Abramoff's anti-recycling gay-bashing Rabbi Lappin joins The War on Christmas

[Ian David]

December 12, 2006
Xmas trees, Rabbi Lapin. sock puppetry, flackery, feigned rage, airport intrique, blazing sound bites, and no trivialities like Iraq, North Korea, Darfur, Africa, and Iran

The Xmas trees are going back up in the airport, but not without a blaze of self-promotion breast-beating from our old friend Rabbi Daniel Lapin!

He's been laying low, at least locally, since the Senate Finance Committee allegations named him a bagman and a sock puppet for Jack Abramoff in June.

But always a soldier in the culture wars- the rabbi jumped up like Frankenstein with blazing sound bites and stern press releases and did his best to become the point-rabbi on the airport Xmas tree holocaust.

True to form, Lapin leaped into the spotlights, annointing himself spokes-rabbi for the Seattle Jewish community in the kerfuffle- a presumptive annointment not met with enthusiasm in many local Jewish circles, we're told. Lapin is a gadfly- an ultra-right winger and cohorter of evangelicals among communities of mostly liberal Reformed Jews. And that was before he disgraced himself as a sock puppet of Jack Abramoff.

Ingratiating himself with the goyim at large on KIRO's Ron & Don (m-f, 4-7p), Lapin called for Seattle Jews to help him and Michael Medved to volunteer at SeaTac to put back up those sacred plastic trees.

More:
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2006/12/xmas_trees_rabb.html