Here’s a real shocker. Someone in Hollywood confessing they are “patriotic.” Mindy Kaling, the star and creator of Fox’s The Mindy Project, admitted on the March 28, 2014 Charlie Rose show, that she’s “weirdly patriotic” - because of course being patriotic in the left-leaning entertainment industry must be considered weird.
Still it was refreshing to hear someone in Hollywood celebrate American exceptionalism, as she proudly asserted, on Friday’s Charlie Rose show: “This is going to make me sound like I’m a thousand years old, but this could only happen in America and I’m weirdly patriotic because my parents are immigrants and I feel so unbelievably lucky that it just came from grit.”
Kaling continued: “I virtually never saw either of my parents growing up because of how hard they worked but I sort of applied that to entertainment and it worked out. Which, to me, just makes me feel kind of good about the country in a way, because I couldn't have done this in India, I don’t think.”
Later in the interview Kaling told Rose, because her character on the show is of Indian descent, she can get away with saying “conservative” things because “I have the trappings of a marginalized person.”
Crossposted at Newsbusters.