It’s not often we’re compelled to start a post with the word “Um,” but that about sums it up. Unless you’re web-surfing at a Rush Limbaugh Mardi Gras party, you might think twice before linking to a Julia Gorin comedy routine in public. On her website, Gorin describes herself as “among the most recognized names in conservative comedy”; she’s also author of the book Clintonisms: The Amusing, Confusing, and Even Suspect Musing, of Billary, and an active op-ed contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Jewish World Review. No, Gorin’s not the first to link an Obama administration with both communism and terrorism, though she claims to have coined the term “Communislam.” But hey, we’re not Politico here; we’re telling you all this because she’s originally from the former Soviet Union, and she often works the whole “Russian” bit into her multi-phobic shtick. Thanks for contributing to the stereotype of the racially prejudiced, if not altogether jaw-droppingly clueless Russian, Ms. Gorin. As if we don’t have enough to deal with already.

By all accounts, Gorin is originally from Odessa, the U.S.S.R. humor capital—just like Yakov Smirnoff , incidentally. So now that she’s getting some sort of celebrity in the U.S., do the Russians want a piece of her? Remarkably, no. For now, that is. Save for a smattering of Russian blog comments as anti-Semitic as Gorin’s routines are racist, there are few if any articulate responses to Gorin available in the Russian-language sector of the web. In fact, there’s not a single video on RuTube.ru for Julia Gorin, or “Djuliya Gorin” [Джулия Горин], or “Djuliya Gorina” [Джулия Горина]. In the U.S., conversely, there are entire sites dedicated to debasing her. Not that we condone that sort of behavior.

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