Time Editor Asks Nikki Haley if She'd Give a Bigger Tip to a Sikh Taxi Driver
It's tough to believe this actually happened in the year 2012.
During an interview with South Carolina's Republican Governor Nikki Haley, Time magazine's editor-at-large Belinda Luscombe disgracefully said, "In New York City, which you're visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you going to give him a slightly bigger tip?"
From the outset of Luscombe's "Ten Questions with Nikki Haley," she appeared rather smug and condescending.
Her first question was, "In your book, you say that by the time you were twelve, you already knew the business tax code."
Seems harmless in print, but if you watch the video, Luscombe was clearly saying this with disparaging incredulity.
Later Luscombe asked, "In your book you write, 'Government is the dead weight we all drag behind us.' Now, if I were in government and working my behind off for the people. I’d actually find that kind of confronting and insulting. But as it turns out, you’re in government.”
Typical liberal media member not understanding how an elected official might view government as being a "dead weight." Maybe she ought to read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, as well as the Federalist Papers to get a clue.
As the interview ensued, Luscombe said, "So, let’s talk a little bit about South Carolina. South Carolinian students score lower than the national average across all measures, and yet you turned back $144 million of money that would have gone to schools. Do you not think it would have helped the students to have that money more than it harmed the state of South Carolina to accept it?"
In the middle of Haley’s response - “Do I think we need to take stimulus dollars that ties our hands and tells us that we have to educate our kids in South Carolina the same way we do in California or in Texas or in Massachusetts” – Luscombe rudely interrupted saying, “All of which have higher standards than South Carolina.”
Can you imagine Luscombe challenging a Democrat governor that way, let alone a woman?
But the best was yet to come as a bit later, Luscombe said, "Romney does have a woman problem. When stacked up against Obama, women massively prefer President Obama over Romney. How is Romney, say he’s the nominee, how is he going to overcome that?"
When Haley responded, "Ann Romney,” Luscombe asked, “Do women vote wives? Is that why women vote for candidates?”
Did Luscombe seriously ask that? Does she forget the HUGE fuss the liberal media made over Hillary Clinton when her husband was a presidential candidate in 1992? Or the way the press gushed and fawned over Michelle Obama in 2008?
Now a Republican’s wife is put up as someone women might identify with, and Luscombe is shocked and appalled that this could impact female voters.
Just as telling, when Haley said people will change their minds about Romney when they get to know Ann, Luscombe responded, “If that’s true, what you’re saying is ‘Ann Romney is so vastly superior to Michelle Obama.’”
Really? Is that what she was saying? Or was Haley’s point that women will feel more comfortable with Mitt when they get to know his wife?
But the coup de grâce had to be Luscombe's final question: “In New York City, which you're visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you going to give him a slightly bigger tip?"
How offensive.
Imagine President Obama being asked if he would tip an African-American taxi driver more.
Sheesh!
(H/T Hot Air)
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For the first time in my
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:55am.
For the first time in my adult life I am almost speechless at that question.
Would she pay the fare in Rupees???
Simply put - WTF, I would have called the **** what she is, a hateful, hateful bigot.
Could the Elitist Bridiot be more smug?
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:58am.
Luscombe is looking so far down her nose at Nikki Haley that I would be surprised if the Bridiot did not need her glasses adjusted and complains about only being able to see her feet.
Haley answered the question with grace and tact, but I don't know that I would have done the same. I perhaps would have asked Luscombe exactly how much antipsychotic she was on after observing what appear to be extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS), which are common side-effects of the drug class. Luscombe's head movement (especially the jerking to and fro) looks like an EPS manifestation.
Liberal women have boycotted shampoo and rinse?
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:06am.
I see that "tick" as nothing but cowardice as she knows she is going to ask a real a********* question and she lacks the fortitude to look the superior Haley in the eyes.
What a smug POS this "woman" is.
The Smartest is the Dumbest
Submitted by libBuster on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:09am.
Here is a textbook example of a woman who thinks she is one of the smartest people in the room. Yet, a South Carolina "hillbilly" has better judgment than she does and better manners.
Luscombe is a graceless and classless woman.
EPS
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 4:41pm.
Now that's funny!
Why sit for an interview with Time?
Submitted by kch50428 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:07am.
If a non-liberal sits with a Time-bot, they think they are going to get fairly treated?
A Republican sitting with Time is like a cattle producer sitting down wit "VeganTimes" magazine.... Insane.
Yup
Submitted by Eric the Fred on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:32am.
Pretty much says it all.
I guess non-liberals think they have to sit down with these mags because the publications are still considered 'important' in the public mind. It doesn't help that any slightly conservative publication out there immediately gets bashed and sidelined by the MSM as 'extreme' and 'right wing'.
And they cll us racists.
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:11am.
And they cll us racists.
well they are the
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:12am.
experts in the field...
Well, we've seen this movie
Submitted by celator on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:15am.
