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"Rabbi Shmuley Boteach runs for Congress"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Congress is literally becoming the Knesset...

8/21/12, 8:28 PM

Anonymous Ed said...

New Jersey politics are too crooked to be really able to predict with any accuracy. But the district was gerrymandered to be a Democratic vote sink (New , Jersey has a unique system of gerrymandering by an independent commission). So I wouldn't get too excited, except as an indicator of Slate's editorial direction.

8/21/12, 8:56 PM

Anonymous Aaron in Israel said...

My favorite quote from the article: “He’s an incredibly busy man, but he graciously takes my calls.”

8/21/12, 9:05 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, man.

It's Steve Sailer's world. We just live in it.

-Jinx the Cat

8/21/12, 9:06 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, would be interested in your take on Pascrell-Rothman fight in that district.

8/21/12, 10:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this really the same guy who headed up the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University about twenty years ago? If he is, then I have had the misfortune to meet him on a couple of occasions. A nasty, vane little twerp whose only real talent is self-advertisement. He caused a lot of trouble when he was there even though his connection to the university was tangential to say the least. If he gets to be a congressman then there really is no hope. His loyalties are absolutely not to the whole American people.

22pp22

8/21/12, 10:56 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Yeah, that was Shmuley at Oxford. He never forgets to remind people he had some connection with Oxford, like Jay Gatsby would do.

8/21/12, 10:59 PM

Blogger ray said...

i remember Shmuley "Noteach" Boteach!

from years back... he was some hack online feminist acolyte, pretending to be a Wise Rabbi dispensing wholesome "religious" advice

wow america must be getting desperate if theyre scraping the bottom of satan's synagogue to dredge up ole Noteach

he's a liar, a coward, vain, grasping for worldly acclaim, them's the positives

this guy's like... the antimoses or something

fit right in at the inbreeding congress!

8/21/12, 11:24 PM

Anonymous DaveinHackensack said...

"Yeah, that was Shmuley at Oxford. He never forgets to remind people he had some connection with Oxford, like Jay Gatsby would do."

He was there with fellow New Jersey resident Cory Booker -- and you can "book a conversation with them".

8/21/12, 11:29 PM

Anonymous irishman said...

That Gaddafi trope could be called "Wacky! Tacky! Semites!"


Seriously though... I first encountered Smuley when I saw him get his ass handed to him by Christopher Hitchens. It's on youtube and worth an hour and a half of your time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnMYL8sF7bQ

8/22/12, 1:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Having criticized Steve's sense of humor on a previous thread, I have to say his sitcom idea is pretty funny.

8/22/12, 1:55 AM

Anonymous Svigor said...

Is this really the same guy who headed up the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University about twenty years ago?

Of course it's the same guy. Otherwise I'm forced to contemplate a world with two guys named "Rabbi Shmuley Boteach."

8/22/12, 6:04 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great! With Shmuley representing my interests in Congress I can rest assured.

8/22/12, 7:37 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is a very safe Democratic district, and Boteach has absolutely no chance of winning. Voting age population in the district by race: 31.2% Hispanic, 9.9% black, and 11.9% Asian. Republicans seldom win seats in New Jersey that are over 30% minority in voting age population, and basically never win seats over 40% minority. This district is 53% minority, and hence a very safe Democratic district.

- New Jersy Republican (politically active, member of my Republican county committee)

8/22/12, 8:57 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting to see how Jews lose their maniacal obsession with "separation of church and state" in certain specific instances.

8/22/12, 10:38 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I had an art teacher named Smiley B.O. Teach. Could he be the game guy?

8/22/12, 5:48 PM

Blogger Whiskey said...

Separation of Church and State simply means Congress shall establish no State Religion. It does not mean no religion at all. It was meant to prevent the US from becoming an official Anglican nation, like the UK, or Catholic, like Spain, or Methodist as some proposed. The Founding Fathers opened and closed both the Continental and Constitutional Congresses with prayers. And that went hand in hand with George Washington's letter to some Rhode Island synagogue.

Shmuley Boteach would fit right in with Congress. He's got no chance of winning, but he'd be just like any creature of Tammany Hall, or Dennis Hastert, or Nancy Pelosi, or the Biden family, the semi-hereditary parasites with a talent for self-promotion and adherence to the Oprah-esque formal received hypocrisies of the day. Just like the Gilded Age. Boteach is proof positive of Twain's words that there is no native criminal class in America save Congress.

8/22/12, 5:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heather MacDonald on the conflict of interest between the rich and the poor in NY with respect to policing

8/22/12, 6:32 PM

Anonymous kaganovitch said...

"Anonymous said...

Interesting to see how Jews lose their maniacal obsession with "separation of church and state" in certain specific instances."

As it happens, Boteach is one of those jews (Chabad/lubavitch)whom the separation jews (devoutly secular)are forever hauling into court over the horror of erecting a menora on public property or some such. Despite the conspiratorial leanings of many commenters here the "jews" are not really all that monolithic. We are obnoxious in many different ways!

8/22/12, 7:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Yeah, that was Shmuley at Oxford. He never forgets to remind people he had some connection with Oxford, like Jay Gatsby would do."

As I undersand it, he had no official position at Oxford. He just turned up there and statrted telling the university that a donation by a German family would only be acceptable if it was earmarked for Jewish causes.

8/22/12, 10:00 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting to see how Jews lose their maniacal obsession with "separation of church and state" in certain specific instances

I'm no fan of Boteach, but why shouldn't an ordained rabbi hold political office? An ordained Episcopal priest (John Danforth) was U.S. senator from Missouri from 1976 to 1995.

John Danforth

8/23/12, 12:05 AM

Anonymous Svigor said...

"Interesting to see how Jews lose their maniacal obsession with "separation of church and state" in certain specific instances"

I'm no fan of Boteach, but why shouldn't an ordained rabbi hold political office? An ordained Episcopal priest (John Danforth) was U.S. senator from Missouri from 1976 to 1995


Are Episcopalians "maniacally obsessed" with "separation of Church and State"?

As it happens, Boteach is one of those jews (Chabad/lubavitch)whom the separation jews (devoutly secular)are forever hauling into court over the horror of erecting a menora on public property or some such. Despite the conspiratorial leanings of many commenters here the "jews" are not really all that monolithic. We are obnoxious in many different ways!

Lol. I've read tales of Christmas trees coming down and menoras going up at the same time, in the same place. In any event, I don't (necessarily) doubt you at your word, but even if secular Jews are pursuing SoCaS without prejudice, it still amounts to the Jewish minority getting its way over the Christian majority; something Jews would go ballistic over if the situation were reversed in, say, Israel (the very idea is laughable).

PS, find a better class of ANTI-SEMITE!!! Nobody thinks Jews are monolithic.

As I undersand it, he had no official position at Oxford. He just turned up there and statrted telling the university that a donation by a German family would only be acceptable if it was earmarked for Jewish causes.

Cute. I can just see me now, Father Svigor in Tel Aviv telling the university that a donation by a Russian Jewish family would only be acceptable if it was earmarked for Russian Christian causes.

8/23/12, 5:24 AM

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