Jerry, did you bother reading the Dana Milbank article that the tweet was about? The Chimichanga reference is a quote from John McCain. Here's the text from the article:
"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke about the wonders of his state. 'The lettuce in your salad this month almost certainly came from Arizona,' McCain said. 'It's also believed that the chimichanga has its origin in Arizona,'" the piece read. The tweet was then marveling at the incredible vacuousness of the Republican party. Really, chimichanga is all you got? The Hill, of course, eschews all context in an attempt to gin up controversy where none exists. All it takes is reading the fucking article that the tweet references. Of course, manufactured controversy is so much easier and more fun, right? And you fell for it. Judah On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, back to the racism issue. > > If Ron Paul is responsible for racist comments distributed by employee > approximately 20 years ago, is President Obama responsible for the racist > comments distributed by one his proxies 20 hours ago? > > > > Jim Messina, who is helming the president's reelection effort, tweeted a > line from a column written by The Washington Post's Dana Milbank, in which > he argues that Republicans will struggle to attract the Latino vote after > coming out against the DREAM immigration reform > ... > "The fact that the campaign manager of President Obama's reelection > campaign thinks it's appropriate to disseminate insulting jokes about the > Hispanic community is a perfect example of the kind of empty rhetoric that > characterizes this White House's so-called outreach to Latinos. We demand > that Mr. Messina immediately apologize and we ask that President Obama > disavow his campaign manager's ridiculous statement," said Jennifer Sevilla > Korn, executive director of the conservative Hispanic Leadership Network, > in a statement. > > http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/210859-gop-demands-apology-for-obama-campaign-managers-chimichanga-tweet > > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347011 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
