Saturday, April 14, 2007
Surprise to me
I don't know much about Jackie Mason except that some people think he's extremely funny and "right-on", that he's very very Jewish, and that he has a really thick accent. A little while ago I was driving home from doing some errands, with the radio on, when Monica Crowley announced that she was about to talk with Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder. Seems they've just published a satirical book called Schmucks! and, aside from plugging their book, Crowley thought she'd ask if any or all of the people involved in the Imus events of the week are schmucks by M&F's definition. Their answers were funny which wasn't too surprising (especially about Madonna and Hillary) but (here's when I got surprised) they were perceptive (meaning that I agreed with what they said (hey, isn't that what "perceptive" usually means?)). They ragged on everyone just right and left almost no one out. They pointed out that the line between "taste" and "tasteless" and, in turn, from "unacceptable", is not easy to identify or define clearly because it depends on the sensitivities of the majority of a society at any moment in time. Specifically, they said that the lacrosse players do deserve an apology (though it's also ridiculous to act as if they're all clean as driven snow); that the overzealous D.A. does deserve to be fired since he lied about, distorted and ignored evidence; and that Imus was horribly tasteless and absolutely deserved to be chastised but that being fired seems draconian and ridiculous; and that the real villains of several pieces are Sharpton and Jackson, the self-appointed self-righteous hypocrital judge and jury responsible for at least one man's death. Amen.
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