Charles, Charles, they're an underprivileged, subjugated, alienated, and victimized group (so says a certain crowd...where's BiNKy?). They can never be guilty of any violation of law or human conduct, no matter how amazingly grizzly and vile the act.

...last night on OReilly..there was an arab who wanted protected minority status for arab muslims in the USA.....

did anyone see that..?

Yes ploome I did, and then I threw up.

I am so sick and tired of the Palestinians hijacking every and any situation for their political cause. It's enough already. This story has put me in a foul mood. I can't take this double-standard, manipulative, hypcritical bullshit anymore. Bunch of whiney "activists". They love hauling out the word 'Nazi' and throwing it onto anyone they don't like, i.e. J-E-W-S.

It's interesting that Ray Hanania, the syndicated pro-Palestinian columnist and part-time comedian Jackie Mason's back again to publicize his bogus plight.

[Link: www.dailyherald.com...]

It's interesting that Ray Hanania, the syndicated pro-Palestinian columnist and part-time comedian used Jackie Mason's back again to publicize his bogus plight.

[Link: www.dailyherald.com...]

Please excuse the duplicate post.

Here's what they're doing in Jo'burg at the moment:

[Link: thestar.co.za...]

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[Link: www.haaretzdaily.com...]

[Link: www.earthtimes.org...]

According to an article in this week's Jewish Journal:

"The Palestinian booth at the summit has no environmental information, but much material attacking Israel. The Palestinians say they are too busy defending themselves from Israeli actions to worry about the environment.

I saw this guy on MSNBC on Curtis and Kuby the day this was all first on the news. It seemed to me that this guy wasn't that pissed off at all, and that he realized all this press was going to do more for his career than opening for Jackie Mason that night. He was pretty funny on the show, and didn't seem to be shoving a pro-palestinian agenda down anyone's throat. He seemed disappointed about not doing the show, but he wasn't calling Jackie Mason a racist ( I don't know about any political things he's said besides that interview.)

Here's the report from Fox News:

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

I don't think it was so much Ray Hanania calling Jackie Mason a racist, it was other Palestinians who used the opportunity to do their usual thing (as far as I can tell so far).

stifford - Either Hanania is a liar or has amnesia. Here is a paragraph from his column:

I was irritated. I called my friends and explained I was dumped from the show. I called the media that had agreed to cover me on Wednesday (NBC-TV news and The Wall Street Journal). (The Daily Herald ran a note on the Friday before.)

I prefer to think this guy is a damned liar.

Jackie was used to further Hanania's name recognition. Mason was caught in the middle of a situation he had no knowledge of since Hanania did not disclose that he was a columnist first, comedian second.

Well it does seem like Jackie Mason & co (his management, not some sort of Jewish Conspiracy) changed their story a couple of times. And I can understand the guy being a little aggravated about losing a gig. After that, how different people and the media spin things are a another matter.

You have to be in the mood for comedy.
Anything whatsoever that would make a comedian uncomfortable enough to feel that his delivery would be effected, would effect a performance. Right or wrong is this regard has to be judged by a subjective standard. Ergo: we should defer to Jackie Mason's judgement.

Please don't bring up Mason's infamous ban from the Sullivan show, when the Stick-man thought he gave him the finger. It would be an apples-and-oranges comparison.

I just got to get back on stage! Allah the Dog Faced Paralegal? Maybe at Yuk Yuks or local cable?

Jackie Mason was interviewed by Richard Bey on Radio station WABC in New York the day after the Sliwa/ Kuby episode. He said that he knew nothing about Hanania's material and suggested he be hired as the opening act in order to give Hanania's career a break. Mason added that it was the club, not he, who removed Hanania from the bill. The club was receiving threats and feared losing money on the performance. Mason was irked that Hanania never came to him personally and that he has apparently milked the situation in order to promote himself. Jackie Mason seemed genuinely offended and hurt that the situation has been misinterpreted to make him sound like a bigot.

Jackie's camp handled this one *badly*, contrasting stories and all. Sure, the guy's a fake and a hack. All the better. If Jackie were in his prime, he'd have welcomed the challenge of a no-good loser opening for him, the pro-Jackie audience booing him, and then tearing him apart in his own act. He could have even invited a few old veteran comic friends to demolish the guy, like Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner, or Don Rickles. Humor is the most potent weapon in the Jewish cultural arsenal, and from the lips of a master it's powerful. Circle and kill.

