I’ve often wondered how Mike Royko dealt with stupid people who didn’t have any understanding of satire. From the brilliant geniuses attacking Seals and Footlik comes word that this is anti-semitic:
O Tommy boy/
the polls, the polls are falling/
from Council Bluffs, and down to Waterloo/
the summer’s gone, and your numbers are dying/
because you failed/
to raise money like a Jew/
And don’t come back, your time has come and gone, son/
You’re just a hack, who can’t hold in his pee/
But you were good for laughs, at least, dear cheesehead/
O Tommy Boy, O Tommy Boy/
we’ll miss you . . . see? So? I’m sorry, what was that last word? My hearing aid isn’t working . . .
Perhaps the geniuses cannot follow a hyperlink to Atrios’ discussion of Thompson’s comment about Jews:
Tommy!
- WASHINGTON – Former Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential hopeful Tommy Thompson told Jewish activists Monday that making money is “part of the Jewish tradition,” and something that he applauded.
Speaking to an audience at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington D.C., Thompson said that, “I’m in the private sector and for the first time in my life I’m earning money. You know that’s sort of part of the Jewish tradition and I do not find anything wrong with that.”
Thompson later apologized for the comments that had caused a stir in the audience, saying that he had meant it as a compliment, and had only wanted to highlight the “accomplishments” of the Jewish religion.
I would like to compliment my African-American readers on their dancing abilities and athletic prowess, my Asian-American readers on their studiousness, and of course my female readers for their excellence in homemaking.
…almost forgot to congratulate my white male readers for their astounding successes in the face of unprecedented oppression.
For those who have an IQ approaching the single digits, Duncan is making fun of racist stereotyping as was Trapper John.
Could we have a better class or morons supporting Mark Kirk?
[…] Archpundit reports that the same folks who promoted a fallacy-based smear email attack last week (also misrepresenting Daily Kos in that earlier email) are at it again, ignoring Republican Tommy Thompson’s original caricature in favor of heaping another helping of misconstrued lies on progressive Daily Kos. […]
[…] Likewise, satirizing instances of Republican anti-semitism is not anti-semitic in and of itself. Plain and simple. If it did, then conservative partisans such as Ann Coulter, Charles Krauthammer and the like would have to be considered “America haters” for their many crude attempts at derogatory humor against liberals (and any other Americans they decide to oppose on a given day). […]