Sarah Siverman on Jews and Obama: The Great Schlep

Hi Folks,

My inner Repulbican totally agrees with Schalk on this one. Sarah Silverman is the epitome of disrespect and unwholesomeness.

However, my inner Republican was not running the show while I was watching (s/he only came out after reading Schalk's post)...

"I" found myself grinning and sniggering along...

The first time I saw Sarah Silverman, I couldn't quite believe it...I was intrigued...she was both offenisve and attractive...let me see if I can tease this apart...

my inner Rock Chick LOVES her kick-ass, in your face fuck-you rebelliousness...she will break every taboo, destroy everything you cherish, cross the line...but with a kind of amiable self-mocking cutsieness that keeps the whole thing light and adequately meaningful

Intellectual Sidebar: humor has been called a "healthy" defense in that it allows us to speak about things that are really too heavy and terrible to speak about directly

SS is definetly saying something in her work, and this ad is a logical progression

...Amber is prudish, somewha terrified of Id, and therfore easily sppoked and offended...I think, therefore, that it is Sarah's Red that disgusts Amber

mm, also a Green inner self is a bit offended by the meanness of her spirit...why is all this caustic humor necessary or really so laudable, when the real task for all of us is to open our hearts...?

Cheers,

The Janines

An update, from Daily KOS:

Is The Great Schlep Working?

by Scout Finch

Two weeks ago, Sarah Silverman and The Jewish Council for Education and Research launched The Great Schelp, a campaign designed to get young Democratic Jewish voters to go to Florida and convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama. The video was an overnight sensation.

Today, CNN.com's front page story provides some anecdotal evidence from a young Jewish voter who took The Great Schlep challenge and set out for Florida. Turns out, The Great Schlep may be working:

When Bender recently returned to his grandparents' retirement community in Tamarac, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale, he was greeted with several surprises. Months of telephone conversations and his trip had paid off: His grandparents told him shortly after he arrived that they were going to support Obama.

The next surprise was that his schlep had generated interest around their retirement community. A lot of interest. So many other seniors wanted to hear about Obama that the venue for a meeting on the subject had to be changed from the Furst's living room to a ballroom in the community's clubhouse.

An hour before Bender started to make his case about Obama on Sunday, groups of senior citizens were staking out space in the ballroom. Soon there were more than 100 people and no more chairs.

Sporting an Obama T-shirt with Hebrew writing on it, retiree Morty Brill said, "The economy, the war, you think you can trust Republicans to fix them?

Ha! He went to talk to his own grandparents and more than 100 seniors turned up to hear his Obama pitch. Even though he felt they were being swayed, Mike Bender was not content to leave it at that and he pulled his final trump card -- guaranteed to tug at their parental heartstrings:

However, Bender felt the need to drive the point further. If Obama was elected, he said, then Bender would not worry so much about politics and "would have more time to find a nice Jewish girl to marry."

Whether Mike Bender's schlep really changed any minds is anyone's guess, but the applause from the crowd was deafening.

A funny idea, based on real need, has now created a whole schlepping movement. Our side is lucky to have so many creative people working on the movement, making a real impact. Bravo to Sarah Silverman, the JCER, and all you schleppers out there!

 Though I respect the reasons you undoubtably had for putting it up, THAT WAS THE WORST THING I'VE EVER SAT THROUGH. Sarah's really just a terrible comedian.