'Vulgar and racist': Mexican ambassador slams GOP senator over comments in hearing.

[nightwing1240]

The Mexican ambassador to the United States criticized Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., over comments he made at a hearing last week, calling the lawmaker’s words “vulgar and racist.”

Kennedy at the hearing questioned Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram, asking about fentanyl moved into the United States from Mexico. The lawmaker spoke about the size of the countries’ economies and the U.S. buying goods from Mexico

“Without the people of America, Mexico, figuratively speaking, would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an Outback,” Kennedy said.

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"As I was listening, my initial reaction was to answer you in the same low, uninformed, and arrogant tone as the one you used. But it is always better to use your brain instead of your guts, so I recalled the vibrant relationship that exists between Mexico and the United States,” the ambassador wrote.

“I thought of the 33 million American tourists who, last year, visited Mexico eager to learn about our culture; the 800 billion dollars of trade between our two countries came to mind; and of course, the delicious Mexican food that most Americans consume in thousands of crowded restaurants,” he continued.

Link - https://www.yahoo.com/news/vulgar-racist-mexican-ambassador-slams-092433362.html
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I know I am not alone in despising this fool, Kennedy. He's been an asshole as long as I can remember. It is my hope that people like him die a long and painful death.

[Walleye]

1. I wonder if he ever takes off his foghorn leghorn persona and becomes an actual American in private

Fucking an American senator. But sure let’s talk about the Durham report.

[Docreed2003]

2. That "folksy demeanor" is totally put on

There was a time in the not too distant past that he sounded, well normal. The guy isn't an idiot, it's just performance art for him. On some level, I think that's worse and shows how his racism is intentional.

[Walleye]

4. Oh I agree, it is worse to act the part. He has no excuse

I think the political performance artists are worse than the actual racists somehow

[Joinfortmill]

12. Yup, makes him even more despicable because it's all an act.

[Zilli]

14. His vulgarity and racism are completely intentional.

This man was a Rhodes Scholar and every time I hear him spew his toxic and intentional hate I am thoroughly and devastatingly ashamed to be amerikkkan.

[Celerity]

26. He earned a Bachelor of Civil Law degree with first class honours from Magdalen College, Oxford, but

he was not a Rhodes Scholar.

A First in the BCL programme at Oxford when he went there was extremely hard to earn, by the way. Many Rhodes Scholars failed to earn a first. It is now far easier to earn though.

The hardest of all (and unique to Oxford) to earn is a 'Congratulatory First' (Kennedy did NOT get one, almost no one does). Extraordinarily rare, some colleges at Oxford have not given one out in certain programmes for decades. The professors at your viva (oral exam/defence) ask no questions in regards to your submitted work, they simply stand and give an ovation.

[PatSeg]

18. Yes, I can remember not that long ago

when John "no relation" Kennedy sounded like a traditional, moderate republican. It definitely is all performance, which tends to be true with most republicans these days. They've gone from governing to reality TV antics. It is truly disturbing to see how low some people will go to hold onto power.

Oh and I agree, the racism was intentional. He's catering to the ignorant rubes. What a despicable human being.

[Permanut]

24. W did the same thing..

He was born in Connecticut, but decided to do the Bubba act in Texas

[Maraya1969]

27. Gary Chambers who ran against him found a video of him talking like a "normal" person

[Maraya1969]

28. Gary Chambers who ran against him found a video of him talking like a "normal

[ancianita]

36. That is one great ad about the Ughly in trumpcult!

I wish I'd seen it back then.

[Maraya1969]

37. I wish someone would confront him about this and ask him if he is purposely acting like Gomer Pile

I'd also love if someone mentioned that he has enough money to go to the dentist to why doesn't he have any teeth?

(I realize he has very small teeth on the top but he looks like he has none)

[ancianita]

39. Come on, now, don't insult Gomer Pyle.

That accent switch is pretty deep. And yeah, he's gotten old and lost his teeth.

It's the ugly inside I'm talking about, though.
I really don't care how young or fashionably dressed they are; Republicans are ugly on the inside.

They're so over their heads when it comes to governance that all they can do is run their treadmill of trifling issues.

[Maraya1969]

38. Oh and ask him why he is trying to act like he has no education.

[sellitman]

3. I despise this man.

He brings shame to the name.

He may be a Kennedy but he isn't even a close relation to our JFK.

[soldierant]

33. The name "Kennedy" in Ireland

is not as prevalent as "Smith" or "Jones," but it's definitrly common enough that they are NOT all related.

The same is true of "Koch" in German-speaking areas. My maternal grandmother was a Koch, and I assure you, no relation whatsoever.

[Marthe48]

5. What's especially horrifying

is that kennedy and his ilk have no interest in improving the human condition for anyone, anywhere. Be just desserts if he ended up eating catfood in a tent behind an Out Back. Disgusting.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. senator ,havent you gone to florida to pick the crops there yet?

youre a discrace to that name .

