A classic Saturday Night Live skit of the 1980s, stolen from Howard Stern, presented a bizarre, patently offensive game-show with the title: "Guess Who's the Jew." Contestants would have to pick the Jew from an assortment of ambiguously-Jewish celebrity names. It was uncomfortably funny, and it created a minor debate within the Jewish community as to why.
The clearest answer was: Howard Stern and the SNL writers were unabiguously Jewish. The comedy was self-referential and would have been impermissable otherwise. "Guess Who's the Jew" was, in essence, a brilliant Jewish parody of the antisemitism pervasive in American life.
So let's get this established already: I'm a Jew. Moreover, I'm a Jew living in Jean Schmidt territory, Ohio's 2nd District, within that vast interior of the country where "eats" is a noun and "jew" is a verb.
Which brings us to the Sibel Edmonds controversy. Yes, this is a Sibel Edmonds diary.
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