By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. A first deadline for compensation payments to those sterilized under North Carolina's past eugenics program is looming at the end of the month and less than a third of compensation claims have been approved.

Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few claims have been approved is that a state law setting aside $10 million for the qualifying victims doesn't cover many of those who had been sterilized.

As of Sept. 30, the N.C. Industrial Commission had approved 213 claims for compensation of the 731 claims reviewed, or about 30 percent. The Office of Justice for Sterilization Victims has received another 55 claims that the commission hasn't yet reviewed under the state law, approved in July 2013.

Major reasons for denials which victims can appeal include missing paperwork and a determination someone wasn't sterilized on orders of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina but on orders issued at the county level, said Graham Wilson, spokesman for the state Commerce Department. That department oversees the industrial commission tasked with approving claims.

North Carolina sterilized about 7,600 people whom the state deemed feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Wilson noted that compensation is allowed only those sterilized under orders of the state eugenics board.

"It's the way the statute is written," Wilson said. "If counties took it upon themselves to do it under their authority, they do not qualify." Victims can appeal, he said, "but if the documents show the procedure wasn't done under the state authority, they really don't have any case in this process."

Some of the victims were as young as 10 and chosen because they were promiscuous or did not get along with their schoolmates, authorities have said. While most were either forced or coerced into having the procedure, a small number of them chose to be sterilized.

But that's just at the state level.

It's not known how many were sterilized at the county level, said Elizabeth Haddix, senior staff attorney with the UNC Center for Civil Rights, which is representing 40 victims. Of those, just 10 had files from the state board, she noted.

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In 2013, North Carolina lawmakers set up a $10 million compensation fund for victims of state-sponsored eugenics. More than 780 people applied, claiming they had been forcibly or coercively sterilized by the state. Now, after an initial review, the state has decided only about 200 of those claims are valid, while more than 500 have come up short. The applicants are either denied outright or are asked for more information.

Eric Mennel reports on individuals whose sterilization claims are being denied by the state.

But we're also now learning that the state's eugenics program - once thought to be managed entirely by the North Carolina Eugenics Board - was actually much bigger. This fact presents problems for many seeking compensation.

Debra Blackmon's Story

In January, 1972, two social workers went to the home of Debra Blackmon. Blackmon was about to turn 14, and was intellectually disabled. It's hard to know exactly what was said, but court and medical documents have some details. They point out that Blackmon was "severely retarded" and had "psychic problems" that made her difficult to manage during menstruation.

The documents say Blackmon and her parents were counseled on the matter, and that it was in Blackmon's best interest that she be sterilized.

Debra Blackmon is 56 years old now. She's sprite and funny. She has a hard time remembering too many of the details, but she remembers that day in Charlotte Memorial Hospital. "My daddy said, 'Please don't hurt [my] baby,' and he was crying," she recalls.

"We didn't find out until recently the extent of the surgery and what they did to her," says Latoya Adams. Adams is Blackmon's niece. She was born the year after Blackmon was sterilized and grew up hearing about it from older family members.

Last year, the General Assembly created a $10 million fund to compensate victims of state-sponsored eugenics, the movement that sterilized thousands of people deemed unfit to have children. Adams knew her aunt had been sterilized, she knew there were social workers involved, she knew a court had ordered the procedure. All the pieces seemed to fit. So, she went looking for documentation.

She came back with the mother lode, documents that told the whole story. There was a court order, and the consent form social workers presented to Blackmon's parents. Adams discovered documents that detailed the entire procedure from pre-op to discharge. The doctor labeled it a "eugenics sterilization." And while it was a relief to have the information, it was also remarkably sad.

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In July of last year, state lawmakers set aside $10 million to compensate people like Mary English, who were sterilized either without their knowledge or against their will.

The decision was bipartisan and hailed by many as a significant, if belated, way for the state to make up for one of its great moral crimes.

But for English and other victims, getting that money has proven to be difficult. The N.C. Industrial Commission, which evaluates claims, has approved 213 of 751, about one-third, even as the first checks are set to go out by month's end.

Many claimants have been rejected because of a hole in the law, which calls for compensating only those victims who were sterilized by order of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina. That leaves out people sterilized on the order of county officials.

English was 22 and a divorced mother of three in 1972 when she says a Cumberland County doctor sterilized her. She did not find out until another doctor's visit in 1976.

She had been victimized by eugenics, a now-discredited movement that called for stopping "undesirable" people from having children. The poor and disabled were victimized in disproportionate numbers. North Carolina's program lasted from 1929 to 1974, continuing long after most other states had stopped.

