http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/25/1316794/-Idiot-FL-Congressman-Assumes-Obama-Officials-Are-Foreign-Because-of-Skin-Color-and-Surnames-Video?detail=email
#138 of My Stupid State
My God, this Teabag Congressman is a complete idiot. (I know, redundant.) Gohmert and Bachmann are now in a real race for the dumbest member of the lower chamber. (NEVER count out Florida!)
In a painfully awkward congressional hearing, freshman Rep. Curt Clawson touted his deep knowledge of India and his favorite Bollywood movies to two administration officials holding senior positions in the US government. The two officials, the Honorable Nisha Biswal and the Honorable Arun Kumar, are high-ranking members of the State Department and Commerce Department, respectively. They were EVEN INTRODUCED with their positions in the US Government.
Curt Clawson, who clearly wasn't paying attention, assumed the two were representatives from India. After all, they had dark skin and Indian surnames, so that was all he needed to make that assumption. He told them how much he loved "your country" and then demanded that there be more open "freedom of capital" with "your government".
Clawson obviously didn't know the purpose of the hearing he was participating in, nor did it ever cross his mind that it is extremely rare for foreign officials to testify before the US Congress under oath.
this is another example of the republican bigoted profiling, I keep saying leave them alone and they will eventually stick all ten toes in their mouth.
As embarrassing as that was, what happened next was really awkward.
Mz. Biswal, being a class act even though this idiot made an ignorant assumption, told him point blank that "I think your question is to the Indian Government", and said she would advocate his position on behalf of "the US GOVERNMENT". She was clearly attempting to correct him without embarrassing him further.
Clawson thenapologized and ate crow... just kidding. He continued to be as clueless as ever. He smugly responded "Let's see some progress."
Wow. Somehow, I think FL-19 was better off being represented with the coke-smoking Republican who Clawson just replaced.
Yet Curt Clawson is the perfect representative for the modern GOP: ignoring facts that are put right in front of you AND carrying a default ignorant mindset.
it's amazing how completely blissful they make these statements devoid of any reality and know by those they are speaking to the only one in the dark those who engage in disingenuous conversation of which they know nothing you know like leaping on anything they think they can spin in their favor that too with no research.
