Nigeria Demands Apology From Ted Cruz For 'Email Scammers' Rip
Source: TPM
The Nigerian ambassador to the United States demanded Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) apologize for a joke he cracked that Nigerian email scammers built HealthCare.gov, Politico reported Thursday.
Ambassador Ade Adefuye told Politico that Cruz's remark disappointed and shocked Nigerians.
We deplore the statement, and we demand an apology, and we demand it be withdrawn, Adefuye said.
It is unfair of any senator to essentially use citizens that are law abiding, to use Nigerians as cannon fodder, Adefuye said. We recognize that we have efforts on the part of Sen. Cruz to appeal to some animus in his domestic base. In the course of doing that, to allow him to ridicule a country and its citizens is completely over the top. He should not denigrate Nigerians in order to appease these domestic constituents.
Cruz made the comment at his Welcome Home speech in Houston on Monday.
You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately, Cruz said, according to the Houston Chronicle. They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website.
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)The Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN) and other groups have blasted Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for what they say was a highly-offensive joke he made about Nigerians at an event in Houston on Monday.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-nigerian-americans-outraged-over-sen-ted-cruz-nigeria-scammers-joke-107407/
thecrow
(5,519 posts)I'm glad they are responding to Cruz's trash talk.
Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)You'd better find your place in line.
There are a whole lot of people to whom Ted Cruz should apologize, starting first with every woman in Texas.
surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)... I would advise him not to quit his day job. In this case, though, go ahead - quit that day job!