Rabbi Blasts Donald Trump For Being "Bereft of Class"

I know everyone is sick of hearing about this whole Rosie and Donald war of words. Perhaps it took a religious leader to sum up this whole incident. And it wasn't Rosie's childhood priest.

Famed Rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, has chimed in his two cents on the Rosie vs. Donald media match and his is the most brilliant assessment of the situation that I have seen. Hope his is the last word. (So it is written, so it is done!).

In his Beliefnet.com column, he assesses that Trump's nasty comments herald the end of the era when men were gentlemen. His assessment of street-smart, king of Bravado Trump seems harsh, but true.

"What Donald Trump has invented is a new kind of rich man," he writes. "The man who has money, but is bereft of class. The man with a million bucks, but with impoverished manners. The man who lives in high society, but whose behavior is in the gutter."

Ouch!

He also scolds Trump for being a testosterone-driven misogynist and for insulting Rosie's weight. He points out that "the ancient codes of male honor dictated that a gentleman was judged first and foremost by his treatment of women."

"Trump's nauseating attacks on Rosie's body mass betray a man who denies women an independent identity and creates them solely in a man's image. Who determines how women should look? Trump and his testosterone-filled friends. Rosie, who lacks an hourglass figure, fails to entertain him, and is therefore a primate. He had every right to criticize her words, but not her weight; her opinion, but not her shape."

The Rebbe With a Cause did not mince words. Read more at: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/209/story_20961_1.html