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Gabler: Immigration Reform 'Beating Up on Aliens, Getting White Folks for the 2006 Election'
Fox News Watch/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/01/2006 5:31:01 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

April 1, 2006

Do you support rigorous measures to strengthen border security and tighten immigration controls? If so, you're probably a 'nativist' - read racist - or a rube, or very possibly both.

Don't believe me? Just ask Neal Gabler. Here's what he had to say on this evening's Fox News Watch:

"The conservative nativists, and maybe that's a redundancy, thought they had a winner here. What a great issue they have," he said sarcastically. "You can beat up on aliens and get all of those white folks for the 2006 election."

Conservative columnist Jim Pinkerton weighed in with two points of note:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: borderslanguage; culture; fnc; foxnewswatch; gabler; illegalimmigration; immigration; nativism; pinkerton
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1 posted on 04/01/2006 5:31:03 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Fox News Watch/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 04/01/2006 5:31:58 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Neal Gabler is a little bitch. I can't believe Cal doesn't just slap the piss out of him.


3 posted on 04/01/2006 5:35:04 PM PST by trubluolyguy (If I wanted to live in Mexico, I'd FRIGGING MOVE THERE!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The MSM debate is interesting. For a while they were saying "illegal" or "undocumented" now they're following the Bush/Dem/Cheap labor line of just "immigrant." For a while they were noting the costs of illegal immigration, taxes, wage suppression, the conversion of middle class jobs to lower class, now that's disappeared.

It looks like they're pressing the "racist" line of late.


4 posted on 04/01/2006 5:35:34 PM PST by Shermy (President Bush, tell us what jobs Americans won't do.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I sent an email to Eric Burns in January telling him I was a 4 plus year viewer and if Gabler stayed on the show I was quitting it. Haven't watched it for 6 weeks.


5 posted on 04/01/2006 5:38:40 PM PST by jazusamo (Excuse me Helen, I'm answering your first accusation. - President Bush)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This is a win-win for the dims. Even though the vast majority of the nation wants the illegal immigration issue solved, the pubbies will somehow give us a piece of crap immigration bill that give legality to millions and not stop the border problem. Then, there will be so many pubbies so disgusted that they will set out the upcoming elections and give the dims a win.

I won't be one of them, but I suspect many will set things out. Why vote? Their own party screws them anyway.


6 posted on 04/01/2006 5:39:10 PM PST by umgud (12 gauge, the original pepper spray)
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To: Shermy

The racist thing seems to be the common punishment for those of us who don't toe the line.


7 posted on 04/01/2006 5:40:16 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Neal Gabler can kiss my A$$


8 posted on 04/01/2006 5:46:41 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK ("Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." -- Albert Einstein)
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To: Shermy
It looks like they're pressing the "racist" line of late.

I noticed that, too. In my case, it couldn't be further from the truth. I'm working on a dive boat in the Gulf of Mexico with a Mexican (legal) dive crew and they are a great bunch of guys.

9 posted on 04/01/2006 5:47:59 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA (Your Lord and Master...Foamy the Squirrel)
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To: cripplecreek
As if a name from a lib could hurt anyone. D@mn Stalinists

Love your tag...so true.
10 posted on 04/01/2006 5:53:09 PM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
You are doing us a great service. Gabler, Ratner, Estrich, Beckel, etc., etc., etc. are reasons not to watch.

Thanks.

11 posted on 04/01/2006 5:54:20 PM PST by PGalt
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Let's summarize: in Gabler's mind, there's apparently no national security justification for reducing the annual flow across our porous borders of hundreds of thousands of unidentified people.

I say that if Vicente Fox refuses to deal with his little problem, we should just make everybody in the provinces of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahau, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas United States citizens. Then let them choose which country they want to be a part of. I can guarantee that the US border would move south immediately. ;-)

If Fox doesn't get the message, go for the next row of Mexican provinces. :-)

12 posted on 04/01/2006 5:54:53 PM PST by an amused spectator (Bush Runner! The Donkey is after you! Bush Runner! When he catches you, you're through!)
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I thought that people were only racists if indicted by Reverend Jesse Jackson or Reverend Al Sharpton.

Since they have been curiously silent, I will give those opposed to illegal invasion of the US the benefit of the doubt.

Sarcasm light is lit.


13 posted on 04/01/2006 5:56:08 PM PST by Donald Meaker (You don't drive a car looking through the rear view mirror, but you do practice politics that way.)
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To: PGalt

Thanks, PG - it's really my pleasure.


14 posted on 04/01/2006 5:56:17 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: Shermy

I agree and I saw that program but, knowing Gabler, wasn't surprised. Why should we be? We all know that when the Lefties can't adduce a rational argument and articulate a coherent point of view they are reduced to name-calling, ad hominem attacks, and smear tactics. By the way, charging "racism" (directly or by implication) has now become the M.O. of the opponents of secure borders. Forget about the social, economic, and national security disasters this has brought us! No! Let's slander our opponents instead of dealing with the facts. These tactics remind me of what one of the defence lawyers in the OJ trial said -- "we not only played the race card but we dealt it from the bottom of the deck."


15 posted on 04/01/2006 5:57:52 PM PST by T.L.Sink (stopew)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Somebody please show this ill informed person what it is really about:

16 posted on 04/01/2006 6:14:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

check out, www.wehategringos.com

They do hate us, and they want a better life, OURS...

question is, are we willing to hand it to them...


17 posted on 04/01/2006 6:15:36 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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