Paul Ryan finds out he's part Jewish on TV show

[Honeycombe8]

CNN:

House Speaker Paul Ryan found out that he is part Jewish as part of the upcoming season of PBS' show "Finding Your Roots."

The show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., shared the Wisconsin Republican's reaction to discovering his roots during a panel on Tuesday.
"You could have knocked him over with a feather and then he was very proud of it," Gates, who also serves as an executive producer on the show, said during the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles.

"We don't know who that Jewish person was, but we know it was on his mother's German line, which makes sense," Gates continued. "So somebody who was a Christian German slept with a Jewish German person and that's where that came from."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/politics/paul-ryan-jewish-pbs-finding-your-roots/index.html?utm_content=2018-08-01T21%3A30%3A06&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image

Ryan likes to play up his Irish Catholic roots, St. Patrick's Day and all that, so this throws a kink into that. I'm sure he's fine with it, but I'm thinking that this is one more thing that Trumpers, some of whom are white so-called nationaiists, will hold against him.

Finding Your Roots is a good show, though. Very interesting. I can't imagine all the things that have to be done, and how much time is spent, on tracing roots back that far.

[SummerSnow]

1. Probably why he is leaving

[Honeycombe8]

3. LOL! No, he announced he was leaving before this. He even said last year he might retire this year.

But I find it amusing that Nazis support Trump, and Trump has not just the "Jew" son-in-law, who has predictably screwed things up (in their view), but now we find out the Speaker of the House is part Jewish. So that explains why we can't get the House to take care of things.

I'm just guessing.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Where do we send him to let him know he's an asshole?

[Freethinker65]

4. I often got Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan confused

[Honeycombe8]

6. They look similar. He didn't get re-elected, despite being far right.

Not sure what happened there. Guess he wasn't extreme enough.

[Demonaut]

5. he'll probably convince himself it's just his nails that are jewish

then he'll trim them