“Jew for Sarah”

See Allison Hoffman’s profile of Bertram Korn, Jr., founder of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin, in Tablet.

Talk about rolling a rock uphill…

9 Responses to ““Jew for Sarah””

  • Mrs. Tarquin Biscuitbarrel:

    Money quote from “Buddy”: “Korn insisted that he was not in the market for a job with Palin’s political-action group, or in a future Palin campaign. ‘I don’t need that tsuris,’ he said.” For those who need a glossary, tsuris means big-time hassle, a major pain in the tuchis. I can’t imagine that any contact with $P could lead to anything BUT tsuris–just ask Frank Bailey. He may not know the word, but he wrote a whole book on how he endured it!

  • Lisabeth:

    Bertram must not understand Dominionism. He also can’t be too bright. Have you seen the extremely large tacky Star of David Sarah wears lately. It is so offensive. I’m Jewish and I don’t know a single Jew who doesn’t make a face when her name comes up. Even Republican Jews. I have tried to explain the Dominionist movement to people and their goals but people don’t believe me.

  • Freesia:

    I would put the idea of Jews for Sarah somewhere along the lines of Caribou for Palin. It’s in the Chicken for KFC territory.

    Any Jew who has studied at all the beliefs of Sarah Palin (which part do they like best do you suppose Mr. McGinnis? The part where they’re forced to convert to Christianity or the part where they’re used as cannon fodder because they didn’t?) has one of 2 issues: They’re ignorant of her beliefs and are just blinded by that Jupiter size Star of David bauble on her chest, or they’re Israel First and Foremost zionists and are very much aware of her ultimate agenda and just don’t care because their only agenda is Israeli apartment buildings in illegal territory and a blind hatred of Muslims and will supports leaders who support them in those beliefs.

    I’m sorry if that sounds harsh, but no self respecting American Jew with respect for their faith and for America could possibly support an opportunistic zealot like Palin. (Not to mention Jewish culture has a traditional high regard for intelligence and study and energetic debate. That kind of rules out Snowdrift Snookie, don’t you think?)

  • pinhead:

    “Jew for Sarah”? What, she could only get one?

  • Ratfishtim:

    Korn said: [The Palins don’t] come from some kind of cultural place that is hostile to Jews, blacks, and other minorities.”

    Obviously he hasn’t been to Palin’s house in Wasilla, and doesn’t understand that the Quitter is a grifter who thinks she just has to buy the largest Star of David she can find so she can bilk money from American Jews while spreading her message of hate and intolerance.

    Oy vay? You betcha, also, too.

  • Ratfishtim:

    The whole ad is offensive- just like the Palin Klan.

    Is she running one for Catholic Americans? Lutheran Americans? Mormon Americans? Baptist Americans? Buddhist Americans?

  • Freesia:

    Bwaaaa.

    He made a funny there. Sarah doesn’t “come from some kind of cultural place that is hostile to Jews, blacks, and other minorities.”

    That might news to the Obamas and to the African Americans who had to endure her race baiting rallies being covered as somehow legitimate political events, and also (too!) those “asian types” that made her so nervous in Hawaii that she had drop out of college. lol

    Some people are just…ridiculous.

  • Mrs. Tarquin Biscuitbarrel:

    $P refused to attend Juneteenth ceremonies in Alaska, or to hire black people, because she “didn’t have to.”

    Her former spokesman, Bill McAllister, allegedly is one-sixteenth African-American. He was pointed to as an example of Palin’s “minority hiring.”

  • Far East Loon:

    From Monoweiss:
    http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/hardball-panel-puts-israel-lobbys-power-on-christian-zionists-seeking-armageddon.html

    Chris Matthews, David Corn, and Gene Robinson go in for the usual evasion about the power of the Israel lobby in American politics, ascribing Sarah Palin’s visit to the Jewish state to her desire to please evangelical Christian voters. There is the usual talk about Armageddon from Matthews and These people don’t like Jews from Corn. The only sense here is Matthews repeatedly asking why Palin is not visiting Christian sites in the occupied territories: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem (which he puts in Israel) and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Good question. And Matthews knows the answer. This is not about evangelical Christians, this is about raising Jewish money, as honest Republican David Frum instructed us the other day. None of these three Dems speaks to the power of the Israel lobby inside Democratic Party life, which caused a progressive president to go back on his word to the Muslim world and support Israeli settlements, and which ties their tongues.