There was a time when I wrote so many columns making fun of WashPost Likudist from Hell Jennie Rubin that I stopped. Jennie was so over the top1 that it didn’t seem fair, or relevant, to make fun of her. Well, that was then. The non “I want to die for Israel and I’m going to make you do so too!” side of Jennie was always pretty liberal, and the ghastly election of Donald Trump has more or less forced Jennie to come out of the closet and display a respect for civil liberties that, frankly, surprises me. Cranky old Jennie has turned into one of the shrewdest, most clear-eyed, and most persistent
critics of il Duce Trumpo and all his minions on the scene today. I wish we didn’t need the new Jennie, but we sure as Hell do, and I’m glad she’s here.
- Jennie memorably blasted Ky Sen. Rand Paul for not clapping rapidly enough when Israeli premier Bibi Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress, even though, as Bill Maher noted, Rand gave Bibi 50 standing ovations, “one for every Jew in Kentucky.” ↩︎
