Rick Santorum knew just what the Jews of South Carolina wanted to hear around Hanukkah time: A quote from Jesus in the New Testament threatening people who don’t follow him. That means you, Jews! Oh, brother. Also: “Holiday Season”? There is no such thing. Rick Santorum hates Christmas. [via Hunter Walker]
PUT ON YR HANUKKAH SWEATER VEST 5:29 pm February 8, 2012
Rick Santorum Fetes The Jews With New Testament Quote
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I don't care what people say, that ad with Rick and the kids playing catch with Gabriel is really sweet.
Does he throw him through a tire swing at the end?
Now watch this drive.
I like when they play football and spike him in the end zone.
Haven't the Jews suffered enough?
Well, there are some Christians who think they haven't.
We all have to suffer this fool together. The Jews can take another for the team.
Fundamentalist Christians want them to suffer, forever, if they don't follow The Jeebus at the end.
Heh, heh, heh… "Team Santorum." Kind of makes you wonder what all those staffers are doing there at campaign headquarters.
Wait, there are Jews in South Carolina?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin
A shande far di goyim.
It's all about the Benjamins!
It's all about the Benjamins bibi!
Only the ones who donate to Lindsey Graham's campaign.
Oldest synagogue in the US is in Charleston. Read Pat Conroy's Beach Music.
Of course, they own Pedro's South of the Border.
To be fair, I believe one member of SC Team Santorum asked another member (the other half of team): "Southern Jews are still Christians, right?"
Did they have to flip to decide which one would be Lube and which one would be Fecal?
In fairness to Rick, they are probably Jews for Jesus.
I am playing words with friends with one right now. Born again Christian / Messianic Jew. Luckily she doesn't discuss religion with this agnostic Unitarian!
Vegetarians for Veal.
Environmentalists for Coal.
Yeah, but this new coal, it's "clean". Didn't you hear? Clean coal!
I almost lost my dinner just typing that.
Ah-hahahaha. What a fuckin' retard.
"Card for the Jews. Hey – what's this Chakakan thing about?"
"Uh – something about a festival of lights I think"
"Oh here's a 'Light of the World' bible quote – that will be perfect!"
How did you get that past the dreaded "Administrator"? The last time I used that word in a comment I got the Indian Burn from Hell on my ego.
I think in celebration of Newell's return, the bad word cork got popped, like a champagne bottle full of santorum.
Drink up!
Good. That is an important and unique word sorely needed in this Republican Primary Season.
"Retard" is pretty useful in any Republican Primary Season.
Frothy the Doh! man
Can anyone show me a quote using "Judeo-Christian tradition" from before 1950?
I think this was made up to cover Christian guilt when they finally realized all their nice Jewish friends were going straight to Hell.
I think it probably had more to do with WASPs finally deciding to count their Jewish friends as white people*.
*sometimes, whenever it was convenient.
It started when they realized that there were religions other than Christian and the Killers of Jesus.
Actually, the term seems to have become popular after World War I as a means of distinguishing the West from the Communists and, later, the Nazis. The earliest hit that Google News gives is 1927, but it is clear it was already in use before then.
It became fairly common during World War II, particularly by Jewish organizations in the U.S. as a not-so-subtle hint to pay attention to the fate of the Jews in Europe. After the war, especially during the McCarthy period, it was used in a similar way to point out not all Jews were Communists. (Anticommunism and antisemitism were often closely linked in the '50's.)
Sorry, no snark here.
So as a PR move, the MorMen and Scientologists should start referring to our "Insano-Christian Heritage."
Mahousu:
No snark needed. Interesting. I wonder if it also became popular when Jewish people united with Black folks to combat racism. I know American Jews worked hard on Civil Rights. That would fit the between the Wars timeframe.
I can see some of the good Baptists waking up one morning and thinking "Geez – those guys helping us really aren't Christians, are they?" And then trying to do something about it.
While it was "in use" by the mid-20's, it appears to me it became popular in the 1950's.
Either way, to apply it all the way to Colonial times is revision with a vengeance.
Hmmm…I always thought it was a way conservatives wanted to try to capture the community's votes and money, a real kind of convenient assimilation to keep their friends close and enemies closer.
you know who else closely linked anti-semitism and anti-communism…
The Lithuanian "patriots" who murdered my great-aunts and their families. Sorry, no snark there.
