There’s so many things wrong with this, but why am I having a hard time putting my finger on it? Still, I think it’s a catchy song. If you listen closely at the end, Orrin’s singing backup.
Almost a decade ago Orrin Hatch, the conservative Mormon Senator from Utah, while trying to run for President, was interviewed by writer Jeffrey Goldberg for the New York Times Magazine on why he didn’t write any Hanukkah songs. Maybe because he’s a conservative mormon?
But Jeffrey wouldn’t let it drop. Last December he wrote on his blog:
I reminisced on my Atlantic blog about the time Hatch nearly wrote a Hanukkah song for me. A couple of days later, I received an email that read, “Dear Jeff, I know it’s nine years too late, but I hope you will like some of the following ideas.” What followed were five verses of a sincerely felt Hanukkah song.
I guess his intentions are sincere, but why does everything Sen. Hatch do always carry such sinister overtones to it? This guy goes to a church that does posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps. Oh he’s against marriage equality, a woman’s right to choose an abortion, universal health care and he likes to pinch kittens to hear them meow in pain. Still he’s considered a “liberal” Republican because of his support of stem cell research and state-subsidized higher education to illegal immigrants.
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I lived in Utah for more years than I care to remember – most of them as an ex-Mormon. And I was the organist at the Synagogue for 11 years in SLC! But I never recall seeing “Snatch” sneaking in to learn about Hannukah, nor was I aware of his musical “ability” in the sea of Mormon Osmond wanna-bes. He’s looking more like bush in his old age. Snatch and Bush together – now there’s a good idea for a blue musical comedy.
BTW, that little vial around his neck that he flashes contains “consecrated oil” which devout mo men wear in case they happen upon the scene of an injury, so that they may bless the afflicted and annoint them with said oil. NOT the same as the burning oil in the Hannukah lights that I can figure so that was just odd! hmmm… I wonder how many have used the oil to annoint themselves when caught without lube? Oh the shameful guilt that would follow such an act!!