Discussion: NY State Senate Candidate Decries Ad Depicting Him As Fiddler On The Roof

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NY State Senate Candidate Decries Ad Depicting Him As Fiddler On The Roof NY State Senate Candidate Decries Ad Depicting Him As Fiddler On The Roof Back to article
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Dog-whistlin’ past the graveyard…

(thier own)

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“Until…they come for YOU…”

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Oy Vey!

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While this ad is not overtly anti-Semitic, I think there is little doubt as to the subtext. I guess HO has just unleashed the beast, and all the bigots and haters feel free to show themselves. It’s disgusting and “deplorable” and I do hope the GOP pays for this next month. Some folks still want to pretend it’s the 20th century (or the 18th!) but the calendar and demographic changes will soon prove them wrong.

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Something doesn’t connect…

Don’t all the bible-thumping RWNJ’s profess to love and worship only Jesus, who was a Jew?

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Donald Trump: “The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”

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“Headlined ‘Don’t fiddle with New York’s property-tax cap’ and includes an image of Adam Haber’s face photoshopped onto the body of a character in Fiddler on the Roof.”

Just in case there’s anyone left who still doesn’t know what “Make America Great Again” means…

Here’s the answer.

(You’re welcome.)

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Donald Trump´s not an anti-Semite! He even hires Jews to handle his money, ´cos they´re so good with it!

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The one they worship became blond and blue eyed when he converted.

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In response to the drastic drop-off in campaign funding due to Donnie’s monumental gaffes, Team Drumpf has relocated to new quarters. Donnie is only charging his foundation $100,000 per week for rent.

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Aryanized?

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I’d say it’s pretty overt. There is no rational way to interpret it that isn’t anti-Semitic.

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Bunker Room banter!

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It’s also just an unforgivably lame ad.

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This is definitely racist. The fiddler is wearing a tallit under his vest. So Haber is depicted as a cartoon Jew. Maybe not purely anti-semitic, in that it’s not outright calling Jews anything, but certainly some racist shit.

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O/T, but the headline nearly made me have a drink before cocktail hour

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/george-w-bush-and-laura-bush-to-be-buried-at-state/nspRn/?icmp=statesman_internallink_referralbox_free-to-premium-referral

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The irony of this ad is the original star of Fiddler, Zero Mostel was blacklisted back in the HUAC era. The same folks running the ad would love a 21st century version of HUAC. "Have you ever been a …

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That ad made me feel creepy all over. Of course it’s only a couple of weeks since I was at the house where the Wannsee Conference was held, so I’m just a touch sensitized. (And yes, a lot of the decades-earlier rants look troublingly familiar.)

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