Chuck Hagel to Indian professor: "You're not Taliban, are you?"
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« on: June 21, 2013, 03:10:21 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/defense-chief-hagel-expresses-regret-over-taliban-joke-184200638.html

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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2013, 03:27:27 PM »
Shades of Biden/Hillary.
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2013, 03:36:03 PM »
He probably didn't even see the next questioner when he said it. At least, I hope not, because if he did he is an insensitive moron. I can understand making that joke to the next questioner after just having answered a question about the Taliban, though.
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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2013, 08:05:36 PM »
Forget for a moment that he said it to a brown person...why would be be asking this question of anybody? Awkward in any scenario.
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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2013, 08:47:48 PM »
Quote from: perdedor on June 21, 2013, 08:05:36 PM
Forget for a moment that he said it to a brown person...why would be be asking this question of anybody? Awkward in any scenario.
It was a joke, better understood in context.
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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2013, 01:35:23 AM »
After 9/11, there were some incidents violence against Sikhs by idiots who thought they were Muslim.
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« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2013, 11:44:11 AM »
I think Hagel already proved he's got Biden-esque foot-in-mouth disease.
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