[Tree Lady]

7. I bet Joe is embarrassed for the country

I bet Joe's staff or himself called to apologize.

[IronLionZion]

8. The US depends on Mexico for plenty of stuff

from food to oil/gas to manufacturing and much more.

Does he want higher prices since Americans just don't have enough inflation these days?

[dalton99a]

9. A highly educated racist

Kennedy was born in Centreville, Mississippi, and raised in Zachary, Louisiana. After graduating from Zachary High School as co-valedictorian in 1969, he entered Vanderbilt University, where his interdepartmental major was in political science, philosophy and economics. He graduated magna cum laude.

At Vanderbilt, Kennedy was elected president of his senior class and named to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Juris Doctor in 1977 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Virginia Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.[5] In 1979, he earned a Bachelor of Civil Law degree with first class honours from Magdalen College, Oxford,[6][7] where he studied under Sir Rupert Cross and John H.C. Morris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_(Louisiana_politician)

[SharonAnn]

19. Too bad he put all that education to shame by projecting ignorance.

[Duppers]

23. Just appealing to the ignorant.

[Joinfortmill]

10. I'd call him a dick, but I don't want to insult dicks.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Kennedy owes the Mexican people an apology. I get so tired of hearing the likes of him and djt

knocking them down all of the time. Getting kind of repetitive, tiring, and a big fat lie.

[Pepsidog]

13. Kennedy plays a character right out of show Swamp People. In reality, he is one of the best educated

members of the Senate. It’s truly vile that a man with his educational background would say these things. Mexico is and will continue to be one of America’s closest economic allies. Kennedy’s education from wiki:
Education
University of Oxford (England) - BCL (civil law) (1979)
Activities and notes: Rhodes scholar
University of Virginia School of Law - JD (1977)
Vanderbilt University - Bachelor's, political science, philosophy and economics, magna cum laude (1973)
Activities and notes: Senior class president; Phi Beta Kappa honor society
Plus many text books and scholarly works on law. And in the Senate he plays Gomer Pyle.

[onecaliberal]

15. soulless and evil.

[Emile]

16. I heard 95% of the fentanyl being smuggled in across the border

is being done by American citizens.

[Warpy]

17. Kennedy is one of those cretins who thinks the western hemisphere ends

ten miles south of the Mexican border.. Kennedy typifies The Ugly American and I think he'd be shocked to find out Mexicans know how to use flush toilets and computers. What he sees in his home state are the inhumane conditions migrant workers are forced to endure and he assumes it's a step up from their homes in Mexico (and he doesn't realize how many other countries they might be from).

He's a fool. Shun him.

[roamer65]

20. I wish he would change his name.

He’s a counterfeit John Kennedy.

I think JFK would ask him to do the same if he were alive.

[JI7]

21. This is the type of trash that large numbers of people vote for

[MagickMuffin]

22. Fentanyl over weapons of mass destruction

If only they had this much passion for sensible gun legislation. Instead they pretend to care about kids. John Cornyn can be added to this list. He showed up for a tow hall / forum about fentanyl but lord have mercy if any one of these cretins show up for a town hall about gun violence.

[Caliman73]

25. Mexico would likely be far more prosperous without the "people of America"

At least without the policies that Conservative America has imposed upon Mexico...

Decades of American interference in Mexico since the Mexican-American War have created many of the conditions the plague Mexico. During the Revolution, there was a real chance at reform and an egalitarian movement, but the US quickly interfered and propped up whatever dictator would continue the ability of Americans to exploit Mexico. I have little doubt that Americans helped to assassinate both Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa.

Even the dictator Profirio Diaz understood the problem when he said, "Pobre de Mexico, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos" (Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States).

[LuckyLib]

29. Well said. Mexico is a wonderful country with incredible people.

We have done so much to damage it.

[LuckyLib]

31. Well said. Mexico is a wonderful country with incredible people.

We have done so much to damage it.

[Skittles]

30. is that the guy with the phony Foghorn Leghorn accent?

[dflprincess]

34. That's him

Hard to believe he was a Rhodes Scholar. I doubt he used that accent at Oxford.

[calimary]

32. I just wish he'd change his name.

Or at least go by some nickname. He’s shat all over JFK’s name and legacy.

[C Moon]

35. What a rude frigging IDIOT!

[DFW]

40. He must think he's Maurice Chevalier

Chevalier spoke fluent English, but was told that as a Frenchman in Hollywood, he would stand a better chance of making it big if he exaggerated his accent, rather than trying to suppress it.

By the same token, an elderly friend of mine had wanted to take speech instruction to lose her thick German accent when she came to the USA. Instead, she followed the advice of her PR agent to never lose the accent, and rather let it become part of her trademark. She did just that, and became one of the country‘s best known sex therapists. At least with her, it‘s genuine. With Kennedy, it‘s all a contrived performance.