Dude, How Should Bennet Call You?

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...In another disturbing reference to beer, a separate segment titled: Dude, How Should Bennet Call You? features Bennet and fellow MK Ayelet Shaked sitting at a small wine table in the show’s newsroom, at a distance from the show host, Eyal Kitzis. Bennet is holding a mug of dark liquid and coaxing Kitzis to come over and have some “beer.”
“Why are you so far away?” he says. “There’s room for everyone: the secular, the student, the Jewish terrorist, the driver —”
“What did you say in the middle?” interrupts Kitzis.
“The student!” Bennet and Shaked answer in unison.
Bennet goes on to tick off a list of his nicknames, among them “shark, fox, leopard”; and the tools in his tool box—“a hammer, long-nose pliers, groove joint pliers, locking pliers.” Suspicious in their own right, these monikers and tools also have no connection to MK Bennet’s white collar persona as a software CEO and politician. Clinking glasses with Bennet, Shaked repeats his invitation to hit the sauce in a sing-song voice—but winks at the camera to the sound of a bling chime as she says the word “beer.”

(From "The Only Democracy in the Middle East," Bear Mountain Press)

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