The Book Of Obama- The Ganza Megillah By Clarice Feldman
The story of Purim is found in the Book of Esther, a long, detailed story known as the "Megillah." In Yiddish, the term "Ganza Megillah" has a number of meanings -- usually a long story -- which is how I am using it now. This week was Purim, the start of the post-mortem releases of the Breitbart tapes on Obama. This is the beginning of the Breitbart effort to force the first open media focus on the racism at the heart of so called Critical Race Studies and an honest examination of who Obama really is.
I think all three -- Purim, Breitbart and Obama -- are related in this Megillah.
Purim
Let's start with Purim and the remarkable account of the holiday by blogger Sultan Knish.
It is the story of how Queen Esther at the urging of her uncle saved her people from the slaughter urged upon the king by an evil vizier, but it is much more. In Sultan Knish's telling -- far more accurate a telling than one finds in most synagogues in America today or the Huffington Post or wherever New Agers congregate -- it is a violent story about strategic preemptive strikes for survival and is a poor fit for liberal pieties. It's about a God "less concerned about feelings and tolerance than with justice and truth." It's about skin of the teeth survival, and in the end an event well worth celebrating:
[The Grand Vizier] casts a lot, [to decide when the slaughter shall begin] random chance in a random world where chance is supreme and the whim of every ruler outweighs the weight of history. The bills are signed, the laws are passed, the decrees go out, the officers from the vast imperial bureaucracy are assigned to inform every citizen that their new age will be inaugurated with blood. A people who are not a proper part of the multicultural empire of laws must be wiped out in a properly democratic fashion. Crowd-sourced genocide.
And then the Grand Vizier ends up dangling from a rope, the tanks break through to Berlin, the chariots fall into the sea, the mustachioed dictator dies in a bedroom in Moscow his clothes soaked in his own urine -- and everything has gone completely wrong.
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