"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."After discovering that some in the audience took offense at the remark, he attempted an apology:
"I just want to clarify something because I didn't [by] any means want to infer or imply anything about Jews and finances and things," he said.
Unfortunately, he didn't stop there:
"What I was referring to, ladies and gentlemen, is the accomplishments of the Jewish religion. You've been outstanding business people and I compliment you for that."
Ho, boy. So what do you think, readers? Should he blame the rappers?
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This is like trying to suck up by recalling ethic stereotypes and trying to employ them without a clue that the stereotypes are usually offensive whether true or not. Is there a catagory called "clueless".
Sounds like he got some bad advice.
It's probably lucky on his part-- he was probably about to forgive them for killing his savior.
All he needed to add was a few "oy's"...
i'd vote for him.
is rap to blame for today's events?
I'm going to blame it on violent video games.
The Republicans really have no one.
For some reason, all I can think about is the Chris Rock bit where he talks about wishing people had those stereotypes about african-americans.
I say blame the Jews.
Or those articulate African-Americans, I'm not sure which.
Is it ignorance or stupidity?
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