Instead, he was married to the idea of using this as a test-bed for his Broadway material, has to have it all planned and scripted out, and balked at the chance to tear him apart.

So, like a washed-up recycled hack, he fell for the Palestinian/Arabic trap of being perceived as racist with the attempted cancellation-with-insult scheme. It will be spun in the press and picked up as such since CAIR probably had this all planned out in their playbook. It should come as no surprise that the Palestinians tear apart our social and cultural veterans-icons, just as they destroy archaeological evidence mercilessly for their own schemes. They will try to destroy every Jewish cultural advantage possible, and defusing the humor weapon with this style "career-suicide-attack" may be a new front.

Just as the Palestinians have a ruthless pack of publicity pit-vipers in CAIR in the Publicity-Media War, there needs to be a even more ruthless and merciless group ready to fight it. People ready to step in and advise folks like Jackie or others that get cornered like this situation turned out. Daniel Pipes can't be everywhere, and not everybody is online to check LGF. ;)

Ray Hanania:

Yassir Arafat, but without the devilish good looks.

James Zogby, without the pizzazz.

Edward Said, without the charm.

Abdurahman Alamoudi, without the "oops, I said that in *English*?"

Joel, not to mention:

Diana Buttu, without the beautiful brown eyes
John Bradley, without the writing talent
Yehiya Ayash, without the technical skills
Sheikh Yassin, without the wheelchair

Check out Hanania's article where he supports suicide bombings and the destruction of Israel:

[Link: www.dailystar.com.lb...]

He mentions with anticipation the "possibility of correcting the original injustice of 1948 and restoring Palestinian control over all of Palestine".

And of course, in balanced fashion, not a single word of Arafat's rejection of a state at Camp David, or for that matter, any criticism of Arafat and his PA mob at all, for everyone knows, Israel is the source of all the world's troubles.

What a loon.

Jackie Mason can be proud. Hanania, the "author and writer based in Chicago, Illinois" should stay under the radar, because the facts of this story, which the Associated Press did not seek and did not publish, will shut him down.

Check out Al Barger's and Stefan Sharkansky's sites and their links before blaming this on Jackie Mason, a man who, according to Al Barger, "marched with MLK. He marched for civil rights down south back when it wasn't a nice photo op for your publicist; he was there before that, back when it was a good way to get your ass kicked and/or get on some list of J Edgar Hoover's."

Hananian is a mediocre humorist as well as a mediocre writer, but pretty good at the anti-Israeli Arab/Paleostonian self-pity game.

This, from his blog (no comments allowed) may hint at his real motivation in all of this: "Hi. Does anyone know Jackie Mason? I have a bill I'd like to give him for all the publicity and PR I got him ..." Classic Arab projection: his publicity haymaking in fact leaves him owing Jackie Mason for giving him better publicity than his mediocre talent would have provided him.

I'm particularly bemused by his sense of entitlement: "I'm upset because I deserve to be on stage and it was a big break for me," Hanania said. Maybe he should have kept his mouth shut, and the club wouldn't have thought better of Jackie's ill-advised agreement to give Hananian the *privilege* of opening for him.

Comedy ain't pretty.

I was sympathic to the guy a little bit until I read his blog. When I saw him on TV he denied writing anti-Israel columns and said he was just a comedian and politics wasn't part of comedy. He's a liar.

Yeah, and he's a stupid liar, to boot. His blog is full of the usual blatant contradictions (as in, round up all the usual contradictions...)

I saw him on tv exhibiting his victim mentality. He was not lucid, he was not serious, he was not sincere, he was just glad to have a shot at the limelight. Wrong country, putz. We're in no mood.

From the looks of things Ray Hanania is a propogandist for the Palestinian terrorists much like Edward Said. Not only would any decent comedy plan cancel this guy, Hanania spews the type of garbage that I don't think America should tolerate.

Curtis is a decent guy. Does anybody know why he assosciates with a terrorist enabler like Kuby?

One point:

ADDISON, Do NOT call for BNK unless you are willing to deal the consequences.

The consequences being BNK.

The racist charges have nothing to do with what Hanania said. It's what Mason's wife said to reporters.

"This guy is palestinian. No one ever told us that in advance. Jackie doesn't feel comfortable working with a palestinian."

