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On a related note Tom Brady is with the Pats so he's practically Irish, by a very loose definition of the word, since he wasn't born in Ireland or anything (unless he really was in which case I'm gonna have to start checking my facts. You can only get away with those wild broad side shots for so long before there are consequences. I hear that they eventually wired Ann Coulter's jaw shut! She's not Irish either, but still that seems a bit harsh). He is married to Gisele Bundchen, who isn't Irish either. Oh well, Creampeace everybody!
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Some one else who isn't Irish, but who is screaming - and not for ice cream either - is Jackie Mason. He did briefly act in a TV series where he dated and Irish American, played by Lynn Redgrave (Redgrave is neither Irish nor American). The show was called Chicken Soup. Chicken Soup got canned, if you'll pardon a very bad pun, after about 7 episodes because Mason said some unkind things about then New York Mayor David Dinkins. Dinkins isn't Irish either, in fact he was the first African-American mayor of NYC. That lead to some of the unkind statements from Mr Mason. Mason , who supported Rudi Giuliani, who incidentally is also not Irish, claimed that New York Jews (a great percentage of whom are not Irish either, but there are a few exceptions in there!) where only voting for Mr Dinkins out of white liberal guilt.
Then he said something even more pointed. He called Dinkins "a schwartza in a $1000 suit" (He might've called Mr Dinkins 'a schwartza with a fancy mustache'. The point is that he called him a schwartza, which was what was in issue, being a derogatory Yiddish expression for black persons) It was about that time that his show got canned. Network execs said that it had nothing to do with the hate speech. It was just that his show was neither funny nor commercial. So they replaced it with Coach, which was neither funny, commercial, nor Irish. At least Coach didn't offend anyone, except for fans of the situation comedy genre!
Well it seems that Mr Mason has done it again. He called Pres Barack Obama, who is in fact part Irish (and by the way sir, happy St Pat's if you happen to be reading this!), a schwartza. Mason was performning at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency in NYC when he refered to the Pres as a 'schwartza'. Apparently the audience, many of whom may or may not have been Irish - we don't know - became disturbed. One man even stormed out, fuming as he went "He's more offensive to Jews than Madoff!"
When contacted about his racist blurt, Mason denied he is racist. He then went on to take a swipe at Oprah Winfrey, saying "How come she's so rich when I'm more talented than her and I can barely make a living?" Well I'm sure that he doesn't really need that one explained to him. It's probably for the same reason that the offensive old bugger won't be appearing on Oprah anytime soon. He just has a habit of antagonizing people.
He has found an unlikely defender. Al Sharpton, who when asked about it, replied that Mason is old, probably a little dotty, and so really isn't worth worrying about. That's very generous since Mason has described Sharpton as a professional racist. However one person who probably won't be defending him is Sarah Silverman. When she came out in support of Obama, Mason had some kind of conniption - which doesn't make him a racist mind you, only old and a bit volatile -and publicly blasted her. In fact in an ad on behalf of a Jewish republican group, Mason rips into Silverman and Obama, calling Silverman a "sick yenta". Here's the spot -
Man he was in high rpm there! He must've got accidentally turned up from 33 to 45. So the upshot of this is that Mason has had another racist blurt and made a fool of himself in public. Since he's years past being anywhere near relevant, why get upset. Even Al Sharpton is going to give him a pass, declaring that "at his age he really more deserves our prayers". That sounds like a clear diagnosis of geriatric profanity disorder to me!
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