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“The Three Amigos”:  Anthony Weiner,  Bob Filner,  Eliot Spitzer:  Three Jewish Schmucks in Search of Political Legitimacy in The Democratic Party!!

As most of you know by now,  I was born a Jew [actually a Cuban Jew which makes me, a “Juban”;  circumcised as a Jew;  had a lavish Bar-Mitzvah; and now,  I am a ‘cardiac Jew’— a Jew at heart.]

  What relevance is this fact to this blog?

  Well,  it’s an interesting question,  if I may say so myself. 

The recent sexual harassment scandals a la Bob Filner [Jewish Mayor of San Diego];  then Eliot Spitzer [Jewish ex-Governor of NY State] paid off to a prostitute by wire transfer [also a  member of Emperor’s Elite VIP] ; and Anthony Weiner—well you know by now ‘compulsive sexting’—intrigued me to find points of commonality among the three men CAUGHT PUBLICLY  in some sort of sexual transgression.

  First they are all men in the middle ages.   Secondly, they are all Democrats.   Thirdly,  they are all Jewish males.

  Now, why does the fact that they are all Jewish males interest a psychiatrist who treated many a politician?
  Like most ethnic/religious groups who are in the minority,  Jews tend to play “Jewish Geography”.

  That is an informal game where one Jew whispers to another Jew that “I think that he or she is Jewish". 

Usually,  we tend to attribute being Jewish to some movie star or politician whom,  we can all agree that we can ADMIRE.

  Clearly by attributing our own ethnic attributes to a distinguished individual for whatever accomplishment they may have made that tends to relieve our inherent sense of inferiority to the fact that the person whom we admire has ‘OUR ATTRIBUTES” which makes him/her a model for all to admire.   Of course,  implicitly that means that as a fact that person happens to be Jewish; therefore,  it implies that everyone should admire Jews.

OK! Follow me so far? 

  For example, “Jewish Geography”  goes like this.

  Supreme Court Justices Frankfurter and Brandeis were brilliant,  Harvard-trained intellectuals; so perforce,  the must be “Jewish”.

  Clearly,  Clarence Thomas, also a Supreme Court Justice,  who happens to be black, is not Jewish.

  But, we don’t really stigmatize anyone on race—NOT REALLY. Think of Sammy Davis Jr; Lenny Kravitz;  Drake; Rashida Jones; Skyne, et. al.

  You get the idea, by now.

 

What happens when someone like the famous, or infamous,  Harrison Ford, the brilliant actor is not 100 Per Cent Kosher?

  Then we take him at his own word:
“When I am a man,  I am Irish; when, I am an actor, I am Jewish.”

Half a loaf is better than no loaf? Right?

  Then what happens, when THREE WHITE JEWISH “SCHMUCKS” come along, and in FULL PUBLIC VIEW--- DECIDE TO SELF –DESTRUCT BY EXPOSING THEM SELVES TO PUBLIC RIDICULE FOR OBVIOUS, WELL -DOCUMENTED SEXUAL TRANSGRESSIONS?

Normally, as a board-certified psychiatrist,  I should invoked the  American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-V.   But, quite frankly,  I have more faith in our American Movie Culture to describe what “PUTZIM” or “Schmucks” these three Jewish white men are!

Sidebar: For those not versed in the esoteric but vibrant language, Yiddish, a “Schmuck’ can be considered a ‘real Putz’ .

In fact,  both "Putz" and "Schmuck" are interchangeable for  the word: “PENIS”.   However,  the real connotation of ‘Schmuck’ and “Putz’ is really bad.   It means ‘jerk’ , ‘obnoxious’, ‘disgusting’, etc.    BTW,  the plural of ‘Putz’ is “PUTZIM” and the plural of “Schmuck’ is “Schmucks”.   SIMPLE!!!!

Aren't these words better than sexual addiction and malignant narcissism?

  So , along come these “THREE AMIGOS”,    just like the John Landis 1986 film with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Shore of the same name.

In this film the three misfits try to recoup their reputation in a mistaken identity case.

  Unfortunately,  Weiner,  Filner,  Spitzer have the common antecedents which may have contributed to their particular sense of “UNIQUENESS” IMPERVIOUS-- TO CRITICAL THINKING; COMMON SENSE;  SOCIETAL NORMS, OR “WASP” DECORUM! 

[1] We, Jews, are the “CHOSEN PEOPLE”! 

By whom and for what are the key questions.   Really, who needs to BE CHOSEN?

[2] Our MOTHERS reaffirmed that WE JEWISH BOYS WERE “GENIUSES”, “SPECIAL”, “ IMPORTANT”.

Does anyone remember the book Generation Of Vipers by Phillip Wylie,  a brilliant,  vitriolic attack on American “motherhood’ and culture. 

[3] No one woman can satisfy their sense of ‘entitlement’;  ‘childishness’; ‘immaturity’; ‘restlessness;’ and ‘ inherent depression’.   The last one is the KEY,  folks.   But no more psychobabble.  

[4] “Look at me, ma!” the boys screams as he climbs up the tree just before the inevitable fall that lands him in the hospital.

[5] Then my favorite movie scene to describe the THREE AMIGOS “SELF –DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES” comes in the last scene of Raoul Walsh’s classical 1949 black-noir gangster film with James Cagney,  Virginia Mayo,  Edmund O’Brien called,  “WHITE HEAT” where Cagney is on top of a burning gas tank screaming out to his mother as he is in the process of self-immolating:
 “Made it , ma! I am on TOP OF THE WORLD”.   Last Scene: FLAMES  ENRAPTURE ALL !!!

The film was a metaphor for the inevitable self –destruction of American greed,  narcissism and decadent ‘gangster/political culture’.

  To end this blog,  I would like to thank the following NON-JEWISH SEXUAL TRANSGRESSORS who have offered this desolate blogger some hope,  that political scandals are not PART OF THE TALMUDIC CULTURE:

Thank you!

Newt Gingrich-ex GOP , Congressman. 

Thank you!!

Chuck Robb—ex-Senator.

Many Thanks!!! to Ex-Governor of South Carolina:

Mark Sanford

And of course, it goes without saying,  we of all faiths,  have none other than EX PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON !!!
FOR SALVAGING US All FROM PAROCHIAL,  MINORITY CONCERNS and FEARS. 

Thank you again,  Slick Willy!!! Once again,  you saved the day!!
Or at least this blogger----for now!!!!