[Moe Tzadik]

He's a Muslim, a Truther, a "palestinian" and he's running for Texas Governor.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

WTF?????

What is with all these Truthers in Texas???

[cripplecreek]

I have a feeling that a lot of Americans don’t want to work for him.

[muawiyah]

His answer, though, is pretty much the same one given by agricultural interests in Texas and elsewhere ~ you know the one ~ where they tell us Americans won't do those jobs, but then they forget to add "at subminimum wage".

This country has too high a tolerance level for thieves and rip-off artists. Time for a crackdown. We can start with this guy.

[Texas Eagle]

He made the comments responding to a question about whether the state should crack down on employers hiring illegal immigrants.

So what is the unemployment rate among LEGAL immigrants and LEGAL blacks in that part of Texas?

[Recovering_Democrat]

he is a racist.

[Minn]

You can’t make stuff like this up.

[rbosque]

My ancestor mapped southern Texas in 1674 for Spain, he would be REALLY pissed at this.

[TribalPrincess2U]

He has no chance in hell becoming anything in Texas.

[Tzimisce]

Thank god he’s Muslim, or he’d be attacked for being racist....

[deport]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6864830.html

In an interview during a taping of Inside Texas Politics on Dallas’ WFAA-TV, Shami refused to discount so-called “truther” theories that suggest the U.S. government played a role in the terrorist attacks.

“I’m not sure,” said Shami, who was born in Palestine and has lived in the United States since 1965. “I am not going to really judge or answer about something I’m not really sure about. But the rumors are there that there was a conspiracy. True or not? It’s hard to believe, you know, what happened. It’s really hard to comprehend what happened. Maybe. I’m not sure.”

Shami also said during the interview that he cannot find many white people willing to work, so he hires Hispanics and African Americans instead.

“A majority of the people are going to be Hispanic and African American,” he said. “You don’t find white people who are willing to work in factories. And our history proves, you know, lots of time when they, you know, the white people come to work in a factory they either want to be supervisors or they want to be, you know, paid more than the average person.”

Shami, like Medina, is making his first run for public office. Most polls put him far behind former Houston Mayor Bill White.

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[grumpygresh]

What a genius. With Medina’s truther slip up, Perry’s got it sewn up about right now.

[bigheadfred]

Good thing this asshat be in Texas. Bring that crap to my neighborhood, there be plenty of white folks been looking for work for quite a spell now. My son, My neighbor, My brother, his son-in-law... The 11 people who got laid off where I work at the first of January-out of 14 of us total... It goes on

and ON

AND ON

...comprende, haji??...

[tx_eggman]

So, it’s gonna be Perry vs. White in November

[353FMG]

If you’re a muslim it is easy to be a truther.

[Dallas59]

Same one that called being born in America racist.

[Cacique]

The big problem with white people is that they don’t want to work for 10 cents a day. How are pig capitalists like this guy going to compete against Chinese slave labor?

[manic4organic]

Our salon quit buying his products after I found out about his background. His flat irons suck anyway. There are better, cheaper ones out there like HAI.

[stinkerpot65]

Speaking from experience, he is right.

[eclecticEel]

Unfortunately, he has a point. It’s an unwelcome side affect of importing an underclass to perform all your menial labor. Our shitty, low wage jobs should be filled by American youngsters - it’s the perfect cure for the natural arrogance characteristic of spoiled middle class kids who never faced a day of hardship in their lives.

[freekitty]

That is complete bs.