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Since someone is sure to come to this thread to mention illegal immigration, I’ll add this link [Caution.... READ it ALL] where, yet again, a “less-than-friendly” news outlet spills a lot of ink to twist the facts.

First the author has to admit to being called on a lie about Walker and the retraction he had to make. Then he goes forth to “prove” the headline of his attack piece.

Note at the end how the author feels it is necessary to tell you how to interpret Walker’s quoted words - remarkably, he just makes up what he wants to fit his scenario [and headline], when it just isn’t there [a big NOTHING BERGER like the one Professor Beth Lueck is feeding her class].

But there is the headline - which is what people absorb and what other liberal MSM news outlets blindly, dutifully — and if-they-know-what’s-good-for-them — reprint.

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/opinion/2015/02/17/scott-walker-immigration-path-citizenship-wausau-interview-amnesty-border/23558209/

Okay, you brought it up first, so here is what I have a problem with. I did watch the 2013 video in its entirety and I heard the question (ostensibly about Amnesty without saying "Amnesty") where the off-camera person asked [paraphrasing] "...given the right penalties, waiting periods, etc. can you envision a means for these 11 million illegals staying here with eventual citizenship?" Walker's immediate response began with "Sure". Then in the interview with Baier:

BAIER: In 2013, you said you supported a path to citizenship for people living here illegally, but recently you've — WALKER: Actually, I'm glad you asked about that, because the Wausau newspaper erroneously quoted me on that. They listed a video on their website that actually showed that the person who asked the question said that, not me, and ever since then I've had to deal with reports over and over again.

To me this is a half truth and is disingenuous because he answered the question asked affirmatively.

Do not confuse a blanket Band-Aid statement about "against Amnesty..." as an absolute - it depends on what his definition of that is. All he needs to do to get my vote is to conclusively and precisely state that he is against illegals currently in this country to remain here legally, and that as criminals should not be given citizenship. It's that simple.

Amnesty as a word is a contorted convenience among a lot of politicians, and they should be forced to stop using it as a catch-all position for contorted definitions, IMO.

From your link:

"BAIER: In 2013, you said you supported a path to citizenship for people living here illegally, but recently you've —

WALKER: Actually, I'm glad you asked about that, because the Wausau newspaper erroneously quoted me on that. They listed a video on their website that actually showed that the person who asked the question said that, not me, and ever since then I've had to deal with reports over and over again.

BAIER: So that's wrong?

WALKER: That's wrong. It's not what I said. I have said I believe we need a legal immigration system. I have said repeatedly I oppose amnesty. I think we're a nation of immigrants, but we're also a nation of laws. We should have a legal way for people to come into this country either for work or for citizenship, just like we have for generations. Part of that deal is we need to make sure we have a border that's secure, not just for immigration reasons, but as I mentioned, for national security.

I'm "the person who asked the question." Walker is wrong. We have the video to prove it.

First: Daily Herald Media did erroneously characterize one portion of Walker's answer. In the initial news report following that interview, we wrongly claimed Walker had offered an endorsement of the specific comprehensive immigration reform bill then being considered in the U.S. Senate. He hadn't. We got that wrong. We corrected the error swiftly, but we took our lumps for it and we deserved them.

But the bit about endorsing a path to citizenship? Yeah, that definitely happened.

In the interest of transparency, here's the full transcript of the 2013 exchange, which you can also watch in the video above. Emphasis added in a couple of places:

WALKER: If people want to come here and work hard in America, I don't care whether they come from Mexico or Ireland or Germany or South Africa or anywhere else, I want 'em here. To me, if people want to come and live the American dream, if they want to work hard and self-determination and have their kids have a better life, I mean that's what — whether you're folks like my brother's in-laws who immigrated a generation ago from Mexico or whether it's people like my ancestors who came from places like Ireland and Germany and other parts of the world many generations ago, there's a similar pattern there. That is, people who came, who risk a lot, whether it's traveling across an ocean or across a national border."

That doesn't sound very different from my own attitude; Americans by choice rather than accident of birth are frequently the most loyal. Welcome those who come to be one of us; reject those who only visit to use us. And any and all who embrace Islam should be permanently barred.

(Donning flameproofs, NOW)