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Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”

Published Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 | 8:02 a.m.

Updated Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 | 1:21 p.m.

As more of the video surfaces from GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle's meeting last week with Rancho High School's Hispanic kids, the more bizarre it gets. Elsewhere on this blog, I have posted the video of her claiming an infamous still she and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter used in an ad, an incendiary image of Hispanic thugs, may not have been an image of Hispanics. That was nutty enough. But at the same meeting, according to video I have obtained and taken by one of the Hispanic students, she said some of the kids looked more Asian.

Strange? You be the judge.

Video at right. Transcript is here:

"So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. [Note: it's the Hispanic Student Union. The whole room is Hispanic teenagers.] What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly."

That last comment, about her being called the first Asian legislator? I have no idea what she is talking about

UPDATE: The Angle campaign says she made that remark about being the first Asian legislator because "a reporter thought she looked Asian." OK.

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  1. Remember, Nevada... This habitual liar wants to be our US Senator. Tell her what we really think about her bizarre lies, blatant hypocrisy, and ugly race baiting. VOTE!

  2. So sharron stole that infamous scary Mexican photo . It's no different than illegally downloading mp3s . sharon downloaded and used for a commercial purpose someones intellectual property . I guess she doesn't want to pay for anything .

  3. ...and the hits just keep on comin'!!!

    Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so
    Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so
    Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so

    The Vapors.
    Which sharron Angle has, coming out of her yap.

    Yep, she really IS a Space Cadet...
    "look at me! I'm not from 'around here'. Would you kids like to see a SPACESHIP???"

    CraZy AngLe's Greatest Hits...from K-Tel! Available November 3rd!!!

  4. I am thinking that every time Ms. Angle speaks the GOP has to find another Two Million Dollars to throw behind the campaign to try to beat Mr. Reid.

  5. THAT is Nevada's next Senator. Most people WANT to be lied to. They will even glorify a liar. Most of us have lived through proofs of this. We support the liars of our choice though thick and thin. Can anyone say: "Richard Milhous Nixon" and "William Jefferson Clinton?" -- just to name two. (Neither was my choice.)

    Most of us can't handle the truth. We don't want to be bothered dealing with facts or solving the maddeningly complex problems of real-life government. We are Monday Morning Quarterbacks, having seen brief excerpts from the game, who passionately "know" what shoulda, woulda, coulda, ougta have been done.

    So the "little government" folks get elected and go off to Washington with their ideological leanings. They decide to get the government out of the private markets by cutting spending on things. At the Hearings on these proposals, they get senior military officers testifying that some of these interventions by the federal government in private markets are essential to current and advanced weapons systems. They get testimony, again from senior military officers that repeal of the automatic citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment would severely limit the ability of the combat arms to fill their ranks, as currently 18 percent of the Corps and a slightly smaller percentage of the Army is Hispanic, disproportionately "anchor babies". They get more testimony from military officers that the reduction in "wasteful" social benefits would cause an increase in the homelessness of recent combat veterans -- an epidemic which no one wants to face and which we cover with "I want to thank our veterans for their service."

    Complex weapons require government guidance of markets to create and maintain technologies underlying weapons. The people we put at the point of the spear have to believe that the country they are risking all for is worth it. We don't want to acknowledge the truth that we have abandoned those who have fought and suffered for us.

    Which way will our "little government" folks go when confronted by the hard truth? Will they take the road of the Conservative Party of Britain, and balance the budget by not building modern weapons? Will they go the way of the German "Conservatives" who after long search for a "leader" found one -- a Leader who exposed the British Conservatives as self-deluded fools, only to be themselves destroyed by their own grander delusions? (For those of you who need a clue, the English word "leader" translates into German as "Fuhrer.")

    So the "little government" folks turn to cutting non-military discretionary spending -- but they can't balance the budget by doing so. Where else can they go without raising taxes on the rich? Medical care and Social Security. (But no one can handle that truth, so let's continue to lie about it.)

    Only two things are sure: the truth, whatever it may be, will be denied by politicians and most of their constituents.

