“Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC,” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer tweeted to his followers yesterday around 12:45 p.m. ET. Sundays are notoriously slow news days, so it’s not surprising the Jewish newsman had the day off. It’s also not surprising that he would choose to spend a hot summery day drinking El Presidente’s Wolf Spritzer, a twist on an Aperol Spritz named in his honor. The photo Blitzer attached of himself to the tweet — smiling and posing with the orange drink and the menu — is extremely silly and wholesome.
Less than an hour later, President and presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden would announce his decision to not seek re-election. He would also endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President. Soon after, Wolf Blitzer was live on CNN reporting the story, sans Wolf Spritzer.
And thus my personal favorite Jewish joke about Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and Joe Biden dropping out of the race was born. The people of Twitter quickly juxtaposed Blitzer’s day-off Twitter photo with screenshots of his serious-reporting face on CNN.
Here are some of the best:
1. Don’t do it.
2. Joe Biden needs to apologize to silly goose Wolf Blitzer.
3. I hope he did.
While these jokes aren’t explicitly Jewish, I think they are Jewish in nature because Wolf Blitzer is Jewish. The 76-year-old was born in Germany in 1948, the son of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors. Blitzer lost his paternal grandparents, two uncles and two aunts in Auschwitz. His maternal grandparents died of typhoid fever in a Nazi labor camp. His family later emigrated to the United States as refugees. He joined CNN after working for The Jerusalem Post and as Reuters correspondent in Jerusalem.
So yeah, somebody get this man another Wolf Spritzer.
Of course, the Wolf Spritzer debacle isn’t the only good Jewish joke about the newly minted Kamala Harris campaign and Joe Biden dropping out. Here are some of my other favorites:
4. OK yes, this tweet technically came before Biden’s announcement. But it’s still so good.
5. Ugh don’t remind me.
6. That would be Mr. Jewish First Gentleman to you.
7. Maya Rudolph forever!!
8. We love our Catholic-Jewish political it-boy.
9. Ella Emhoff doesn’t identify as Jewish, but she’s still Jewish Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s kid.
10. We are living in the Veep timeline. (ICYMI, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has Jewish ancestry.)
