Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush's attempt to go hipster with a technology hire
didn't get off to a great start on Monday, and Tuesday didn't get any better. No sooner had Ethan Czahor finished deleting his past tweets about "sluts" and the many men he believed were checking him out at the gym than
details of his comments and writing while hosting a college radio show started coming out. Czahor had lavish praise for Martin Luther King, Jr.—unfortunately, that praise went like this:
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a well-dressed, extremely well-spoken man; he didn't have his pants sagged to his ankles, and he wasn't delivering his speech in "jibberish" or "slang" (ie. he wasn't speaking like a rapper). He understood that looking respectable and speaking clearly and concisely isn't a trait of white men — it's a trait of intelligent men.
That's right, back in the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr. was not participating in cultural styles that took hold decades after his death. What a model black man he was! And I'm sure King would have been incredibly relieved to learn that his dress and speech passed muster with a college student who liked to tweet about sluts.
Czahor went on to wildly mischaracterize King's politics and tout Bill Cosby as an authority on how "black parents need to get their sh@# together."
Boy, if Jeb Bush's people did even 10 minutes of vetting, this guy must be so amazing at his job that nothing will ever go wrong on any Bush campaign tech-related project, right? Except for the part where they already put personal information of Florida residents online—the sort of thing your head tech guy maybe should have caught.