I Just Learned On The Today Show That A Jewish Man Wrote White Christmas

[DemocratSinceBirth]

hmmmmm

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. maybe this should be in DU...

well it is channukah and christmas and kwanza....

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. You didn't know that Irving Berlin was Jewish?

n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I Knew He Was Jewish...

My mind just went blank that he wrote it...


lol@me....

[henslee]

4. "Vats da big deal? Bingala needed a nice song for da goyem so I wrote one"

Actuallly I doubt Irving spoke like that or that he wrote it for Bing.

[charlie]

5. The "Christmas Song", too

(y'know the one, chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)

Written by Mel Torme.

[DemBones DemBones]

6. So what? Lyricists can and do write about things outside their own

experience. Besides, "White Christmas" is a secular Christmas song which isn't really outside the experience of Jews who celebrate a secular, cultural Christmas, or facilitate one for others, like Jewish store owners who have Christmas sales, etc.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Like In The Movie "Driving Miss Daisy"

when Dan Akroyd's wife who was Jewish in the movie decorated her home to the hilt for Christmas....

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. so he was lying

when he said he was dreaming of a white christmas just like the one I used to know

tsk tsk tsk, poor Irving.

[The Flaming Red Head]

9. A slave owner wrote Amazing Grace, A black man wrote Dixie.

And your point is???

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. I Was Merely Reporting Verbatim What Katie Couric Said On The Today Show

Did i do something wrong???

[The Flaming Red Head]

14. No, sorry if you think I was picking on you

I was just sharing.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I Guess It Shouldn't Be That Remarkable...

nt

[TNDemo]

10. Reminds me of an old joke.

I heard this years ago and is of course very offensive:

It starts out about how three people of different faith discuss how they celebrate the holidays. I think there is a Kwanza person, a traditional Protestant family and a Jewish store owner. After the first two relate their method of celebration the Jewish store owner says after they close on Christmas Eve they all stand around the cash register and hold hands and sing "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."

[signmike]

11. Written in Palm Springs in July

or so I heard. Probably 115 in the shade, hah.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. It's A Nice Song....

nt

[Guaranteed]

16. What? Jewish people are white.

:P

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. not all

nt

[JunkYardDogg]

18. I think a Jew, Leo Strauss was the Father of the Dominionists Manifest

I'm not sure, but to me, Leo Strauss sounds like a Jewish name.
He was the "Father" of the Dominionist Movement.
Mullah Falwell came after Leo Strauss. I almost turned in my circumcision when I saw Strauss' name as the Dominionist Founder.
Must read:
The Yurica Report -it details the founding, growth, and philosophy of the Dominionists- Neocons

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm