'30 Days': The Minutemen meet reality TV

Orange County Register ^ | July 23, 2006 | AMY TAXIN

[LNewman]

Living la vida illegal.

[cripplecreek]

I smell a bash fest.

[aft_lizard]

I wont even bother to watch,the show reaks of liberalism and I havent seen it yet. It sounds like a watch the mean ol minuteman get hs kermuffin's and have his moment of enlightenment and stop being a minuteman.

Besides what minuteman in his right mind would agree to accomplice an illegal?

[LdSentinal]

Spurlock is a liberal douchebag.

[finallyatexan]

I agree with you - I even turn the channel when the commercial comes on -

[Bommer]

Might as well name it "The DNC Hour". Every liberal crap topic is addressed via Moore-on Spurlock. Hack TV worth avoiding!

[cripplecreek]

I am kind of curious about why Spurlock would choose a hispanic "minuteman". It runs counter to the usual liberal belief that the minutemen are racists.

I suppose it's possible that Spurlock is among the many liberals who have chosen to oppose illegal immigration. (Not going to hold my breath) I'll check out the first show and see where it leads.

[aft_lizard]

godspeed and goodluck, if its bad dont forget to disinfect.

[Altura Ct.]

This really bothers me. Do people really think that "Reality TV" is real? Why in the world would you appear on a contrived TV show such as this? Do you think that at the end of the show that emotions and sympathy won't be with the illegals? Are you a fool or stupid?

[LNewman]

I consider reality a lot less painful than sitting through "reality" programming. I've yet to watch a full one yet.

I figure the illegals did it for daughter's college tuition (per the article, she wants to be the first in her family to attend).

[mthom]

My guess is that the one Minuteman brave or stupid enough to walk into this obvious trap just happened to be a hispanic guy.

[JimRed]

I am kind of curious about why Spurlock would choose a hispanic "minuteman".

Practical reasons, maybe? A Cuban immigrant and native Spanish speaker would be better able to communicate with the typical illegal. But how do we know the "illegals" are not actors?

[NewRomeTacitus]

I watched the episode about the Baptist living among the Muslims for a month. He ended up reaffirming his faith in the Christian God while stating that it's a shame some basically good people are following the path to damnation.

Whetever Spurlock paid him to put up with that couldn't have been enough.

[World_Events]

I believe the guy is from Cuba, but he doesn't look "hispanic" the way we perceive them to look as in southern california. His name is frank george, a decidedly UN hispanic sur name.

[TLI]

But how do we know the "illegals" are not actors?

From what Frank sez, it was all on the up and up. No actors.

[TLI]

18 minutes to showtime ping

[TLI]

12 Minute to showtime ping

[Vision]

They show the minutemen as having automatic rifles. /rolling eyes

[TLI]

SHOWTIME!

[NewRomeTacitus]

Already bothered that Spurlock called the Minutemen "vigilantes" without defining the term. Oh snap! - The hosting alien just perpetuated the lie that he's doing the work we won't do. I'm going for sedation...

Dear gub & Hi: please ping this again and tell the folks that FX is immediately repeating this episode.