Mason fights back ... against Bam?
Jackie Mason doesn’t shy away from controversy — as long as the controversy doesn’t involve him.
A week after the 75-year-old comic’s younger girlfriend was charged with assaulting him, the sultan of shtick made no mention of the incident during his appearance on WABC Radio’s “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.”
Instead, he shifted the spotlight with inflammatory comments about President
Obama — who he called a “completely crooked lowlife” — and George Zimmer
man, the man who fatally shot 17-year
old Trayvon Martin.
Mason, who has a regular segment on Klein’s show, took the April Fools’ Day gig off in the wake of the March 30 arrest of his 48-year-old girlfriend, Kaoru Suzuki-mc
Mullen.
Suzuki-mullen allegedly scratched and bruised Mason’s left arm in an early-morning argument at his W. 56th St. apartment.
He returned to the airwaves Sunday, but remained mum on the brouhaha.
Instead of venting about his girlfriend, Mason, who once staged a one-man show on Broadway called “Politically Correct,” took aim at the President.
Citing the commanderin-chief’s recent “flexibility” open-mic faux pas with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Mason called Obama “a fake and a fraud” who “hates this country” and was “raised by the revolutionaries of America.”
Mason worked himself up into a real lather when it came to reports about the White House leaking Israeli plans to attack Iran. He called Obama a “completely crooked lowlife.”
Then, after noting it was “not nice to call a President names,” Mason claimed Obama was “disrespectful of the presidency” by perpetrating “every kind of a crime against his own office.”
Mason also groused about the media’s handling of the Trayvon Martin case. “It’s unbelievable how the mainstream media of America is so crooked and low that they have no conscience at all,” he said.
Referring to reports that a since-fired NBC News producer had edited a recording of Zimmerman’s 911 call in a misleading way and that ABC News had backtracked about video it aired that purportedly showed Zimmerman had no visible injuries, Mason cried foul. (ABC owner Disney sold the show’s station, WABC, in 2006.)
“Did you see what NBC and ABC did? There was a conspiracy between the two networks to pretend that this man was a racist,” said Mason. He said that because of Zimmerman’s racial background — his mother is of Peruvian descent — “it’s impossible for him to be any kind of racist because he wouldn’t know who to be racist against.”
According to Mason, Zimmerman “comes from 32 different races.”
Mason’s manager did not respond to requests for comment by deadline.