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Rabbi to Aubrey Oy Vey -- No Brilliance in Hate!

Posted Sep 2nd 2009 4:45AM by TMZ Staff

From the completely obvious file -- the comments Aubrey O'Day made about Hitler and Fidel Castro on "The Sean Hannity Show" Monday night immediately struck a chord with members of the Jewish community.

Rabbi to Aubrey Oy Vey

TMZ spoke with Rabbi Chaim Cunin of Chabad House who gave us the following statement:

"When a woman like her uses public airwaves, with access to millions of wonderful citizens of America, and calls some of the most despicable, unspeakable hate mongers of history brilliant, then something is lacking with her intelligence.

This is a constant reminder of how careful we need to be when we talk about hate, because hatred is always present. We need to make sure we are careful and that hatred doesn't rear it's ugly head.

'I'd like for her to think about some older Holocaust survivor having that comment beamed into their home while they are enjoying the freedom that this beautiful country provides and having to listen to her disgusting comments."



Tags: aubrey oday, AubreyOday, fidel castro, FidelCastro, hitler, the sean hannity show, TheSeanHannityShow

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1. hey aubrey show charlie murphy ya tittays eh eh eh

Posted at 1:49AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by olderboytell'em

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I think people need to understand context and really calm down. What I'm certain of is people do understand context, but are too busy wanting to be heard.

Posted at 1:53AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by shuffler

3. Was the statement for O'Day and Fox (Beck, Hannity, etc)???

Posted at 1:57AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Tim

4. What an idiot. Doing the types of things Hitler and Castro have done doesn't mean that they are any more intelligent than the average person- it just means that they were good at what they do. They are good at getting people to follow them, which is incredibly unfortunate.

Calling them intelligent suggests that there was some logic in what they did, since intelligent people do not do things that are senseless and illogical.

Killing millions of people is the most senseless and illogical act possible in my opinion. Thus I believe they were both extremely misguided idiots, but they were damned good at getting people to follow them and do what they asked. I guess a word for that is "charismatic", but no matter, Hitler already got what he deserved and Castro isn't long for this world.

Posted at 1:56AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Lilith

5. Aubrey isn't too bright, but so are the people angry at her comments. Hitler WAS a smart guy. An evil and insane guy, but clearly not stupid. He used his intelligence for evil, that's all.

Posted at 1:57AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Enrique

6. being a "dispicable hate monger" and a brilliant man are not mutually exclusive

Posted at 1:57AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by cher

7. Wow! A bleach blonde seeking fame made a controversial comment! I, for one, am completely shocked...has she yet announced her acting debut to promote a crappy straight-to-DVD movie? That, for sure, will be unexpected and take North America off guard...

Posted at 1:59AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by AliCat

8. Exactly Enrique. She just phrased it incorrectly.

Posted at 1:59AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Bridget

9. Yikes!

Posted at 2:00AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by mrez golucky

10. She should sue the ass off of this Rabbi. The Rabbi falsely labelled her a hate-monger and an anti-semite when all that she said was that Hitler was very smart. It is generally accepted by historians that Hitler had an I.Q. in the 141-150 range which would put him into genius territory.

Posted at 2:01AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by keith

11. It's funny when Hollywood shows mock that all Catholic priests have sex with boys. LOL

Posted at 2:03AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Wha' Wha' Wha' What

12. Enrique you are a huge ass, idiot, moron,obviously suffering from both a cranial-rectal inversion, and an anal-oral complex.
shuffler- a close second.
I'd say you both have the IQ of say, an Aubrey O'Day.

Posted at 2:07AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by I See You

13. Lilith, by logic you are referring to ethics--Hitler's logic of eugenics, while highly unethical, was sound in his skewed perception of logic. Because our individual logic and our logic as a culture are determined by our individual and shared values, one cannot determine a mind's brilliance by basing it on the logic of another set of standards. It would be like trying to measure randrops with a Richter scale.

Hitler's ethics were completely flawed by the standards of most, but ethics are not a determiner of intelligence. Think about the level of manipulation someone like Charles Manson has to have to control a group of normal people. Multiply those people by hundreds of thousands, and you begin to understand the kind of intelligence Hitler required.

Posted at 2:06AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Mimi

14. I didn't watch the show, but if the worst she said was that Hitler and Castro had brilliant minds, I have no problem with that statement. While Hitler was a mega-mass murderer, his country developed the jet airplane before WWII started and came darn close to conquering the entire world. He was far from being stupid. As for Castro, he has lead his country for decades. That has to take some decent smarts. Nice guys, no. Horrible men, yes. Brilliant, on some level, probably.

Posted at 2:07AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Mark B

15. Typical Jews...they don't listen but love to shoot their mouths off.

Yes, Hitler WAS highly intelligent. Show me one person who was mentally retarded or of average intelligence that was able to convince an entire country of anything (other than Bush). Back off people, Hitler was intelligent, insanely mad, but definitely intelligent. I agree, she should sue the Rabi

Posted at 2:09AM on Sep 2nd 2009 by Lola

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