A thread as you remember Jackie Mason, who campaigned for Rudy Giuliani in 19189 until he made a series of racist attacks on David Dinkins.
This is Mason telling Arsenio Hall about campaigning for Rudy — before he was booted.
...and this is the rest of the appearance, in which a bemused Arsenio does his best to let Mason rescue the bit. Mason would go on to get reluctantly dropped by Rudy for remarks about Mr. Dinkins, like...
"There is a sick Jewish problem of voting for a black man no matter how unfit he is for the job. All you have to do is be black and don't curse the Jews directly, and the Jew will vote for a black in a second. Jews are sick with complexes." - Jackie Mason orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-19…
"You don't need a guy like Dinkins, who spends his whole life putting on shirts and jackets and parting his hair. Dinkins looks like a black model without a job." - Jackie Mason orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-19…
Jackie Mason also called David Dinkins, soon to be New York's first Black mayor, a "fancy schvartze with a mustache." Schvartze is a derogatory Yiddish word for Black people.
nytimes.com/1989/10/02/nyr…
This is Jackie Mason defending his use of the slur against Mayor Dinkins, and mocking terms like "African American" in the process. WARNING: includes use of the hard "R" n-word. (Note he acknowledges the derogatory nature of the word)
That Jackie Mason appearance also included a chunk on "Black racists" and I swear you can hear literal crickets at one point, and Mason has to prompt the audience to react. (from 1993)
SNL mocked Mason at the time with a cold-open
And of course, Jackie Mason used the same slur against Barack Obama. Here's Mason defending himself on the basis that Chris Rock talksk aboutu white people. tmz.com/2009/03/16/jac…
Jackie Mason came out hard against Obama from thebeginning and never let up. Here he is in 2007 saying the only reason people would vote for then-Senator Barack Obama "is because he's Black."
Also suggests Obama become a "head waiter" or a "doorman."
He also cut a now-deleted anti-Obama ad for the Republican Jewish Coalition
forward.com/news/israel/14…
But there are dozens of anti-Obama commentaries still live on Youtube. youtube.com/user/TheUltima…
And of course, Jackie Mason was pro-Trump to the end. Here he is in April saying Trump was the "most effective president since Abraham Lincoln."
Those who know me know I don't celebrate anyone's death. I just thought people should know these things before they hit "send" on that Jackie Mason tribute tweet.
The funny thing is I used to like Jackie Mason because I thought he did the voice of the aardvark in The Ant and the Aardvark, but it wasn't even him, it was John Byner. Anyway, I found out he was a POS in this bonkers @TYT interview from 2007
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