Over the weekend, Bloomberg Politics reporter-turned-ethnic policeman Mark Halperin painfully grilled Ted Cruz about his Cuban authenticity. Halperin was criticized and mocked for the questions, and National Review’s Jim Geraghty can’t help but wonder if others have been given similar media scrutiny:
Did anyone in the media ever ask Sonia Sotomayor about her ability to speak Spanish?
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 11, 2015
Rhetorical question of the day!
https://twitter.com/stangertweets/status/597766406449418241
@jimgeraghty I guess they took her word for it. #WiseLatina
— Mike (@ThePantau) May 11, 2015
@jimgeraghty @instapundit remember the flack @SenatorReid took for saying Obama had "no Negro dialect?" Yeah me neither.
— Torrey M. Spears ?? (@torreymspears) May 11, 2015
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