Posted on 06/05/2007 5:11:20 PM PDT by chronotrigger
It's been eight weeks since Time magazine redesigned itself, and part of that refurbishment is handing over the "Ten Questions" interview inquiries to the readers instead of Time's reporters. In the June 11 edition, Time's interviewee was Rep. Tom Tancredo, a presidential contender and one of the nation's leading opponents of illegal immigration. Among the questions Time selected for Tancredo was a whopper from Ubaldo Padilla of Oroville, California: "Why do you hate Mexicans?" It wasn't the only snotty question Time picked. There was also James Smith of Phoenix, who asked: "I recently found out my family came from Holland without permission in the 1600s. Should we be sent back?" For the questions: www.time.com
[This item, by Tim Graham, was posted Monday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]
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Since Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel introduced the new format in the March 26 edition, there haven't been any Democrats interviewed. But in the March 12 edition, Time's Massimo Calabresi had ten (mostly softball) questions for Ted Kennedy, one of the nation's leading advocates of an amnesty for illegal immigrants. No one at Time asked him about immigration and why he supposedly hated Americans.
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Go to your local bookstore. Accidently shake out all the subscription cards in the magazines. Drop the litter in the mailbox.
No, sir, it doesn't seem to.
" Look, these people are here illegally, they are not citizens, and they have no business telling those of us who are how to run the country."
Absolutely correct as far as I am concerned. Unfortunately, many of our elected officials are listening to the illegals much more closely than they are listening to you and me. Crazy, huh?
Oh don't worry! Silly you! THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!
Others were literally kidnapped from the sides of icy mountains where they'd been peacefully tending their reindeer and dragged off to a totally undeveloped wilderness for the sole purpose of cutting down trees for use by the Swedish navy.
I bet they, their children, great grand children, and so on down through the generations were quite proud of their survival and how they tamed the land and made it habitable.
By the time they got to the 1700s their settlements were overrun by bizarre people who spoke a strange language; who worshipped God according to unusual rituals, and whose main ambition was to make money.
They had to move far to the West to escape the foreign devils.
Except for George Washington's family, and maybe the Lee's, we'd probably be ahead of things if we could ship 'em all back where they came from.
Interesting post, since most Hispanics are devout Catholics, and also pro-life.
Not sure what your intent was...
“Time selected for Tancredo was a whopper from Ubaldo Padilla of Oroville, California: “Why do you hate Mexicans?” It wasn’t the only snotty question Time picked.”
Dear TIME Editors,
Some questions for you:
When did you stop beating your collective wives with claw hammers?
Why are you secret members of the international pedophile-communist-baby-eating conspiracy?
Why do you hate Americans?
Hmmm 1840’s to 1850’s, that is only a decade before what? Oh yeah THE CIVIL WAR! You sir are a rocket surgeon.
Go back more than a few hundred years and you’ll see that the ‘immigrants’ DECIMATED the Roman Empire. Have you ever heard of the phrase “The Barbarians at the gates”? That is exactly what can happen here without our vigilance.
We didn’t have SSI, Medicare, FREE schooling, etc... for the illegal Irish, Germans, etc to milk from in the 1850’s.
We didn’t have 30% of the illegal immigrant population in prison in the 1850’s.
I could keep going, but I digress...for now.
Have the editors at Time stopped beating their wives yet?
Dissing the Pilgrims, huh?
-PJ
And yes, these illegal immigrants will change our society. By and large, they are uneducated--many do not even read Spanish. One more thing: do a search on the word "reconquista"
How many billions of dollars more should we spend to have so much printed twice--even down to our voting ballots? This was not done for other large groups of immigrants--not the Irish, or anyone else.
My mother is Mexican. Born and raised in California. I remember her complaining about the illegals when I was growing up.
Sorry, I'm going to have to call BS on this one. Hispanics don't make up for anywhere near 30 percent of the prison population in the US, and to say that 30 percent of illegal aliens are in jail is patently ridiculous - especially if you buy into the numbers that are supposed to be here.
So, no matter which way you meant it, it seems to be patently false.
Feel free to clarify, and then please back it up with a credible link.
No. Just you James. For asking a stupid question.
This is a ridiculous post. Past German immigration and irish immigration caused some problems - a lot less with Germans who once they learned the language caused few problems, mass Irish immigration into American cities caused problems - read up on the New York City irish draft riots (Blacks targeted for murder), yeah we came through it OK, but there were major policy changes made to address real problems (crime, public health, political corruption through block ethnic Machine Democrat parties).
Mass immigration now from rural Mexico and especially Central America caused huge problems for America. No amount of propaganda name calling (”You’re a RACIST, KNOW NOTHING”) is going to get Americans to accept the lie that North American Anglo culture is the same as the culture from war torn Nicaragua, El Salvador. Think East LA is a nice “American” place to live now? Few Americans do.
Also, note that Mexico has very strict laws and policies for people who want to come into Mexico, Mexico has armed troops on its Southern border with Guatemala - invading illegal aliens trying to sneak in to Mexico face Mexican troops who will shoot the invaders.
OK, so enough spins, propaganda. Mass immigration in the age after 9/11/01 is opposed by most Americans. It is just common sense.
stoptheamnesty.com
Immigration is not the issue.
Illegal immigration is an entirely different matter.
The immigrants from Europe came through one portal, did they not? And they were screened. Controlled entry into this country.
The argument that the immigrants will some how “destroy the Republic” or “Demographics are fate” are pure nativist rantings.
By that statement, I have to ask if you are thinking that there will be no impact on Social Security, the health care system (which has already been over-run by THEIR numbers), the education system.....with the additional burden of 20 million INSTANT citizens. Followed closely by all of their relatives.
Seems like a good way to "Destroy the Republic" to me.
There is utterly no evidence that Hispanic Immigrants will do any such thing. Anymore then the Germans, the Jews, the Irish, the Blacks, the Chinese, the Japanese et al did.
Of course there is no evidence (duh!) - we have never let something of this scale happen before!
Most of the Hispanics I meet, or served with in the US Military, are descent hard working respectable people.
Ditto from me. Your circle of friends is obviously very much larger than mine. Like 20 million.
They all on your Christmas card list, too?
Average voters see the same thing in their daily lives in the Hispanics and they are going to dismiss the sorts of over the top rantings Tancredo engages in as the mindless drivel of either a bigot or nut case.
Sorry, Johnnie, Tancredo is not the one spouting "mindless drivel"
Time Magazine, why do you hate America?
this should become a T-shirt
“I recently found out my family came from Holland without permission in the 1600s. Should we be sent back?”
Since there was no one around to give or withhold permission, I would say no.
You are just about the last person who should be advising anyone to avoid "the more emotional, over blown rhetoric".
You are one of the worst, if not the worst, offender of that advice on FR, Johnnie.
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