Today in Political Correctness

In the most babyish political move since Governor Mark Sanford’s tear-shed, Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman has renamed the “Swine Flu.”

So as not to offend Jewish or Muslim sensibilities, Litzman prefers a less descriptive (and less accurate) term for the pandemic.

You see, both Judaism and Islam view pigs as unclean for consumption – which makes both faiths not unlike Jules in “Pulp Fiction.”

Apparently, according to Litzman, what can’t go in one’s mouth also can’t come out of it.

So that no Jew or Muslim has to utter the word “swine,” it’s now being called the “Mexican flu.”

Of course, for American Jews, this poses a whole other quandary in terms of political correctness: Better to offend God (of whom there is only one) or Mexicans (of whom there are, oh, 12 million)?

And speaking of political correctness, when the hell did Israel start caring about offending Muslims?

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