p.s. - Jewish Republican Coalition? Seriously? WTF?

Comment by Beguine

Beguine — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:13:13 -0800

I'm glad that after criticizing Silverman for not explaining why we should vote for Obama, he gave such a detailed explanation of what McCain has accomplished for the country (a lot) compared to Obama (nothin'). It's a good thing he did that, because he'd look a little silly if he then didn't explain specifically why he wasn't voting for McCain and was voting for Obama.

Comment by mattymatt

mattymatt — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:15:27 -0800

He is quite right that she didn't really say much about why Obama's so great. I think she says, vaguely, that he's "good for Israel," but never really explains why.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:19:10 -0800

Oy vey...

Comment by sorryroger

sorryroger — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:19:31 -0800

Gross. He's aggressively unfunny and that anemic laugh/applause track isn't convincing anyone otherwise. Go hang out with Jon Voight and the rest of the insane Republican "celebrities," jackass.

Comment by whatevernevermind

whatevernevermind — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:21:20 -0800

That is seriously one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:29:09 -0800

Jackie Mason should know McCain accomplished the two biggest bank failures in history.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:39:13 -0800

please, not during the holidays.

Comment by Banna

Banna — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:39:36 -0800

I think that even Mr. Poe would rather sleep with Sarah Silverman over Jackie Mason. What a corpse.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:39:45 -0800

I have a Jackie Mason LP, recorded way back when, 1960s or something. It's the most effective torture device I've ever heard; it'll clear out a party ten times faster than Metal Machine Music ever could.

Comment by kerri harrop

kerri harrop — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:41:49 -0800

@2: I thought the same thing! Maybe he will die before the election. One less vote for the bad guy.

Comment by Superfurry Animal

Superfurry Animal — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:48:47 -0800

It's official: Jackie Mason has become a Jackie Mason parody.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:05:57 -0800

He's just bitter that she won an Emmy for her fucking Matt Damon song and his lameass show got cancelled in a heartbeat...

(Note to the young: Jackie Mason had a very, short-lived ABC sitcom in aprox 1989. You would best know him as Krusty the Klown's rabbi dad on The Simpsons...)

Comment by inkweary

inkweary — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:20:22 -0800

The laugh track and "small club" applause were really sad. Even sadder than his schtick.

Comment by Sad Comment

Sad Comment — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:54:10 -0800

Somebody please take Jackie Mason back to the Home and when you do remember to remind him that tonight is soup and apple sauce night!

Comment by Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:03:05 -0800

Jackie, sad old kapo.

Comment by Sargon Bighorn

Sargon Bighorn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:07:13 -0800

WOW was that a female African-American Gay Muslim dressed in Jewish Male Drag doing the Yiddish accented Jew thing? Jackie Mason died 45 years ago didn't he?

Comment by Ivan Cockrum

Ivan Cockrum — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:18:56 -0800

Ohhhh, Aardvark. You'll NEVER catch that groovy Ant.

Comment by ellarosa

ellarosa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:28:45 -0800

did you see his sick, unfunny and grim obsession with the lewinsky scandal of yore? just made you want to take a bath. yehck. was he ever FUNNY? he's obviously a right-winger asshole. i just want him to die already.

Comment by BGJ in PDX

BGJ in PDX — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:32:34 -0800

Fuck you, Jackie Mason.

That is all.

Comment by tomk

tomk — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:45:01 -0800

If you think he accomplished nothing, then you are a bigot, and are letting your stereotypes about minorities override reality. So, yeah, if you are voting for McCain because you don't think Obama accomplished anything, you are a bigot.

And, if you vote for McCain you are a moron, or evil.

Comment by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:57:04 -0800

If I were to vote for president based on who's funnier, Silverman or wutshisname, I can tell you Obama gets it in a landslide.

The visual typography was the best part of the video, and there wasn't much of it.

Comment by crazycatguy

crazycatguy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:51:49 -0800

Yada, Yada, Yada. What a mishugas.

Comment by zil

zil — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:26:09 -0800

I can't wait to see Sarah's takedown...

Comment by Doctor Professor

Doctor Professor — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:16:03 -0800

Wasn't Jackie Mason already in a mini-racism scandal a few decades ago? Awesome pick there for a representative to say not voting for Obama doesn't make you a bigo.

Comment by jane doe

jane doe — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:42:45 -0800

Wasn't Jackie Mason already in a mini-racism scandal a few decades ago?

A few decades ago?!! Damn, and they say the Jews know how to hold a grudge! The NAACP forgave Issah Washington and Jesse Jackson 10 seconds after their little fall from grace. Certainly we shouldn't hold something he said 30 YEARS ago against him!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:25:31 -0800

Not a few decades ago. Jackie Mason said all Arabs should be deported from Palestine a few months ago. Heard him myself on NPR.

Comment by Doctor Professor

Doctor Professor — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:07:01 -0800

@31

And I'd laugh just as hard if Jesse Jackson was in an ad talking about not exploiting race.

Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay

Catalina Vel-DuRay — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:03:09 -0800

Pathetic, impotent old white men always support pathetic impotent old white men. It's like a club: Bush I, McCain, Lieberman, Limbaugh, Bush II, Dole, O'Reilly, Rove, Gingrich, Hannity, Guilianni, Mason....

The good news is that they all die eventually, and there's usually a free lunch after the funeral.

(Well, at least the dead Catholic ones. I don't know about the rest of them.)

Comment by microveldt

microveldt — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:14:55 -0800

What was up with that canned laugh track? Awkward, painful and wrong, like...McCain

Comment by Seajay

Seajay — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:13:35 -0800

@15; You wanna clear out a party instantly? "Zero Tolerance For Silence" by Pat Metheny.