OBAMA’S SPEECH, AND EXPERIENCE 

By Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder 

           Like senior citizens stampeding into a restaurant for the Early Bird Special, commentators are falling all over each other in trying to declare that the Obama speech on race was the best speech since the Gettysburg Address, or at least since their Bar Mitzvah speeches, usually begun, “Today I am a fountain pen …” or perhaps now it should read “computer.” 

            The speech, however, was brilliant for a different reason.  He gave a speech about race when race was not the issue.  It would be like President Bush addressing Congress and making a speech about crabgrass. 

           The issue was Obama’s nitwit pastor.  His sermons – inconveniently for him (and Obama) videotaped – ran the spectrum from hateful “Goddam the United States” to the ridiculous – America caused the AIDS epidemic, to declaring that the Government was the cause of 9/11.  Although Obama claimed he never actually heard the preacher say these disgusting words, it was rapidly becoming absurd for him to continue in that position, given the fact the pastor was his spiritual advisor, married him, baptized his children, counseled with him, and made these remarks to many thousands of people in his audience.  The conservative press (as few as they may be), and conservative commentators were closing in.  It was only a question of time before people would turn up who were sitting in the audience with him while the pastor was spewing his idiosyncrasies.  He arrived at a brilliant solution – make a speech about something else before the rug is pulled out from under him and he would have to do a Spitzer.

           The problem is that today race is not really a problem in America.  The President of the largest entertainment conglomerate in America – Time Warner – is an African American, so is America’s leading talk show host.  The highest non-elective post in America, Secretary of State, is filled by an African American who, incidentally, replaced another African American. All of this is not to mention that Obama himself has astounding popularity and has a lead in being his party’s nominee for President. 

            Obama has successfully, by his speech, deflected attention from a potentially lethal blow which reflects on a real issue – his judgment.

           Obama seems to make a keystone issue that the major difference between he and Hillary is that he was opposed to the Iraq War from the start.  So what!  So was our brother-in-law.  And neither he nor Obama was in the Senate at the time to vote for or against the War, and who knows what they would have done if they had all the information available to them as Senators.

            Hillary says she is the candidate of experience because of her time in the White House.  Experience doing what?  Arranging flowers (as her recently released records revealed)?  Experience being one step ahead of the Sheriff?  Her just released records revealed that she was upstairs in the White House, while her husband was getting “Lewinskied” downstairs.   Some person might ask the uncharitable question: How is she going to figure out what’s going on in the rest of the world, when she could not figure out what was going on downstairs in her own house?

           The real question is: In a country that has so many talented people of all races and religions, in varying sizes, from giants to midgets, how did we end up with these two duds?

Jackie Mason and Raoul Lionel Felder

           In all of the thousands of photographs of Hillary on the campaign trail she always appears wearing trousers - not even one photograph with her wearing a skirt.  Not a peep on the subject from any commentator or member of the media.  Yet, if on a particularly steamy day campaigning in Florida or Georgia, Senator McCain wore a skirt, it would be the major story on every media outlet.  Is this fair?

            There was, rightfully, outrage when an MSNBC commentator referred to Mrs. Clinton as “pimping” out her daughter.  The comment was disgusting beyond disgusting, but the point attempted to be made, while foul in its expression, might be valid in its underlying concept.  The exploitive use of a particular person in a way where that individual’s personae is connected to a cause when the person’s views or expertise is unilluminating or irrelevant on the issues, is worthy of note, in an appropriate manner (as opposed to what was done on MSNBC).  Chelsea Clinton was paraded about not because of anything she could offer by way of sagacity in foreign or domestic affairs.  Let us be frank: she was on the tour because it pointed out Hillary’s non-robotic side – that she also is a mother – something that hopefully would resonate with other mothers.

