Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/08/16/detroit-rep-bettie-cook-scott-on-asian-opponent-dont-vote-for-the-ching-chong

 

Disqualifying.

 

Literally, as it said she lost the primary.

 

What a idiot!

 

What was running through her mind when she thought it was a good idea to go public with a racial slur? Makes you wonder about her sanity. Did she think people would think she was being witty? Clever? Did she think people would hear that and think "Yeah, she's got just the sort of temperament and mores that would make her a great representative"? To whom was she trying to appeal? People who hated Asians? Is that a big constituency, did she think she could build a big tent over that idea?

 

She thought she could lock the black vote. Didn't work.

 

Yeah well, turns out the black vote is smarter than that. Could tell her that much myself.
Total fail at being a politician, as well as a decent human being.

Want to insert a smug Canadian thing, but in fact our current Mayor and our current Premier said nothing while letting their "supporters" heckle Olivia Chow. "Go back to China". And then good people of Ontario voted for them. Hooray.

 

That's apparently what she must've thought, though of course, she was only appealing to black bigots who like to mock Asians--apparently, not much of a constituency there. Maybe she just got caught up in the moment and was letting her true feelings show. I remember when Howard Dean (who so far as I know is not a bigot) let his true feelings show and unleashed that ridiculous howl some years ago after that primary, and then people started wondering if this fellow wasn't a little unhinged. He got caught up in the moment also (though of course, all he revealed was youthful, frat-boy-with-his-first-good-beer-buzz enthusiasm) and it cost him far more.

 

It could have been worse: http://www.foxnews-us.com/2018/08/19/syracuse-grooms-genitals-blown-off-by-best-man-after-firework-explodes/

 

The story about the genitals being blown off by a bottle rocket is false.

 

I hope it is false because I had a hard time imagining this level of stupid.

 

Also, it was during live rally. One of the biggest, most consequential, nothingburgers in modern political history.
Also, another example of "liberal media" torpedoing a competent progressive candidate, despite supposed Fox-advertised "liberal bias". The other well-known example is "Gore invented the internet" meme. I'll be in the minority here, but I firmly believe "Clinton emails" was another one of these.

Media is not biased left or right; it's chief bias is a bias favoring the soundbite. They will play and overplay anything that draws ratings. Which favours soundbite masters like Donald Trump, and which got Donald Trump elected (that, and Russia meddling).

 

It was silly, all it was was sort of a "yooowwwwl". In context, you watch the whole video, you could tell he was just having fun with the whole thing, funning a bit, maybe even lampooning the typical politician with their manufactured enthusiasm. But the media likes to jump on minutiae and create controversies and then they all bounce the outrage back-and-forth--for ratings, of course--and it takes on a life of its own. Dean was destroyed by that phenomenon, it wasn't fair. It happens with Trump, happened with Obama, Bush, Clinton. Happens with celebrities and other public figures. It's nonsense, of course, but there it is, a fact of life.

 

And you know this how?

 

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Were the genitals of a groom from Syracuse (New York) blown off by a bottle rocket taped to them by the best man during a bachelor party? No, that's not real: the horrible story was posted by a fake news website imitating the style and domain name of Fox News but it is not real. The site is part of a larger network of sites run by a man who likes to invent tales about bizarre accidents and weird crimes, presumably to make some money off advertising when they go viral. The story is false.

The story originated from an article published on foxnews-us.com (not foxnews.com) August 19, 2018 titled "Syracuse Groom's genitals blown off by Best man after firework explodes." (archived here) which opened:" https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3469665-fake-news-syracuse-grooms-genitals-blown-off-by-best-man-after-firework-explodes.html