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The FBI arrested four police officers in East Haven on charges of violating the rights of the Latino community, whatever that means, although it definitely sounds very serious, especially if the FBI is involved because why even would the FBI be involved? But, so, OK, it’s serious. And, as when serious things like this happen, the local news crew went to the mayor’s office to ask mayor Joseph Maturo what he and his cabinet (do mayors have cabinets? You know what I mean) planned to do for the Latino community in light of this scandal. Being a professional politician, and the mayor of a whole city, and a respectable adult in the year 2012, the mayor calmly and politely explained how deeply sorry he was that something like this could have happened under his watch, and that he would be doing everything in his power to reassure the Latino community that nothing like this would happen again. That is definitely what he said in response and NOT as the liberal gotcha media’s television cameras are trying to portray, something about how he was going to eat tacos for dinner and then a bunch of other racist bullshit like some fucking dumb asshole lunatic.
Man, he is going to need a lot of tacos to soak up all of the booze and or Vicodin in his system what is even going on, Slur Face?! What a piece of shit. Tell your boyfriend to shut up and rest his case and resign and go to jail. (Thanks for the tip, Malgs.)
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Are you trying to say that tacos can’t help to mend cultural rifts? Think carefully before you answer this one, I’ve got my lawyers recording everything that’s posted here.
He looks like more of a fajita man to me.
i’m having tacos for lunch. but, that’s probably about all Joseph Maturo and I have in common.
Just to illustrate his point, Explainer Guy will be headed down to the courthouse this afternoon to have his name legally changed to Giuseppe Immaturo
I’m having tacos for lunch too. It’s an conciliatory gesture intended to rectify the egregious mistake of not eating tacos for breakfast.
This man has the same problem I do. Never give interviews while you are hungry.
I know it looks like this is the biggest mistake of his political career, but really his mistake was that morning when the man called him for an interview and he went, “I don’t know, I’m pretty busy today. How ’bout I pencil you for 10 minutes just before lunch time.”
That’s only the biggest mistake SO FAR. The biggest mistake of all time for his political career will be when he goes into an authentic Mexican restaurant this afternoon, and orders tacos, oblivious to what the entire restaurant staff is going to do to his meal before they serve it to him.
The biggest mistake of all time for his political career will be when he goes into East Haven’s only Taco Bell, which he thinks in an authentic Mexican restaurant, and says his order in broken Spanish to the Filipino cashier.
Real comment: this is disgusting. How do people like him get elected to public office?
Have you met your fellow citizens?
DING DING DING DING DING DING!!!
Dear cakeordeath,
I have many times asked the same question about my very own genius mayor
Holy shit. That’s amazing. I want to vote for him RIGHT NOW.
As long as he never opens his mouth, Rob Ford is an hilarious clown of a person. Well even when he does. But it’s usually not as funny afterward. Well sometimes.
Sometimes I play a little game in my head called “Who Is Worse: Rob Ford or His Brother?” It’s a fun game.
Nobody wins that game. Not even the liberal Joseph Stalins.
That’s amazing? THAT’S CANADA!
(Note: I am a Canadian. Also I live in Toronto and still cannot fucking believe this man was elected to run our city. Oh, wait, no. I can believe it.)
P.S. This is his current campaign, pretty important local challenge right here: http://healthblog.ctv.ca/post/Canadian-politicians-go-on-public-diet-and-misinform-nation.aspx
Keep fucking that chicken taco, Mayor.
that reporter should win an award for patience
My thought process before and during the first 10 seconds of this video: “Well wait a minute, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt here, I mean, he’s innocent until proven guil–ohhhhhhh shit this guy’s a total racist dumbass! You know what, tacos do sound really good for dinner tonight.”
Exactly. And maybe it says something about the shallowness of our culture, but I am extremely hungry for tacos now. If he get’s fired he should become a spokesman for Taco Bell, because he has accomplished in 3 minutes what a talking chihuahua couldn’t accomplish in 5 years.
It’s ok, Gabe. He’s often viewed as an ethnic minority himself, because of his Italian background. Which makes me think that he is also a time traveler.
