Musician speaks truth to chowder
Taylor Greene is new target of artist's broth
EVER since Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Gazpacho Police” controversy boiled over, the Internet has been splattered with jokes, memes and snarky soup-related tweets.
If you haven’t been following, Taylor Greene – who last year blamed California’s wildfires on “Jewish space lasers” – was giving an interview condemning investigations by the United States House Select Committee into the January 6, 2021 attack at the US Capitol. Taylor Greene had been going about her business, making the kind of Nazi comparisons she’s known for, when she chose to single out “Nancy Pelosi‘s Gazpacho Police” as a special target of her outrage.
Taylor Greene did not clarify if she had meant to refer to the Gestapo or some other historical organisation dealing with soup enforcement.
Nonetheless, the Internet was able to take it from there. And just when we thought the joke had gone cold (or warm?) Brooklyn-based clarinettist Michael Winograd has immortalised the moment with “Gazpacho Police”, an original klezmer composition.
“I’m drawn to punny titles and I felt like, whether the Representative knew it or not, she was encroaching on my territory,” Winograd, 39, told The New York Jewish Week. “What was I supposed to do? It would be a shonda to let that go to waste.”
Watch the video here.
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