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A Democratic state senator in South Carolina recently opined in The State that Sen. Jim DeMint, while rather deft in the arts of being tragically insane on a national level, does a poor job of bringing money home for his state, SOME OF WHICH MIGHT HELP. An unfair criticism? So unfair!, declared “Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer” in a response. Let’s see how they made their case! “There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy…” OH GOD.
“There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves,” Ulmer and Merwin wrote in a joint letter published by The Times and Democrat. “By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation’s pennies and trying to preserve our country’s wealth and our economy’s viability to give all an opportunity to succeed.”
EDITING, the cave men once called it. “Ed, Jim, I think we should edit out your crazy awful anti-Semitic quip here,” the cave editor would say.
GOPers: DeMint Like A Jew “Watching Our Nation’s Pennies” [Huffington Post]
But the editor did edit it, because it originally was written, “There is a saying that the JOOES who are wealthy….”
Say wasn’t Demented one of the biggest supporters of the Iraqi-nam clusterfuck?
Why yes, yes he IS.
Jim Demented: Penny wise, 2 Trillion Dollar (and counting) foolish.
Ballyhoo!
= last gurgle of a dying elite as the 5 billion ton Zionist tiger closes on a windpipe.
Hey, it’s cool. Make all the quips you want. WE OWN YOU.
Zionist conspiracy F0R3VAR.
It warms my heart to read stuff like that and think “Gosh, they really do like my people.”
DeMint— he’s a wealth of kkknowledge.
blader: No, no, . . . first it said “There is a saying that the Kikes who are wealthy. . .”
This is a veritable mini-holocaust of unfortunate of word choices.
When we were young yeshiva buchers, we used to say that the best thing to do with southern crackers was to grind them into crumbs and throw the crumbs into the nearest bayou.
Don’t even get Ulmer started on the negroes and the wimminz.
What a fun window on the workings of other people’s minds: in the same way that the Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to grant a marriage license to an interracial couple is saying “Hey, I’m doing them a favor! I don’t want their offspring to be unhappy,” this guy is saying “What? I was just paying them a *compliment* !”
ZOG is gonna be so pissed.
Wait, what? Isn’t this the state which proudly refused the Obamarama Stimulus?
The same state which seceded from the Union first, and did it because of “State’s Rights?”
Can’t they just (n-word)-rig their budget?
I didn’t even realize there were wealthy Jews.
According to this logic, Barry was just being fiscally sound when he started that watermellon patch on the White House lawn.
They went on to say that this proves Jim DeMint is as sharp as a matzoh.
Other editorials from the South Carolina GOP (first sentences omitted):
“…Senator DeMint’s decisiveness on clean air initiatives ensure that these people can walk out of their buildings in complete sight of all around them, their horns shining before the world.”
“…Senator DeMint’s policies have created great prosperity for all South Carolinians; the only downside, of course, is that these people must now spend a greater part of their day counting this increased money.”
“…Senator DeMint’s argument for war in Iraq, unlike this group’s claims of 6 million being murdered in Europe decades ago, is rooted in fact and truth.”
Funny that’s not a saying I ever heard before. Is it specific to South Carolina?
You know who else was anti-Semitic?
We can at least all agree that he should eat a bag of giant circumcised poison rat dicks, yes?
throw the jew down the well!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo
The oddest part is they didn’t really need the “Jew” reference, to make their point, “He doesn’t believe in earmarks, the only honest way to bring money home is through budgetary bills” (which don’t get passed).It’s a good foundation for arguing for fiscal responsibility, but then they had to fuck it up by letting their inner Cletus pop out.
” He aint jes cheap, he’s Jew-Cheap and when it comes to watchin’ money there aint nobody like one of them thar hook nosed fellas.”
They just lost the key “Hogwaller Flats” Jewish vote.
So did the “editors” know what they were doing when they printed this? Or did they print it, seeing nothing wrong with it?
Clean For Gene: A wet matzoh.
They have a lot of colorful “sayings” in South Carolina. Mostly about black people. I can’t really think of one that applies here, but I bet Ed could give us three off the top of his head.
hockeymom: As the editors themselves are in S. Carolina, the words of antisemitism go as unnoticed as another dead fish in a rancid fishbowl…
user-of-owls: Jesus?