The earliest usage I found in Google Books was in 1881 (there were several in the 1880s): Dickinson's Theological Quarterly, vol 7 (1881), p. 114, "They have learned in their studies that pure and complete theism never existed, in a general manner, save in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and has always rested on a basis of faith."
I don't think you'd want to do a Google image search on "Team Santorum." Or maybe you would.
Team Santorum thongs? At least they're made in the USA, USA, USA, but none union bug.
A headline on CNNs website is "Romney promises to get more aggressive with Santorum". Perhaps we should all brace ourselves.
" ain't no real bruhs on team santorum"
Roland Martin
"Oy to the World," indeed.
Even one 'L' Michele thinks that took a lot of chootspa.
You do not want to see the cards he sends out for Ramadan.
There are miraculous stories of Santorum burning for eight days as well.
And didn't the smell drive out the money-changers or something?
The burning, the itching, the redness, the smell…oy, how they kvetched about that Santorum!
(Um, Jews? One word: Foreskin.)
I heard Jesus turned Santorum into wine. Which eventually led to the creation of more Santorum.
Viscous circle, that.
Hakuna my caca, Crank.
The end is near…
Those little dreidels in the corner look like they're flipping the bird.
They totally do!
They aren't?
They do! Crack me up!
Is it the Jewish God that hates homos or the Christian God?
All of 'em, Katie.
Jesus was a lib and was down with hanging out with twelve guys. The holy ghost is a Russ-loving ditherhead. God is into S&M. Allah is totally NOT cool with the ghey. Moroni too. Zeus and Apollo were ghey. The funniest thing about supernatural beings is that the devil has been known to say: "I don't want any fags down here."
Isn't there a scene in the Bible where Jesus blessed some Roman soldier's Rentboy, also too?
"And bless your vewy great fwiend in Wome, Biggus Diccus."
And his wife, Incontinentia Buttocks!
12 guys and a hoor, mind you.
Don't forget the fag hag!
Each card came attached to a delicious spiral ham.
At least he didn't reproach them for snuffing Jebus.
Wait until you see his Pesach cards.
Reminds me of Kinky Friedman talking about how, as a boy, he always knew when Easter was coming because other kids would come up to him and ask "Why did your people kill our Lord?"
Kinky learned his lesson. He threw his political weight behind Rick Perry's candidacy.
Yeah, I was really hoping that Kinky was just laying groundwork for his own presidential bid with that–"You voted for that idiot, why NOT vote for me?"
Merry Jewmas!
We're Sorry You'll All Be Burning in Hell with the Muslims Soon!
–Team Santorum
Trust Rick Santorum to skull-fuck irony.
I can't stop laughing at this.
"Peace to you this Holiday Season"
Damn printer chopped off the line below it that said "But Bomb, bomb, bomb – bomb, bomb Iran!"
Why didn't he include the scripture passage that bans birth control?
Oh.
Bill O'Reilly: The War on Christmas.
Rick Santorum: The Wart on Christmas.
Rush Limbaugh: The Warthog on Christmas.
He also asked for a kosher ham sandwich and a glass of milk at the seder.
The inquisition, lets begin
The inquisition, look out sin
We have our mission, to convert the Jews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5McSEU48Y8
I'll bet this really brightened the day of every Jew who received one — especially those who were missing the sanctimony, prejudice and ignorance of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Isabella is referred to in Spanish as "La Catolica"-except by Spanish-speaking Jews, who call her "La Putolica".
I'm rooting on Rick to make it until Easter. Can't wait to see what his greetings to the Jews will be for that.
It'll just be that one old B.C. cartoon were a menorah turns into something Christian.
It'll be a totally patronizing:
"We forgive you. Ahem, YOU'RE WELCOME."
Fetes is the masculine plural of fetus?
Where's the Happy Kwanzaa card for the blah people? Racist….
"Happy Kwanzer to All the Blahs from Team Santorum!"
It got lost in the mail, but it was rumored to have the verse from the Bible where it talks about marking Cain for idenitification…
He who follows me will be covered with froth.
Goes without sayin'.
This is like calling a creationist a dinosaur!
Paleo libel!
The dreidels on the right sort of look like cartoon hands flipping the bird. I wonder if that was by accident.
MIA Libel!
