Posted on 05/23/2010 11:39:01 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Forwarding moral equivalence, ABC News veteran Sam Donaldson, on This Week, defended Mexican President Felipe Calderon for using a speech before Congress to criticize Arizona, by reminding viewers: “President Bill Clinton went to the Great Hall of the People and when Jiang Zemin was President of China. I heard President Clinton say, ‘what you did in Tiananmen Square was wrong.’ He lectured. We all said, that's terrific because it was the ox being gored on the other side.” After all, Donaldson contended, “he said what a lot of Americans are also saying, that that Arizona law is discriminatory.”
Host Jake Tapper pointed out “that law is actually supported by a majority of Americans” and expressed bewilderment at Donaldson’s reasoning: “I can't believe that you're actually comparing it to Tiananmen Square, right? I mean, you’re not?” Donaldson assured Tapper “I’m not comparing a massacre in Tiananmen Square to what’s happening in Arizona. But you raised the subject of having someone come to another country and lecture them.”
Instead of backing off, fellow ABC News vet Cokie Roberts, who used to co-host This Week with Donaldson, reaffirmed his point: “Our Presidents certainly do it. Israel about settlements. You know, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’”
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No other country on Earth has benefited Mexico like we have, and they stoop to find a moral equivalency with Red Chinese!
I wish Mexico would vanish from the face of the Earth, and California would go along with it!
neither of which occurred before the legislatures of the Knesset or Kremlin.
Please don't forget about New York, I mean if you're gonna throw away the trash might as well get rid of it all.
Note to Sam: THEY WERE RUNNING PEOPLE OVER WITH TANKS.
Bit of a difference, wouldn’t you say???
Good God.
The problem is Mexican President Felipe Calderon lied about the content of the Arizona law.
They’re pandering elitist Anglos who’s only concern for Latinos is making sure they have jobs trimming their hedges and cleaning their toilets.
You forgot building houses, cleaning pools, and picking vegetables
I was actually speaking specifically re Sammy and Cokie . . .making sure THEY are taken care of with cheap dirty labor
They are correct. When Obama goes to Israel and buts his nose in or Clinton runs his mouth the precedent has been set....
This does not negate Calderon’s hypocrisy on the matter of illegals though
What a bunch of Morons.
Liberals are so irony challenged. People in Mexico are fleeing towards the oppressive and racist country to their North and here we are trying to save them from making that terrible mistake.
The US is an awful country, Calderon said so, listen to him.
Please.
The point is: Mexico treats illegals much worse than Arizona. We have no equivalent recent example of Tianamen— not even Kent State compares. Oh, and “Mr. Gorbschev, tear down this wall!” was spoken in West Berlin- not Moscow....
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