The New York Spectator: Who's Kidding Who?
Mason, Jackie & Felder, Raoul
by Jackie Masort artd RaouI Felder Who's Kidding Who? to-be ethical person, on the ticket with Love it or kieberman, or something like that. him, a person identified with deeply...
...Osbourne the III had nothing against Jews, especially if he got sick since every Gentile knows Jews are the best doctors...
...A GoreLieberrnan ticket upset Osbourne...
...He understood that Gore had problems...
...Considered to be a devoutly religious Orthodox Jew, he was one of the few Democrats in the Senate who openly condemned Clinton for his activities...
...So what, he said, a president doesn't have to be perfect in arithmetic...
...When it came to making fund-raising calls from a government office, which is also a crime, Gore, just like Clinton, instantly became a linguistics expert doing pirouettes around the words "is" and "here...
...But it was like he was stabbed in the heart when A1 Gore picked Joseph Lieberman as his running mate...
...him, a person identified with deeply reli...
...The unworthy thought crossed our minds that most rapists and degenerates could make this same argument...
...To Osbourne, Jewish lawyers were also OK, at least if it involved an accident case...
...RAOUL FELDER is a lawyer and nationally syndicated radio talk show host...
...embassy in Israel to Jerusalem...
...Putting his anti-Semitism aside, Osbourne tried to explain to anyone who would listen that placing Lieberman on the ticket would not sanitize Gore...
...Now, Osbourne is no slouch when it comes to politics...
...Gore admitted under oath that he attended one fundraiser in a government building...
...After he gave this explanation, all over America criminals were running to supermarkets to buy iced tea...
...Then Gore was caught raising money in a tax-exempt religious institution: a Buddhist temple...
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...Joseph Lieberman, on the other hand, seemed to be a divine inspiration...
...Fundraising in a government building is against the law...
...The Gore people, however, forgot about poor Osboume the Ill, one of the twelve percent of Americans who, when polled, acknowledged being anti-Semitic...
...Why didn't you say so in the first place...
...Even Billy Graham offered an excuse for Ctinton's behavior, saying that Clinton was a sexy man and just couldn't help himself...
...But nobody would listen to Osbourne...
...The Gore people reasoned that Jesse Jackson was too black, Billy Graham too old, and Louis Farrakhan too vile to he chosen as a running mate...
...Oh, if you have proof, it's anothJACKIE MASON is starring on Broadway in a one-man show, Much Ado About Everything...
...He said he's sorry, we should forgive him and move on" seemed to be the mantra...
...But as far as being in a Buddhist temple for a fundraiser, he had no such recollection...
...Gore had spent the last eight years down the hall from Clinton, giving out numbers to the girls as they lined up...
...Whenever the subject of fundraising came up at one important meeting, Gore's answer was he didn't hear it because he wasn't in the room...
...Gore was also the author of the weewee school of jurisprudence...
...He then was able to remember sitting in a room with zoo men with their hair shaved off, all wearing sheets and handing him money...
...He drank too much iced tea and had to respond to a call of nature at the very moment when they were talking about the things he came to discuss in the first place...
...He had a perfect alibi...
...Most of America's religious leaders proudly went along with him...
...It works the other way around...
...And he didn't mind seeing a Jewish comedian on the stage or even buying shirts from a Jew...
...Osboume tried to explain that Lieberman has taken positions opposite that of Gore's on Social Security, school choice, affirmative action, and even the idea of moving the U.S...
...It just seems like an anti-Semite can't get a break these days...
...Lieberman has attacked the movie industry, a base of economic support for Clinton-Gore, and was the author of a Senate report that criticized the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign for taking monies from companies and people with ties to China...
...He thought he was either at a bald-headed men's KKK convention or a Macy's January White sale...
...Then they told him they had proof...
...In brief, how can you trust a man who is prepared to make so many flip-flops just to get elected...
...If John Gotti went into partnership with the Grand Rabbi of Jerusalem, Gotti would not be perceived as an honest figure, but rather the Rabbi would appear to be in partnership with a criminal...
...But it turned out it was not just one he attended, but 21 of them...
...Osbourne was smart and understood Gore's need to balance the ticket in such a way, that the very presence of a perceivedcult to tie Gore to Clinton's activities...
...When Clinton was caught with his pants down and his presidency was turned into one long dirty joke, Gore praised him as "one of America's greatest presidents...
...His explanation was that it never happened...
...gious principles, would, in itself, make a strong moral statement and make it diffiO sbourne Chauncey de Pew the III was in a tizzy...
...Gore, who is not a lawyer suddenly became an expert in interpreting the law, saying, "let me repeat that there is no controlling legal authority that says any of these activities violated the law...
Vol. 33 • October 2000 • No. 8