            But to be fair: They all do this.  The Edwards campaign exploited Mrs. Edwards’ cancer.  President Bush had his half-Latino Spanish-speaking nephew working his campaign in areas where his speaking Spanish and his ethnicity would help him.  Celebrity endorsements are just another – perhaps more remote – manifestation of this same sort of campaign strategy.

           All of this is fair game for comment IF the commentary is couched in appropriate and non-offensive language.  Worse would be a paralyzing fear that frightens us into silence – even when it involves legitimate observations.

           Obama has run a brilliant campaign, is a mesmerizing speaker, and has captured the yearnings and hopes of millions of people.  He has transcended, in his appeal, race, ethnicity, age and sex.  But the fact is that he is experienced in running no enterprise and yet seeks to run the largest enterprise in the world.  He is virtually inexperienced in government, domestic and certainly foreign policy – all of which should be at the heart of any president’s expertise – and yet the same could really be said of Lincoln, and to some degree Franklin Roosevelt.  But somewhere, somehow, what Churchill referred to as “a little mouse of thought” must be considered: That is, if Obama were white, given his lack of experience, he would not be in the lead for his party’s nomination for President of the United States. 

           Commentators should have the intellectual honesty to note this, as well as the fact that it might be, in effect, a good thing.  His candidacy, with all of his lack of experience stands as a stark contrast and home for those people who are fed up, or, to be charitable, disenchanted with Washington’s business-as-usual, and the usual group of subjects simply playing musical chairs in the running of this country.  Credit must also be given him for not claiming experience when it does not really exist – which is precisely what Hillary Clinton has done.  Her experience basically has been to sleep with the President (hardly a unique claim – at least for females under eighty years of age in the Washington area), become an enabler for the President to carry on with his extra-marital activities and, as all first ladies, arrange for the catering of State dinners – hardly fitting the job description for a President.

           Nobody mentions the fact that senators, of both parties run for president and ask us for our support, money, effort and loyalty.  But yet these same senators do not have enough faith in their own cause to quit their day job and leave the senate.  Putting aside the fact that if they are running for president, they cannot put in full time to do their jobs in the Senate (for which we pay them), why should we have faith in them and give them our money when they hedge their bets?   Would it not make more sense to say to them, “When you show me you believe in yourself and your cause to the extent you give up your other job, then we will support you”?  Is there any business where you can say to your boss, “Keep paying me my full salary for two years while I spend my time looking for another job”?

Thoughts On The Writers Guild Strike

By Raoul Felder

            The Writers Guild is about to go on strike and the networks shamelessly announced that this would immediately affect the evening talk shows and daytime soap operas by forcing re-runs to be substituted for their usual fare.  There was not a hint of embarrassment in this announcement.  Is it then admitted that we are left with television notables who cannot even carry on quasi-coherent conversation and actors who cannot improvise the subnormal discourse with other actors intended for the IQ challenged viewers addicted to TV’s daily inanities.

           Ghost  writers have become a recognized occupation beginning with  our Presidents down to our comedian (which, in some cases, might be the same).

            The role of  Ghost Writers first became memorialized in our political culture with FDR.  He utilized, among others, the services of Sam Rosenmund, a New York Judge, who Roosevelt brought with him when he moved from Governor to President.  But Roosevelt heavily edited the speeches written for him thereby molding it to his personality.  His “Day of Infamy Speech” – indeed that very phrase – was basically his alone.

            As time passed, the creative role of the President in writing his speeches became less and less, finally arriving at the point where he basically became an announcer.  Not only was it generally acknowledged Peggy Noonan was the author of Reagan’s Pont du Hoc speech but she wrote a book about it, explaining in exquisite detail how she crafted the speech.  Bottom line:  Reagan, the great communicator, was basically an announcer.  Can anyone imagine Lincoln hiring a speech writer to write the Gettysburg Address?  From there it goes downhill. Mere mortals who have a ghost write a book for them, usually have the decency to put “as told to,” or “with” etc. under the author’s name.  But not politicians.  Hillary Clinton’s best seller “It Takes A Village,” did not list any other writer except herself even though it was generally acknowledged that it was ghost written.  And, of course, the joke was that Kennedys’ “Profiles In Courage,”  was the first book written by a ghost writer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

            Now, can anybody imagine George Carlin or Jackie Mason not being able to carry on a conversation without somebody holding up cue cards?

