Immigration: More hate from the media

Wed29Mar2006

Immigration: More hate from the media

16:54 H | Topics: Immigration - Media - Radio - TV

Mainstream media's obsession with immigration just seems to grow and grow. It's not just Lou Dobbs anymore. One can't watch cable news in primetime without being bombarded with ignorant punditry and hate-filled diatribes. Media Matters has a couple of particularly disturbing examples today, not from cable TV but from the internet and radio:

Michelle Malkin, the Filipino-American right wing pundit says:

Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante).

Um, what? I'd come up with a stronger response to this statement if I thought it deserved more than just a quick "Are you smoking something?"

An Atlanta-area radio host thinks that all Latino immigrants need to be "stored" somewhere before ultimately deporting them all:

The United Nations and the Euro-weenies, who have their own immigration problem with their own "M" word; It's Muslims for them. They will start screaming about human rights violations like you've never heard them screaming before. They are not going to be shipped back. I mean, Royal, think about -- Mexico doesn't want 'em back, first of all. Think what happens if we round -- first of all, where do we store 11 million Hispanics just waiting to ship 'em back to Nicaragua, Columbia, Costa Rica, Mexico. Where do we store 'em?

Media Matters is urging the public to contact both of these commentators to voice their opposition to the views expressed.

Media Matters: Malkin quote
Media Matters: Boortz quote

Via / Media Matters

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1. B Smith ~ Sunday, Jan 21 2007 | 16:25H:

Doesn't any body care how Immigration is destroying
this country a little more ever day. The decline of jobs for true Americans is growing Day by day while our US Mfg. are sending there factors to Mexico out of greed. Legal and Illegal immigrants or destroying our small towns and cities. Dealing with Mexican drug runners and drug dealers are out of control. I truly believe If we as Americans let one more IMMIGRANT in this country it would be one beanner to Meany. I think if illegal , means illegal ,why can't we shot them like robbers or child molesters, They are Molesting the UNITED STATES.shot a few hundred coming across the boarders , and take them back to Mexico dead or alive and dump them in the streets . that might get the message across to the illegal wet backs.Get it together US and see the light, or see the dome later! shot a Illegal get a star!

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