Bloodless Coup

So I finally got around to looking at this again (having detected nothing terribly upsetting the first time), and I remain pretty much completely baffled by charges of antisemitism. It probably stopped being funny after the first pair of "baloon mortgage" victims, but that's a taste thing, not an offensive thing. Somebody help me out here.

Well, by making Jewish people like the Sandlers and Soros not merely the winners of this mess, but people who are pulling the world's economic strings in a self-interested and capricious way. Labeling the Sandlers as "people who should be shot" (though I hear NBC has taken that graphic out of the skit now). It does seem to play to stereotypes about "money-grubbing Jews", Jewish conspiracies, and it being legitimate to take up arms against them. I presume those are the problems people have had with the skit (apart from it not being funny).

I'm pretty sure the waspy yuppies did all right, too. And I didn't even know Soros was Jewish. Unlike the first couple, who were plainly playing up Jewish stage stereotypes in speech patterns and such, nothing about Soros portrayal suggested judaism, real or caricature. I remember, now that you mention it, the "should be shot" graphic when it aired, but I honestly think this one's a reach.