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no_hypocrisy

(48,059 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 06:11 AM Jul 31

About Trump agreeing with WABC host Sid Rosenberg that Doug Emhoff

is a "crappy" and "horrible Jew" yesterday morning . . . .

It's bad enough when you have Jews defining other Jews as "bad Jews," IOW, not Jewish enough and don't deserve respect.* It's even more heinous to have a gentile (non-Jew) define who's a "good Jew" and a "bad Jew". Does that mean the "bad Jews" should be subject to antisemitism and the others left alone? We deserve to be targeted because we don't follow a uniform practice of Judaism? We have moral failings just because we don't fit into the pigeon hole that someone else constructed?

It's reprehensible as well as distasteful.



* My family went through that growing up. We started in a reformed temple and "progressed" to a conservative temple. Clearly, the congregation of the latter synagogue didn't accept us. We weren't pious enough; we weren't sincere Jews. It was more than we ate bacon. They made a judgment and we felt separated from the rest of them.

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claudette

(4,228 posts)
2. Personally
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 06:48 AM
Jul 31

I know young Jews who were snubbed at Temple because their father was a Gentile. Very sad. Worse is the orange felon judging Emhoff so cruelly because of his politics.

displacedvermoter

(2,360 posts)
3. Sid Rosenberg is a drug addled
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 07:36 AM
Jul 31

dirt bag who, last I knew, was doing radio ads for the rehab center he had most recently attended.

He got canned from WFAN because even that decidedly low brow, all sports talk operation couldn't tolerate his erratic behavior.

He is part of Giuliani, Bernard Karik, Jeanine Pirro, Bo Dietl, and Guardian Angels dirt bag shit circle of drunks and convicted liars that passes for the highest echelons of NYC conservative media stars. Trump is their model politician, with his racism and craziness the main attraction.

Sid Rosenberg's thoughts on anything are to be scorned and ignored. Serious people pay no attention.

displacedvermoter

(2,360 posts)
6. Actually Trump agreed with him
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 07:52 AM
Jul 31

but they are two peas in a rotten pod, and WABC is a haven for talk radio hosts fired from elsewhere, and crooks from the Giuliani sleazy cops/politicians gang.

AverageOldGuy

(1,836 posts)
7. So . . .
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 07:57 AM
Jul 31

. . . this is the bottom of the cesspool to which Trump has sunk?

Of course, the bottom of the cesspool is where you can find all the MAGAts.

displacedvermoter

(2,360 posts)
8. It's part of the same cesspool that
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 08:12 AM
Jul 31

Fox got sucked into when the Guardian Angels mugged that guy on camera cause they thought he was an illegal immigrant, except he wasn't and he's suing the hell out of all involved.

Curtis Sliwa is the primary dirt bag running the Guardian Angels and he has been one of the "stars", along with Giuliani, of the shitty WABC radio galaxy that, apparently, Sid Rosenberg now has a sleazy spot in

displacedvermoter

(2,360 posts)
11. Of course, now, Giuliani has proven himself
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 08:29 AM
Jul 31

to be too sleazy and publicly shameful even for WABC's woeful standards, so he was canned. Perhaps that was how the repugnant Sid Rosenberg was able to worm his way onto their wretched airwaves

LymphocyteLover

(6,236 posts)
4. putting religious beliefs aside, trump is just a horrible lying piece of filth and I still don't know how anyone decent
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 07:43 AM
Jul 31

person can stand listening to him or talking to him.

MyMission

(1,947 posts)
9. I agree! If I wasn't Jewish
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 08:13 AM
Jul 31

I might view his comments as just more of his hateful and weird drivel. Like the term rino they use, to judge and shame others in their party who don't conform on demand. It's a cult and he's the leader. They behave badly, lie, steal, cheat, call people names, act like rotten toddlers.

As a Jew, I've been insulted by tfg a number of times when i read or heard him say.. real Jews vote for him,
Dem Jews aren't real Jews, or real Americans, jews are stupid if we vote Dem, etc.

It's more of the same he's been spewing for years.
And it doesn't get easier to hear.
It is dangerous and scary, not to mention hurtful.




Collimator

(1,704 posts)
10. Is Stephen Miller a "Good Jew"?
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 08:16 AM
Jul 31

The man's ethno-religious background is immaterial. He's cold enough to freeze vodka.

Honestly, when you consider a group affiliation that extends to people as disparate as Bernie Sanders and Stephen Miller, what does it actually mean?

58Sunliner

(4,935 posts)
12. I'm sorry for what you have been through. The public should not have to watch and hear this abuse.
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 09:07 AM
Jul 31

It should be hate speech, outlawed, and censured.

Iggo

(48,062 posts)
13. It resonates with his target audience.
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 09:14 AM
Jul 31

It doesn’t matter if people agree with him or are mad at him.

“Jew. Jew. Jew.” is all he cares about. He just wants to make sure that when you think of Emhoff, you think “Jew.”

And it worked.

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