Posted on 02/01/2011 12:48:58 AM PST by OddLane
I should probably preface this post by admitting that I was a participant in the Washington Post's America's Next Great Pundit contest, a misguided and perhaps ultimately futile attempt by WaPo to expand its youth demographic among the ever-declining readership it lays claim to.
In fact, my submission was drawn from an essay posted to this very website, entitled-appropriately enough, considering the subject of this post-Spin. You can judge for yourself whether it's worthy of being published in Washington D.C.'s most widely-circulated newspaper. My own view, even prior to submitting the piece, was that it would be rejected by the Washington Post's editors, whose support for unfettered immigration is so unstinting that even the ostensibly conservative columnists working for them embrace it without reservation.
So imagine my surprise when I learned, courtesy of a blog post on the indispensable website run by the Center for Immigration Studies, that the person chosen over yours truly was, in fact, an unapologetic supporter of open borders. At least, for the United States. We know this because his first column was devoted to rhapsodizing passionately over the need for America's blighted rust belt cities to open their gates to immigrants of all kinds, including those who came to this country illegally-they're just the best as it turns out.
Keep in mind, the hoary fallacy that illegal aliens are a net contributor to the economy has been debunked by even the most staunch defender of open borders, National Public Radio. Furthermore, the notion that H1-B visa recipients are foreign-born geniuses with specific skills that American applicants do not possess, rather than adept crooks seeking to exploit a fraud-ridden program, or modern-day indentured servants supplanting upper middle-class American workers, is simply not born out by any empirical evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at american-rattlesnake.org ...
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If we have our way their readers will be unemployed and not be able to afford the paper.
...and yet, the WaPost supports Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that opposes gay rights with the death penalty, and eliminates the rights of women.
Hardly “liberal.”
Excellent.
Nuttin' to be afraid of.
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