Miserable MEChA Coverage (Blasts Mainstream Media)

US News & World Report ^ | Sept. 8, 2003 | John Leo

[jmstein7]

Science & Society 9/15/03

By John Leo

Ignoring radical racialism

The mainstream press has been doing a miserable job covering Cruz Bustamante's ties to the creepy Chicano secessionist group MEChA. This may not be the biggest story of the California recall election, but voters surely have a right to expect some actual information about the leading Democratic candidate's views of a group that is certainly racialist, if not racist.

[More in actual article]

[jmstein7]

Does anybody know if this is in the print version?

[tallhappy]

See Frank del Olmo's sunday LA Times article on the Op-Ed page.

A real whitewash.

Too disingenuous.

[joesnuffy]

Any group that is anti American and anti anglo is A OK with the press...academics media and about half the population- imo
The America of our forefathers has been sold down the tubes

[Plutarch]

...certainly racialist, if not racist

Oh, there are fine distinctions to be drawn are there? At least when Democrats are the perps.

[onedoug]

Even Democrats hold Republicans to the higher standard.

[My2Cents]

I like this comment:

As if the Nazi-like call to the power of blood isn't scary enough, Miguel Perez of Cal State-Northridge's MEChA raised the issue of ethnic cleansing. Once Aztlan has been taken over, he said, non-Chicanos "would have to be expelled" and opposition groups quashed "because you have to keep the power."

Gee, if they engage in ethnic cleansing, do you think President Hillary Clinton will call for NATO airstrikes on key Aztlan targets?

[pabianice]

Foolish conservative! Don't you know Leftists cannot be racist?

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[CatoRenasci]

You're right.

I knew MeChA and some of its leaders at UC Santa Barbara starting in 1970. I covered some MeChA events, among other things, for the campus radio station. I found the rhetoric pretty scary at the time, but most of the members, even leaders, were just affirmative action admits using the group solidarity to cope with the academic shock of UC.

My most striking memory was of a Cinco de Mayo celebration that went on into the evening amid lots of beer and pot. I was sitting with a group in which one of the leaders was going on about solidarity with blacks. His brother (a draftee) was also their on leave from the Army. As the leader went on, his brother essentially told him off: I don't remember the exact words, but the essence was that if Chicanos had to choose sides between the whites and blacks, they would choose the white side regardless of what the radicls thought, and that his brother was 'loco' if he didn't realize Chicanos were better off in white America than messing around with radical BS. All but a few of the large group cheered the brother on. The leader and some of the radicals were very quiet after that. He later said to me something like 'ya know, my brother's a pretty savy guy, I gotta think about what he said.'

[Nachum]

Sounds pretty stupid to me. I am not sure whether to be worried about it or to laugh at it. In any event, it doesn't sound like any of this nonsense belongs on high school or college campuses. At the very least, it is all a waste of time, and at the worst it is destructive on a number of levels.

OK, so let's see if I have all this straight. Bustamante was probably a pot head, Shwartznegger was a steroid taker and womanizer, and McClintock was a boyscout.

Now I have to figure out who to vote for.... Is this a trick question?

[maica]

main·stream   
n.
The prevailing current of thought, influence, or activity: “You need not accept the nominee's ideology, only be able to locate it in the American mainstream” (Charles Krauthammer).

adj.
Representing the prevalent attitudes, values, and practices of a society or group: mainstream morality.

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I am starting a campaign to reclaim the word "mainstream." The media outlets that are skewed to the left do not represent "the prevalent attitudes, values, and practices of a society."

In this definition, "mainstream" Americans 'R us, and we should start saying so. We have allowed lefties/socialists to control our language for far too long.

We defeat ourselves when we continue to concede that we are somehow fringe and leftists are centered on the political spectrum.


We could say "Big Media" as in "Big Oil."

I also refuse to call non-conservatives 'liberal,' because they have perverted the true meaning of that word. they are the opposite of liberal in their authoritarian (thought control) attitudes.

[backhoe]

-Bustamante Busted? MEChA ties, and more--

[TeleStraightShooter]

I uncomfortable with the concept of a California governor who is a

Nationalistic
Socalist

Who thinks it's good public policy to determine the national heratige of each citizen {legal or not}
for the purpose of.................

[EUPHORIC]

We know what "MECHA" has to say. This is going around on the net and should serve as a response to "MECHA":