Bush camp solicits race of Star staffer (racist bastards)

[donsu]

http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/32301.php

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A rally organizer for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign asked Teri Hayt, the Star's managing editor, to disclose the journalist's race on Friday. After Hayt refused, the organizer called back and said the journalist probably would be allowed to photograph the vice president.

"It was such an outrageous request, I was personally insulted," Hayt said later.

Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the president's re-election campaign, said the information was needed for security purposes.

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Diaz repeated that answer when asked if it is the practice of the White House to ask for racial information or if the photographer, Mamta Popat, was singled out because of her name. He referred those questions to the U.S. Secret Service, which did not respond to a call from the Star Friday afternoon.

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Organizer Christine Walton asked for Popat's race in telephone conversations with two other Star editors before she spoke to Hayt. They also refused to provide the information. Walton told Hayt that Popat's race was necessary to allow the Secret Service to distinguish her from someone else who might have the same name.
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the reporter said: "My race shouldn't have anything to do with my job,"


but, in smirk's america it does.

[bleowheels]

1. More disgusting behavior from the Bush administration.

I'm not suprised.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Their "excuse" is transparent BS

How many people in this country have a name like Mamta Popat?

[skygazer]

3. Racist pigs

And just today in my local newspaper there was a letter from someone who asked how an intelligent person with strong family values like Barack Obama could be a Democrat! I think this answers some of that!

[rumguy]

4. fuckin' racist bullies

I can't wait until they lose and we can spend our days spitting on their memory and tracking them down to brutally and publically ridicule them.

[Journeyman]

5. I love it. . .

The Secret Service, says BushCo's mouthpiece, needs to know Mamta Popat's race to distinguish her from someone else who might have the same name (???!!).

How many Mamta Popats are there in America? And of those, how many differ ethnically from the Star's photographer?

[Octafish]

6. Like Poppy's Fred Malek used to do for Tricky Dick Nixon.

Fred Malek, ex-Nixon aide, resigns from the Bush campaign after it's revealed that he compiled a list of Jews in the Labor Dept. as part of a Nixon investigation of a "Jewish cabal."

Source: "Bush Family Skeletons"

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/gov/bush_family.htm