Replace the word palestinian with "Black man", and it will be clearer.

It's a racial statement and when someone's employment is affected by it, it's racial discrimination...textbook law case. All the rest is just spin and smoke screens...

susan: Give us a link to your source, as I have not seen that reported anywhere else.

Sure...
Here is one from CNN. It was also in the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. Jyll is Mason's wife...S

[Link: europe.cnn.com...]

Yeah, he's Palestinian and a syndicated columnist but no one told Mason about his vile tripe. The Chicago Jewish community knew what Hanania was and called the comedy club to complain. Hanania still denies his "day job", as a columnist and prefers to be a "maligned Palestinian comic". He purposely misrepresented himself and got caught. That is the story, not the supposed "racism" that Hanania, Raymonda Tawill and all the other Palestinian pundits plastered all over the airwaves.

Shame on Hanania for his deception. But, he did get a column out of this.

Thanks, Susan. You're right about Jyll Rosenfeld, his manager, also being his wife. I had missed that. However, when one strings together several comments which may have bee taken out of context, a different picture begins to emerge:

[Link: entertainment.yahoo.com...]

Mason's manager, Jyll Rosenfeld, is also in backpedal mode, after similar quotes were attributed to her.

"It's not exactly like [Hanania's] just an Arab-American. This guy's a Palestinian,"

[might they have left out the words "apologist" or "-American who writes derogatory articles about Jews and Israelis."?]

Rosenfeld said, according to Associated Press. "Jackie does not feel comfortable having a Palestinian open for him. Right now it's a very sensitive thing, it's just not a good idea."

[A Palestinian...agitator?]

Rosenfeld, through a rep, tells E! Online her quotes (including others that appeared in the Tribune) were taken out of context. (The Associated Press also could not be reached for a response.)

[Probably. The full quote might have tempered the controversy, which Hanania created by going to the press in the first place.]

As for Mason, he says he didn't object to Hanania as an opening act. "I said I wouldn't mind at all, because I don't think he's responsible for what the Palestinians are doing," the 71-year-old entertainer tells the Tribune. "If I had found out he was a member of a group that wants to kills Jews then would be a different story."

[And then, someone probably showed him Hanania's comedy stylings at [Link: www.hanania.com...]

So far Mason hasn't retracted anything. But in the very same article, Rosenfeld says Mason was uncomfortable with Hanania's sense of humor.

"Supposedly [Hanania's] married to a Jew, and he says they have a U.N. peacekeeping force at their wedding," Rosenfeld says, according to the Tribune. "It's not funny. It's in bad taste right now. There are Jews dying over there. There's too much misery on both sides, and Jackie is not going to let that be exploited."

[Sounds right to me.]

Rosenfeld maintains that Mason is not anti-Arab, citing his support for a Arab-American candidate (over a Jewish candidate) in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan.

[Link: www.cbsnews.com...]

Mason says he had nothing to do with replacing Hanania, but he adds that he was "furious" after learning that Hanania had been promoting the appearance with Mason and playing up the two comics' different backgrounds.

Zanie's also said Hanania's promotion of the show contributed to its decision to remove him...

Hanania acknowledged he had attempted to hype his appearance with Mason and was glad for the publicity.

[Which would explain the complaints Zanie's got in the weeks before the decision was made. Again, I restate, if Hanania had kept his mouth shut, he probably wouldn't have been cancelled.]

Again, from [Link: entertainment.yahoo.com...]

"There are some jokes I just won't do," Hanania writes on his Website. "Jokes about religion. Jokes spinning off the September 11th tragedy. Jokes about serious political problems like the suicide bombings in the military occupation in the Middle East. But everything else is fair game."

[Link: www.hanania.com...]

So, he's not only a talentless comic, and a pot-stirrer. He's also a liar.

Sorry, Susan. I think your moral equivalence doesn't work in this case.

"Hanania, a Vietnam War veteran and former reporter, said he believes the decision should be based on how funny and entertaining he is. He said that if the decision was simply that he is a "lousy comedian," then he would be satisfied. "

Would he be? OK, he IS a lousy comedian.

Everybody's looking through smoky glass...Jews and Gentiles kvetching all over each other, each trying to make themselves look right, smart, justified, educated, tolerant, truthful etc., by making the other look wrong, stupid, contemptable, ignorant, racist and liars. You've really showed all of us!