Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (yes, he of "Kosher Sex") visited the Republican National Convention and found himself sitting next to... my least favorite crockumentary maker: Michael [Moore] and me. Depeche Mode is hardly my favorite band, but I recalled:
I don' want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that G-d has a sixth sense of humor...
Somewhat (but not overly) surprisingly, the discussion was friendly. Then again, an Orthodox rabbi that can be on speaking terms with Michael Jackson... "A friend of Michael Jackson" being the Belgian-Dutch euphemism for a pedophile...
And speaking of odd couples: could you believe Bill O'Reilly and Bono actually hit it off with each other in an interview? (Aside from their shared Irish roots and Catholic upbringing, I suppose.) Bono is on a speaking tour in the USA, pushing his AIDS aid in Africa initiative. He was at pains to point out that politicians of both major parties came out in support, and recalls:
You know [...] I grew up in a Labour household, you can imagine in the north side of Dublin. [...] I have my opinions of conservatives, and they weren't all good. And then I met some conservatives that really turned me around on that. They were really just conservatives. They were people that [...] had their convictions that were different to mine, but they held them, you know, from a true place.Then I met Jesse Helms, who you know, [...] people in (UNINTELLIGIBLE) wouldn't speak to me because I was meeting Jesse Helms. And he did an extraordinary thing. He did something no politician does. He publicly apologized for the way he had thought about the AIDS virus. He says, 'I've got it wrong.' And he got emotional about it, and he turned it around. And he made a lot of other people who were very judgmental about AIDS... look at it in a different way.
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