Los Angeles Times

Summary (posts follow):

Forever condemned to live in the shadow of what they think of as a real newspaper, the New York Times. Frequently lies or misleads, especially about immigration matters. Has a long-term habit of covering up for L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; they even continued covering up for his involvement in the radical group MEChA after he'd partly renounced that group.

Last modified Dec 17, 2008

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Jon Henke: Sarah Palin's "death panels" are a "cartoon" (Peter Wallsten on GOP's quest for acceptance, respectability) - 9/14/2009

Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times - the reporter who refused to release the Obama/Khalidi tape (also here) - gleefully offers "Some fear GOP is being carried to the extreme/The Republican establishment hopes cooler heads will prevail over strongly anti-Obama parts of the conservative base" (link). In this case, Wallsten is what's called a "concern troll", and he'...

Irony deficient Christopher Knight of LAT: "Glenn Beck's '9-12' logo based on communist and socialist designs" - 9/14/2009

Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times offers "Glenn Beck's '9-12' logo based on communist and socialist designs" (link), a hilarious example of someone - in this case some sort of art critic - just not getting the joke. His shocking news is that the logo used for 9/12's march on Washington was lifted from Communist symbols. That's obvious, and it was intent...

Sources for DHS rightwing extremism report: ADL, SPLC, NYT, LAT, Dave Weigel... - 8/12/2009

A group called Americans for Limited Government filed a FOIA request to get the sources that the Department of Homeland Security used in the "rightwing extremist" report that came out earlier this year. The government has responded with a list that includes some questionable to very questionable internet sources rather than, for instance, actual FBI investigations and the like. Per the g...

Creeping condominium: L.A. Mexican consulate working with governments, non-profits (Anna Gorman) - 7/23/2009

... that in mind, Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times offers "Mexican Consulate in L.A. takes proactive role in guiding immigrants to social services" (link): the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles has become an almost de facto public agency in recent years, forming partnerships with government officials and nonprofits here to provide healthcare, offer mental health counseling, fight labor v...

Thomas Saenz: new president of MALDEF (Villaraigosa, Obama's DOJ, support for illegal immigration) - 7/16/2009

... immigration. Per Phil Willon of the Los Angeles Times (link): Among his priorities as head of the Latino civil rights organization, Saenz said, is ensuring that all children have equal access to a quality public education. The fund also will continue to combat anti-illegal immigrant sentiment that has been on the rise in some parts of the country. He said comprehensive immigration reform is a cri...

Tea Parties for July 4th: locations, live coverage for Independence Day - 7/03/2009

... wouldn't have gone. However, Los Angeles Times columnist Chris Erskine did (link). It's not a complete hit piece, but he's obviously not sympathetic to their concerns (nor much am I): In such a climate, it strikes me as . . . well, almost un-American to be griping so vehemently about helping those less fortunate. Were this a war, we'd all dig a little deeper to buy guns and ba...

Kamala Harris program "trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn't legally hold" - 6/22/2009

... crime. Not only that, but even the Los Angeles Times offers "San Francisco D.A.'s program trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn't legally hold/As she runs for state attorney general, prosecutor Kamala Harris faces questions over a program that trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs, kept them out of jail and expunged their records" (by Michael Finnegan, link)...

Patrick McDonnell /LAT ignores plight of American workers; fails to note Schey's Mexico links; fails to call UFCW on corruption - 6/12/2009

Patrick McDonnell of the Los Angeles Times offers "Computer 'raid' in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated" (link) about a "desktop" immigration raid at Overhill Farms in Vernon. The company was informed that 260 of their workers had problems with their Social Security numbers and they gave those employees 30 days in which to correct the problems. Not a single one...

300,000 new, taxation-friendly citizens in California, thanks to the GOP helping the Dems import new voters - 5/11/2009

Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times offers "Naturalized citizens are poised to reshape California's political landscape" (link): More than 1 million immigrants became U.S. citizens last year, the largest surge in history, hastening the ethnic transformation of California's political landscape with more Latinos and Asians now eligible to vote... Leading the wave, California...

Obama immigration budget: does a McCain: border security, then amnesty; fulfills promise to Mexican government; worried about southbound flows - 5/06/2009

... Gorman and Peter Nicholas of the Los Angeles Times; link): President Obama will ask Congress for $27 billion for border and transportation security in the next budget year, fulfilling a promise to the Mexican government to battle the southbound flow of illegal weapons and setting the stage for immigration reform by first addressing enforcement, administration officials said Tuesday. While some of...