I don’t think I like racist Dr. Who.
Exterminate! Exterminate!
I feel like this guy begins a lot of sentences with “Look, I’m not racist…”
The good thing about making lots of racist jokes and comments, though, is that it’s really hard for anybody to sneak up on you, because you’re always looking around to see who else is in the room before you tell a joke. So really, his racism just proves that he is more evolved than you, and has a finer sense of self-preservation.
guys, i have a latino friend, so it’s fine.
Awww, someone finally considers me to be a friend!
Unless you can show me a photo in you’re wallet, I just don’t buy it.
(*your* wallet) That’s what I get for typing while eating tacos.
Oh hold on, you guys, he rests his case! Phew! Thank goodness!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wYMPK16poIk#!
Man, I thought this post was going to be about more iCarly spaghetti tacos…
“It doesn’t matter one aioli. See, we got the french in this community too!”
I have a feeling this guy’s going to skyrocket in the Republican polls pretty soon. #Maturo2012
Not surprising when you find out who his campaign manager is.
“Pizza. Great equalizer. Rich people love pizza. Poor people love pizza. White people love pizza. Black people love pizza. Do black people like pizza?” Michael Gary Scott
Oscar: My parents were Mexican.
Michael: Wow. That is… That is a great story. That’s the American Dream right there, right?
Oscar: Thank… Yeah…
Michael: Um, let me ask you, is there a term besides Mexican that you prefer? Something less offensive?
Oscar: Mexican isn’t offensive.
Michael: Well, it has certain connotations.
Oscar: Like what?
Michael: Like… I don’t… I don’t know.
Oscar: What connotations, Michael? You meant something.
Maybe the town of East Haven elected Mr. Maturo because they probably thought, “Well, his name sounds like he’s totally capable of not alienating significant portion of the community.”
Or his opponent was Arnie Psychopatho.
Genuine kudos to the reporter for keeping on him. John King would have apologized and bought the mayor a Taco Bell 12 pack halfway through this interview.
How did Paulie Walnuts ever become mayor?
(I’m rewatching the Sopranos for the third time now)
When I was in school I used to work at a lumber yard with a guy who used to say the most offensive things and would always defend them with the fact that he was half Irish and half Italian. He’d say something like N**** N**** N**** N**** in a sing song voice and then apologize saying that Italians and Irish were persecuted so he was allowed to “joke like that”. He would also say to women stuff like “I want to eat your ***** and drink your p**s. He would defend that by apologizing and saying he has hot Italian blood and that’s how he was brought up. Anyways, he’s still there so the moral of the story is: Always apologize. No matter how insensitive or assholish your actions are people always forgive you if you apologize.
How about a spaghetti taco? -_-
“I don’t know if those Latinos will spill the beans in court, but if they do, we are making burritos.” — Joseph Maturo
This guy gives extraordinary new meaning to the phrase ‘digging yourself into a hole’.
“Hey, I didn’t say having tacos for dinner was a PRIORITY. Everyone knows breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”
I dunno, I could sure go for 100 tacos right now.
(Seriously, it was awesome to see a reporter challenge a smug little shit politician in real time, instead of just taking his statement and then later reporting that “some in the Latino community have called the Mayor’s comments ‘offensive…’”
I grew up about 20 minutes from East Haven and I’ll just say this doesn’t surprise me.
Me too! Where are you from?
I was so scared that you were not going to comment on this and then BAM, you commented on it!!!
I almost missed it! This was like my golden opportunity. I actually have so much to say about this, but didn’t because the two hour window of relevance had passed. OH INTERNET, YOU CRUEL MISTRESS!
I really feel bad though, in a way, that this man will now no doubt live the rest of his life hating tacos.
‘I’m makin’ tacos here!’
Idiocracy.
I love when Republicans say the most ignorant and stupid thing imaginable it’s always the fault of the press. Always.
“I don’t care if they’re Irish, I don’t care if they’re Italian, I don’t care if they’re Polish, [because all those make them white].”
It’s not racism if it’s delicious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO9fVBky0I