You know you’ve pissed off enough people when you end up on the Daily Show.
Jon Stewart poked fun at Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind last night for his rather poor choice of Purim costume, when he wore an afro, orange jersey, and blackface makeup to dress up as “a basketball player.”
Stewart listed all the efforts Hikind has gone through to fight anti-Semitism, and noted how poorly done his make up was, noting he looked like “a Jew who went on a cruise without his hair products.”
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