'Time' Reporter: Biden Blooper No Prob, GOP Senator's Internet Description Is

Scarborough Country/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Biden, um, plug to Today show list ;-)

[Brilliant]

“You cannot go into a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.”




Sounds like Biden has never been to Dunkin Donuts or 7-Eleven. Not good enough for him, no doubt.

[benjamin032]

Funny, didn't see any of this in the MSM.

[kevkrom]

"The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

Not prose for the ages, granted. But I don't think anyone believes Stevens was suggesting the internet is actually composed of tubes. Seems that he had the concept of a pipeline in mind, a first-in-first-out protocol. In any case, certainly nothing offensive, other perhaps than to some San Francisco techno geeks.

I'm a tech geek (though thankfully not from San Fran), and I actually think it's a reasonable analogy in trying to explain bandwidth capacity to non-technical folks.

[AntiGovernment]

Biden told an Indian political activist: “You cannot go into a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

This sounds like criticism (like: you can't enter blabla unless you're white). Was it critical?

[kevkrom]

Sounds like Biden has never been to Dunkin Donuts or 7-Eleven.

Don't know about Dunkin Donuts, but you'd better have a Pakistani accent in a 7-Eleven.

Given tensions between India and Pakistan, one would think this would cause Biden more problems (among the Indian and Pakistani communities) than just the general "racist" nature of his remarks.

[BlessedBeGod]

... I actually think it's a reasonable analogy in trying to explain bandwidth capacity to non- technical folks.

I agree. I see nothing wrong with it.

[Red Badger]

I think he was comparing the I'net to the tubes at the bank's drive-thru lanes that you put you check or deposit slip into where it's sucked up into the bank in line.............

[LS]

Thank you, come again. ("Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle")

[Alberta's Child]

That's pretty amazing . . . those three folks chattering in Spanish behind the counter yesterday at Dunkin Donuts were Indian?

[OldFriend]

Thanks, I understood the 'tubes' comment as my husband has used that same analogy to explain why my emails get delayed on occasion.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Alaskan pipeline exposure?

Could be tubes, pipes, .... he (sort of) has the meaning.

Notice that she BACKS AWAY from the racist/Indian-Pakastani topic completely.

[Enterprise]

You have to have an Indian accent?

"Me want 'em Marlboro and firewater. Give wampum."

[Diogenesis]

The Wonkette of Time taking a note.

[mak5]

No, he was trying to tell the guy that he had many "Indian-American" constituents and that they were a growing part of the Delaware population. It was not intended to be criticism, it was a condescending compliment. Kind of like telling Jesse Jackson "you know, I really liked that Sammy Davis, Jr.".

[Truth-The Anti Spin]

Am I a bad person because I laughed?

But seriously, screw Biden and screw Wankette. They're both about the worst of their respective class.

[Mo1]

Nevertheless, Cox was of the opinion that Stevens' remark was more likely to prove damaging than Biden's to their respective careers..

OK, I give and I admit

I don't get why Steven's comments are damaging

As for Biden .. he's a Democrat and dems are awlays allowed to insult anyone they want and get away with it

[RabidBartender]

Isn't Cox Wonkette? If so, anything she says should be dismissed as irrelevant and ignored. She's 80% ego, 15% false bravado, and 5% unfunny dirty jokes.