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2007-11-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Moonbat blames spelling errors on the international Jewish conspiracy
James Taranto, "Best of the Web," Wall Street Journal

The Concord (N.H.) Monitor misspelled a word the other day, and one reader blames the Jooz:

What is a "kafuffle"? It's not in the dictionary. Is it just another proofreading error? Or is it a further example of your acquiescence to the Israelization of American culture by attempting to pass obscure Yiddish words into the mainstream of the American language?

It's bad enough that we are steered toward war with the entire Arab world and beyond because our "friend" Israel won't relinquish its occupation of Palestine and make peace with its neighbors. Still we are suckered into giving Israel, the 14th richest country on earth, billions and billions of our tax dollars in foreign aid every year, and we gave it carte blanche to rampage through Lebanon destroying everything in its path and inflicting collective punishment on its people, an aggression internationally condemned as a war crime, yet condoned by the Bush administration and sheepishly accepted by the American people.

How can we hold our heads high and proud when our own county illegally attacks and invades an Arab country that had done nothing to us, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and wrecking their entire infrastructure, clearly Bush war crimes, all for the benefit of Israel because Saddam was assisting the families of Palestinian martyrs in their struggle against the illegal Israeli occupation of their land? We shouldn't be proud to be associated with Israel, and I don't appreciate their insidious adulteration of our language.

PETER DAVIS
Laconia

He's a proster chamoole, this one. Besides, any shlub knows the proper spelling of "kafuffle" is "meshugas."
Posted by Mike 2007-11-15 13:21|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 (The word "kafuffle" appeared in a Sunday Monitor Viewpoints column called "A tip for Clinton: Change the subject" by Hillary Nelson on Nov. 11. Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English defines it as "disorder" or "commotion." It can also be spelled curfuffle, kafuffle and gefuffle. The etymology is not Yiddish but rather Gaelic. Ed.)

Must be those Learned Elders of Brittany at it again.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-15 13:41||   2007-11-15 13:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, Peter, you douchebag, did I spell "douchebag" right?
Posted by tu3031 2007-11-15 14:19||   2007-11-15 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Wrong, tu. You'd better check under your keyboard for lurking Zionists. "Douchebag" is actually spelled s-c-h-m-u-c-k.
Posted by Seafarious 2007-11-15 15:44||   2007-11-15 15:44|| Front Page Top

#4 What a putz.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-15 16:30||   2007-11-15 16:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, Schmuck, Israel is about #28 in GNP per capita and well below Kuwait, another country we've spent a lot of money to defend. So what's all the kafuffle about? Just sit down and aich te bheal.
Posted by Darrell 2007-11-15 16:43||   2007-11-15 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought it was kerfluffle.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2007-11-15 22:33||   2007-11-15 22:33|| Front Page Top

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