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The Schmooze Yes, This is a Nazi-Themed Cheerleader Routine
No, it’s not a Hitler Youth parade — it’s a cheerleading competition. One of the teams competing in a cheerleading smackdown in the Mexican city of Guadalajara (in May) got slammed on social media last week when a video surfaced showing their highly offensive routine featuring swastikas, goose-stepping and “Sieg Heils” galore. The cheery bunch included…
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Culture Anatomy of the Murderers
● The Third Reich in History and Memory By Richard J. Evans Oxford University Press, 496 pages, $29.95 However deranged his deeds, Adolf Hitler was not certifiably mad. The German people did not voluntarily embrace the dictator, but acquiesced in his rule only after a campaign of terror that silenced or sidelined the political opposition….
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Opinion John Boehner’s Double Standard on Bibi — and Obama
In case you missed it: The No. 1 best comedy line of the weekend came from one of our best deadpan straight men, House Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio. It came during a Sunday interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” They were talking about the Israeli prime minister’s flip-flop on…
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Fast Forward Adolf Hitler Painting to Be Auctioned, Asking Price $30,000
A Los Angeles gallery is auctioning a painting by Adolf Hitler, with an initial asking price of $30,000. Hitler’s floral still life, painted in 1912 before he entered politics, will be auctioned on Thursday by the Nate D. Sanders gallery. As a teenager and young man, Hitler unsuccessfully pursued an art career and was twice…
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The Schmooze Say It With Nutella — Unless You’re Jewish
Courtesy of Nutella You might want to reconsider those Nutella-filled hamentaschen this year. The beloved purveyor of spreadable chocolate hazelnut goodness has banned certain words from its “Say it With Nutella” campaign, which allows people to customize their jar labels. This policy would be totally understandable if the list of so-called inappropriate words didn’t also…
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The Schmooze Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
It’s Dr. Seuss’s 111th birthday. You know him as the creator of “The Cat in the Hat” — but we want to celebrate his long career as a political cartoonist. During the WW II era, Seuss drew over 400 political cartoons working for the left-leaning New York City daily newspaper, PM. Yes, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better…
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Culture Will the Real Adolf Hitler Please Stand Up?
Incongruous as it may initially sound, “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare’s immortal line from “Romeo and Juliet” lies at the core of Matt Ogens’s endearingly offbeat documentary “Meet the Hitlers.” In the play, Juliet Capulet famously raises the question to declare that the stigma associated with the surname of her lover, Romeo Montague, will not…
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The Schmooze How Coke Made Hitler ‘Happy’
In an acute case of “no good deed goes unpunished,” Coca-Cola’s #MakeItHappy campaign has gone hopelessly awry. The campaign, launched during the Super Bowl, goes as follows: fans of Coke can tweet unpleasant things and the company, who then turns those angry thoughts into a fun image, which is then tweeted back with the slogan…
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Fast Forward Michigan State pays $35K to settle lawsuit over use of Hitler photo on Jumbotron
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Fast Forward George Washington U bans student commencement speaker from campus after speech calling to divest from Israel
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Film & TV Sarah Silverman’s new Netflix special ‘PortMortem’ tackles Jewish grief and masturbation
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