That Awful Interview of Ted Cruz, and Why We Can Expect More
Navarette points out that Housing Secretary Julian Castro and his twin brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas don't speak Spanish well, and that hasn't harmed their political careers nor their sense of "authenticity." Reporters can look pretty silly when they make assumptions about their interview subject's heritage. A little while back, Andrea Mitchell asked Julian Castro about his "Cuban-American background," to which he replied, "Well, I'm Mexican-American."
I can understand the desire to go beyond the "tell us about your tax plan" line of questions. But Halperin came across as snide, presumptive, and arrogant, with the underlying tone of the questions suggesting Cruz was somehow faking his status as a Cuban-American.
Jonathan Tobin: "With two Republican presidential candidates of Hispanic background (Cruz and fellow Cuban-American Marco Rubio) and one GOP hopeful that is a woman (Carly Fiorina) and another an African American (Ben Carson), the liberal authenticity police will be out in force. But rather than merely ignore them as Cruz, who kept his cool with Halperin did, this insidious bias needs to be shown for what it is: a desire by the media to delegitimize anyone who doesn't conform to their ideas about identity politics as interpreted through the catechism of liberal ideology."
BuzzFeed's Katherine Miller observes, "nothing really happened after the interview! Besides Rush Limbaugh, no one on the Internet seems to have noticed this happened for… nine days." Maybe that says something about who's watching Halperin's program?Also read:
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