Not So Holy Mackerel
The rapper who goes by the name Macklemore (or less) is a perfect representative of the loser artistic class of our age.
Benjamin Hammond Haggerty goes by the stage name of Macklemore. It would appear that a typical mackerel has more brains and talent than this rapper does. He has made his recent increase in fame by screaming about “Free Palestine” and wearing an ersatz Jewish nose and wig while making a Heil Hitler sign. He had to make the obligatory statement that he “loves Jews” while he wants their extermination in the Land of Israel. What does “Free Palestine” ultimately mean? Get rid of all taxes from the river to the sea? All regulation? While the reality is that much of the Arab population is present in the state of Israel due to the Jews bringing industry and agriculture to life in the formerly desolate Ottoman territory, many of the local Arabs and their supporters in the West have determined that the workers are the ones who deserve the factory — and not those who built it and took the risk to make it into a reality. The Arabs and the Jews were offered a state in 1947. Only the Jews made the offer into the real deal.
The Mackerel was doing warm-up band service for Ed Sheeran until the tour ran into one of the pillars of capitalism: the one who owns property makes the rules. Robert Kraft said that he would not have an active antisemite in his Foxborough stadium, and with that, the Mackerel was out of a gig. The other bands who are as famous as the one that played at my bar mitzvah quit in protest, though nobody actually noticed their absence. Sheeran, who looks like he should be operating an elevator somewhere in London, had his band walk out on him as well. Apparently, he is talented enough to play on his own and not have his fans throw their shoes at him or sue him into oblivion for their money back. One story claimed that........
