Posted on 07/16/2010 9:27:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
On the Washington Airwaves, Tito Muñoz Fine-Tunes A Conservative Latino Voice
Tito Muñoz takes to the airwaves He is the voice and the irrepressible personality of a new effort by some local conservative Latinos to claim a little more bandwidth in the political conversation taking place in Spanish.
David Montgomery July 17, 2010
When last we heard from Tito Muñoz, he was onstage with Sarah Palin at a rally in Leesburg in the waning days of the 2008 presidential campaign, a burly guy in a yellow hard hat, trying to bellow some life into the GOP ticket.
Speaking up for his 'America' on the air Tito Muñoz takes to the airwaves "Good morning, Virginia!" he boomed. "You can call me Tito the Builder!" Palin worked him into her stump speeches, this Latino Joe the Plumber who, she liked to say, "was born in Colombia but made in the U.S.A.!"
On a recent Saturday morning, Muñoz has exchanged his boots and tool belt for a pressed shirt and slacks. He squeezes behind a microphone in a small radio studio in Laurel. He clears space on the table for a pile of books and essays, including "The Constitutional Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson," "César Chávez Against Illegals," "Hispanics in American Wars" and Spanish translations of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
It's minutes to airtime for his debut as Tito the Radio Host. He's a little frantic. "Can I have the questions, Mama?" he says to Deborah, his wife. "Where are my glasses?"
They are on his head.
He orders the engineer to cue up his theme song, "America," by the late Nino Bravo, with the chorus, in Spanish: "When God made Eden he thought of America."
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Does he Stand With Arizona?
I wish we could get him in Florida. One thing that nobody takes into account is that the Latin Americans who have come here, by the very fact of coming here, have an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea of building their own business is something they find very attractive, and conservatives should capitalize on this. Of course, as economic liberty shuts down here, I guess that’s going to be one less attraction...
As for immigration, he is right in saying that this is just one issue in conservativism and that it is being manipulated by the Dems. I think there are also some evil influences (see under “White House”) whipping up anti-Latin American sentiment just to portray conservatives in a bad light and also to make sure that Latin American immigrants don’t even think about voting anything but Dem.
I think a certain group of people on the right have unfortunately cast the whole immigration issue in terms of their irrational hatred of Hispanics. There are many, many other illegals here, and if you don’t live in a border state or in certain cities, you may actually not even see many Latin American immigrants, legal or illegal.
There are naturally going to be more in general because Mexico is right next door, whereas it’s a little harder to arrange the trip from Somalia, Southeast Asia or the Balkans (all of them still manage to produce illegal immigrants, and among the legal ones, many were brought here by the US government and put directly on welfare). But the issue goes beyond one ethnic group, and I think if it could be refocused to eliminate the hatred expressed by some, we might be able to make progress on it.
Actually, forget that. Now that Obama’s in the White Hut, there’s not going to be a good resolution to the issue.
No reason a local station couldn’t pick him up.
As long as Democrats are able to offer affirmative-action preferences to ‘Hispanics’ the Republicans aren’t winning them over, on average.
Maryland PING!
Maybe a new voice at WMAL??
Sounds like a possibility, although right now, it sounds like he might be doing a Spanish-language show for Merlin’s abundant Latino community.
But, he’s not MEXICAN.
Aren’t alot of your “Latins” from Cuba, though? That is a big influence in why they are “entreprenurial”. They know about pure communism (which is also called what it is). They seem different from most of the other Latins, more likely to be “conservative” in every way.
Ping!
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