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* Jon Stewart (né Leibowitz) is fond of exercising [[N-Word Privileges]] with this trope, as when he jokes on ''[[The Daily Show]]'' about the "Jew-run media". Once while accepting an Emmy award, Jon claimed the secret to the show's success was "diversity;" he then indicated the dozen or so white men making up the writing staff and pointed out one who "used to have a beard" and another who "isn't Jewish".

* Rick Sanchez blamed this trope for his dissatisfaction over his career trajectory as a TV journalist. In an [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/oct/01/rick-sanchez-cnn-jon-stewart-jews-television-bigot interview that quickly went viral], Sanchez blamed the abundance of Jews in the media, and specifically Jon Stewart, for his failure to become a leading name at CNN. Apparently he [[Captain Oblivious|couldn't think of a single reason]] other than his [[Everything Is Racist|Cuban heritage]] for why he wasn't the most respected journalist at CNN.

* Invoked on ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' by Saul Goodman (actual name McGill), who finds that work as an [[Amoral Attorney]] comes easier if people think you're Jewish.

* Surprisingly averted in ''[[Star Trek]]'', which made a point of making the crew visibly multi-cultural but has never contained any main characters of explicitly ethnic Jewish background (or any other religious background, for that matter; historically, the producers of ''Trek'' have all been atheists or agnostics; when in one episode Picard talks about humanity "outgrowing primitive superstitious" like a belief in gods, [[Author Tract|he's speaking for the producers]]), although the two most prominent characters in the original series were played by Jewish actors.

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