Senator Tells the Surgeon General Nominee He Knows Some Indian Doctors
Slate's Dave Weigel, who was possibly the only journalist paying much attention to Murthy's Senate testimony yesterday during the Beltway Obamacare freakout, caught Roberts' kindly-old-white-man-from-Kansas moment:
Roberts: "You ever been to Dodge City, Kansas?"
Murthy: "I have not, sir. But I would love to come."
Roberts: "Well, good. I'm going to invite you, because we have a lovely doctor from India. She's in her mid-30s, and she's highly respected by the community. And another doctor from India that did my carpal tunnel when I did a stupid thing. And so, I think you'd be right at home, and we would welcome you."
Thank God Roberts knew some Indian doctors. This could have been really awkward if he'd just fallen back on the time he stopped in a Sunoco outside Wichita and met that nice young cashier.
Link to video here (couldn't figure out how to embed): http://gawker.com/senator-tells-the-surgeon-general-nominee-he-knows-some-1516317305
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that reminds me of the time I was meeting my new landlord, who was Sihk. I had an uncle of Indian decent that was Hindu, and a few Sihk friends so when my new landlord asked if I knew what Sihkism was, I said yes. My dad said, "yeah, I had a BIL that was Sihk." I had to correct my dad, "no, dad, he was Hindu." "Same thing" my dad said. 
I HATE that ignorance shit.
As a bonus though,
Check out these two comments below the story-
Bear, PoohAdam Weinstein
I'm done hiding it, I fucking hate the South. Honestly I do, I try to understand that they aren't all bad, but I'm sick of it. I hate the South. Today 9:21am
littleladyfauntleroyBear, Pooh
That's fine. However Kansas is literally in the middle of the country, in a region known as The Midwest. Do you also hate geography? Today 9:32am
be Pakistanis and Muslims. My primary care doctor is. Did you ask?
