Seriously, I’m not ready to let this shit go, facts be damned. It could have been such a wonderful thing, as Joe Klein observes:

I once pissed off a Rabbi by saying that I hoped my children would continue the mongrelization of the Klein family. "Oh, you’re an American!" He said, meaning that my national identity was more important than my religious one–as if the two were mutually exclusive. But, in any case, guilty as charged! One of the things I love most about this country is that we’re all here, mixing and matching, creating this master race of mongrels. (Irony alert: that was a joke.)

So I’m disappointed if Ahmadi-nejad turns out not to be a Jew. He could have used the confusion; it would have been…a teachable moment. We all could have used the reminder that we are we.

 Fuck this. I want to see some birth certificates, or a grainy bar mitzvah videotape.