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The title in quotes is completely wrong and made up. It is not in the article that I can see.


13 posted on 03/12/2010 12:23:23 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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ALIPAC Calls for John McCain to Apologize To Minorities

http://www.alipac.us/article5009.html

Posted on Friday, March 12 @ 13:37:35 EST

ALIPAC Calls for John McCain to Apologize To Minorities

March 12, 2010

CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) www.alipac.us (866) 703-0864

The multi-racial political action committee called Americans for Legal Immigration PAC or ALIPAC rebuked Senator John McCain's latest smear attempt and calls on candidate McCain to apologize to the group's minority supporters.

"McCain's campaign is pretty desperate to grab highly inaccurate information off of a left wing blog and try to use it without fact checking in a GOP primary," said William Gheen of ALIPAC. "We are calling on John McCain to apologize immediately to the thousands of minorities who support ALIPAC and oppose illegal immigration!"

John McCain's campaign just sent out a press release citing inaccurate information from a left wing pro-Democrat blog called the Phoenix New Times. The McCain campaign makes the false claim that ALIPAC supports, endorses, and uses racially charged terms such as "Wetback" and "Pepper belly" and that ALIPAC is supported by the KKK.

ALIPAC is a multi-racial organizations with about 20% of the groups supporters being minorities. ALIPAC works openly with black and Hispanic leaders and organizations as documented in the national media. ALIPAC's President, William Gheen, has a background in civil rights campaigns. ALIPAC has publicly rebuked racist groups and organizations on many occasions and the groups platform calls for "Americans of ever race..." to participate.

The word "Wetback" and "Pepper belly" do appear on ALIPAC's website in the Discussion Groups comments section which are open source.

All posts made in comments are covered by ALIPAC's disclaimer that proclaims in 14 locations....

"ALIPAC is not responsible for the content of posts, comments, articles, and links to other organizations. Posting here does not imply endorsement or support. Posts from the public here are NOT organizational statements or the positions of ALIPAC. Official ALIPAC organizational positions and statements are found on the main site at www.alipac.us .... ALIPAC enjoys the support of Americans from many different racial and ethnic backgrounds. We are Americans United to fight illegal immigration. Our boards are open to all that share our cause. NO RACISM AND NO RACE BAITING"

The word 'Wetback' appears on the site in the phrase Operation Wetback which refers to the historic deportation of millions of illegal aliens under President Dwight Eisenhower. A simple Google search indicates that the term "Operation Wetback" appears on over 90,000 websites, including Wikipedia, PBS, and Snopes to name a few. Would John McCain call PBS racist for having the word Wetback on their website?

The word "pepper belly" appears in text documented from a pro-Amnesty blogger website, where ALIPAC activists sought to document the racism found on another website. No ALIPAC supporter wrote those words.

To illustrate ALIPAC's position of strength in this matter, links to both comments in question are provided here and being mounted on ALIPAC's homepage.

Here are the links
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-181813-next.html
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-186741.html

"I've been involved with and worked on hundreds of campaigns in my life," said William Gheen who previously worked as a campaign consultant. "This attack from John McCain's campaign is the dirtiest, most low down, false, and deceptive thing I've ever seen. To suggest that multi-racial groups and our black and Hispanic supporters are somehow working with the KKK is ludicrous. John McCain should immediately apologize to our minority supporters and to the public for trying to be deceptive."

The Anti-Defamation League, which actively supports Amnesty for illegal aliens and opposes ALIPAC's pro-enforcement positions, made the false claim that ALIPAC was supported by the KKK because some racist made a comment on some website supporting ALIPAC's opposition to illegal immigration.

"Looks like McCain and Obama are just alike on illegal immigration," said William Gheen. "They both want to label anyone that opposes them as a racist. By doing so they are in truth claiming a majority of Americans of every race are racists."

For more information about ALIPAC, or to schedule interviews with our minority supporters, please visit www.alipac.us

ALIPAC's Minority supporters are encouraged to contact the McCain campaign to demand an apology from Brian Rogers at (602) 604-2010.

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32 posted on 03/12/2010 12:28:41 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: BunnySlippers

In case you are trying to defend McCain, bear in mind that his “good friends” at LaRaza already are loudly demanding that illegals be included in the Healthcare takeover. Your taxes going to support aliens who hate us.


55 posted on 03/12/2010 12:37:38 PM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: BunnySlippers

easy slippers...we’re talking about McAmnesty here...give scuttle a break...least he ainn’t on Sarah for the moment


215 posted on 03/14/2010 10:20:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (women are crazy...girls too)
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