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Michael Jordan's Hitler Moustache
by Michael Frissore   

Once upon a time, the toothbrush moustache was an adorable, working-class response to the ridiculous, Kaiser-style, Rollie Fingers ‘stache the snobby upper-class were sporting as they twirled one end in their fingers and thought about how to suppress the idiot ham-and-eggers that day.

In the late teens and 20s Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp character made us embrace the look even further. It was a great time to have tiny little facial hair.

Then came the Nazis. The Nazis, and Adolf Hitler in particular, had a way of ruining everything, be it most of Europe or the wonderful moustache we all held dear. Suddenly, unless you were wearing a small derby, baggy pants, large shoes and carrying a cane, that little piece under your nose was called a “Hitler Moustache.”

As years passed it became apparent that it would take a great man to bring the style back. Some in the music industry were brave enough to try, from Ron Mael of Sparks to Black Flag’s Chuck Dukowski to G.G. Allin’s brother Merle. Even former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir gave it a go.

U.K. funnyman Richard Herring has been trying to take back the Hitler for Chaplin and comedy in general with his stand-up show “Hitler Moustache.”

hitlerstudyDespite the attempts by these few gentlemen, the Hitler remains much more prevalent as a shaving style for female naughty bits than something above the lips of men.

Then along comes the greatest basketball player who ever lived.

Michael Jordan stormed through the NBA in the 90s like Hitler did through Poland in the late 30s. He’s been retired for eight years, but he’s still arguably the world’s most recognizable athlete. He’s been the spokesman for Hanes underwear for so long we’ve forgotten all about those Fruit of the Loom clowns.

In his newest Hanes commercial, Jordan is wearing what looks like a toothbrush moustache, or, yes, a Hitler moustache.

It has everyone talking. Was this a conscious decision? Is it Jordan’s response to the flak he got after his Hall-of-Fame speech? Is it Hanes’ ridiculous, seemingly anti-Semitic attempt at some press that, I must say, has worked pretty damn well?

jordan_hitler_moustacheCharles Barkley called Jordan’s moustache “stupid.” Well, you know what, Sir Charles? Win a championship and drive sober for a change. Then you can criticize Michael, a man so famous he can be mentioned by his first name only, even when that name’s been the most popular one in the U.S. since labout 1950.

It’s a great time for Jordan to do this, for three reasons.

1.)  The ad came out before the NBA Finals, featuring the two most winning franchises in NBA history. Everyone’s talking about the Celtics and Lakers and forgetting about Air Jordan and his Chicago Bulls.

2.)  In a league in which players now sport crazy, anarchic neck tattoos and wave gang signs after sinking a simple jump shot, what could be more gangsta than a Hitler Moustache worn by a man who could still beat any of these young punks in a game of one-on-one?

3.)  It’s been 65 years since Hitler’s death. Richard Herring is right. We as a society, whether American or British, need to take back this once-beloved look.

I think it’s safe to say that every man, while shaving, has stopped at least once at the remaining Hitler moustache, ran to his wife or girlfriend and said giddily, “Honey, look. Seig Heil!”

So, for the greatest player in the history of the NBA to meet the biggest asshole fascist dictator ever via this dictator’s facial hair is, quite frankly, fate. The gays did it with skinheads. They took that bald look back and now every man you see without a hair on his head is a gay. Allegedly.

So God bless you, Mr. Jordan. You are indeed a pioneer. Don’t let the Barkleys of the world discredit you and make you shave what is every man’s birthright. Remember Charlie Chaplin. Remember Oliver Hardy. Remember Dennis the Menace’s dad from the Beano comic strips. You might need some support. I suggest Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant be your Himmler and Rommel and grow their own Hitler staches. That’s what friends are for.



 
Slurve Magazine (c) 2010

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