Posted on 06/04/2017 11:51:30 AM PDT by Lorianne
The former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper thinks Russians have some sort of biological predilection to be an untrustworthy bunch. I wish I was making that up, but sadly, I’m not.
Clapper said it during last Sunday’s episode of Meet The Press on NBC, during a response to a question about Jared Kushner’s ties to Moscow. The Russians are “typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever” — was the exact quote.
There’s great irony in that comment by Clapper, with his own record of perjury, implying that an entire ethnicity can’t be trusted. So, of course, widespread outrage followed the blatantly xenophobic comment.
Nah, I’m only joking. No one actually noticed or cared. Chuck Todd, the interviewer, let the comment slide without even acknowledging that Clapper had said something untoward.
If there was a debate about Clapper’s comment and it was deemed somehow acceptable, that would be bad enough — but it’s actually worse than that, because anti-Russian sentiment is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche, that no one even notices when a high profile figure like Clapper makes a comment about the “genetics” of Russians in an effort to brand them as inherently devious and conniving.
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They're white.
That's a Slavic thing.
Wow...
I’m 95 % Russian heritage.
Third generation.
Its in my genes to be untrustworthy?
Clapper can KMA.
I’m not sure who is the bigger slimeball of the Obama national security apparatus: James Clapper at NSA or the Muslim, James Brennan at CIA. I guess Clapper has it by a nose.
Another domestic enemy pipes up to undercut our nation.
Sometimes the truth will get you in trouble.
Patton said something similar regarding the Ruskies.
Clapper is genetically driven to be a lying traitorous piece of obama.
Seems Racist.
He’s projecting again.
What a nasty bastid. But I guess it’s okay to say anything you want about the Russians, now that the Dems have decided they hate Russia because it rejected (or proved the failure of) Communism.
No. Liberals are.
Something like Hillary being a CONGENITAL LIAR ( William Safire description )
Slavophobes, one and all.
It is true Russians are very experienced in lying and killing their neighbors. Genetic? I doubt it, just the world they have created.
Jeez - next he’ll be saying blacks are genetically driven to be lazy and dishonest......
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