I'm guessing it was. Much too subtle for Ricko & his supporters.
Perhaps not for the hired-help, possibly Jewish graphic designer, though.
Like that Vermont cop car thing.
So begins the next Great Disporia.
I sincerely doubt that a Kippah was ever intended to go with sweater vests.
Kippahed herring?
Using a quote from Jesus for a Hanukkah card?
Clearly Rick Santorum is a secret Muslim.
You know who else thought the Jews should follow Jesus?
ZZ Top?
Noah Webster?
Martin Luther?
Jesus?
Mitt Romney? I mean, retroactively.
Bob "Serve Somebody" Dylan?
Benedict XVITorquemada?Saul of TarsusThe Apostle Paul?Jesús "Boom Boom" Ramirez, the popular tour guide?
Neil Diamond?
The pied piper of Hamlin, NJ?
Probably not Juds..
Pontius Pilate?
Definitely not Hitler.
NOTHING SURPRISES ME ANYMORE.
+1
If there were a god, would there be a Rick Santorum?
If Rick Santorum fell in the forest, would anyone give a shit?
The Pope, maybe?
If Rick Santorum fell out of the closet, would anyone be surprised?
It's better than the reproduction lynching postcards that he sent to his black friends, though.
The lynching postcards were for Kwanzaa.
"Holiday" season? That dirty secular humanist!
Rick has a great relationship with the Jews.
Some of his best friends are Jews. Like Eric Cantor.
Don't you mean the Jjj…jahs?
Rick also invited Mitt Romney over for coffee.
I read that as "May your Hanukkah be bought," and thought I was looking at a Mittens ad.
"And congratulations! Just by reading this card, you have automatically been upgraded to Christian."
"You're Welcome. Happy Jesus Baby Day!"
So, now he's stepping in on the Mormonic's turf, eh?
So, even assuming it's an "innocent mistake", wow.
Good to know the people who want to replace our Representative Democracy with a Christian Theocracy totally know their holy book well enough to avoid picking a Bible quote, for the Jews, that's not only from the wrong half of the Bible, but in context, is one of the more "Screw the Pharisees" moments.
Santorum is Catholic. Most Catholics aren't taught to know the Bible, Old or New Testament. Their religious education is more likely to come from the papal-issued Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC). The Christmas and Easter stories are read from the Gospels at holiday masses and many familiar traditional stories, such as the prodigal son and the camel going through the needle's eye, are used as epistles, but I can't tell you of a single Catholic among my family and acquaintances who has actually gone to Bible study, save the ones who were students at Jesuit schools.
In Yiddish, Rick Santorum is Chaim Yankel
See, I woulda gone w/ meshugga pisher.
In my family when it's time to celebrate a traditional Hanukkah we decorate the tree and then listen to grandpappy tell the story of how little baby Jeebus was born in a manger. We then eat ham, lots of yummy ham. Happy Hanukkah!
My Jewish ex-neighbor Frank's mother's favorite holiday was Christmas and she bought shit for Christmas all year long. So every year I send him the most over-the-top Babby Jeebus card I can find.
I just love those personal holiday traditions, don't you?
My one Jewish friend and I have opposite traditions–he sends me Xmas cards, I send him Hanukka cards. Easter time is festive, as well.
Poor Frothy can't help it. He thinks all the Jews are going to Hell anyway.
And it takes a real class act to tell them that in the form of a Hanukkah card!
Oh Christ.
Happy Ramadan! Enjoy this coupon for 1/2 off Rib Tips at Famous Dave's!
Come in at Happy Hour and get 2 for 1 pitchers of beer!
*coupon only redeemable between sunrise and sunset.
Grop, Moses, I like your thinking. Let's form the worst marketing/PR firm ever!!
Bad for the Jews.
The worse part is that Rick paid retail for the cards.
Oh my, the stupidity…
Oh, speaking of Santorum and terrible ideas, there seems to be a good deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth over at RedState. Really, I found this much more enjoyable than the usual fare over there — even the comments.
Just in terms of statistical probability, every once in a while something reasonable must get published over there.
Romney's "Holiday Season" card: Don't worry, your people have all been baptized!
Don't think we can pin this one on the Dick. Looks more like local campaign staff that got a little to lubed up with a frothy dose of holiday excitement.
I read that at first as "a frothy dose of holiday excrement." I guess that works too.
