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January 21, 2007
and now... Nazi News
The level of ignorance displayed in this video by "Mich Bubba" is no less than amazing. Avi Shafran explains:
The conspiracy Mr. Bubba proudly exposes is the “Jewish tax” that hides in plain sight from unsuspecting non-Jews in secret code on food packaging. Long familiar to Hebrews of traditional bent, the various kosher symbols (the popular “u” inscribed in an “o” that is a trademark of the Orthodox Union – which Bubba calls the “United Rabbinical Council” – as well as myriad graphic riffs on the letter “k”) are indications that the product so marked was produced under the supervision of a rabbi expert in the intricacies of both kosher law and food science. Bubba hews to the belief that such foods are simply “blessed by a rabbi” and identifies one product as carrying a second sinister rabbinical group’s certification – “parve” – which he pronounces “parVEY” (French rabbis, probably).
In his essential point, of course, Bubba’s right. Companies do indeed pay for kosher certification.
As they also do, of course, for the right to display, say, the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval (for which manufacturers must purchase advertisement space in Good Housekeeping magazine). Or as they indirectly do through increased manufacturing costs for the right to call their products “organic” or “natural.” To Bubba, however, the Jewish arrangement is singularly unkosher; it smacks, to his fuzzy lights, of a Jewish “shakedown.” If companies pay for a rabbi’s service, he unreasons, the cost must surely be passed on… secretly, of course… to “Gentile” consumers.
The risible accusation is nothing new; it resurfaces almost every time logic-challenged anti-Semites manage to catch their breath between rants on the Middle-East and “Jewish control of the media.” As to inconvenient facts, The New York Times reported in 1975 that the cost to General Foods for rabbinical supervision of its “Bird’s Eye” products worked out to .0000065 of a cent per item. A Heinz Company representative maintained that its own kosher labeling actually decreases the cost of items, by increasing the market for them – the only rational reason, of course, a company would choose to pay for such a service in the first place.
Thank you Avi, although, in true nazi tradition, I don't think Bubba has much interest in facts, he appears to prefer to distribute misinformation in order to promote hate.
and The NaziHunter responds by video:
Yasher Koach Nazi Hunter, that was well done and much appreciated!
By the way, Bubba's video is produced by RegionFive, and their website (no, I won't link it) has the following quote of the day:
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. - Voltaire
Indeed, Miche Bubba Bill certainly makes the enemies of the Jewish people ridiculous. Bravo! Well done Bill.
Irony is so... ironic.
Posted by LindaSoG at January 21, 2007 06:34 AM
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O.K. My wife and I raised 4 kids, beginning about 1961. Make that 45 years ago.
Now, 45 yrs = 2340 weeks.
My wife likes to use fresh veggies, so let's say we've averaged 5 cans/week since 1961; that's about 12,000 total cans. Add another 2000 or so items (cling film, salt, milk, and so on) and round up.
Then multiply that total by the .0000065 of a cent.
So . . . that means we've spent something like $.091 on the Rabbinical stamps of approval over the years.
Hmmmm.... do you think if I sent the Knesset a bill for the amount of 9.1 cents they'd send me a dime?
Posted by: babalu at January 21, 2007 09:42 PM
Sometimes even taking time to debunk these crackpots gives them more oxygen than they deserve.
Posted by: Gordon at January 25, 2007 11:11 AM