During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Republican strategist Karl Rove joked with Democratic strategist Donna Brazile about the state of the Republican Party – only it took a puzzling turn.
amp_ad_1 ampforwp-incontent-custom-banner ampforwp-incontent-ad1">During an exchange about what seemed to be a bet between the two political experts, Brazile jokingly said that Rove owed her some chili.
“You owe me some fried chicken,†Rove joked with a Southern drawl.
While Brazile did not seem bothered by the joke on air, many liberal blogs and Twitter avids ridiculed Rove for the joke’s racial implications.