Chuck Hagel Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot
Well, this is just unfortunate:
Speaking at his alma mater, the University of Nebraska (Omaha), Hagel decided to take questions from the audience after his address.
“You’re not a member of the Taliban, are you?” Hagel said to a man in the back. Turns out, he was speaking to Robin Gandhi, an assistant professor who is Indian.
After an awkward pause, likely getting a microphone to the professor, the two men conversed and the slipup wasn’t mentioned.
Hagel needs to stop taking extemporaneous speaking lessons from Joe Biden.
We Mississippians are always relieved when it’s some *other* state’s politicians making racist asses of themselves. It’s like we win by not losing.
Hagel working on bill to send his own PhDs to take jobs away from the Taliban PhDs
That’s sure to get him uninvited to future Friends Of Hamas speaking engagements.
/Breitbart
@Anderson:
Heh. Yesterday I was looking up obesity rates by states, and had the exact same feeling when Indiana didn’t make the top 10.
@Neil Hudelson: Yeah, good luck knocking MS off *that* platform – it’ll take at least you and two or three other states, with a good running start.
Heh, Dave Weigel was tweeting folks like Buzzfeed last night, trying to get them to drop this, saying it was hugely misleading (that the previous question had been about the Taliban and it was just some goofy riffing off that previous answer before the next questioner was even visible to him). Looks like he had little luck.
@Jeremy R: Interesting. As always, context matters.