March 07, 2006

Morton Kondracke on illegal immigration

Morton Kondracke appeared on Hugh Hewitt's show on Sunday, and it was a true Bushgasm of Bush-o-mania. They briefly discussed illegal immigration, and as could be expected Kondracke was his clueless best:

...I mean, he's got to come back here and do one of the biggest education jobs that any president's ever done. I mean, to turn around, this is all...this is a nexus of nativism, is what this is. This is...you know, you take a guy like Duncan Hunter from your territory out there. He's a dyed in the wool nativist, and he's been against Mexican immigration forever and ever and ever. And a bunch of Arabs, a bunch of Mexicans, he doesn't know the difference. And he...it's just no, no, no. And it's all this kind of stuff, and the radio talk show hosts have been bellowing about our borders are insecure, and Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity, and these people have been bellowing like crazy for so long, and it all fits into the same thing. And Bush has got to come back and deal with that. And I don't know if he can.

Hugh goes on to slightly stand up for our immigration laws, something that puts him perilously close to slightly disagreeing with Our Leader.

The link is there in the transcript. Note that John & Ken get around a magnitude more listeners than Hugh does. Perhaps that should be a clue.

Posted to Immigration at March 7, 2006 12:56 AM

Comments

I'd like to trade houses with Mort for a month. I'm sure he has a nice upscale DC mansion, and he could experience illegal immigration at my house in a fresh, hands-on way. I'll bet no illegal immigrants live near him or walk by his house with stolen shopping carts, dropping garbage along the way, openly have yard sales with 10 (stolen) bikes, or sell stolen fruit/homemade tamales stacked in other stolen shopping carts. I'll bet his neighbors take care of their houses and look out for each other.

After he's lived at my house for a while, he can comment on "nativism" and not before.

Posted by: Pat at March 7, 2006 08:48 AM

I'm proud to be part of the nattering nexus of nativism.

To second Pat's observation, Morty loves the idea of Mexican immigrants, but would never live among any real live ones.

This is true of most pro-immigrationists.

Morty once wrote “It would be a lot easier if each of us were related to someone of another color and if, eventually, we were all one color”. It turns out he wasn't including himself in that statement, either.

Posted by: Carter at March 8, 2006 10:11 PM