Soledad O'Brien: maybe la chica latina doesn't speak the English so good, no?

[Sauron]

I didn't suggest it; Tim Pawlenty did. Apparently she flusters GOP politicians.

Pawlenty suggests that Soledad O’Brien doesn’t understand English

During an interview on Wednesday, O’Brien told Pawlenty that one of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate’s ads falsely claimed that President Barack Obama had cut $716 billion from Medicare — but the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had determined that it was actually reduction in spending, not benefits.

“Isn’t that just patently untrue in that ad?” she asked the former Minnesota governor.

“No, that’s not correct, Soledad,” Pawlenty replied. “It is absolutely beyond factual dispute that [Obama] has cut $716 billion out of the money that was projected to be spent on Medicare over the next 10 years.”

“But, sir, it’s not a cut in Medicare, right?” O’Brien observed. “Let me just read from the CBO. It’s a ‘permanent reduction in the annual updates to Medicaid’s payment rates.’ It’s a cut in the spending — future spending. And it’s cut that actually goes to insurers, right? I mean, it’s not cuts to individuals.”

“No matter how you say this, it’s a cut to Medicare,” Pawlenty insisted. “You can’t even with a straight face, look your viewers in the eye and tell [them] that it’s not a cut to Medicare.”

“Well, I can’t look viewers in the eye from where I am,” O’Brien pointed out. “I’m saying the way the CBO puts it. … That is a savings.”

“Do you know what that is in English?” Pawlenty quipped.

“I speak English incredibly well, sir, as you know,” O’Brien shot back. “So, tell me what it is in English.”

“In plain speaking is this — and I just mean in compared to the mumbo jumbo in the bureaucracy in the CBO — what they’re saying is that Medicare was going to go up by X and now it’s going to go up by X minus $716 billion. There is no question that is a cut in where current law was before Obamacare was passed. There is no way you can present that in any other way.”

“Of you can call it a savings is actually the other way to present that,” O’Brien explained.

Frankly I don't know what Soledad's problem is. I can tell you this much: whoever put her on television clearly missed her true calling! She should be wearing a neat little apron with a flower in her hair, and serving us endless refill baskets of chips and salsa.

[The Lone Ranger]

According to Wikipedia, Soledad O'Brien was born in St. James, New York. Not only is English her first language, she's not actually fluent in Spanish. (According to Wikipedia, this sometimes leads to embarrassment when people assume that she's a Spanish speaker.)

[BrotherMan]

We won't know for sure unless we see her original long form birth certificate. Maybe she's another plant from the Islamuslincommufascisocialispiracy.

[Kyuss Apollo]

She's probably just another front for the Muslim Brotherhood.

[Watser?]

Sounds like her mother was FARC and her father was IRA.