Honestly, I don’t mean to pick on Florida. Any state could have sent someone like Curt Clawson to Congress in a special election held because the previous representative was arrested for buying cocaine from an undercover Fed … Where were we, again?
Right. Here’s video (h/t Washington Post) of freshman Curt Clawson (R-doesn’t really matter) explaining to two officials of the Indian government about the value of American investment in their country. The only problem being that they were actually officials in the American government (a State Department Assistant Secretary and a senior staffer from Commerce), who apparently confused Rep. Clawson by not looking like his picture of Americans.
yup. Sigh.Report
So except for the title, this post really doesn’t have anyhting to do with minority outreach?Report
I think Mike may suspect that the good Congressman’s comments were in some way connected to the skin color of the people he was addressing. I’m skeptical, myself. I’m sure that such a thing could easily have happened to some dude named Sam Tate or what have you.Report
His comments may have been based on race in part but the context has nothing to do with minority outreach for the GOP as far as I can tell.Report
I confess, there was some amount of sarcasm involved.Report
Wait? What?!
@mike-schilling using sarcasm in a post &/or comment?!
No WAY!Report
Oh, sarcasm on a blog post. That’s a REAL useful rhetorical device.Report
Well, the title is basically sarcastic in that what the good Congressmen did was, in fact, the opposite of minority outreach.
One might say that the good Congressmen played to type, as it were.Report
It’s like Michael Scott being elected to Congress.Report
You know, when mentioning this to my wife I used the Office — it was just as awkward and cringe-inducing as “Diversity Day”.Report