Sinking to New Depths, As They Do

I had no interest in voting for Michele Tafoya in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, but if somehow I had, it would have been killed when she sat there and smiled during a Fox News interview as Larry Kudlow parroted Republicans' new line about Peggy Flanagan being a fake Indian, complete with references to Elizabeth Warren. (Other right-wing pundits and Republicans have rolled out Trump's "Pocahantas" label for Flanagan, though Kudlow did not.)

Flanagan, winner of the DFL primary in a runaway last week, is a citizen of the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. It is well-known in Minnesota that she's Native American. I'm sure even Tafoya — who is from California, having moved here 30 or so years ago — knows that.

The fact that Tafoya did not reject the interviewer's bullshit, and in fact smiled at his words so she could work them into her talking points, is unforgivable. 

I suppose I should point out that the Kudlow interview took place to clean up the blow-back after Tafoya had said it was "embarrassing" to be from Minnesota in an earlier Fox interview. That's just the kind of thing that gets a majority of voters to elect you in most states, right?