Dallas Morning News names “illegal immigrant” the 2007 “Texan of the year”

MIchell Malkin Blog ^ | 12/30/2007 | Michell Malkin

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

The Sunday edition of the Dallas Morning News carries a lengthy lead editorial extolling the “illegal immigrant” as the 2007 “Texan of the Year.” The full piece is here. (hat tip - Freedom Folks and MM.com readers). I’ll cut to the chase and give you the paper’s rather underwhelming, “on the one hand, on the other hand, time will tell” ending:

"If critics are correct, we could be seeing the advent of the kind of fractiousness that bedevils public life in Canada and other nations where peoples who speak different languages, and come from different cultural backgrounds, live together only with mutual suspicion and unease.

On the other hand, perhaps the alarmists are wrong. Maybe these ambitious, hard-working immigrants, whatever their documentation, will write the next great chapter of a story that’s still deeply American, though with a different accent. If the optimists are right, much work remains to be done to incorporate all immigrants fully into new cultural traditions.

We end 2007 no closer to compromise on the issue than when the year began. People waging a culture war – and that’s what the struggle over illegal immigration is – don’t give up easily. What you think of the illegal immigrant says a lot about what you think of America, and what vision of her you are willing to defend. How we deal with the stranger among us says not only who we Americans are today but determines who we will become tomorrow...."

[KarenMarie]

Reading that made my stomach sick.

Especially the link to his blog where he repeatedly tries to justify his article.

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/

[Red6]

You could have said it in Spanish.

[MinuteGal]

Most excellent letter, my dear tbw2.

YOU should be named 2007 "Texan of the Year".

Leni

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Thanks for that link. You're right....they just twist themselves into more contortions.

I realize it's just an attention-getting device. Funny how these people never pick a controversial conservative (say Ann Coulter) as their "person of the year," and then justify it by saying, "well, it's for better or worse."

Hank

[huldah1776]

I heard it was safer to travel Texas in a rental car than your own.

[AuntB]

UPDATE

95% Respond Negatively to Illegal Immigrant as Texan of the Year

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/01/07/95-respond-negatively-illegal-immigrant-texan-
Published: Jan 7, 2008

On December 30, NewsBusters voiced its displeasure with the Dallas Morning News naming the illegal immigrant as its 2007 Texan of the Year.

As it turns out, Morning News readers were just as offended.

In fact, according to Saturday’s “Ask the Editor” piece on the subject, 95 percent of readers that sent in letters or e-mail messages were highly negative about the paper’s choice [snip]