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 dont think youre smarter than anybody else, but youve 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 Ive had today is keeping my Wongs straight.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Two Wong’s don’t make a Wright.
You sure this wasn’t a Saturday Night Live video?
>> poor taste
over Wong?
Trent Lott had to resign his leadership for an off-the-cuff remark about Strom Thurmond (on his 100th birthday).
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
just another example of the Dems being a double standard racist
hey, he said he was sorry, So that’s make it OK.
The guy is senile.
Sure he apologized, but did he say he was Wong???
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Reid’s more of a Wang.
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 its 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.
If he was talking about the Chinese, then many people in Asia would agree with him. People fled from them for eons.
Two wrongs make a Reid, in this case.
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