Exactly. LMAO.
Nope. Sorry. Don't play nice with them. Stomp every motherfucker even remotely connected, and ESPECIALLY the candidate.
You're judged by the company you keep. These folks are on his campaign, and a real leader takes responsibility for his staff.
And, that's just being objective. Subjectively, this is totally something that Rick would personally do. He's certainly more gay married to Jeebus than his staff.
Rick was also surprised that there was no difference between Katz's Delicatessen and any other restaurant in New York City. "I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by Jews, primarily Jew patronship." Rick added: "There wasn't one person in Katz's Delicatessen who was screaming, '" This Gogl-Mogl is Meshuganeh".
And he was sad to see they didn't have any mother-fucking iced tea to go with the pastrami on rye.
OT, but here ya go. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/42129…
I propose to rename Mississippi 'Largeasshole'.
"God bless Vespucciland…"
Rancho Malario.
My favorite comment from one Ronni Aiello: "Just call it the Gulf of The Confederacy and let the south secede and take it with them! Good riddance to the moochers!"
This just in: The Onion announces bankruptcy citing crushing competition from reality.
According to one commenter, a constituent of the guy who proposed the bill, this was most likely a joke.
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how the committee hearing goes.
Yeah, Rick. Most of you Conservative Christains spell Jew "A-T-M".
I'm totes stealing "Christains."
Weren't Christains on that shroud thingy?
Whoa, whose side is this motherfucker on in the war on Xmas, anyway? Xmas cards not good enough?
Santorum: Happy Hanukkah Jews! Now convert and accept Jesus as your Savior!
What a self righteous dinkus.
Yisroel http://www.kosherunicorn.com
Ok, that was a little anti-Semitic, but his Jesusween card was totally inclusive.
Hey, half of his staff were ready to use a quote from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion!
So, this moran either has balls the size of melons trying to convert the Heebs, or he is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. I'm going with number two (get it?). Seriously, this stuff makes me want to shit…..a wildcat.
There wasn't enough crap to quote in the old testament?
As I suspected, none of them have read the damn thing at all.
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
They don't have to read it. The hierarchy read it for them & tell them how they should feel about it. Duh.
Like, "God said: Abraham, kill me a son!"
Sounds kinda pro-choice.
If he had the Romney war chest, he probably would have sprung for those talking cards and had Cartman yelling "Jews can't eat Christmas snow!"
Well, this is better than the original card, which had Matthew 27:24-25:
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Rick decided to save that one for Yom Kippur.
Yeah, like Pontius Pilate ever *didn't* want to kill a Jew. AFAIK, he was the only Roman Procurator ever to be removed from office for excessive cruelty. You had to be mighty damn cruel for the Romans to think you were overdoing it.
*EDIT: Corrected split infinitive. I'm a bit of a grammar, you should excuse the expression, Nazi.
Blood libel!
Well, if they don't like it, we have Sheriff Joe building some special camps in Arizona, just for the Jews.
You'd think Ricky would have paid more attention to a holiday like this. You're guaranteed lots of Santorum if you have a miraculous supply of oil.
Stay classy.
Hey, are those dreidels in the corner flipping someone off?
That takes Choot-spa!
Latkes Libel!
Fetes don't fail me now.
Today we're all bathing in santorum.
It could have been worse. A nice visiting Kazakh journalist almost had them talked into printing several verses of the quaint but rousing traditional village song they'd been belting out in the office all afternoon.
How about Revelation 2:9?
light coming from that dim bulb??
i can't help it. when i see 'santorum', i don't think about rick.
Stay klassy, Rick.
Hey, you guys should just be happy he didn't wish them a happy "Chaka Khan".
I demand whorediamonds.
Rick's Hanukkah card isn't aimed at Jews. It's aimed at evangelical Christians.
Which is why he sent it to Jews, right? lol
He's a true-believing Jesus freak. He means everything he says when it comes to religion.
Psst–the evangelicals will find out about the card. It's a ploy to get their approval.
Rick is dumb, but he's not that dumb. (Not in your league, lol.) He wants bible thumping Christians to know that he has been pimping Jesus to Jews.
Isn'tit a llittle tedious to have to have everything explained to you?
Is it me or do those dreidel look like middle fingers?
If the word of God can be wrong, I don't want to be right!
good catch!
True!
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