Nov 29
The White House’s Latest “Oops”
You may have already seen this, but I just had to mention it.
This week, White House staffers had to apologize for an invitation sent to leaders of the Jewish community. The invites were to a Hanukkah reception at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. There’s nothing so out-of-the-ordinary about that.
The reason for the apology was for the image on the front of the invitation: it depicted a horse-drawn cart pulling a Christmas tree to the White House, which is decorated with a holiday wreath. Spokesman Sally McDonough said it was one of those things that just “fell through the cracks.”
There are a lot of things I can imagine might easily fall through the cracks. Putting a Christmas tree on a Hanukkah invitation isn’t one of them.
Replacement invitations, depicting the White House’s menorah, were scheduled to be sent out on Thursday, though I’m not sure whether they meant Thursday of this week (which would have been a postal holiday) or next week.
At least one of the Jewish leaders took the gaffe in stride: Isaac Abraham of Brooklyn said, “It’s obvious what’s going on here: The Christmas tree is being taken out of the White House and the menorah is being brought in the back.”
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