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Harry Reid apologizes to Asians over ‘Wong’ comment (Where is the media over this????)
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Posted on 08/22/2014 3:56:42 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is apologizing for comments he made in “poor taste” about Asian people.

The apology was prompted by remarks he made Thursday to the Asian Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas and after video was posted by conservative trackers.

“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,” Reid said to applause, remarks first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

After a man was introduced to the podium, Reid said: “One problem I’ve had today is keeping my Wongs straight.”

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1 posted on 08/22/2014 3:56:42 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Two Wong’s don’t make a Wright.


2 posted on 08/22/2014 3:57:55 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

You sure this wasn’t a Saturday Night Live video?


3 posted on 08/22/2014 3:58:18 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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>> “poor taste”

over Wong?


4 posted on 08/22/2014 3:58:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Trent Lott had to resign his leadership for an off-the-cuff remark about Strom Thurmond (on his 100th birthday).


5 posted on 08/22/2014 3:59:19 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: Red in Blue PA
I heard it earlier this afternoon on Fox News Radio, but nowhere else.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

6 posted on 08/22/2014 3:59:24 PM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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7 posted on 08/22/2014 3:59:46 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Red in Blue PA
Did he say it in a "slight Indian accent"?


8 posted on 08/22/2014 4:00:00 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: eCSMaster

just another example of the Dems being a double standard racist


9 posted on 08/22/2014 4:00:15 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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10 posted on 08/22/2014 4:00:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: eCSMaster

hey, he said he was sorry, So that’s make it OK.


11 posted on 08/22/2014 4:00:41 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The guy is senile.


12 posted on 08/22/2014 4:01:46 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Ben Mugged

Sure he apologized, but did he say he was Wong???


13 posted on 08/22/2014 4:01:55 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Ben Mugged; All
"Two Wong’s don’t make a Wright."

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14 posted on 08/22/2014 4:02:43 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Red in Blue PA
For cryin' out loud, it was just an innocent little joke! What, you really think there's something "racial" there? C'mon. He's an old man, have a little consideration for generational differences.

(this commentary brought to you by the Obvious As Hell Double Standards In Media Association)

15 posted on 08/22/2014 4:03:07 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Reid’s more of a Wang.


16 posted on 08/22/2014 4:05:27 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Red in Blue PA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/22/harry-reid-just-told-asian-americans-theyre-not-smarter-than-anybody-else-he-does-stuff-like-this-a-lot/

Here’s a sampling of some of Reid’s greatest gaffes:

1) “Negro dialect”

Reid’s description of President Obama, in the book “Game Change,” included the remark that Obama was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect — unless he wanted to have one” (a suggestion that Obama’s race helped him in 2008) and forced an apology from Reid in 2010.

2) Mitt Romney hasn’t paid taxes in 10 years

Reid alleged in the 2012 presidential campaign that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes in 10 years — a claim that Reid attributed to an unnamed person and turned out to be totally unfounded. At the same time, it had the desired effect, forcing a conversation about Romney’s taxes. So it’s kind of hard to call this a “gaffe.” Still, what about Reid’s credibility?

3) The hottest senator

Reid at a 2010 fundraiser referred to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) as the “hottest member” of the Senate, with her sitting just a few feet away, according to Politico’s Maggie Haberman.

4) Those smelly tourists

Offered without comment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP6qeBPl_HA

5) Ted Kennedy’s death helping Obamacare

Reid said in 2009 that Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) death would help Democrats pass his life-long political cause: health-care reform. “I think it’s going to help us,” Reid said.

6) No Hispanic Republicans?

That’s what Reid alleged in 2010: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK.” This is only a partial list, of course. Some off these things — especially the Romney comments — can be chalked up to political gamesmanship. And Reid is nothing if not a political animal. But he’s also the leader of the United States Senate. And his career of middling gaffes is a tribute to just how anonymous the leader of upper chamber can remain — along with how over-used the term “gaffe” is these days.


17 posted on 08/22/2014 4:06:11 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Red in Blue PA

If he was talking about the Chinese, then many people in Asia would agree with him. People fled from them for eons.


18 posted on 08/22/2014 4:07:59 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Two wrongs make a Reid, in this case.


19 posted on 08/22/2014 4:08:22 PM PDT by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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20 posted on 08/22/2014 4:10:40 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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