Whoever had the bright idea to put Bobby Jindal in front of a bloodthirsty twitter crowd – just seven days after the Louisiana Governor was decimated (read: #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite) clearly has another thing coming.
Ahead of his attendance at a town hall-style event at Iowa on Tuesday, a pro-Bobby Jindal PAC announced a Twitter Q & A for Jindal.
What they didn’t consider was that for a widely unpopular presidential candidate to just be put at the mercy of an unforgiving twitterati is not the best campaign strategy. Twitter doesn’t forget – or forgive easy, and Bobby Jindal’s speech right after announcing his entry into the Presidential race for 2015 is still fresh on people’s minds. Here is part of what he had said:
I’m done with all this talk about hyphenated Americans. We are not Indian-Americans, Irish-Americans, African-Americans, rich Americans, or poor Americans – we are all Americans.
– Bobby Jindal, Governor, Louisiana
This didn’t go down too well with the Indian-American community who, led by comedian Hari Kondabolu, gave him a dressing-down, under the hashtag #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite.
How could his Twitter Q & A, therefore, be any different? Here are some choice samples:
Jindal is yet to respond on Twitter to all the backlash.
Dare we hope that he’s finally learning?
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