English has been outspoken about what happened to her, and she started speaking before any serious talk of compensation. She has appeared before a panel of the General Assembly. She says she knows there are other Fayetteville victims who have applied for compensation, but they have not reached out to her.

"I think they're just embarrassed about it," she says.

In early September, English made her case before the Industrial Commission. A week later, she received a rejection letter, her second.

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RALEIGH A first deadline for compensation payments to those sterilized under North Carolinas past eugenics program is looming at the end of the month and less than a third of compensation claims have been approved.

Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few claims have been approved is that a state law setting aside $10 million for the qualifying victims doesnt cover many of those who had been sterilized. As of Sept. 30, the N.C. Industrial Commission had approved 213 claims for compensation of the 731 claims reviewed, or about 30 percent. The Office of Justice for Sterilization Victims has received another 55 claims that the commission hasnt yet reviewed under the state law, approved in July 2013.

Major reasons for denials which victims can appeal include missing paperwork and a determination someone wasnt sterilized on orders of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina but on orders issued at the county level, said Graham Wilson, spokesman for the state Commerce Department. That department oversees the commission tasked with approving claims.

North Carolina sterilized about 7,600 people whom the state deemed feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Wilson noted that compensation is allowed only those sterilized under orders of the state eugenics board.

Its the way the statute is written, Wilson said. If counties took it upon themselves to do it under their authority, they do not qualify. Victims can appeal, he said, but if the documents show the procedure wasnt done under the state authority, they really dont have any case in this process.

Some of the victims were as young as 10 and chosen because they were promiscuous or did not get along with their schoolmates, authorities have said. While most were either forced or coerced into having the procedure, a small number of them chose to be sterilized.

But thats just at the state level.

Its not known how many were sterilized at the county level, said Elizabeth Haddix, senior staff attorney with the UNC Center for Civil Rights, which is representing 40 victims. Of those, just 10 had files from the state board, she noted.

The rest of them, their stories were almost identical in terms of having a social worker come to their delivery room or hospital room, she said. The social worker might tell the patient, usually a black woman, that she wouldnt be eligible for public assistance unless she was sterilized, Haddix said.

Others werent even asked, she said, noting one client who went in for surgery to remove her appendix came out of the operating room sterilized.

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RALEIGH --

Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few claims have been approved is that a state law setting aside $10 million for the qualifying victims doesn't cover many of those who had been sterilized.

As of Sept. 30, the N.C. Industrial Commission had approved 213 claims for compensation of the 731 claims reviewed, or about 30 percent. The Office of Justice for Sterilization Victims has received another 55 claims that the commission hasn't yet reviewed under the state law, approved in July 2013.

Major reasons for denials - which victims can appeal - include missing paperwork and a determination someone wasn't sterilized on orders of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina but on orders issued at the county level, said Graham Wilson, spokesman for the state Commerce Department. That department oversees the industrial commission tasked with approving claims.

North Carolina sterilized about 7,600 people whom the state deemed feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Wilson noted that compensation is allowed only those sterilized under orders of the state eugenics board.

"It's the way the statute is written," Wilson said. "If counties took it upon themselves to do it under their authority, they do not qualify." Victims can appeal, he said, "but if the documents show the procedure wasn't done under the state authority, they really don't have any case in this process."

Some of the victims were as young as 10 and chosen because they were promiscuous or did not get along with their schoolmates, authorities have said. While most were either forced or coerced into having the procedure, a small number of them chose to be sterilized.

But that's just at the state level.

It's not known how many were sterilized at the county level, said Elizabeth Haddix, senior staff attorney with the UNC Center for Civil Rights, which is representing 40 victims. Of those, just 10 had files from the state board, she noted.

"The rest of them, their stories were almost identical in terms of having a social worker come to their delivery room or hospital room," she said. The social worker might tell the patient, usually a black woman, that she wouldn't be eligible for public assistance unless she was sterilized, Haddix said.

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RALEIGH, N.C. A first deadline for compensation payments to those sterilized under North Carolina's past eugenics program is looming at the end of the month and less than a third of compensation claims have been approved.

Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few claims have been approved is that a state law setting aside $10 million for the qualifying victims doesn't cover many of those who had been sterilized.

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By Martha Waggoner The Associated Press October 5, 2014

RALEIGH

A first deadline for compensation payments to those sterilized under North Carolina's past eugenics program is looming at the end of the month and less than a third of compensation claims have been approved.

Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few claims have been approved is that a state law setting aside $10 million for the qualifying victims doesn't cover many of those who had been sterilized.

As of Sept. 30, the N.C. Industrial Commission had approved 213 claims for compensation of the 731 claims reviewed, or about 30 percent. The Office of Justice for Sterilization Victims has received another 55 claims that the commission hasn't yet reviewed under the state law, approved in July 2013.

