How old was Governor Jindal when he changed his name to Bobby?

[NNN0LHI]

I have seen posted around here that he was four years old when he changed his name but I seen him yesterday say that he used to rush home from school to watch the Brady Bunch and that is when he decided to change his name because he liked Bobby Brady so much?

He wasn't going to school when he was four was he?

The timing is all off on this fairy tale of his.

Don

[NOW tense]

1. WIki says 4 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal

[NNN0LHI]

3. Well that can't be correct can it?

[NOW tense]

10. It is accordding to "lore"

whom ever that is. I personally don't care what name he goes by. It is his ideals that I care about.

[Marrah_G]

11. He couldn't watch the show after his name was changed?

It's really not that tough to figure out.


You just REALLY want there to be something nefarious there.

[NNN0LHI]

13. Thats not what he said though. I like catching Rethugs in lies

They all add up.

Don

[Marrah_G]

18. I think you are fishing in an empty pond on this one.

Especially when there are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many other things to go after this man for.

[Maru Kitteh]

24. I started school when I was four years old. Not preschool - school.

So yes, it could be true.

Now, how about leaving off the idiotic attack on a man for his name? It's petty and small, and carries with it the distinct and pungent odor of racism.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Someone must've changed it for him if he was just a kid.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. wrong - it is a nickname, his legal name is Piyush.

But the OP is correct - the story of 'Bobby' is another Jindal fabrication. Either he wasn't four or he wasn't rushing home from school to watch the Brady Bunch.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Yes, I saw that in Wiki. Too bad he didn't watch "Flipper" or "Looney Tunes"

That would have made a better nickname.

[burythehatchet]

4. Let's get a team on this right away. Could be hugh.

[HughMoran]

5. He can't have Hugh!

:rofl:

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. He never legally changed his name

He started using Bobby when he was four, but his legal name is now and always has been Piyush.

[cali]

8. Who cares? Really, this is beyond -petty and stupid.

And vaguely xenophobic as well.

[NNN0LHI]

9. Have you lost your mind?

We are supposed to let these thugs lie to our faces and just nod in agreement?

Well you go ahead and do that.

Don

[cali]

12. no, but you may well have lost yours if you actually think

this is on a par with Jindal's lie about his being with Sheriff Lee in the midst of Katrina. This is just a remarkably stupid thing to attack him on.

[NNN0LHI]

16. Its wrong to point out that these scum Rethugs can't tell the truth about anything?

Well go ahead and let them get away with their crap. Just nod your head in agreement.

I am not going to.

Don

[cali]

17. It's not a matter of right or wrong. it's a matter of pointless and stupid

and possibly counter-productive. Attacking him over this just looks silly. And lord knows there's plenty of substantive issues to attack him on. Perhaps you're just unaware of those issues.

[Maru Kitteh]

23. And you forgot racist. I don't care what ANYBODY says, attacking people for the use OR non-use of

ethnic sounding names carries with it the appearance of racism on the part of the attacker. It totally bypasses disrespectful and heads straight for the petty and small arena. The name a person chooses to be called by is a matter of personal choice, period.

It doesn't matter how/when/why the man took the name of Bobby. It's his name. He doesn't owe anyone a freakin' explanation for it.

[cali]

25. well, I used the word xenophobic, but racist works too.

And your last sentence really sums it all up.

[Warren Stupidity]

28. The point is he gushed forth with his explanation all on his own

and as the OP points out, this story also doesn't make sense.

[Warren Stupidity]

20. I care that the opposition party is selling us a chronic fabricator

The point of the OP (if I may speak for the OP) is that Jindal appears to be lying about a lot of things. The subtext is that the Official Media doesn't give a shit - an opinion you seem to share.

[cali]

22. oh please. don't you tell me what I care about.

I made myself perfectly clear to anyone with a few operational brain cells. As I know you're possessed of such, you can only be deliberately obtuse re my comments. Let me reiterate:

1) Attacking him on this can easily be seen as XENOPHOBIC. I trust you know what that means.

2) This is hardly a substantive lie. Hell, it's not been demonstrated that it's a lie at all.

3). It's the sort of attack that backfires.

4). There are plenty of real issues to attack Jindal on- and lies that are of some importance, such as the Sheriff Lee/Katrina lie. I prefer to focus on those.

[Warren Stupidity]

27. You told us you didn't care.

" Who cares? Really, this is beyond -petty and stupid."

You have conflated the threads making fun of his name vs his nickname, with this thread that points out that he also made up the story about how he got his nickname.

The OP is simply not xenophobic, even if you put it in all caps.

It is substantive in the context of his katrina boat fabrication.

The story makes no sense. A four year old 'rushes home from school to see the Brady Bunch', how exactly is that?

The issue of Jindal's propensity to just make shit up about himself is quite real and quite substantive.

[cali]

30. um, I told you that on this particular issue, I don't care. Further

I explained why making this an issue is fucking moronic and xenophobic. And I didn't say the OP was xenophobic but that making an issue out of this, is. Skinner made the same point. Take it up with him.

[tishaLA]

29. You're partially right

but it seems to me that stuff like this is good for building a narrative about Jindal--that he is a chronic fibber who embroiders stories to please his audience. We have evidence of him doing this with his address last week (the story about the sheriff) and this story will be just another part of the narrative, which is designed to counter his own pull yourself up by the bootstraps immigrant narrative.

[PVnRT]

15. Why grasp at straws?

There are plenty of steel-reinforced concrete posts to grab onto.

[Marrah_G]

19. That's what I don't get either.

And especially this straw......It's just so wrong.

[spanone]

21. i now call him bobby brady jindal

[edhopper]

26. What I find

funny about all this is how much the Repugs made fun of Obama because at some point he used Barry, a understandable derivation of Barrak.
Here Jindal is just making up an American name to hide his real one and it's all good.

[Pisces]

31. Saw the 60 Min. piece and I am sad to see how much he hates his culture and longs to be white.

He and his wife have not preserved any Indian traditions, even though they are first generation Americans??? It is sad and disturbing when you are ashamed of your heritage.

How different from Barrack who took back his given name when he matured and Bobby Jindal who grew ashamed of his name and changed it later on in life to fit in.

Bobby Jindal is the kind of guy who stood around and let the white boys make black jokes and Indian jokes to his face while he laughed with them. He wants to whitewash his family and his life and it will never work.

Sad.