Yes, Bernie Sanders And Chuck Schumer Do Look Like Muppets — The Crabby Ones

Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer look like Muppets

From left to right: Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Waldorf and Statler. Image by Wikimeida/Getty/Forward Montage

By Ari Feldman February 5, 2019

Did you know that Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer bear more than a passing resemblance to the Muppets characters Statler and Waldorf?

Now you do.

Ok does no one else see it pic.twitter.com/aNUPpXW3Ei

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— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) February 5, 2019

Business Insider politics reporter Joe Perticone noticed the similarities in a recent tweet, prompting a cascade of replies along the lines of, “How did we not see this before?”

Sanders and Schumer are Democratic politicians. Statler and Waldorf are the Muppets characters best known for heckling other Muppets from their balcony seats. Sanders and Schumer are Jewish. Statler and Waldorf are not, or are they?

Waldorf: “You never told me you worked in the senate.”

Statler: “That’s because nobody in the senate works!” pic.twitter.com/EEeBo9812O

— Daniel Kaplan (@dkgraphics83) February 5, 2019

Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @aefeldman

Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. He covers Jewish religious organizations, synagogue life, anti-Semitism and the Orthodox world. If you have any tips, you can email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.

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