I'd like to use the term racism... if that's okay.
Media Matters posted a pretty telling clip of Michelle "I supported Ben Domenech and his editing of my latest book before I was against him" Malkin (formerly Maglalang, which I dare say is a bit less Republican-friendly) appearing on The O'Reilly Factor recently. Not only did she angrily decry the appearance of Mexican flags during the recent pro-immigration rally in LA (the video footage shown during her rant hilariously shows the crowd exhibiting a number of over-sized American flags), but she apparently decided to base her argument on an issue described as something of an anti-Latino version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Naturally, the fact that her most public appearances are on Bill O'Reilly's show mean that she isn't qualified for status as a 'public intellectual,' but it's important to remember that her venomous race-baiting is being presented as serious political debate.
On The O'Reilly Factor, Michelle Malkin declared that Latinos protesting the recent House bill aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration believe in "reconquista," or the theory that "the American Southwest belongs to Mexico." Malkin added that "the intellectual underpinnings of reconquista are embraced by the vast majority of mainstream Hispanic politicians."
It took the technologically-savvy folks at Media Matters about 37 seconds to uncover the following thanks to their double-secret informant, "Google."
A simple Google search shows that the people talking about Aztlan and reconquista are predominantly not Mexican (though there are some radical fringe groups) but white supremacists.
Quite a shock coming from a woman who wrote an entire book defending the detention of Japanese- (but not German- or Italian-) Americans during World War II. Fine, fine, maybe she isn't familiar with the exploits of the most decorated military unit in the history of the nation-- the 442nd Regiment, composed entirely of Japanese-Americans. Or maybe she's just way smarter than the rest of us in realizing that their so-called heroism was nothing more than a sneaky 'yellow' plot (no offense, Michelle-- my racial epithets apply only to Asians to the left of Donald Rumsfeld) to trick the American public into thinking that their ilk shouldn't have been put in internment camps.
On The O'Reilly Factor, Michelle Malkin declared that Latinos protesting the recent House bill aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration believe in "reconquista," or the theory that "the American Southwest belongs to Mexico." Malkin added that "the intellectual underpinnings of reconquista are embraced by the vast majority of mainstream Hispanic politicians."
It took the technologically-savvy folks at Media Matters about 37 seconds to uncover the following thanks to their double-secret informant, "Google."
A simple Google search shows that the people talking about Aztlan and reconquista are predominantly not Mexican (though there are some radical fringe groups) but white supremacists.
Quite a shock coming from a woman who wrote an entire book defending the detention of Japanese- (but not German- or Italian-) Americans during World War II. Fine, fine, maybe she isn't familiar with the exploits of the most decorated military unit in the history of the nation-- the 442nd Regiment, composed entirely of Japanese-Americans. Or maybe she's just way smarter than the rest of us in realizing that their so-called heroism was nothing more than a sneaky 'yellow' plot (no offense, Michelle-- my racial epithets apply only to Asians to the left of Donald Rumsfeld) to trick the American public into thinking that their ilk shouldn't have been put in internment camps.
posted by Matt Sandwich | 10:16 PM
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