Ingraham on Immigrants
by Ryan Sager
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 at 12:14 PM
updated Wed, 15 Aug 2007 at 12:15 PM
Yesterday morning, I went on the Laura Ingraham show. You can click here to listen to the podcast. (It's only the first 5 minutes of a 15 minute interview.)
The conversation deals quickly with the whole Sam Brownback kerfuffle, and then moves onto what I call "hatred of immigrants" that was on display in Iowa. She can say all she wants that the "Press 1" line Rep. Tom Tancredo uses isn't mean to whip up base anti-immigrant sentiment (and that it's just a joke), but that doesn't make it true. As I go into at the end, Republicans aren't laughing that they've lost 14 points with the Hispanic vote between 2004 and 2006 with rhetoric like this — not a good trend going into 2008.
I wish the podcast covered the latter two-thirds of the interview, where Ms. Ingraham harped on crimes committed by individual illegal immigrants recently. I pointed out that one could, of course, pick on any group this way, and hype every crime committed by a black person (something white-supremacist Web sites do), every crime committed by a Jew, every crime committed by a legal Mexican immigrant, every crime committed by a white person, etc. For this, she tried to tar me an apologist for murderers. I probably shouldn't have laughed at her, at that point. But really, could I help myself?
Related Topics: GOP Primary, Immigration
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