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Katie Halper

Katie Halper

Posted: January 12, 2011 06:30 PM

Governor Palin, or Sarahleh, I hope you don't mind if I call you Sarahleh, do you? As we all know, schlemiels from the left to the right getting their yarmulkes all up in a bunch because you accused the media of blood libel. Blood libel--the claim that Jews murder Christian babies to use their blood for rituals such as making matzoh--is, of course, a false claim. My matzoh is so to die for it doesn't need condiments anyway, but, moving on. Sure, you're not Jewish, and sure, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is. But Az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde! (If my grandmother had testicles she would be my grandfather.) As a Jewess, I think it's an absolute shandeh that so many schmucks, be they goys or yids, are talking such drek about you. They have some chutzpah! Feh! All this mishegas over bubkhis, really! I think you have every right to make any statements about us chosen people because you practically are a chosen person yourself. Here is why I officially name you Sarahla Palinksy: an honorary Jew

  1. What's in a name? A lot of Jewishness! Your name Sarah, and your abstinent (almost) only daughter's baby daddy is named Levi. Whoah! How Jewy is that? And I suspect that said daughter is named Bristol because it is a derivation of the word bissel (little) because when she was born she was little. The Jewish Chronicle even "reckon[s]" that your husband is Jewish (though their use of the word reckon puts their own Jewishness into question).
  2. You keep Israel close to your heart... or at least your chest where you place your Israel lapel pin.
  3. You have an Israel flag in your office. You once told Israel's president Shimon Perez "The only flag at my office is an Israeli flag...and I want you to know and I want Israelis to know that I am a friend." Well it turns out Israel is one of three flags but who's counting? And it's smaller but that's so it stands out from the bigger framed flags.
  4. There's a site called Jews for Sarah so that means that there are definitely Jews who are for you. They do have "coming soon" under the "reasons they support you," under your "family values", and under "fiscal responsibility", but I'm sure they're sifting through all their reasons and there are so many and that's why it's taking so long.
  5. You're mishpocheha. you have such a mystical connection to Jews, you called Israeli President Simon Peres, whom you had never met, "my old friend." Such a connection. It's kismit.
  6. You see Jewish people from your window (there have to be some left in Russia).
  7. You keep kosher or at least really like to nosh on moose, which is kosher, I'm pretty sure.
  8. You're a huge fan of probably the most famous Jew in all of history.
  9. Major FOTJ (Friend of the Jews) Pat "too many Jews on the Supreme Court" Buchanan thinks what you said is more than kosher, it's excellent: "Frankly I thought it was an excellent statement with regard to the phrase 'blood libel'.... That of course refers to the libel that was used in the Middle Ages, charges against Jews that were utterly unsupportable slanders and I think she's using it in that context." Fingers crossed, other FOTJs, like David Duke and Prussian Blue will defend you also. Then the matter will be settled.
  10. You're such a Jew, I even designed a cover for your next book, Going Rugelach: A Jewish American Life.

 

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lightnessandjoy
Is micro-bio a new disease?
10:26 PM on 01/17/2011
What fun! The only thing funnier was visiting the "Jews for Sarah" website. Thanks for the heads-up.
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StillMadMatt
Offending the right people is its own virtue.
01:39 PM on 01/13/2011
verklempt is german
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Libby123
Where are we going? Why are we in this handbasket?
11:33 PM on 01/13/2011
Yiddish is a "High German" language. A German-speaking person can usually make themselves understood to a Yiddish speaker and vice versa. Yiddish is mostly German in origin but with some Aramaic, Hebrew and Slavic stuff sprinkled in there as well. The Ashkenazim, or Eastern European Jews, spoke what developed in to Yiddish, while the Sephardim, the Jews of Spain and Southwestern Europe, were more likely to speak the local languages in addition to Hebrew. Yiddish is unusual in that while it is basically a European language it is written using the Hebrew alphabet.
How cool is that? Very, I think.
Holypat777
Got no time 4 closed minds-WA/3D
11:26 AM on 01/14/2011
Wow, thanks for the linguistics course.

Fanned!
10:31 AM on 01/13/2011
This is so cute. I love all the funny Jewish words, and use them frequently, because there's always a yiddish word that perfectly describes just being.....veklempt. (which probably isn't really a word, but it is so....expressive. Just like this article. Keep laughing. That's how unity occurs. Through deep appreciation for what separates us.....which mostly binds us.
10:25 AM on 01/13/2011
OK, it is enlightening and funny, but also satire and satire is meant to hurt people. We don't need more hurt right now.
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Libby123
Where are we going? Why are we in this handbasket?
11:40 AM on 01/13/2011
You believe that "satire is meant to hurt people"?!?
ydrittmann
Vitter patronizes women.
01:29 PM on 01/13/2011
Sarah Palin means to hurt people and has just shown she still doesn't get it. Thus the satire.
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Renlim
09:05 AM on 01/13/2011
Palin Support:

Thanks but no thanks no one needs a albatross around there neck.
With friends like this who need enemies?
09:04 AM on 01/13/2011
Katie Halper. Thanks, such an entertaining post. You have a lock on this __________, __________,_______, __________ (fill in the blanks) Alaskan woman.
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Paperless Tiger
07:49 AM on 01/13/2011
Who else would try to hijack the "blood libel" meme? That ain't Kosher.
04:02 AM on 01/13/2011
Oh..god thank you..I need the laugh.
07:55 AM on 01/13/2011
ditto
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CajunSpectre
Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulet
12:25 AM on 01/13/2011
Refreshing and funny. Thanks Ms. Halper.
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TheMediaRanger
Pull over, buddy, let's see your poetic license
11:57 PM on 01/12/2011
There's no place in Wasilla for satire. Still, I wonder where she gets her kreplach.
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11:47 PM on 01/12/2011
From one Jewess to another: How 'bout we not make her an honorary Jew and just say that we did. (Funny stuff, though, bubeleh.)
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lisalulu
I stand for Planned Parenthood.
10:47 PM on 01/12/2011
Funny List! We all need humor!

Spot On Katie.
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tpcinaz
I love republicans...they taste just like chicken.
10:08 PM on 01/12/2011
Oy! We atheists don't care who gets her, but that was one big matzah ball she laid today.
09:54 PM on 01/12/2011
Must've picked it up in the Wall Street Journal.
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tulsey
I was Bill Hicks.
09:50 PM on 01/12/2011
Although they control the media and killed our Jesus [Wait a minute! Wasn't HE a Jew? I'm confused.] Anyway, this Yid bashing just ain't kosher. Bible $pice defintely Old Tesament.