Ilhan Omar and Joe Rogan, A Short Play

Scene 1: One day on Twitter

Glenn Greenwald: Republicans criticizing Rep. Omar for saying Israel has hypnotized the world shows that members of Congress prefer Israel's interests to Americans' right to free speech.

Rep. Omar: It's all about the Benjamins.

Scene 2, later on Twitter<

The crowd: That's antisemitic! You are repeating the classic trope that nefarious Jews buy off domestic political leaders to serve their own interests while being disloyal to their home country.

Rep. Omar: I was talking about AIPAC having too much influence in Congress.

The (media) chorus: She was talking about AIPAC having too much influence in Congress, what's the big deal?

Scene 3: Several years later, on a popular podcast somewhere in America

Rogan: "It's crazy Did you see [Adam Schiff] sitting next to Ilhan Omar, where she's apologizing for talking about it's all about the Benjamins? Which is just about money. She's talking about money. That's not an antisemitic comment, I don't think that is. Benjamins are money. … The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That's like saying Italians aren't into pizza. It's fucking stupid."

Scene 4: later during the same podcast episode

Rogan: You can't criticize Israel without someone calling you antisemitic.

Scene 5

Narrator: Omar was not talking about AIPAC, and Rogan was not criticizing Israel.

THE END.

Comments

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Was Marjorie Taylor Greene too busy (starring at the Capitol with Kevin McCarthy) to be cast in this one . . . or too Republican?

[Frank Drackman]

"The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That's like saying Italians aren't into pizza, that Blacks don't like Fried Chicken, that Mexicans don't like tacos, that Asians have slanty eyes, that Moose-lums smell bad, that English have bad teeth, that the French are snobs, man, this could go on forever.

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone needs to STOP reading the news, STOP thinking too much, and CALM the fuck down.

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And STOP shouting!

[mulched]

Damn post-modernist theater! Never could make sense of that shit.

[Nige]

'Omar was not talking about AIPAC,'

Even your fan-fiction doesn't support this.

Joe Rogan, on the other hand, usually pleads diminished responsibility for all the dumb things he says.

Now, if you want to know who's a REAL Jew and who isn't, just ask Trump.

[SimonP]

David, we get quite enough of this kind of claptrap from Josh. You're smarter than he is; this is beneath you. (Hard as that is to imagine; I am at least accustomed to sophisticated, unhinged polemic from you.)

[Sarcastr0]

I think you need to have a talk with your muse.