Some Days, the Comedy Just Writes Itself

A little background:

Carl Paladino, the tea party darling and by-all-accounts absolute maniac (perhaps that’s redundant?) said, in partnership with those bastions of reason and tolerance, the Orthodox Jewish community, that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that homosexuality is OK. And then someone reminded him that he is running for Governor of New York, the gayest place outside of Disney World, and he took it all back.

Then Rabbi Yehuda Levin, pictured above, renounced his endorsement of Paladino, saying that he folded like a “Cheap Camera”. A strange choice of words given all of the things on the planet that actually fold  - like an origami goose? the edge of the page of a book that you would like to revisit? a chair? - all of these would have sufficed…

But anyway, now that you have the background, you can enjoy this direct quote from the New York Times:

“I was in the middle of eating a kosher pastrami sandwich,” Rabbi Levin said. “While I was eating it, they come running and they say, ‘Paladino became gay!’ I said, ‘What?’ And then they showed me the statement. I almost choked on the kosher salami.”

… believe it’s Freud who said “sometimes a kosher salami is just a kosher salami.” Except when it’s not.