  6. If Sharon Angle wins Americans will be the Losers if she and her Tea Party/Republicans implement their ideas.

    No more Medicare as it stands; Sales of VA hospitals and VA Clinics to Wall Street corporations; The transfer of Social Security to Wall Street (with Checks based on how the Stock Market is doing); a return to No Regulations of Wall Street, Bankers, Mines, Food, Drugs Workplace safety, etc...; Continuation of the Republican platform of outsourcing jobs to China and borrowing money to keep tax cuts for Billionaires; allow private companies to discriminate based on Race (see Rand Pauls Tea Party property rights); Require the Police to monitor all women to ensure all babies are carried to full term (from inception - even in case of rape or incest). Coddle the top 20% of the population that owns 80% of all wealth and not expect them to have any responsibility. Billionaire Tax Brackets of 15% while secretaries pay 35%.

    Just remember what the Republicans were able to do the last time they had control - and now just think what they could do in their new even more extreme version.

  7. Along came a Spider that sat down beside her and scared Ms. Angle away!!!!!!! What an insult to the Asian Population.....this fool couldn't look Asian if she had 75 hours of Plastic Surgery.....What she looks like is a DOWN RIGHT IDIOT!!!!!!!

  8. Maybe she doesn't realize how much of an insult it was to say something that stupid to the Hispanic Children....Oh yeah that's right ANGLE DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT PRIDE OF HERITAGE since shes constantly changing her and her Grandchildren's race.....ANYTHING FOR THE VOTE HUH SHARON????

  9. Rassmussian was way off in OBAMA v. MCCAIN in Nevada, so the dittoheads shouldn't get there hopes up.

    Mason Dixon, FOX, Rassmusian don't poll minorities. If you were black would you respond to a "Masion-Dixon Poll?" or a "Lester Madox AX Handle Poll?"

    I wonder if Angle's BLM Federal Government medical plan includes mental health coverage?

    vote early and vote often.

  10. All the money being spent by Karl Rove and his billionaire friends can't keep Sharrrron Angle from sticking her foot in her mouth.

    If Nevada elects Angle, it deserves to become the nuclear waste dump for the rest of the country. There's only so much that can be done to protect people from themselves.

  11. So what's the issue? Hispanics do have an Asian complexion about them. So what? I see absolutely nothing offensive about that. Reid spoke of Obama's advantage of not speaking with a black dialect and being of a lighter complexion etc. Now, that's offensive. This is a prime example why good people do not enter politics.

  12. Mr. Ralston needs to decide weither he wants to enter politics of be a Jounalist. How bias can you get?

  13. More proof that a minimum IQ, not age, should be mandated for both voting privileges and running for office.

  14. I love how Mike Johns praises that the Right can do no wrong and the Left can do no right. You're arguments are pretty transparent and useless. As for Angle, she's proving each day that she has no business in elected office. The leadership of NV Republicans know it-thats why they are backing Reid.

  15. Poor Sherman. He wouldn't know Journalistic Integrity if it bit him on the ass.
    And he has the gumption to diss Ralston for being "partisan"?
    HAHAHAHA!!!!
    Good one, Shermy.
    Go sue some more web sites for reprinting some of your awful drivel.

  16. Alex2...
    You are so right.
    She spews her daily nonsense, says stuff most 5 year-old children knows better than to say, and the Angle-philes
    LOVE IT!

  17. I love all of you T-Gagger's who come to her defense no matter what. Typical bagger, no brain here, move along, get your gov't hands off me medicare and all that.

    If you are elected to be a Senator or House member for that matter, what happens in the next election when the size of government hasn't gone down, even though all gagger's platforms are less gov't less taxes less brains washingtons broke lemme go break it even worse.

    Elect a bagger let them go to washington and not bring the size of government down what will they run on for re-election?

    Oh yeah they'll be just like Bush and say "shut-up we've got the majority so it doesn't matter if we lied to get elected on an abstract and non specific value system."

