Darrell Issa referred to Vancouver as Hongcouver

[Swede]

He was laughing like it was a joke. Good one,you racist asshole. The interview was on CBC.

[GOPisEvil]

1. A racist Republican? Surely you jest....

:eyes:

Look out Vancouver film industry. Gov. Groper has his corsshairs on you.

[scarlet_owl]

2. What a fucking bastard!

I am getting so sick of these assholes being racists and nobody raising hell about it. Yea, Rush finally got shit for it, but how long has he been being a racist bastard on his show? Hey Issa,

[TrogL]

3. He's got a point

even if he is expressing it badly.

A lot of the Vancouver waterfront is Asian owned.

[Noordam]

5. Has he check the California Ports like Long Beech DUhhhhhhhhh nt

[idontwantaname]

6. and im sure they all appreciated his comments...

.

[geniph]

11. It might be correct, Trogl,

but it's still racist and pointless...it's like referring to San Antonio as Mexitonio, or calling Harlem Northwest Africa. It's tacky. And very typical of Issa. What a bonehead.

[democracyindanger]

12. Even more to the point

When the Brits handed Hong Kong over to China, *lots* and *lots* of HK citizens moved to Vancouver (from one former British colony to another).

"Many of Canada's cities and provinces have nicknames:
...

Vancouver (sometimes all of B.C.)
Lotusland, Hongcouver (referring to the large number of immigrants from Hong Kong)"

http://www.icomm.ca/emily/facts.html

I'm not defending Issa. He is, indisputably, an *hole. Let's just keep our righteous indignation for items that deserve them.

[arcane1]

4. Darrell is an Issa-hole

:evilgrin:

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. How would Darrell feel if someone called him a "towelhead"

Or if his friends in the Bush Criminal Empire mistakenly included him in the next bunch of Arab Americans they shipped off to Camp Halliburton?

Of course, I call him "Grand Theft Auto Issa-hole" myself :evilgrin:

[11 Bravo]

8. And I refer to him as Darrell Assa.

n/t

[LynneSin]

9. LynneSin refers to Darrell Issa as Darrell Assahola

go figure!

[eileen_d]

10. Did they let Issa out of his cage again?

Someone fire the zookeeper...