Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Pesach It

Very little news on the White House Seder last night, just a single pic in brief news stories like this, plus word that Sasha answered The Four Questions and found the afikomen.

Meanwhile, California Republican Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina stepped in the gefilte fish:

California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R) sent a letter to her supporters yesterday in honor of the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which she described as a time where "we break bread and spend time with our families and friends."

Add this to the annals of unfortunate metaphors, since Passover is actually a time when most Jews abstain from eating any bread at all.


Her campaign's attempt to spin the faux pas:
We meant all bread, leavened and unleavened, and matzo is just unleavened bread so that's what we meant by that.

A case of matzoh and Manischewitz to Ms. Fiorina to cover her for the next seven days.

Next year right back in Silicon Valley, Carly.

3 comments:

Master Fu said...

Wow, we should crucify her for that mistake.

Now to plan my trip to visit all 57 states in the union. :p

Hope all is well with you and your family Netter.

Anonymous said...

Poor Carly; just another good Catholic tripped up by your people's pagan rituals.

Reeko Deeko said...

I had a table full of Jews laugh in my face last night as I garbled a portion of Hebrew prayer. It wasn't just the herbs that were bitter! My heart goes out to Carly...