Gee a douche bag southern red neck with ignorant opinions. I just can’t believe it. Having lived in the quasi south (Orlando) I can tell you these ignorant assholes are all too prevalent.
user-of-owls: Ha ha, no idea who else was also anti-semitic!
See, this fits right in with DeMint’s saying that “”We’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy.” See, the GOP are the Jews in this case — threatened and oppressed by the evil forces of government. So of course anyone who says that their stereotyping of Jews is racist is, of course, the actual racist.
And I’ll bet anyone a beer that this argument will show up — nonsarcastically this time — in the next 24 hours.
I repeat my call from earlier:
Let Senator DeMint know just how brissed-off you are by sending his office a bag of kosher rock candy foreskins.
What’s really bad is that it’s co-written by two guys. You’d think one of them would spot the problem. Nope.
Whoa, DeMint just lost the entire South Carolina Jew vote. Both of them.
is this James “Blood” Ulmer? If so, Jazz is the Teacher, but Funk is the Preacher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzdlfAc0930&feature=related
Congratulations, South Carolina! You just volunteered to be the Palestinian national homeland!
SouthernDem: Ulmer & Merwin for the ULMERWIN!!1!
Jeez, once again, some damn anti-Semitic ‘winger makes me feel like a bad Jew because I’m crap with money. I don’t even get to be included in their bigotry. *cry*
South Carolina GOP: Bad ju-ju.
Q: Is there enough *CRINGE* in the world to describe how I am feeling right now?
A: No. No, there is not.
Roslin: I think moving from their war-torn home in the volatile Middle East to SC would be a big step down for the Palestinians.
“There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves.”
This seems to indicate that this practice would only work for Jews and thus is irrelevant to all other races. I’m relieved because I think pennies suck and are worth less than pocket lint.
At least they didn’t quote Ann Coulter and make it: “There’s a saying that the unperfected Christians who are wealthy . . .”
I hope Iris Dement is related to this asshole.
rocktonsammy: She is, I believe, both his sister and his wife.
When I lived, briefly, in NJ, I had a neighbor who used to tell me that plenty of Jews got rich by not painting their houses. I never understood that. But he was an asshole so I didn’t really care.
He’s not a racist, though!
Us Jews have another saying:
“fuck you, southern douche motherfucker!”
but the subtlety of the phrasing gets lost when translated from Yiddish.
Athar: I dement, I hope she “isn’t” related to this asshole.
As a Jew, I have to say I’m actually pretty excited about this statement. Considering the GOP has pretty much insulted every other minority, I was beginning to feel us Jews were being forgotten
rocktonsammy: Oh well, I wanted to say that bit about his sister being his wife anyway. It’s the deep South, and that’s just how things are there.
Wait, wait! Oooh! Growing up in South Carolina, how did Merwin and Ulmer know their sisters were having their period? Why, it’s when dad’s dick tasted funny! Hah! I got a million of ‘em…
King Jim
The Jew
Zorg: Moses in a rowboat! You get the “Congressional Medal of Ugly” for that one.
Actually, the saying in South Carolina is, “The REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR’S SOUTH AMERICAN MISTRESS by rich by keeping the HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS HER BOYFRIEND GAVE HER THAT HE GOT BY TURNING IN FALSE EXPENSE VOUCHERS, and letting the STUPID SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATORS WHO DON’T HAVE THE BALLS TO IMPEACH HIM take care of themselves.” I believe.
Anyhow, I love Ulmer and Merwin. I watched all of their movies, especially “Escape from Guantanamo Bay.”
Myself, I’m of mixed origins. I never heard my Jewish relatives use that saying but my southern Christian relatives were the ones who said, “Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.” I didn’t learn anything from either side of the family so, yeah, I’m another miserable Jew who’s horrible at handling money so I don’t fit in anywhere.
