GRANITE (Pig) HEADED CONSERVATIVES
Today Geraldo appeared on Laura Ingraham to promote his new book. As usual she was her annoying, hard-line anti-immigration self.
Contrary to what Ingraham says about crime, the newest study finds immigrants in CA commit less crime.
Hot Air has the interview….interrogation
(Thanks, Sally Vee)
I think over the past few years my regular readers have noticed that I wax eloquent on the subject of conservatives who have adopted the hard-line anti-immigration stance of some of the worst ‘devils’ of our national character. I have wondered if these people endorse the same platform of hate or are just plain ignorant of what is going on or stupid about it. Well, we now know where to put Laura Ingraham. She’s definitely in the “stupid” column for refusing to even believe anything nefarious is going on with these people and accepting their tainted facts and figures without even bothering to question it.
In the interview above, Ingraham is very insulted to be ‘lumped’ in with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and members of the KKK. She then makes the abjectly ignorant remark that there are maybe a half dozen remaining members of the KKK here in the US. This is the problem. Evidently people like Ingraham aren’t all that racist for the most part, they are simply stupid, ignorant, blind, and dumb as dirt when it comes to what is going on here in the US. I think I would rather deal with a racist. Someone like Ingraham is so pig-headed, she is never going to listen to reason, even when presented with the total and complete absolute facts.
She also thinks there are overwhelming millions of Americans who are avidly involved in the whole anti-immigration movement. As far as activists are concerned, I would say a half million is an over-estimate of their numbers. While many Americans are interested in the subject, I think the way to calculate the actual numbers is to find out how many card-carrying and paying members the various anti-immigration organizations have. You are going to find it isn’t many.
How do you deal with such stubborn ignorance and refusal to see reality?
Geraldo on his new book:
“…It was in the weeks before the all-important Iowa caucuses and the candidacy of Romney's chief rival for the GOP nomination John McCain appeared dead in the water, mortally wounded by a moderate position on immigration; last Spring, McCain had even co-authored the president's failed comprehensive reform legislation, and angry, anti-immigrant crowds in Iowa were promising to make him regret it.
Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, and despite past moderate positions on immigration that were based on pragmatic compassion, Romney and long-shot former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee had joined more radical candidates Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter as immigration hardliners. Romney and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani were even taking vicious shots at each other over who had been more pro-sanctuary, pro-amnesty for immigrants in their past lives. All were trying to out do the other in promising to wall off the southern border, and in the cases of Hunter and Tancredo, arrest and deport the twelve million or so undocumented men, women and children living illegally in the United States.
The extremist tone of the rhetoric was like a putrid fog settling over the entire U.S. Latino community, which has recently become the nation's largest minority, 45 million strong, up from just four million in 1950 according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. "A lot of Latinos like me who are citizens or here legally are really beginning to feel insulted and being made the scapegoat for everything from crime to terrorism," I explained to Governor Romney that day in the green room.
"I have 45 Hispanics on my advisory committee in Florida," Romney explained quickly and sincerely, "so I'm very sensitive about only targeting the illegal immigrants." I told him it might not matter, that we all sort of look alike, wished him luck and left.
Several weeks later, and following defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire, Romney got his butt kicked in the watershed state of Florida. Despite Romney's expensive and extensive campaign, much of it targeted at South Florida's Cuban community, usually one of the most reliably conservative voting blocs in the country, John McCain carried the Sunshine State largely on the strength of the Latino vote, winning 54% of the Republican Hispanics to Romney's 14%, a margin of about 5-1….”
Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, and despite past moderate positions on immigration that were based on pragmatic compassion, Romney and long-shot former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee had joined more radical candidates Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter as immigration hardliners. Romney and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani were even taking vicious shots at each other over who had been more pro-sanctuary, pro-amnesty for immigrants in their past lives. All were trying to out do the other in promising to wall off the southern border, and in the cases of Hunter and Tancredo, arrest and deport the twelve million or so undocumented men, women and children living illegally in the United States.
The extremist tone of the rhetoric was like a putrid fog settling over the entire U.S. Latino community, which has recently become the nation's largest minority, 45 million strong, up from just four million in 1950 according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. "A lot of Latinos like me who are citizens or here legally are really beginning to feel insulted and being made the scapegoat for everything from crime to terrorism," I explained to Governor Romney that day in the green room.
"I have 45 Hispanics on my advisory committee in Florida," Romney explained quickly and sincerely, "so I'm very sensitive about only targeting the illegal immigrants." I told him it might not matter, that we all sort of look alike, wished him luck and left.
Several weeks later, and following defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire, Romney got his butt kicked in the watershed state of Florida. Despite Romney's expensive and extensive campaign, much of it targeted at South Florida's Cuban community, usually one of the most reliably conservative voting blocs in the country, John McCain carried the Sunshine State largely on the strength of the Latino vote, winning 54% of the Republican Hispanics to Romney's 14%, a margin of about 5-1….”
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