“Running for the presidency’s not an IQ test”
— 2016 Republican hopeful Rick Perry
“Whew,” thinks fellow 2016 Republican hopeful Scott Walker:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has a special holiday message for his Jewish friends.
In an undated letter “unearthed by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now” and first reported by the Capital Times, Walker thanks Milwaukee attorney Franklyn M. Gimbel for getting in touch with him about a menorah display at the local courthouse. The letter itself is nothing unusual, except for its closing salutation: “Thank you again and Molotov.”
A Molotov cocktail is an improvised explosive device made from a glass bottle and a rag. The phrase Walker was probably searching for is “mazel tov,” a Hebrew expression used to express congratulations or good luck.
Giving Walker the benefit of the doubt, maybe he really hates Franklyn M. Gimbel and would sincerely like somebody to stuff a lit rag into a glass bottle full of gasoline and throw it at him. You have to allow for that possibility, don’t you?
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