            Maybe the strike is a good thing.  At least the public will discover that the Emperor has no clothes.  Lord knows, they might even be forced to buy a book written by its real author.

Jackie Mason Vlog 63 Al Gore

            I can’t believe this low life won a Peace Prize.  First of all, what does global warming have to do with peace.  Second, what does he even know about the subject?  Who made him an expert?  Why does Al Gore deserve to win this award?  Come to think of it, with other low life laureates that come to mind, Carter, Annan and Arafat, Al gore that phony hypocrite does deserve the award.

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Jackie Mason Vlog 64 Fred Thompson Scares The Democrats

           The Democrats along with the help of the mainstream, democrat controlled press of this country are down playing Senator Fred Thompson with every chance they get.  They know he’s a real threat to them winning in ’08.  Everytime Fred Thompson does something that could help him win the primary, they bury it in a second.  Anything that could persuade primary voters that he is the best chance to win in ’08 is replaced by their “broken record” mantra about him being lackluster and lazy.  He is the only candidate they don’t have any dirt on.  Fred Thompson’s position on every issue is solid, and he has never flip-flopped on his convictions.  Hillary, who has no convictions of any kind, knows she will have trouble beating him.

            Fred Thompson scares the life out of the Democrats, but they will do their best, along with a little help of their friends, the mainstream press, to make you totally unaware of it so you’ll vote for someone they can beat.

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Jackie Mason Vlog 65 Foods, Fakes, Frauds, Fiction or Facts!

            Everything you eat kills you. Everything that helps you… will kill you. Everything that kills you… will help you.

          Doctor’s change their minds everyday about what is good or bad for you. To make matters worse, they along with some other crooks are selling us 50 different kinds of eggs. Hey schmuck… AN EGG IS AN EGG!

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Jackie Mason Vlog 66 California Wildfires

            The democrats wanted you to believe that the California wildfires were Bush’s fault, until they realized that the government handled the crisis swiftly and correctly.   Now, where is Bush’s praise from the democrats? Where?

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Jackie Mason Vlog 67 Hillary Clinton Exposed At The Debate

            It doesn’t take a debate to expose Hillary for being a fraud.  Everyone is surprised to see Hillary exposing her lack of conviction and flip-flopping during the last MSNBC debate this week.  The truth is she does this all the time.  I’ve been showing you examples of her fakery for years now.  So here we go again…

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By Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder

America is the home of the free and the land of the brave.  At least that is what we all learned in school.  A basic tenet of the role science has in a free society is that the government does not direct science or instruct scientists where their quests must lead; that scientists are free to explore and search for truth, whether that truth is convenient, politically correct, contradicts government policy, or runs contrary to the sentiments of the day.  Truth is truth, whether you like it or not and agree with its existence.  Truth is not like your wife who may look beautiful to you and ugly to your girlfriend, or vice versa.  When the Inquisition forced Galileo to recant the Copernican theory, after he did so, he muttered, “And yet [the Earth] it still moves.”
 

Apparently a subject that has attracted scientists is the question of the correlation between race and intelligence.  Now don’t get us wrong.  We believe that basically this is an area of wasteful analysis.  In our lives, we don’t deal with “races,” we deal with individual people.  For instance, if science has determined that Jews are smarter than Buddhists, the fact is if we needed an operation, we would rather have a smart Buddhist picking up the scalpel than a dumb Jew.  But if scientists want to explore a particular subject for what they believe is a search for the truth, and want to waste their (hopefully, not the public’s) money on a particular piece of nonsense, so be it.
 

