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Trump Takes Down Acosta After Silly Question About ‘Happy Talk’ and...
This was Acosta’s second round with the POTUS today. Trump remarked after Acosta’s first question, “That was a good question.”
Too bad Acosta is too stupid to quit when he’s ahead.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams Responds After PBS Reporter Accuses Him Of Using Racially Charged Language
This is the kind of ridiculous questions they’re asking in these briefings to be divisive. Exactly who cares that he used those terms? We’re in the middle of a pandemic and a destroyed economy, no one gives a damn.
Quote:Surgeon General Jerome Adams responded Friday after “PBS Newshour” White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor accused him of using racially charged language.
Adams had said earlier during the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing that people should consider their at-risk family members when determining which precautions to take with regard to coronavirus, saying, “Do it for your abuela, do it for your grandaddy, do it for your Big Mama, do it for your pop pop.”
Alcindor tweeted a response to Adam’s words.
She then asked the Surgeon General to respond to those who had found his words offensive later in the briefing.
Adams was quick to respond that he had never meant any offense to anyone, and noted that he was only using language that was used within his own family.
“I used language we use in my family,” Adams explained. “I have a Puerto Rican brother-in-law. I call my Granddaddy, ‘Granddaddy.’ I have relatives who call their parents ‘Big Momma. It was not meant to be offensive. That is the language that we use.”
Adams went on to say that the guidelines and suggestions were meant for everyone, not just specific races or ethnicities. “We need everyone, no matter what color you are, to follow the Coronavirus guidelines, and do their part. When I talked to the NAACP, three weeks ago, one of the things they asked me is can you help dispel the myths in the community that people cannot get the Coronavirus if they are black? That was a myth that was important for us to squash.”
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If Acosta and Yamiche had kids together, they'd be super moronic.
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RE: Trump Takes Down Acosta After Silly Question About ‘Happy Talk’ and...
Someone needs to inform this nimrod that the Surgeon General is black.
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04-11-2020 01:23 PM |
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