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Reid Makes Another Ethnic Crack, Media Shrugs
For a media so obsessed with race, they sure are quick to forgive ethnic cracks made by people with a “D” after their name.
Mr. “Negro Dialect” himself, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has stepped in it again after an embarrassing video was released this morning.
Addressing the Asian Chamber of Commerce, the leading Democrat said “the Asian population is so productive. I don’t think you’re smarter than anybody else, but you’ve convinced a lot of us you are.” Later, Shecky Reid added that he has problems “keeping my Wongs straight.”
Reid’s latest ethnic gaffe isn’t quite as bad as his claim that Hispanics can’t be Republicans, but it provides another opportunity to play that popular conservative game What If A Republican Said It?™
The Washington Post predictably underplays the video, questioning its provenance and wonders if it even should be considered a gaffe.
Reid has also made a career out of saying such odd things — so much so that few tend to notice stuff like this. He’s like Joe Biden; he’s almost built up a gaffe immunity by committing so many small-ish gaffes.
Oh, that’s just Harry and Joe being silly! Now let’s get back to covering those veritable Klansmen daring to raise money for racist murderer Darren Wilson.
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The only problem I have with this is that Asians probably are smarter due to better parenting. Reid, like most liberals, is just too afraid to point out the fact that different cultures value family, productivity, and responsibility differently.
Oh, and of course conservatives would be skewered for saying something like this, but that’s a given.
In a related story the Washington Post today announced that the Op-Ed page will no longer be using the word Redskin when writing about the local NFL franchise.
Can’t resist.
Doesn’t he realize that two Wongs don’t make a Wright?
See also racist attacks on Mrs. Mitch McConnell, AKA Elaine Chao : http://www.redstate.com/2014/08/04/elaine-chao-kentucky-kathy-groob-mitch-mcconnell-racism/
Macaca.
George Allen’s political career was ended by that same obsessive Washington Post … for using a term they had to explain to their readers was actually offensive, even though it was last used as a “slur” by French African colonialists.
I hate the media.
Because they are not obsessed with race, at least not in the fashion you seem to imply. For such racism, real or merely perceived, is not a problem to be solved no it is simply a weapon to use against those they dislike.
There is no level of cynicism that is excessive in weighing this matter. No one could be less concerned about the issue of racism then the Left, for them it is merely a tool.
I’m assuming that the application form for working at the Washington Post has this on line 7a:
Will you be able to speak and write out of both sides of your mouth, forever, and be completely comfortable with that, and ignore glaring and outrageous inconsistencies in your points of view? (Hint: Check the “Y” box)
I was watching “The Strongest Man in the World” with Kurt Russell last night, and there’s a scene where the local police chief is speaking to an Asian business association, with jokes similar to Reid’s. The Senator is borrowing material that even Disney was mocking as tone-deaf forty years ago; just add it to the many reasons I pray for a Senate takeover in November.
Demote this man. Faster, please.