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conservatives worried about US jobs.

What a crock of shit.  It's nothing but opportunism from conservative politicians whose constituents hate brown people.  That the Guardian lacks the balls to call it that is pathetic.

It hasn't a thing to do with jobs.  If anything, kicking out undocumented immigrants means these conservative politicians might have to mow their own fucking lawns.

Let's see that fat, slobbering moron Lou Dobbs get off his ass and pick tomatoes for 50¢ per bag, and then we'll talk about the "illegals stealing 'Murkin jobs".

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Fri Apr 10th, 2009 at 07:12:55 PM EST
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Ho wait. The guardian is a european paper and none of them have shown any ability to translate republican racist code into english any more than the beeb has.

It's not their job. They report on american issues. If you want them to report on american reacism, then amercians have to make an issue

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Apr 10th, 2009 at 07:28:45 PM EST
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No, sorry, not buying it.  There's no "code" to be read.  It's the same garbage that any sane English reporter would've seen coming from the Tories prior to the Torytubby-in-Chief -- back when Howard used to bang on about gypsies and the Poles, etc.  They've got a perfectly good Yank in Tomasky who could make it plain for their reporters in the US.  Hell, you could interview a drunk stumbling out of a strip joint in Vegas on a Sunday night and ask him about the Republicans' position on immigration, and he'd tell you exactly the same thing.

It's not even up to Village levels.  Even Broder isn't that stupid.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Fri Apr 10th, 2009 at 08:10:52 PM EST
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Oh I'm sure they can see it for what it is, however I don't think it's their job to editorialise a condemnation on something over which they have no control. Just remember, the DC correspondent has to go to cocktail parties and eat sausages on a stick with these people.

And all nationalities have issues with foreigners coming over and telling them how or how not to run their country . It's more diplomatic to just say what's happening and leave it at that. If DC reporters start saying, "these guys are a bunch of regional racists" then he can report on that too.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Apr 11th, 2009 at 10:20:16 AM EST
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however I don't think it's their job to editorialise a condemnation on something over which they have no control. Just remember, the DC correspondent has to go to cocktail parties and eat sausages on a stick with these people.

I've never seen the Guardian's DC Bureau Chief on television.  He doesn't seem to be part of the cocktail circuit.  And, in any event, who cares if it affects his (very low) position on the DC Journamalist Totem Pole?

Yours would be an understandable position had he not editorialized to the other end.  Again:

backlash from conservatives worried about US jobs.

Now imagine if this had been about (say) releasing photos or videos of prisoner abuse in Iraq, and imagine he had written, "backlash from conservatives worried about the intelligence community's ability to defend the US," when we all know it would have everything to do with trying to avoid further staining of the Bush administration and the Republican brand.  Would the selection of rationales not constitute outrageous editorializing?

He didn't talk about conservatives "taking the position" or "claiming" or -- most accurately -- "trying to rally their base by selling the position" that this would impact US jobs.  In fact, he didn't even acknowledge the other (and more obvious) motives.  He pumped the conservatives up as Defenders of the Working Man against Those Damned Beaner-Loving Democrats.

It has nothing to do with being diplomatic.  That's a lame cop-out.  Putting things in proper context is not "telling them how or how not to run their country," it's having the necessary integrity to be a responsible journalist, whether you're a citizen of the country you're reporting in or not.

He then goes on to quote Roy Beck -- Roy Fucking Beck -- who is nothing but a Buchananite wacko with ties to the eugenicist and neo-Nazi movements.

Again, even David Broder isn't this stupid.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sat Apr 11th, 2009 at 10:58:39 AM EST
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It's not their job.

Um, excuse me, but this guy is the Guardian's Washington Bureau Chief.  It's not his job?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Fri Apr 10th, 2009 at 08:13:19 PM EST
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