Major reasons for denials which victims can appeal include missing paperwork and a determination someone wasn't sterilized on orders of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina but on orders issued at the county level, said Graham Wilson, spokesman for the state Commerce Department. That department oversees the industrial commission tasked with approving claims.

North Carolina sterilized about 7,600 people whom the state deemed feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Wilson noted that compensation is allowed only those sterilized under orders of the state eugenics board.

"It's the way the statute is written," Wilson said. "If counties took it upon themselves to do it under their authority, they do not qualify." Victims can appeal, he said, "but if the documents show the procedure wasn't done under the state authority, they really don't have any case in this process."

Some of the victims were as young as 10 and chosen because they were promiscuous or did not get along with their schoolmates, authorities have said. While most were either forced or coerced into having the procedure, a small number of them chose to be sterilized.

But that's just at the state level.

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The Islamic State terror group plans to seize Iran's nuclear secrets, unleash a viciouscampaign of ethnic cleansing and Nazi-style eugenics to consolidate and expand its self-declared caliphate, according to a seized policy manifesto of the dreaded outfit.

The group urged its members to plan for war with Iran and has ambitions to seize Tehran's nuclear secrets in a manifesto believed to have been written by Abdullah Ahmed al-Meshedani, a member of the group's highly secretive six-man war cabinet.

The document, typed on perforated sheets, was seized by Iraqi special forces during a raid in March on the home of one of the commanders of ISIS, The Sunday Times reported today.

In the document, which has been examined by western security officials -- who believe it to be authentic -- Meshedani wrote that ISIS aims to get hold of nuclear weapons with the help of Russia, to whom it would offer access to gas fields it controls in Iraq's Anbar province.

Also, the documents said, Kremlin will have to give up "Iran and its nuclear program and hands over its secrets." Russia would also have to abandon support for Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad and back the Gulf States against Iran.

Believed to be a policy manifesto prepared for senior members of the ISIS, the document offers a unique insight into the ambitions of the Islamist commanders who have shocked the world with their fanaticism and brutality, the paper said.

The ISIS militants have captured a swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has declared himself as Caliph of the Islamic State.The document contains 70 different plans like launching a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing, Nazi-style eugenics and intelligence gathering operations to consolidate and expand the group's self-declared Islamic caliphate, it said.

Meshedani, whose duties include managing suicide bombers, also calls for stripping Shia Iran of "all its power" and destroying the Shia ascendancy in Iraq. He also incites followers to kill Iraqi military chiefs, Shia officials and Iranian-backed militias fighting for the Iraqi government, the paper said, citing the document.

A security source familiar with the document told the paper: "Nothing shocks western governments these days in relation to ISIS and its fanatical aspirations.

"And we've known and feared for some time that they want to obtain chemical and nuclear weapons." In an indication of ISIS' brutal ideology, Meshedani writes that its intelligence operatives will "eliminate" its own leaders if they deviate from its "desired goal".

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A first deadline for compensation payments to those sterilized under North Carolina's past eugenics program is looming at the end of the month and less than a third of compensation claims have been approved.

Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few claims have been approved is that a state law setting aside $10 million for the qualifying victims doesn't cover many of those who had been sterilized.

As of Sept. 30, the N.C. Industrial Commission had approved 213 claims for compensation of the 731 claims reviewed, or about 30 percent. The Office of Justice for Sterilization Victims has received another 55 claims that the commission hasn't yet reviewed under the state law, approved in July 2013.

Major reasons for denials which victims can appeal include missing paperwork and a determination someone wasn't sterilized on orders of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina but on orders issued at the county level, said Graham Wilson, spokesman for the state Commerce Department. That department oversees the industrial commission tasked with approving claims.

North Carolina sterilized about 7,600 people whom the state deemed feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Wilson noted that compensation is allowed only those sterilized under orders of the state eugenics board.

"It's the way the statute is written," Wilson said. "If counties took it upon themselves to do it under their authority, they do not qualify." Victims can appeal, he said, "but if the documents show the procedure wasn't done under the state authority, they really don't have any case in this process."

Some of the victims were as young as 10 and chosen because they were promiscuous or did not get along with their schoolmates, authorities have said. While most were either forced or coerced into having the procedure, a small number of them chose to be sterilized.

But that's just at the state level.

It's not known how many were sterilized at the county level, said Elizabeth Haddix, senior staff attorney with the UNC Center for Civil Rights, which is representing 40 victims. Of those, just 10 had files from the state board, she noted.