  18. If voters elect this woman, the state of Nevada will look just as dumb as she does to the rest of the country.

  19. We're #1! We as Nevadans have to be the stupidest people in the USA if we elect Sharron Angle. Excuse me I have to go bandage my knuckles, I have been dragging them on the ground. How we as Nevadans can elect a stupid racist is beyond me. My Oh My! Aren't We Stupid!?!

  20. Maybe I am missing something but is there any group in Nevada that Sharron Angle hasn't offended.

    If you have Medicare, you should lose it.
    If your Republicant, you have lost your principles and direction.
    If you are unemployed, your lazy.
    If your Democrat, you caused this recession.
    If you are a Senior citizen, you do not deserve your retirement.
    If you have VA coverage, you should do away with that.
    Now, Hispanics look like Asians, and she has turned Asian.

    I did not think this is a way to win an election, unless I am wrong, which I am sure that Sharron Angle will agree with me on that.

    It is amazing what she is capable of coming up with when her handlers let go of her collar for even a minute.

  21. The worst insult is

    Harry Reid posing as a senator.

    when we know he treated us all so badly with his high taxes, high unemployment; hatred of seniors; love of illegals over citizens;

    We all know Harry trashed Nevada......and he slimes people every day. We know that this writer is worried about his job....as without Harry, he would not be able to write a word. Jon Ralston???? You certainly failed with your choice of Reid, who has hurt so many Nevada families. Why don't you write the truth...

    We are a multinational country---and that is about all this was about.

    But ultraliberals, who always have their hand in your pocket stealing your money, cannot see what hurt Reid has brought to all Nevada families and seniors.

    Dump Reid.

  22. For many years the unemployment numbers for the US were 5 per cent of less.

    So now we have Reid in Charge.....and you see what misery he brings.

    Dump Reid - dump the bad man who stole your job...and slimes people.

    Reid and his man Obama are scared of jobs - just see how the slimed the Chamber of Commerce!

    Vote Reid Out - and take that pelosi with you.

  23. Jon Ralston - If you were not a paid political advertisement for failure and your failed candidate Reid, you would not have a job. you have no skills - your writing is terrible - and your reporting is worst.
    I don't even want to call you a ultra liberal or liberal as most of your writings are done in 2 to 3 minutes on a blackberry while you sit in the car. You don't even know Apple is around. You don't even know what a job is. You don't even know what a writer is. You obviously have no training as a journalist...
    and if you claim you do, you are a failure.

  24. @ Angle Campaign: put a tent on that circus, please.

    Not that John Ralston needs defending for pointing out the lack of polish of the Angle Campaign and its candidate, but calling him a liberal puppet is completely off base. Picking the low hanging fruit is no crime in politics and if anything he is completely unbiased. The reason why Angle gets so much flack on his program is that she provides him with what is seemingly limitless ammunition to do so with the outrageous campaign ads and word salad exiting her mouth. The Reid campaign, in contrast, does not. Harry Reid decided to figuratively have his jaw wired shut, save a few talking points, after realizing that his seat was in danger after late 2009.

    Ralston gives attention to events when they have occurred. Giving an equal amount of coverage to both candidates, as would seem to be the opinion of people claiming a horrifically obvious liberal agenda, would introduce a completely different kind of inhibitive bias into journalism that would limit perception of just how poor or how well a campaign is being run.

    That having been said, Ralston does have a love for those low hanging political fruits...

  25. Voters who vote for Reid deserves to be spanked. Voters who vote for both Reids deserve to be spanked twice and sent to bed with no supper.

  26. You can still walk or paddle into Canada and back at will if it's not frozen. Then walking is a good option, eh?

  27. Actually, airweare, as I live just 100 miles from the Canadien border, I can tell you with personal certainty that you cannot paddle into Canada from Idaho. And you cannot cross back and forth at will, the border is well-guarded by border patrol, eh. Only dope mules, bringing down BC Hydro and BC Bud, try to avoid the Border Crossings, where legal people have to produce a passport, eh? What a pisser, eh?

  28. Does Juarez have a China Town?

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