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> On May 2, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism
> wrote:
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> This morning on leaving home I stepped through the usual collection of
> menus, merchandise offers and other come-ons -- including one from
> Northfield Bank with the slogan in the subject line and a picture of the
> Franklin bill covering the brochure's face.
>
> Someone in their advertising department who doesn't follow the news?
> Or perhaps in fact someone with a sense of humor who actually follows the
> news closely?
The phrase “It’s all about the Benjamins” had a huge pop culture footprint well
before Omar used it; the official video for the song of that title has well
over 2 million views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c58ppLPJcQ
This is why the attempt to smear Omar on the basis of her use of this phrase
was so ridiculous to anyone familiar with it; it’s just not credible unless you
think any talk of the influence of money in politics in relation to Israel is
anti-semitic (which I trust we all recognize as an absurd position). It was
probably the most easily debunked of the various comments she made that were
invoked as evidence of anti-semitism.
I don’t think there’s any reason to suppose the bank’s use of the phrase was
influenced one way or another by the Omar accusations. In fact it’s entirely
possible the slogan was chosen before the whole thing blew up.
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