The news that Mel Brooks has taken up the fight to "save the word, Schmuck," has rankled many of those who are battling to close the borders, save Christmas and make America, American once again.
"Smuck(sic) is a Jew word," said well-known non-Jew, Ann Coulter. "When will Jews understand they are in America now, and they should either learn to talk good American or go back to Jewville or wherever it is that they speak Jew. Certainly they won't be able to speak it in any heaven that I know"
"I'm only being satirical," he added.
While Brooks has said he "could no longer stand idly by while a vital part of American culture is lost forever," Bill O'Reilly finds Brooks's rational harmful to Americn values, Christmas and our troops...already in harm's way.
"Hey, as you can read in my book 'Culture Warrior,' I like Jews just as much as the next goy," said O'Reilly. "But we're in a culture war right now and as you can read in my book Cultural Warrior, now out in paperback, you can't be using Jew colloquialisms any more than you can hang 'em on a Christmas tree that the ACLJew and Hollywood Jew-loons want to turn into a Chanukah bush."
O'Reilly feels that Brooks' attempt to "Jew-up" our vocabulary is against everything the founding fathers fought for.
"America is a Judea-Christian country built on Judea-Christian words, not Jewish-Christian words" said the FoxNews host who wrote the book "Culture Warrior." "Where in the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights for that matter, did Jefferson or Lincoln mention smuck(sic)?"
CNN's Lou Dobb was even more adamant, pretty much just yelling.
"Tonight, an amazing development in banking directly benefitting Mr. Brooks attempt to Jewify this country. Bank of America is now issuing its credit cards to people with no Social Security number, just the Hebrew letters s-c-h-m-u-c-k."
Dobbs yelled even louder.
"It is becoming more and more obvious that Jews and the federal government alike are comfortable with no fence between the U.S. and Israel. Whether the word be 'schmuck' or 'Cinco de mayo,' we're looking at the de-Americanization of Americanization. First they take our jobs and services, now it's our language. What's next, our Chinese food? Ladies and gentleman, if we allow the word 'schmuck' to run rampant, expressing our pique and exasperation with our fellow Americans, we might just as well get ready to for our major corporations, schmata markets and jewelry businesses to soon be crowded with Jews of all faiths."
Sought out for a response, Brooks would only say, "Schmucks."
Disclaimer: Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (www.greatfailure.com)and his "All The News That's Fit To Spoof" appears in L.A. Daily News opeds every Sunday (www.dailynews.com/steveyoung), right next to Bill's...really.
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I hope most people will understand that it is all satire and none of the quotes are real, but you can never be sure. I wrote an article once like that and got several dozen emails from people who were certain I was not being satirical.
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Steven Leser (228 articles, 49 quicklinks, 34 diaries, 1647 comments)
on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 9:13:39 AM
It'll be a sad, sad day, in deed, when a writer has to label his work as satire or spoofery, especially when a writer like The Other Steve has built his reputation on an entire lifetime career of being a satirist.
Of course, you got a ton of email questioning whether you were kidding. You're so deadly serious all the time, they weren't expecting satire from you.
If we have to explain that it's a "joke," then there's no hope for the reader or the listener. I want to smack Bill Maher so hard with a cream pie every time he says, "Oh, I kid the president."
He a comedian for crissake. He makes his living telling jokes. Of course, he's kidding, albeit truth in jest. But everytime he says he's kidding he insults his audience who go in expecting and knowing he's going to tell jokes.
There's an old saying, cleaned up for the occasion: If they can't take a joke, screw 'em.
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Sandy Sand (175 articles, 0 quicklinks, 223 diaries, 1503 comments)
on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 11:29:39 AM
I guess that is fine if you knew who he was & were already a
fan... I had no idea who he was and my initial thought was that here was a person who did not understand that the Onion was satire and took it as a "real newspaper/organization".
Of course, I read further, saw Steve's bio, etc., and realized that he knew full well it was satire, but, lets face it, the tags are here for a reason. We aren't anal-retentive here about it like they are on Daily-Kos (it takes me longer to repost an article there than it usually does to write it in the first place, mostly because of the tagging requirements).
Do I come across as so serious all of the time? Interesting. I have to meditate on that a bit.
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Steven Leser (228 articles, 49 quicklinks, 34 diaries, 1647 comments)
on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 11:42:32 AM
...technically, yes but it's delightful. The fact that we'd even ask for a satire notation is a further comment, more of the craft of this piece. I like it more and more;)
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Michael Collins (106 articles, 16 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 358 comments)
on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 2:14:29 PM
With Coulter and Bill-O, I could actually imagine the article being true. But when it got to Dobbs, I finally cracked a smile. Before that, I was about ready to use my Uzi on my 50" plasma, leaving O'Reilly a smoking, crackling, vaporized memory of the guy that's looking out for me. I've just been waiting for an excuse to fire that baby.
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W.M.L. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 399 comments)
on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 2:15:35 PM
So what do those schmucks know? Judaism is not a language, it's a religion. The language from which the word is derived is Yiddish, a cross between Hebrew and German, and not Jew-ism. There is no Xtian language, there is no Jewish language. The American culture picks up words from practically every language in the world, so what's wrong with a few Yiddish words? There is Hebrew, but it's a regional language in the middle east like Arabic. And where in the hell does that putz Dobbs come up with the line "Jews of all faiths"? That would be the same as saying Xtians of all faiths. Would he create Xtian Islamics? If it weren't for spreading hatred, cretins like Dobbs, O'Reilly and Coulter have absolutely no purpose in life what so ever.
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Dave Kisor (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 158 comments)
on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 9:02:42 PM
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