"The rest of them, their stories were almost identical in terms of having a social worker come to their delivery room or hospital room," she said. The social worker might tell the patient, usually a black woman, that she wouldn't be eligible for public assistance unless she was sterilized, Haddix said.

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London, Oct 5: he Islamic State (ISIS) terror group plans to seize Iran's nuclear secrets, unleash a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing and Nazi-style eugenics to consolidate and expand its self-declared caliphate, according to a seized policy manifesto of the dreaded outfit.

The group urged its members to plan for war with Iran and has ambitions to seize Tehran's nuclear secrets in a manifesto believed to have been written by Abdullah Ahmed al-Meshedani, a member of the group's highly secretive six-man war cabinet.

The document, typed on perforated sheets, was seized by Iraqi special forces during a raid in March on the home of one of the commanders of ISIS, The Sunday Times reported today. In the document, which has been examined by western security officials - who believe it to be authentic - Meshedani wrote that ISIS aims to get hold of nuclear weapons with the help of Russia, to whom it would offer access to gas fields it controls in Iraq's Anbar province.

Also, the documents said, Kremlin will have to give up "Iran and its nuclear program and hands over its secrets." Russia would also have to abandon support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and back the Gulf States against Iran.

Believed to be a policy manifesto prepared for senior members of ISIS, the document offers a unique insight into the ambitions of the Islamist commanders who have shocked the world with their fanaticism and brutality, the paper said. The ISIS militants have captured a swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has declared himself as Caliph of the Islamic State.

The document contains 70 different plans like launching a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing, Nazi-style eugenics and intelligence gathering operations to consolidate and expand the group's self-declared Islamic caliphate, it said.

Meshedani, whose duties include managing suicide bombers, also calls for stripping Shia Iran of "all its power" and destroying the Shia ascendancy in Iraq. He also incites followers to kill Iraqi military chiefs, Shia officials and Iranian-backed militias fighting for the Iraqi government, the paper said, citing the document.

A security source familiar with the document told the paper: "Nothing shocks western governments these days in relation to ISIS and its fanatical aspirations.

"And we've known and feared for some time that they want to obtain chemical and nuclear weapons." In an indication of ISIS' brutal ideology, Meshedani writes that its intelligence operatives will "eliminate" its own leaders if they deviate from its "desired goal".

"The leadership of the political wing must know that it is being watched and listened to by the intelligence apparatuses which pass on everything," he warns them.

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London: The Daesh extremist militant group plans to seize Irans nuclear secrets, unleash a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing and Nazi-style eugenics to consolidate and expand its self-declared caliphate, according to a seized policy manifesto of the outfit.

The group urged its members to plan for war with Iran and has ambitions to seize Tehrans nuclear secrets in a manifesto believed to have been written by Abdullah Ahmad Al Meshedani, a member of the groups highly secretive six-man war cabinet.

The document, typed on perforated sheets, was seized by Iraqi special forces during a raid in March on the home of one of the commanders of Daesh, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

In the document, which has been examined by Western security officials who believe it to be authentic, Al Meshedani wrote that Daesh aims to get hold of nuclear weapons with the help of Russia, to whom it would offer access to gas fields it controls in Iraqs Anbar province.

Also, the documents said, the Kremlin will have to give up Iran and its nuclear programme and hands over its secrets. Russia would also have to abandon support for Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and back the Gulf states against Iran.

Believed to be a policy manifesto prepared for senior members of Daesh, the document offers a unique insight into the ambitions of the Islamist commanders who have shocked the world with their fanaticism and brutality, the paper said.

The Daesh militants have captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and their leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has declared himself the Caliph of the Islamic State.

The document contains 70 different plans such as launching a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing, Nazi-style eugenics and intelligence gathering operations to consolidate and expand the groups self-declared Islamic caliphate, it said.

Al Meshedani, whose duties include managing suicide bombers, also calls for Shiite Iran to be stripped of all its power and for the destruction of the Shiite ascendancy in Iraq.

He also incites followers to kill Iraqi military chiefs, Shiite officials and Iranian-backed militias fighting for the Iraqi government, the paper said, citing the document.

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This is a tale of two countries.

The first country was built on a radical new promise of human equality and a guarantee of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That country made it possible for even those born in the humblest and most meager circumstances to climb to the pinnacle of prosperity and achievement. It helped to save the world in a great global conflagration, fed and rebuilt the devastated nations of Europe, planted the first footprints on another world.

The second country was built on the uncompensated labor of human beings owned from birth til death by other human beings.

That country committed genocide against its indigenous people, fabricated a war in order to snatch territory belonging to its neighbor, put its own citizens in concentration camps. And it practiced the science of eugenics with such enthusiasm that it inspired advocates of mandatory sterilization and racial purity all over the world.

