NY Times opinion writer Ann Louise Bardach penned an article a few days ago calling for the removal of America’s amnesty policy for Cubans who manage to escape their former country’s Communist grip. In the article she says this:

It is not at all clear if these two relics of immigration policy will be scotched; the State Department has said they are not on the table. Much depends on the Hispanics in Congress, whose colleagues expect them to take the lead. But the three serving in the Senate happen to be, yup, Cuban-American: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Robert Menendez. None have especially strong bona fides among most Latinos. Indeed, being second-generation white Cuban exiles puts them at odds with the overwhelming majority of Latinos in the United States, who are of mixed race or indigenous descent. Ted Cruz, who is not fluent in Spanish, has been called as Hispanic “as Tom Cruise.”

So all of a sudden Ted Cruz no longer Hispanic and as white as Ted Cruise or something? Geez. Liberals.







This would never fly with Obama. After all, when was the last time you heard Obama being called ‘white’ in the New York Times or other mainstream media outlets? After all, his mother was born in Kansas just as Cruz’s mother was born in Delaware. But you don’t hear liberals saying “Barry Obama is as white as Barry Manilow.”

The Communications Director for Ted Cruz, Amanda Carpenter, wrote the following response in the New York Times this morning:

Your decision to allow an Op-Ed writer to openly mock a person’s ethnicity — as Ann Louise Bardach did when she wrote that Senator Ted Cruz “has been called as Hispanic ‘as Tom Cruise’ ” — is saddening. She was using the comment to bludgeon Mr. Cruz’s principled policy positions regarding United States-Cuba relations, suggesting that, if he disagrees with her, Mr. Cruz is not truly Cuban — despite his father’s having been imprisoned and tortured in Cuba, and coming to America penniless. An Op-Ed writer is not the arbiter of a person’s race or ethnicity, and it is unfortunate that The New York Times would allow someone a platform to pretend so.

Exactly.