Tuesday, July 11th, 2006...7:40 am
If You Don’t Agree With Me, You Must Be an Illegal Alien
Greg Patterson over at Espresso Pundit found a story on a website called American Chronicle. First off, the article claims that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s rather unsuccessful illegal alien round up didn’t work because of interference from the Mexican Consulate. It couldn’t be because the whole thing is driven more by publicity than actual law enforcement, right?
But the part that Patterson decides to emphasize and quote is an allegation that illegal aliens are funding the campaigns of Janet Napolitano and John McCain. This is ridiculous on so many levels. Let me get this right though: people that are being hired precisely because they can get paid less than American workers are throwing enough money at politicians that it is influencing their decisions?
Yeah. That sounds right.
One of the sillier memes that some Republican activists and elected officials have bought into over the last few years is that Napolitano and Raúl Grijalva only won on the votes of “illegal aliens.” That’s right, these guys are crossing into our country, hiding from authorities, but they register to vote and give money to politicians. Makes perfect sense.
I hope that Patterson is repeating these allegations to show how ridiculous they are. It seems that any politician who gets any sort of Hispanic support has this one thrown at them these days. Somehow, they see Hispanics supporting a candidate, and assume that they all hopped the fence last week. I am not sure if they throw this around to discredit politicians who they don’t agree with, or if they buy into the bias that all Hispanics, citizens or not, are illegitimate Americans.
3 Comments
July 11th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Sorry, tedski, but i think you’re giving Patterson too much credit. Whenever he sees a story he thinks is out of line or unsupported by the facts, he picks it apart from the headline to the last period. He’s done it many times and he isn’t shy about it (especially when it comes to Arizona Republic columnist Jon Talton, who he was stalking for a while).
The fact that he posted long quotes from it and linked to it w/o any more comment than “is this true?” and “read for yourself” means he’s taking the chicken’s way out, wanting others to believe that nonsense but not having the cojones to put his considerable analytical skills to use.
It’s a copout.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
On the other hand, this could be a good thing. Under the theory that ‘anything those Mexicans do must be wrong’ maybe right wingers will stop voting and donating to politicians in protest.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Michael you are very close. We did stop donating thanks to clean elections. A few $5 bills here and there and we’re done.
Stop voting? Dream on.
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