New York Times Rockin’ in 2009

I HAVE NEVER had a problem with calling out our miserable media for their many lies and falsehoods and weaknesses, and mostly because we put so much faith in them, and they let us down. I still am not sure I forgive the Times re their pathetic performance in the last handful of years—when we really needed them to rise to the challenges and ideals of their role. Guess I’ll see where we go.

Meanwhile, I do have to shout out to them for articles that have shown up lately. Of the giants, they are leading the pack on articles exposing the links between hate groups, white supremacist individuals, and our own government and media. Thank you! This is important information and is key to the dialogue going on (and not going on but you are helping that and that’s the point) about immigration right now. Keep on!

The Nativists Are Restless

The relentlessly harsh Republican campaign against immigrants has always hidden a streak of racialist extremism. Now after several high-water years, the Republican tide has gone out, leaving exposed the nativism of fringe right-wingers clinging to what they hope will be a wedge issue. [...]

Last week on Long Island, the authorities in Suffolk County unsealed new indictments against a group of teenage boys accused in a murderous attack against an Ecuadorean immigrant, Marcelo Lucero. Since that crime last year, many more victims have come forward with stories of assaults in or near the same town, Patchogue. The police in that suburb seem to have made a habit of ignoring a long and escalating trail of attacks against immigrant men, until the hatred rose up and spilled over one night, fatally.

 

The Nativists Are Restless, Continued

The reaction in some quarters to our editorial has been furious. Some accused us of erecting a straw man. Some said we were “frothing at the mouth,” defaming those who don’t share our supposed traitorous devotion to “open borders” and instant citizenship for illegal immigrants. Bill O’Reilly, who presents himself as a defender of the “white, Christian male power structure,” called it “one of the nastiest pieces of propaganda from the New York Times we’ve seen in recent memory.”

 

‘The Nativist Lobby’

The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday released “The Nativist Lobby,” a report examining the connections among the three Washington-based organizations that have led the charge for restricting immigration to the United States. [...]

What is less well known, the report says, is what the groups have in common: histories connecting them to a retired Michigan eye doctor with a long-held interest in eugenics, racial quotas, and white nationalism.

 

And you KNOW it’s good when Loofah Lips is declaring another war!