Two Wednesdays ago, I got my first piece of career-related hate mail – three sides of loose-leaf paper lined with Sharpie cursive, varying in font size depending on the degree of rage at the moment. It was kind of an honor, in my opinion, to have infuriated someone so deeply. First of all, my two articles (see here and here) certainly were non-partisan, and I fairly explained the situation at hand. Sure, I didn’t quote Sarah Silverman word for word, but I was obliged by the standards of the paper to leave out the profanities that so markedly pervade the young comedienne’s language.

Anyway, here is a typed version of the letter, although without the Sharpie penmanship, the piece loses a bit of its luster. Out of respect for my writer, I am going to leave out his name and address, but I would appreciate any ideas you might have for a response to him. I wonder how he feels about Obama’s win.

“Dear Ms. Udasin,

            In your article last week about the “Schleppers” going to Florida to convince their aging parents and grandparents to vote for OBAMA you did something that was journalistically reprehensible. You wrote that ‘Sarah Silverman asked young Jews all over America to stop being lazy and go visit their grandparents to vote for Sen. Obama.’

            What you did was sanitize her real words where she said ‘they should get off their fat Jewish asses to go to Florida.’ If that wasn’t repugnant enough she also claimed ‘If Obama loses the election I’m going to blame the Jews…I really will.’

            That’s a far cry from what you described as ‘Silverman asked young Jews to stop being lazy.’ Ms. UDASIN, are you so enamored of Sarah Silverman and her filthy, vile disgusting jokes and epithets that you felt compelled to clean up what she really said? It’s bad enough that Sarah Silverman tells all her viewers on YouTube and Comedy Clubs that she is the epitome and representative role model of a Jewish American Princess. That this filthy mouthed comedian gives a false and distorted stereotypical view to hundreds of thousands of impressionable Gentiles doesn’t seem to bother you one bit as you describe her as ‘notorious.’ In your previous article on the topic you asked, ‘is Sarah Silverman too off-color?’

            To whom exactly were you asking this question and from whom were you expecting a response? So you took the COWARD’S way out and left your question hanging there in limbo because you don’t have a shred of journalistic integrity to criticize and blast her for these vile remarks. You are an obvious Obama supporter and you therefore sold out your otherwise fair and objective journalistic responsibility.

            Mazel Tov and Congratulations on the probable forthcoming OBAMA victory.

            As for me, I will not be renewing my subscription to the Jewish Week because of their stealth support of Obama through the reporting of writers like you and Ron Kampeas in his whitewash of Jesse Jackson’s ‘ZIONISTIC remarks.’

                                                                                                Again, Mazel Tov

                                                                                               [Name and address]”