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"In an interview with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), TIME magazine asks if she will tip Sikh taxi drivers more during her visit to New York City."
I'm hoping the interviewer was just young and inexperienced, but even so, this goes to a certain mindset in the MSM. No interviewer would've dreamed of asking Obama if he tipped black taxi drivers more than others. It's an oddly sexist and demeaning question. She handled the question gracefully, but if this is the kind of silliness we are going to hear from the media this election cycle, the next 6 months are going to be dreary and mind-numbing.
"In an interview with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), TIME magazine asks if she will tip Sikh taxi drivers more during her visit to New York City."
I'm hoping the interviewer was just young and inexperienced, but even so, this goes to a certain mindset in the MSM. No interviewer would've dreamed of asking Obama if he tipped black taxi drivers more than others. It's an oddly sexist and demeaning question. She handled the question gracefully, but if this is the kind of silliness we are going to hear from the media this election cycle, the next 6 months are going to be dreary and mind-numbing.
Stupid question. She should have not even answered.
"In an interview with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), TIME magazine asks if she will tip Sikh taxi drivers more during her visit to New York City."
I'm hoping the interviewer was just young and inexperienced, but even so, this goes to a certain mindset in the MSM. No interviewer would've dreamed of asking Obama if he tipped black taxi drivers more than others. It's an oddly sexist and demeaning question. She handled the question gracefully, but if this is the kind of silliness we are going to hear from the media this election cycle, the next 6 months are going to be dreary and mind-numbing.
You mean questions like are you really Christian, or were you really born in the U.S.?
It was a stupid question, although taken out of context it's hard to know what to make of it. Every interview has a certain degree of fluff, and that could be all this was.
What I found more interesting was what RCP, hardly the most open-minded of outlets, had to say about Haley's religion:
Quote:
Haley, who was born into a Sikh family, now identifies herself as a Christian.
See that? "Identifies herself as a Christian."
Why should they say it that way. The fact is, she is a Christian. Saying that she "identifies herself" as a Christian is very similar to the way right-wingers say that President Obama "says" he is a Christian, as though her or his religious belief is simply a matter of what they say, rather than a fact.
Does Real Clear Politics say that Newt Gingrich "identifies himself as a Catholic"? I very much doubt it. Somehow, though, when the candidate is "other" or viewed as foreign, it's okay to characterize him or her in those terms.
"In an interview with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), TIME magazine asks if she will tip Sikh taxi drivers more during her visit to New York City."
I'm hoping the interviewer was just young and inexperienced, but even so, this goes to a certain mindset in the MSM. No interviewer would've dreamed of asking Obama if he tipped black taxi drivers more than others. It's an oddly sexist and demeaning question. She handled the question gracefully, but if this is the kind of silliness we are going to hear from the media this election cycle, the next 6 months are going to be dreary and mind-numbing.
TIPS=to insure proper services. It is a reward for good service, not some show of ethnic solidarity.
"In an interview with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), TIME magazine asks if she will tip Sikh taxi drivers more during her visit to New York City."
I'm hoping the interviewer was just young and inexperienced, but even so, this goes to a certain mindset in the MSM. No interviewer would've dreamed of asking Obama if he tipped black taxi drivers more than others. It's an oddly sexist and demeaning question. She handled the question gracefully, but if this is the kind of silliness we are going to hear from the media this election cycle, the next 6 months are going to be dreary and mind-numbing.
Obama wouldn't get any cabs, so it's moot anyway.
Has Nikki been indicted yet?
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