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Angle to Hispanic children: "Some of you look a little more Asian to me" - Politics: Ralston's Flash - Las Vegas Sun

Angle to Hispanic children: "Some of you look a little more Asian to me" - Politics: Ralston's Flash - Las Vegas Sun

Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”

As more of the video surfaces from GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle's meeting last week with Rancho High School's Hispanic kids, the more bizarre it gets. Elsewhere on this blog, I have posted the video of her claiming an infamous still she and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter used in an ad, an incendiary image of Hispanic thugs, may not have been an image of Hispanics. That was nutty enough. But at the same meeting, according to video I have obtained and taken by one of the Hispanic students, she said some of the kids looked more Asian.

Strange? You be the judge.

Video at right. Transcript is here:

"So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. [Note: it's the Hispanic Student