{"id":20011,"date":"2015-03-23T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20011"},"modified":"2015-03-23T17:51:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T21:51:04","slug":"dem-rep-blasts-talmudic-scholar-kings-comments-on-jewish-dems-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/23\/dem-rep-blasts-talmudic-scholar-kings-comments-on-jewish-dems-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep. Blasts &#8216;Talmudic Scholar&#8217; King&#8217;s Comments On Jewish Dems (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> had the article <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/israel-steve-king-jewish-democrats\" title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" target=\"_blank\">Dem Rep. Blasts &#8216;Talmudic Scholar&#8217; King&#8217;s Comments On Jewish Dems (VIDEO)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I really do not need lessons from people like Steve King on what is to be Jewish or a Democrat,&#8221; Israel said on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;Steve King, who said that America is a Christian nation, should not be lecturing Jews about how we should be Jewish. You know, Steve King doesn\u2019t know what chutzpah is, but Steve King defining Jews and talking about how we can\u2019t be Democrats and Jews at the same time? That\u2019s chutzpah.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe width='416' height='234' src='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/politics\/2015\/03\/22\/sotu-borger-steve-israel-on-steve-king-jews-and-israel.cnn' style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although I do not agree with Rep. Israel on the topic of the country of Israel, and I don&#8217;t agree with him on other topics, I still liked some of his remarks here.  I especially liked his disdain for Rep. King, the Christian Talmudic Scholar.  Christian Talmudic Scholar is not an oxymoron except in the case of Rep. King.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t get the word chutzpah, here is the pronunciation from <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/chutzpah?s=t\" title=\"pronunciation and definition of chutzpah\" target=\"_blank\">reference.com<\/a> and definition below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nunmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo had the article Dem Rep. Blasts &#8216;Talmudic Scholar&#8217; King&#8217;s Comments On Jewish Dems (VIDEO). &#8220;I really do not need lessons from people like Steve King on what is to be Jewish or a Democrat,&#8221; Israel said on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;Steve King, who said that America is a Christian nation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20011"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}