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Expect there to be no media outrage for this. After all, he’s not working for a republican administration.
There is nothing off-color about that joke (although it was lame.) Why is DU trying to stir up a tempest where none exists?
I’ve heard this joke before – years ago.
Though when I heard it before it didn’t have the Jewish / Taliban component.
Joke is just as funny (or not, ymmv) without mentioning race or religion.
Can’t imagine why a government official would add one.
But, I agree with #1 – there won’t be any media report about this, much less outrage.
I found nothing wrong with that joke either.
This joke isn’t related to me. We do have some distant cousins on the North Coast, somewhere around Lameville I believe.
Just a few frustrated teabaggers who can’t get over the fact that Sarah Palin isn’t VP, I guess.
I love how the racist teabagging community alway tries to drum up charges of racism against the Obama administration, in order to deflect the fact they are a lily-white organization supporting the Confederacy and are anti-black, anti-Asian, and anti-Latino.
Editors need vacations, too.
I don’t see the “off-color” part of the joke.
Of course the idea that the Taliban would let a Jewish shop-keeper live in Afghanistan is laughable.
Animal Mother–ditto.
Obviously, the “set-up” for this joke is missing. Something like “eventually the racial and religious suspicions between the tribes will diminish over time—-yada, yada, yada —– your brother says I need a tie.”
LOL,ROFLMAO,LLTA,(^o^) that joke was as lame as pointless acronyms senseless emoticons
should not cause much of a stir from what I can tell the Jewish people can take a Joke and boy can they tell some. other peoples could learn from them how to have a healthy ability to laugh at themselves
He’s insufferable.
It’s off color because it promotes a Jewish sterotype. If it were promoting a black stereotype, you idiots would be frothing at the mouth.
Glitch–gee, I thought it was off color because it demonstrated Taliban stupidity.
I guess it depends on who you hate?
The restaurant was black tie only.
Good joke. I liked it. Proves race and religion have nothing to do with good humor.
i am jewish and in the taliban… why is he saying any of this at all?????
I just remembered when I last heard this joke. It is used as a business plan/what have we learned lesson along the lines of:
When in the desert don’t reject opportunities out of hand,
Even when in extremes, think of longer term issues.
Don’t refuse help from an enemy when your back is against the wall.
But lets just call it off color with nothing to learn.
Off-color typically means “racist”, given that the Talaban is not a race and that Jewish is a religion and/or a race, D.U. is stretching this one way too far. The joke is lame but not “off-color” An off-color joke would start like “A (insert derogatory slang noun) walks into a bar…
Wow, anyone thinks that is “off-color”?? I thougth political hypercorrection was something typical in liberals. The right-wing must be desperate to resort to this.
#14 Ask Lindsey Graham
Of course no one thinks anything is wrong with this joke.
It’s perfectly fine to slander the Jews. I mean, they’re so well-off, why should they care about a little jabbing?!
LOL!!
🙂
It could be considered “off color” in that it is a joke that has a religious aspect. Good manners says that you should not broach the subjects of religion, sex, or politics in mixed company. A press conference could be considered mixed company. Poor timing is all.
Glitch said,
It’s off color because it promotes a Jewish sterotype.
And which stereotype would that be? That they have dress codes?
Thought it was pretty funny and heard nothing to be offensive.
Maybe I need to play it backwards?
#19
A DU blog poster walks in to a bar, man those DU blog posters are just no good at the Limbo
…and what was wrong with that joke besides that it wasn’t that funny? Someone really needs to get a life if they get offended by this.
#25 One of the most vile, pernicious Jewish stereotypes is that they sell ties. Mein Kampf had an entire chapter on it.
“One of the most vile, pernicious Jewish stereotypes is that they sell ties.”
So everyone here didn’t get all worked up over the photoshops of Obama eating KFC and smoking Newports?
I mean, it’s just a harmless stereotype!
A grasshopper walks into a bar.
The bartender says “We have a drink named after you”.
The grasshopper quipped “you have a drink named Steve?”.