Tancredo just playing to his faithful fans

Rocky Mountain News ^ | July 26, 2005 | Mike Littwin

[Millee]

Littwin is not a serious journalist. (My apologies to anyone getting sick of Tancredo posts!)

[cripplecreek]

The funny thing is that the writers and talking heads who hate Tancredo the most have done the most to publicize him.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Littwin is not a serious journalist.

And evidently he gets paid by the paragraph.

[agere_contra]

So Littwin, what did he say that was wrong? Don't just indulge in ad Hominem attacks.

[Brilliant]

The fact is that Tancredo's comment was as no more extreme than the comments made on a daily basis by Islamic clerics trying to spawn hate against Americans.

[SC33]

What I didn't like is that he fails to realize that the majority of the country, approx. 75% according to every poll, agrees with tancredo's position on illegal immigration. I do, however, admit that he should not have made the statement about Mecca.

[meema]

Littwin is not a serious journalist.

Amen!

[hosepipe]

RINOs hate Tom Tancredo....

[meema]

...Tancredo's comment was no more extreme than the comments made on a daily basis by Islamic clerics trying to spawn hate against Americans.

That's the truth! What are we supposed to do, roll over and play dead???

[kcvl]

OLD HIPPIE stuck in the 60's & 70's. roflol!

Mike Littwin has moved back to writing a news column. He came to the Rocky Mountain News as a sports columnist from the Baltimore Sun, where he wrote a sports column for seven years and a general column for five. Before that, he worked at the Los Angeles Times as a sports and national news feature writer. Mike has contributed to many magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Esquire, TV Guide and Capital Style.

[Biblebelter]

At the anti-Tancredo rally, speaker after speaker stood up to say that Tancredo was an embarrassment to Colorado. I'd like to think they're wrong - and that Tancredo is just an embarrassment to himself.

No one can lay claim to being an embarrassment to Colorado as long as Ward Churchill is on the scene.

[wideawake]

No, they love him.

Why?

Because, through his antics, he makes immigration critics and anti-terrorism hardliners look like morons.

[southernnorthcarolina]

For those here who may be too young to understand the reference to Randy Newman at the beginning of the article, the line is from "Political Science," from his 1972 album Sail Away. The lyrics (though Newman certainly intended them to be ironic) are still topical 33 years later:

No one likes us -- I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens

We give them money -- but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us -- so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us

We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too

Boom goes London and boom Paree
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono
And there'll be Italian shoes for me

They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now

[Stellar Dendrite]

Where is dane and the other quislings?

[hosepipe]

[ Because, through his antics, he makes immigration critics and anti-terrorism hardliners look like morons. ]

Not so... he makes them look like wimps..
Morons follow Moderate immigration critics and Moderate anti-terrorism hardliners..

The time for moderation ended about 1992...
The only moderates left are overt and covert leftists..

"Moderation" is the new progressivism thats why progressives spout the mantra of moderation like dogma.. or the inverse of moderation, extremism.. Tancredo is an extremist and NO moderate.. Admittedly hes not too smart like all extremists.. thats why us extremists love him..

Is being moderate SMART.?.

[wideawake]

I'm not talking about moderation - a useless concept.

I am talking about sanity.

[hosepipe]

I'm not talking about moderation - a useless concept. I am talking about sanity.

Yes you are.. thats exactely what you're talking about..
You answered my question too.. Moderation is NOT smart..

Tancredo could be relegated to the "congressional fringe"
Except for his hyperbole.. Hyperbole is smart..

In the America today to express the political climate accuratly you must use hyperbole.. Not to use hyperbole is simply to be inaccurate and WRONG.. The America political climate today "IS" hyperbolic..

Tancredo sees that, you evidently do not.. Same with Ron Paul.. Be ignored... or make them "gasp" by speaking the truth.. which by the way IS HYPERBOLIC.. Moderation is very conservative but cowardly.. Radical change is whats needed in Washington D.C.. thats why "conservatives" are spineless.. cowed by progressive pleas for moderation and faux outrage at extremism.. When the progressives are the most extreme of all.. they don't want any competion..

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Littwin must be Dane's real name.

[wideawake]

In other words, you will not take me at my word, but feel free to invent a worldview for me which I do not hold.

Enjoy talking to yourself.

[Millee]

Separated at birth????