A worldwide uproar occurred because Nobel Prize winner James Watson made a racist statement about the lower intelligence of Africans.  “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours,” according to the London Sunday Times, but then he added, “Whereas all our testing says, ‘Not really.’”  Who cares?  Even if true - which we believe it is not - it is basically an irrelevancy.  Does that mean, if Watson is to be believed, that Africans should not be entitled to an equal share of the economic pie, the right to be equally educated, or the right to have all the protections and benefits that government can offer?  In short, even if it were true - again, which we do not believe it is - who cares?  Might not centuries of exploitation and denial of the benefits of education and health facilities cause testing to be skewed?
 

Watson’s position is eerily similar to that of Professor Arthur Jensen, who wrote an article in 1969 in the Harvard Educational Review wherein he postulated that racial differences in intelligence test scores may have a genetic origin.  He suffered the same fate as Dr. Watson.

While one may believe or disbelieve this sort of pseudo-science - and we do believe these “results” should be dumped into the dustbin where we personally put global warming and the Loch Ness monster - scientists like Watson and Jensen should have a right to journey to wherever their scientific quest leads them and not be attacked personally.  The problem is, if we start attacking the scientists, somewhere down the line we will only produce scientists who produce what the government wants them to produce.  Their role will basically be one of validating positions that have already been taken by the authorities before they begin their undertakings.  Even if these explorations result in cockeyed results and theories and, in the long run, theories that should impact our thinking not one bit, the alterative - cutting off the scientists before they do the work, or making them feel that if they don’t produce the desired results they will be personally discredited - is much worse than the nonsense they eventually produce.  
 

By Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder

My Night With Bill Clinton

I live near Carnegie Hall basically because if I open the window, sometimes I can hear the music…and if I can’t hear the music, it certainly beats living near a garbage dump. On the other hand, maybe I do live near a garbage dump. The other night I tried to come back to my apartment after an evening of rivalry (basically borscht and blintzes), and found the way to my apartment blocked, and dozens of policemen and police cars in the street.

Concerned that there may have been a natural disaster, I inquired of the policemen. It turned out that there was a disaster, but the disaster’s name was Bill Clinton. He was speaking at Carnegie Hall, and because of this, the street was closed off, police cars were all around too, etc. I told them I am going to my apartment, and they could arrest me if they like, secure in the knowledge that, at least as far as I knew, there was no crime called “Violating the Clinton Statute.” So I went happily to my apartment unarrested. Now, the unworthy thought occurs to me that if a semi-crook like Clinton, who was disbarred (too big a liar to be a lawyer), impeached, alleged to have raped a woman, perjured himself, “sold” pardons, and even went off with some of the White House silver, gets to have a street closed off, then John Gotti had the right to have had the whole city closed down for him, and all he ended up with is being locked up in a room with no girls.

Several days have now passed since Clinton’s exit from Carnegie Hall, and now, thankfully, I can open the windows again.

Jackie Mason Vlog 60 Much Ado About Nothing

Some African Americans were outraged that McCain, Giuliani, Thompson, and Romney didn’t show up in last week’s Debate at historically black Morgan State University in Maryland, saying that the snub meant that they do not care about Black voters. How can this be when the current President has done more for minorities than any President since Johnson? Also people forget that this debate was for the GOP nomination. With only 7% of registered Black voters registered as Republican, that isn’t really a voting block that can put you on the ticket. Republicans have been snubbed by African Americans for years. So even if it was really a scheduling conflict, there is nothing wrong with these men making better use of their time.

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Jackie Mason Vlog 61 Reid’s Rush To Judgment

How does Reid have the right to condemn anyone, especially when it comes to supporting our troops? How could anybody with a half a brain take anything from Media Matters as the truth? Well, I think I just answered my own question.

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Weekly musings by Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

Thoughts On E-mail

            People used to say, “Do right and fear no man; don’t right and fear no woman.”  And now e-mails have supplanted old fashioned snail mail, but yet, no such caution seems to be involved.  It seems that people feel that when they sit in front of their computer alone at night and type out all sorts of nonsense, somehow they are removed from responsibility for their missiles. 

