Thursday, January 09, 2003

Too Cool For Shul

The collection of freaks at the Moonie Times just keeps getting weirder. Witness Suzanne Fields, who opines that "Jews aren't cool":
George Bush reflects cowboy cool which comes naturally, compared to, say, the Democratic wannabees who want to fill his boots. Joe Lieberman is smart, but a yarmulke is not a ten-gallon hat. He's definitely not cool. (Jews rarely are.)
And how does Fields define "cool"?:
Cool as in confident without showing it, as in knowing without showing off, trendy with the nonchalance of understatement.
So, according to Fields, with rare exceptions, Jews are insecure, overstated show-offs.

I suppose one could argue that Fields' statement was meant to suggest that "cool" actually represents superficiality or trendiness, and thus it's a compliment to call Jews "uncool" (in other words, Jews are serious and substantive, not shallow). But Fields clearly admires all the people she describes as cool (the Bushes, Rummy) and despises all those she thinks aren't (all Democrats). So she clearly means "uncool" as an insult.

I don't know Fields, she could be Jewish for all I know. But why does she hate Jews?

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