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That bar - "The Country West" - is right here in my home town (and location of the TopBucks office) in Tucson, AZ. My wife and I laughed our asses off watching that, and then when we finally regained our composure, she looked over at me and said "You realize that we have to move now, right?" LOL
The whole thing with this being supposedly "anti-semetic" humor just demonstrates once again what Tom Lehrer (another brilliant Jewish satirist) has said many times over the years; people just don't get satire. To wit, in his song/invective against empty political correctness "National Brotherhood Week" - released back in the early 60's, to give you an idea of just how ahead of his time Lehrer really was - Lehrer sang:
"The Catholics hate the Protestants
and the Protestants hate the Catholics,
The Muslims hate the Hindus
and everybody hates the Jews."
The line caused a bit of a furor back then, less than 20 years after the end of WW II, despite the fact that Lehrer is Jewish (although, as he admits, in his family "it is more about the deli than the synagogue"), and the line is clearly a satirical joke.
Some people get satire, others don't. Another classic example - "Springtime for Hitler" from Mel Brooks' The Producers... the list goes on and on.
- Q.
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