           Currently, the Governor of New York appears, perhaps rightfully, perhaps wrongly, disinclined to release his e-mails that may be part of the scandal du jour, and, the Governor of New Jersey appears to be in trouble because of e-mails concerning his girlfriend, which he now, pursuant to a court order, has to turn over.  All of this is quite an apart and aside from the fact that any divorce lawyer will tell you about half of the people who come into their offices have a briefcase full of e-mails sent or received by a formerly believed-to-be-faithful spouse.  Various laws have been passed, such as one in New York, making it illegal to look at somebody else’s e-mail, but that doesn’t seem to deter jealous spouses.  They apparently operate under the proposition that if the computer is in their home, it is open season on whatever’s in it.

            Best advice:  don’t send e-mails of a personal nature unless you have no problem with your spouse – and eventually a judge – reading them.

Jackie Mason Vlog 52 End Of Summer Round-up

            Here we go.  As the summer draws to a near, Gonzales quits for doing nothing, Larry Craig gets in trouble for touching a toilet stall and for having a wide stance, and Clinton and other Democrats try to bury some “Shoe Money.”  What a crazy world of politics this is.

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Jackie Mason Vlog 53 Fred Thompson Isn’t Late, The Others Are Early

            The experts are claiming that because Fred Thompson joined the campaign too late, that it will hurt him.  One of the first candidates to officially announce his bid for president was Sen. Brownback.  What has joining the campaign early done for him?  Here’s my advice to you… stop listening to the pundits.  They can’t tell you who will be president better than my sister-in-law from Pittsburg can.

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GLOBAL WARMING

Obviously, anybody this side of a lunatic asylum would not suggest that all the poisons, automobile omissions, factory smoke, and cow flatulations that go into the atmosphere could be doing any of us any good.  Of course, the cow flatulation problem could easily be resolved by mixing substantial amounts of Gas-X in with the hay.  But there is apparently a substantial amount of scientific authority (ranging from the scientists at NASA, the Brookhaven Laboratory, and various universities) that cannot merely be ascribed to payments from financially invested corporations suggesting that global warming is more hype than reality.  But one thing should be plain to even non-scientific types, and that is, simple arithmetic.

In 2003, there was a monumental heat wave across Europe killing approximately 35,000 people – 2,000 in the U.K. alone.  This is an awful and painful statistic.  But worse is the fact that many more people die from the cold each winter.  In England alone, approximately 25,000 people usually die each year from the cold.  In Europe, over the same period that approximately 200,000 people died from heat, approximately 1.5 million Europeans died from the cold.  Also, probably because of expanding use of air conditioners, the death rate from heat is continually being reduced.
          

Logically, the same global warming, whether one believes it is something we cause, or it is just one of those ebbs and flows that happen in the history of the world, at the same time saves many more lives by reducing the greater number of people who would otherwise die from the cold winters.  The arithmetic, though cruel and unfair, is simple, and suggests we need more research, and the fact that we should not facilely accept the fact that global warming is a people-created killer – or even is an unnatural phenomenon.

Jackie Mason vlog 50 “Spell Boloney H-I-L-L-A-R-Y”

            On Hillary Clinton’s recent statement that a terror attack would help republicans.

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Jackie Mason vlog 51 “The Lowest Common Denominator”

            In this country we still have all these rigid moral laws, dictating “Decency” on broadcast waves. You can’t say this, you can’t show that, etc. But tell me what’s so decent about a commercial for erectile dysfunction, herpes medicine that allows you to be promiscuous without guilt, or curing diarrhea? Every other ad on TV or radio is absolutely disgusting. Where is the FCC on this? Fine Howard Stern $1,000,000 for saying the “F” word, give The Sopranos an Emmy. What the h*** is decent anymore?

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