As a native South Carolinian, I don’t know what to do. I’m thinking maybe I should dress in sackcloth and ashes and go about calling “unclean.” Honest, we’re not all like that. Really. Some of us have functioning prefrontal lobes that haven’t been damaged by smashing too many beer cans into our heads. It’s just DeMint, and Wilson, and Sanford, and McConnell, and Ulmer and Merwin and . . .
A. This is why I don’t like to go to the South because people who hate one minority hate all of us B. I thought Ben Franklin came up with this- I didn’t think he was Jewish but we will accept him
Athar: Thanks! Once a tummler…
x111e7thst: “When I lived … in NJ …”
You call that living? That was the last part of The States I saw before I left your continent, and I must say I was quite pleased to put “Joisey” behind me…
Carolina: I like people from South Carolina. Really some of my best friends are from South Carolina but they all left and live around DC now.
finallyhappy: “A penny saved is a penny earned” doesn’t sound quite so ignorantly hateful, no?
finallyhappy: He did have a Rabbi at his funeral service.
I believe DeMint kicked some Jew(ess) ass to win his Senate seat - wasn’t Inez Tenenbaum his Democratic opponent?
That wouldn’t have been necessary if that sesesh DeMint hadn’t started it. They never learn. You see sesesh has to be cleared away by the hand of God like the Jews of old. Now I will have to burn this town.
Neoyorquino: Both those premises could be used for a cracker version of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.
user-of-owls: Mel Gibson!
Demoncrat=Dirty Stinking Jew Fit for Gassing. That’s the point I take from the lecture.
It is like they just declared Kristalnacht on the art of politcal punditry.
geminisunmars: No, I believe first draft said “Granpapy De Mint uzed to saie, a Kike wid a penny in a fistt is like a coon with er loaf a bred- ken’t never make im let go.” Something to that effect, and then the editors worked their magic.
But we can all agree that the Jews are using the Blacks as muscle, right?
In South Carolina, they get wealthy by watching the pennies that go to the federal government, and then the Jew England dollars can take care of South Carolina.
Let Me Wet My Beak: Inez is Methodist. Her husband is Jewish.
Who knew Poor Richard was a Jew?
“A bagel saved is a bagel earned. Oy!”
“Schlep thy business, or it will schlep thee.”
We are all Jews. No, that’s no good. We are all rich Jews.
I never understood why the kosher stuff in the store cost so much more. Somebody told me it was blessed by a rabbi. Did that sombitch CHARGE for blessing the food? Heck, I pray to Jesus before every meal. My food is blessed, too. I don’t charge anybody. Kinda makes you not like Jews. Shit, nobody likes ‘em anyway, so if they’re so unpopular, how do they got so much money?
I’m a caveman, and I’m a (former) editor. I say, it’s perfect DeMint. Print it, stet.
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Mike Steele: The cost difference is that mainly they are not allowed to do anything that might be disgusting. Like feed cows other cows.
ה יס א רעד נעק פול, ה יס א רעד נעך פול
and he has a tiny johnson
They just can’t help themselves. As someone said up-thread, they could have left the Jewish koan off, entirely, and still made their point, even if it was still a rather silly point.
I hear some folks, both Democrats and Republicans, saying that all that the Republican Party needs is some tweaking or reconstructing. Hell, that party and brand needs to be burned completely to the ground, Sherman-style (yeah, I said it), and another party constructed in its place. It’s absolutely haunted by the ghost of stupidity who refuses to cross over.
The sad thing is that I bet if you’d ask them, these tools thought they were being kind and paying a compliment. Ugghhh
Goldberg, Demintberg, what’s the difference.
Why won’t South Carolina just break off and float away into the sea?
Saying Ulmer and Merwin are a couple of Neanderthals is an insult to Neanderthals. They should just slither back into whatever swamp they came from.
C’mon now, you know they were talking about all those Honduran Jews Jimmy is so fond of.
These guys had better get themselves a lawyer, and god help them it had better be a Jewish one.
Oh no, DeMint’s a Joo, and Lindsay Graham’s a ghay!
South Carolinians immediately ask for a new election so they can vote for dead Strom Thurmond for both Senate seats.
Clearly, someone needs to buy the SC GOP copies of the great novel by Michael Gold, Jews without Money.
Komando: To aJewdicate this?