Halle Berry Offends the Jewish Community
Halle Berry was apologizing last night after she’d made an apparent anti-Semitic joke while taping “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Friday afternoon. [see video below]
Reports Page Six,
The Oscar-winning star, on the show to promote her movie “Things We Lost in the Fire,” was showing Leno and his audience images of herself on her computer using the Mac program Photo Booth, which distorts images like a carnival fun-house mirror.
According to one audience member, “She introduced the first photo by saying, ‘Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!’ – it was a picture of her with a huge, distorted nose. No one laughed, and Jay nervously said, ‘I’m glad you said that and not me.’ When the show aired, they cut out her ‘Jewish’ comment and added a laugh track to the bit.”
Another guest in the audience told us, “If you watch the clip, you can see Halle saying the word ‘Jewish,’ though obviously there is no audio. NBC covered her a – -. Ms. Berry should know how unbelievably inappropriate her comment was . . . She should be ashamed of herself.”
I’m sure she didn’t mean to offend anyone, she seems like such a nice gal… but you never know when you might offend someone by your comments. If you ‘think’ it might offend someone, just don’t say it.
What other’s said:
- The Superficial says, “So Halle Berry makes an anti-Semitic joke and who does she blame? The Jews. I believe it’s time to hire a new publicist. You know, one that isn’t Hitler. In the meantime, somewhere, somehow, Mel Gibson has a giant boner.”
- The Evil Beet says, “Anyway, I think she’s genuinely sorry, and, you know what, Jewish noses are funny sometimes. If Jerry Seinfeld had made that call, you would have laughed.”
source: Berry Nose Better Than That [ny page six]
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People do not seem to understand the meaning of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism means you discriminate against Jews, or think they’re inferior. Noting that many Jews have “distinctive” (ahem) noses is not anti-Semitism, it’s simply observing a fact. If the distortion had shown her not with a big nose but with a white face, would it be racist if she said, “That’s my white cousin”? Of course not.