Well, we've seen this movie before. Whenever a conservative woman becomes prominent, writes a book, gets on the VP short list of a presidential candidate, the radical left begins the attack, fully armed and in complete battle uniform. That conservative woman must be humiliated, politically wounded and left to die on the battlefield.
Belinda Luscombe's question was so stupid, so filled with bigotry and false stereotypes, that I am speechless.
Seriously
Submitted by oldfart on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:18am.
What I would have done is respond this way:
I first would laugh in the person's face. Then ask: "Is that a serious question or are you just being a smart ass."
Seriously
Submitted by Herbster on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:27pm.
Marcus Aurelius rules! After watching this smug piece of pond scum, is it any wonder Time magazine has a readership in the single digits? The "Editor" from Time is just oh so clever. - and that is what passes for journalism today. Sad when a class act hs to put up with a horse's ass.
Not an african american driver...
Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:29am.
Right answers:
"Government is a dead weight to the taxpayer, it's deadweight around the neck of free individuals."
"SC is still suffering from over a hundred years of democrat leadership (1870 to 1982)"
"Yes, Ann has a better bu..." - skip this one.
And finallly, Nikki should have responded (based on Obamas adamant claims):
"Really, would you ask President Obama if he would tip a Christian driver more than a muslim?"
Best response possible?
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:28am.
Posting this from a blogger on Hot air and I actually laughed out loud:
I know she couldn’t, but don’t you wish Nikki could have said:
“I understand a lot of the taxi drivers in new York are A-holes. Do you give them bigger tips?”
SwampYankee on April 5, 2012 at 9:37 PM
PRICELESS!
LOL!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:42am.
:-D
Yes!!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:31pm.
Best answer yet!
Put this on the list....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:41am.
of Times when it's okay to say "WTF?".
That last question is
Submitted by shannon76 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:48am.
That last question is literally the kind of thing a young child might ask. I'm surprised she didn't ask something about is against eating cows or something.
What is the point of her asking that? What's the reporter getting at? (Is she trying to drive a wedge between Nikki Haley and Sikh voters?? That all-important Sikh Taxi driver demographic). Is this one of those Stephanopolous set-up questions for 3 months from now. Very strange.
You know, you may be right,
Submitted by Dutch on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:15am.
You know, you may be right, as it was as equally curious. After all, has a black politician ever been asked if he'll tip black people more? Hell, for that matter, has a white politician ever been asked such a question? It does seem more and more odd the more you think about it.
Of course, leave it up to the leftist media to probe with racism, and be hung up on Nikki's ethnic background. The only time it came up during her gubernatorial campaign was when State Sen. Jake Knotts (the Boss Hog of SC politics, and an embarrassment to every Republican outside his district), referred to her as a "raghead". Yes, that's seriously how dumb he his- He used the wrong ethnic slur when attempting to insult her. The people of South Carolina didn't particularly care about her background. Clearly, in that she won.
But, as demonstrated by years of liberal policy, ethnicity is all that matters.
The Real Telling Remark,
Submitted by Dutch on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 10:59am.
aside from the racist one, is when Luscombe says, "Now, I want you to be completely honest, even though you're not under oath...." Clearly, this is Belinda's standard for honesty: Only when under oath. It makes her condescension even more galling. One cannot make a claim to superiority without honesty and integrity.
Given the two women as proxy
Submitted by DEEBEE on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:09am.
Given the two women as proxy for Mitt and Barack. Methinks Barack has a women problem.
Just the sort of ******* remark TIME mag would ask of Obama, NOT
Submitted by needle on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:39am.
Just the sort of ******* remark TIME mag would ask of Obama, NOT
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Small Wonder
Submitted by bmac32 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:55am.
Time isn't nearly what it use to be and I'm talking 25 years ago. They sure aren't helping themselves with stupid interviews such as this. Having lost 49% over the last three years this stupidity might be good for another 5% lose.
If memory serves me well, I
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:06pm.
If memory serves me well, I think ol' Joe Plugs Bite-me made some condascending and derogitory remarks about Indians owning 7-11 stores, speaking in accents, and that sort of thing.....................I think it was typically brushed off as 'well, that's just Joe'.
And for some unexplainable reason, this interviewer can ask a completely lame and useless question like this - with the idea of making Ms. Haley look bad!!!
Anybody wonder why we don't trust, believe, or pay attention to the MSM, other than to reinforce our knowledge that they ARE our enemy??? Time magazine??? Who reads it, anyway???
Proper answer to the first question, while wearing a mini cam
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:46pm.
the producers are not aware of....
"Oh, you really are an ignorant, condescending bitch aren't you?" and walk out.
Then post the video on youtube.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Stark Contrast Between
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 4:38pm.
A snotty behaving teenager and an adult.
Luscombe is a living explanation for why England shipped PITA's to Australia in the first place.
Excellent job by Haley.
➚Sikhs tips to a safe arrival
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:43pm.
#1. Stay away from drunk cabbies named Onyango. Wait for a Sikh cabby.
ROTFLMAO!
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:01pm.
ROTFLMAO!