Comments on: Somebody Tell Jeffrey Goldberg That Orrin Hatch Doesn’t Do Hip-Hop

By: Larry K

Larry K — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:51:05 +0000

As Philip Roth pointed out somewhere along the way, Irving Berlin in his two enormously popular songs about Christian holidays, White Christmas and Easter Parade, successfully and almost invisibly managed to totally secularize both holidays.

By: Chanukah Mishegaas | Jewschool

Chanukah Mishegaas | Jewschool — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:57:59 +0000

[...] you didn’t have enough Orrin Hatch in your life, check out Richard Silverstein’s rather testy response to the Mormon senator’s new Chanukah [...]

By: Jews in America need a Republican to feel loved? | Antony Loewenstein

Jews in America need a Republican to feel loved? | Antony Loewenstein — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:21:04 +0000

[...] The sad tale of a Jewish writer, Jeffrey Goldberg, fervently believing (only in America, of course) that a US senator writing a (tacky and cheesy) Chanukah song means that Judaism is well and truly an integral part of modern US life. Well, maybe, but surely being welcomed and loved means more than a conservative man throwing crumbs to keep the Jews happy: [...]

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:45 +0000

It was explained that it was the “homey look” because he missed his grandkids and wanted his office to feel like home.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:02:58 +0000

I don’t know what genre that thing is, but it isn’t even remotely hip-hop.

By: Conrad Barwa

Conrad Barwa — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:49:02 +0000

Jeffrey Goldberg would like all my readers to know that he knows hip-hop from borsht and is indeed a child of the Hood

Does he though? There actually is large amount of Israeli hip-hop coming out these days, a fair amount of it political as well. Goldberg as usual, doesn’t have an ‘effin clue.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:34:38 +0000

P.S. Orrin Hatch is a real prick!

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:29:16 +0000

HY CFOMMENT: I give it a nine(9) Dave…I mean Mr Clark, because it’s so easy to dance to!

SEE: Orrin Hatch “Sorry” He’s Not Jewish, By NewsGuy, 12/09/09

(excerpt) Senior Republican Senator Orrin Hatch says he will do “anything” for the Jewish people, and even sometimes wishes that he was born Jewish.

The statements came during an interview Hatch did with The Mormon Times. The Utah Senator, known for penning Christian hymns and patriotic songs, spoke with the magazine about a new ode he wrote to honor Hanukkah called “Eight Days of Hanukkah.”

“Anything I can do for the Jewish people, I will do,” Hatch said. “Mormons believe the Jewish people are the chosen people, just like the Old Testament says.”

At one point during the interview, Hatch unbuttoned his white dress shirt to expose the golden mezuzah necklace he wears every day. Mezuzahs also adorn the doorways of his homes in Washington and Utah. Hatch keeps a Torah in his Senate office…

SOURCE – http://www.therightperspective.org/2009/12/09/orrin-hatch-sorry-hes-not-jewish/