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On 11/9/04, Victor Huyke, editor of El Conquistador Latino News, a Hispanic newspaper located in Milwaukee, called the Charlie Sykes show to further pile on criticism of Milwaukee talk show host Mark Belling. In the course of his criticism of Belling, Mr. Huyke, who is leading the charge to have Belling fired, off-handedly remarked that the Milwaukee Latino community was not going to allow itself to be treated like a "retarded stepchild who sits in the corner." Sykes immediately called Huyke on this, pointing out that many people are offended by the use of the term "retarded." Huyke did apologize....

Recently, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the Milwaukee Latino community was outraged over conservative talk radio host Mark Belling's use of the term "wetback" to describe illegal aliens who vote illegally. Milwaukee Latinos demanded that Belling be fired. http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/nov04/272200.asp Flash back to July 22, 2002, when the JS reported, in reference to the sexual assault accusations of prominent Latino activist Marilyn Figueroa against then-mayor John O. Norquist, as follows: "Figueroa had claimed she was the victim of an unwanted pursuit by Norquist, who coerced her or physically forced her to have sex multiple times. Norquist has said the relationship...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Monday, April 12, 2004 12:06 p.m. EDT N.Y. Times: Bush Should Have Used Racial Profiling to Prevent 9/11 Don't look now, but the oh so politically correct New York Times has just endorsed racial profiling as a critical tool in fighting the war on terrorism. In fact, says the Times, if only President Bush had ordered airports to use "threat profiling" to screen out suspected Muslim terrorists after receiving a CIA warning in August 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing to hijack U.S. airplanes, the 9/11 attacks might have...

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