Foot-in-mouth syndrome
"I've had a great relationship. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking," - Senator Joe Biden.
Here's the video courtesy of CSPAN and Delaware Online.
As Michelle Malkin says, I don't really think we should break out the PC police and publicly flog Biden for his remarks. But there is a real peculiar silence coming from the liberal politicians and media.
"If this were a Republican, you KNOW the far left would be howling about it." says Iowa Voice. There would be an independent investigation, the ACLU would be filing a lawsuit and leftist pundits would be calling for a resignation. The Daily Koz would literally blow up.
Remember how these people reacted to Rush Limbaugh's comments about Donovan McNabb and the media's affection with black quarterbacks? He was fired for simply stating something that is true...the sports media gushes over black quarterbacks and coaches. It's not a racist comment but a fact that the media has long tried to draw attention to a deficiency of minority QBs and of the late, minority coaches. I applaud their efforts for action, but it was the conservative radio host that got canned for simply pointing it out.
But I digress, Biden made this off the cuff comment because he's simply an idiot. He's done it before and will probably do it again. He got called out by Princeton for making stupid statements and thankfully is getting called out by Indian-Americans for this one. He's not a racist, but not very eloquent either. Too bad the liberal media won't use the same standards with Biden that they used with Rush.