Friday, December 05, 2008
NY Times: Make The Hasidim Walk To Wal-Mart
In the social circles of the New York Times editorialists, it's OK to have one kid. Two is pushing the envelope. Three or more is déclassé, and a threat to the survival of the planet.
That being so, there's really no reason to let any car bigger than a Prius be built. Doing so just encourages the unenlightened to overbreed. And so it is that in its editorial of today, the Grey-but-barren Lady suggests that as a condition of the Detroit bailout, "Congress could consider demanding that Detroit simply phase out S.U.V.’s and vans by a certain date."
Great idea. Let the Mormons and others who take that "be fruitful and multiply" stuff seriously, like Hasidic Jews, walk to Wal-Mart or wherever else those kind of people go. Lincoln Center is right down the block. Frankly, we don't see the need for cars at all.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/12/05/nyt-make-mormons-walk-wal-mart
That being so, there's really no reason to let any car bigger than a Prius be built. Doing so just encourages the unenlightened to overbreed. And so it is that in its editorial of today, the Grey-but-barren Lady suggests that as a condition of the Detroit bailout, "Congress could consider demanding that Detroit simply phase out S.U.V.’s and vans by a certain date."
Great idea. Let the Mormons and others who take that "be fruitful and multiply" stuff seriously, like Hasidic Jews, walk to Wal-Mart or wherever else those kind of people go. Lincoln Center is right down the block. Frankly, we don't see the need for cars at all.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/12/05/nyt-make-mormons-walk-wal-mart
Comments:
Hi Chaptzem:
Thanks for posting to my article at NewsBusters. Just wanted to be sure that you and your readers understood that I was mocking the NY Times, not endorsing their views. I am very close to Eli Silberstein, our Chabad rabbi here in Ithaca, NY, and by coincidence will be speaking at a dinner there this coming Monday for student leaders.
Regards,
Mark 'Mordecai' Finkelstein
Thanks for posting to my article at NewsBusters. Just wanted to be sure that you and your readers understood that I was mocking the NY Times, not endorsing their views. I am very close to Eli Silberstein, our Chabad rabbi here in Ithaca, NY, and by coincidence will be speaking at a dinner there this coming Monday for student leaders.
Regards,
Mark 'Mordecai' Finkelstein
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: December 05, 2008 10:38 AM
: December 05, 2008 10:38 AM
Dear “Mordecai”
I think most of us got the sarcasm; very soon they will have banned ALL cars. I love Chabad too!
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I think most of us got the sarcasm; very soon they will have banned ALL cars. I love Chabad too!
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: December 05, 2008 3:48 PM