One was an obscure German politician named Adolf Hitler.

Obviously, the first of those countries is America.

But the second is, too.

This would not come as a surprise to any reasonably competent student of American history.

But that is a category that soon might not include students in Jefferson County, Colo. The good news is, they are not taking it lying down.

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by Simon Neoh@www.malaysia-chronicle.com (10-01-14)

It did not surprise me when former Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad labelled his nemesis, Anwar Ibrahim as a divisive man, when he blamed Anwar for prolonging the entire Selangor Menteri Besar crisis.

Coming from Mahathir, one has to only take it with a pinch of salt, especially when the accuser himself is equally as guilty. While the ordinary man on the street can tell who, between Dr Mahathir and Anwar, who fits the description better, and how Khalid Ibrahim, with the help of his UMNO and PAS state assemblymen, had dragged the Selangor crisis for as long as he could, Dr Mahathirs mudslinging backfires.

As pointed out to me by a self-development coach, this description fits the octogenarian very well: The very things that we see in others which we hate reflect what we truly are and the things that we also hate in ourselves.

Looking back at Dr Mahathirs history as an activist in the early 60s and subsequently when he wrote the book The Malay Dilemma, Dr Mahathir was probably the most divisive person this nation has seen. When he was thrown out of UMNO for his widely-circulated poison pen letter against the late Tunku Abdul Rahman Petra Al-Haj, the Bapa Malaysia had predicted that, if Dr Mahathir is allowed to re-join UMNO, he would destroy the party. He was, and he still is, the reason why UMNO is weak and the urban Malays have become totally disillusioned with the Barisan Nasional government after 57 years of Independence.

The game plan is always to blame others, other himself, as author of the book, The Malays, Their Problems and Future, Dr. Syed Husin Ali wrote: Many UMNO leaders and the Malays blamed the Tunku for the (May 13) incident; they accused him of being too liberal towards the Chinese and as a result the influence of UMNO began to decline, and it lost out to the PAS.

It happened in 1969, and now, Dr Mahathir is trying to use the same strategy to pit one race against another. For example, in Selangor, PAS has won a number of traditional UMNO seats (in fact, more the other two Pakatan component parties), the DAP still gets the blame. This is Dr Mahathirs strategy which he hopes Malays will once again fall prey to.

Note what Syed Husin wrote: Dr Mahathir and many Malays believed that it was due to the Tunkus indecisiveness and liberalism that the Chinese became more outspoken in their demands. Change the word Tunku with Najib, and you will understand what the Mahathir camp is hoping to achieve, but Dr Mahathir has forgotten that he no longer is in power.

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TWO JEWS go on a website . . .

That's not a setup for a joke, it's the backstory for "Old Jews Telling Jokes," which on Wednesday tummels its way into the Penn's Landing Playhouse for a seven-week run.

"Old Jews" is the off-Broadway smash inspired by the similarly titled, six-year-old website that, as its name (oldjewstellingjokes.com) suggests, is all about humor, much of it with a Yiddishkeit slant.

One of the funniest things about the revue is that it was co-created by a man famous for his knowledge and delineation of serious and important topics.

Many know Daniel Okrent as a talking head in a variety of PBS documentaries, including Ken Burns' "Prohibition," which was primarily inspired by Okrent's 2010 tome, "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition." Others might recall his days as the New York Times' first public editor (Times-speak for "ombudsman").

So, it's just a little surprising that such a seemingly sober-sided man is a driving force behind the theatrical version of "Old Jews." However, as he protested during a recent phone call, it shouldn't be.

"It has surprised some people who don't know me, but people who know me aren't surprised at all," he insisted. "I'm not the most serious guy in the world. I can have fun."

He can't help it. It's in his genes. "Both of my parents and my paternal grandfather were joke-tellers," he offered. "My paternal grandfather told Eastern European-Yiddish types of irony jokes. My parents were more eclectic than that. My father was a wonderful joke-teller; my mother was an absolutely awful joke-teller, but it didn't stop her."

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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is not pleased with Stephen Colbert, and he attempted to go after with the fake-news host on Twitter. It did not go well.

Earlier this week, Stephen Colbert did a fantastically hilarious segment on the 9th Annual Values Voter Summit. There he pointed out not only Sarah Palinsembarrassinggaffe, but Bobby Jindals apparent attempt to appeal to the average Joe. The segment, if you missed it, is below:

In a series of tweets Jindal offered his rebuttal and then attempted to insult the comedian:

(And things got even weird when a Georgia congressman weighed in.)

Yikes!

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