Alejandro Mayorkas lobbied for commutation for drug dealer (Clinton) - 5/01/2009

Josh Meyer of the Los Angeles Times looks into the background of Alejandro Mayorkas - recently nominated to head the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) - here. For an unknown reason, they aren't trying to completely sugarcoat his past, subheding the article "The former U.S. attorney played a role in a 2001 decision by President Clinton to commute a drug dealer's prison...

Rosa Brooks to Pentagon; CFR, Soros; her Darwinistic, anti-American immigration policy; journalism bailout - 4/09/2009

Former Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks is going through the revolving door again, this time to be an advisor at the Defense Department, specifically to Michele Flournoy the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. There's a lot about her not to like; here's just some of it: 1. She was affiliated with George Soros' Open Society Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. 2. ...

Johanna Neuman /LAT "speechless" about Asian name normalization to avoid confusion - 4/09/2009

Johanna Neuman of the Los Angeles Times offers "As Obama tackles immigration, Texas legislator suggests immigrants Americanize names" (link). The first part of it discusses the New York Times article about Obama pushing immigration "reform". I'll tell you something she didn't tell you about that. The second part concerns a suggestion that Asian-Americans normalize the...

DOJ nominee Thomas Perez pushed driver's licenses for illegal aliens when president of CASA - 4/06/2009

Paul West of the Los Angeles Times offers "Obama's civil rights nominee should be ready for a fight" (link) about Thomas Perez, the Maryland labor secretary who was nominated to head the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. Among other things, it contains this: Immigration is a minor responsibility for the division's lawyers, but the topic is likely to be a focus...

Census worker sign: "Yes we can! 2010 census." (highly politicized Los Angeles office) - 4/06/2009

Ari Bloomekatz of the Los Angeles Times offers this blurb: "The census is here!" shouted Esther Cepeda, manager of the local census office downtown. Music played and employees carried signs that read: "The census, coming to your neighborhood" and "Yes we can! 2010 census." "Yes we can" was, of course, one of Barack Obama's campaign slogans, and he took ...

Soros-funded Democratic immigration push might ditch business interests - 3/28/2009

According to Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times, unspecified immigration groups will be making a push for comprehensive immigration reform this fall that would see the Democrats try to get it on their own without bringing business interests into their big, crooked tent: link (See also last month's "Hilda Solis to prefer labor enforcement to immigration enforcement?") Under thei...

"Bank on Los Angeles": city helps corrupt banks profit from illegal activity - 3/25/2009

The City of Los Angeles recently announced a new public-private partnership called "Bank on Los Angeles" (bankonla.com) that's designed to help 10,000 low-income residents who don't have bank accounts ("the unbanked") open up accounts. It's also open to illegal aliens [1], and that means that Los Angeles City will be encouraging corruption by helping major banks ...

Patt Morrison's greatest journalistic accomplishment: getting a thrift shop to change their name (Sarah Palin) - 2/15/2009

... small-minded. Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times has no such compunctions (huffingtonpost.com/patt-morrison/sarah-palin-finally-gets_b_166966.html): I am proud to say that in my blog here and at the Los Angeles Times, I busted the Alaska shop's chops, right after Palin said it was her favorite boutique. The next day, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, citing Palin's remarks and my post...

Jamie Gold can't see problem with recent Los Angeles Times pro-illegal immigration propaganda - 2/08/2009

... this month, Jason Song of the Los Angeles Times offered a pro-illegal immigration propaganda piece called "For an illegal immigrant, getting into UCLA was the easy part". It generated a few hundred emails from their readers, and now Jamie Gold - that paper's feckless "Readers Representative" - offers an round-up of reaction where she can't find anything wrong (link)....

Jason Song/LAT promotes illegal alien taking UCLA education from a U.S. citizen - 2/03/2009

Jason Song of the Los Angeles Times offers "For an illegal immigrant, getting into UCLA was the easy part" (link), a PIIPP-like story of a woefully unprepared illegal alien's trials and tribulations raising money to attend that school. It has some of the components of other PIIPPs, such as her worries about no one being willing to hire her for her chosen profession after she graduat...

George Skelton: illegal aliens are a drain on California, so let's legalize them - 2/02/2009

George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times offers "Illegal immigrants are a factor in California's budget math" (link). On the one hand, it takes a tremendous amount of courage to get some truth into the LAT's pages, in this case his number-crunching which concludes that "the state spends well over $5 billion a year on illegal immigrants and their families." That include...

Luis Gutierrez: Obama told me to tell you he supports immigration "reform"; amnesty supporters heartened - 12/19/2008

Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times offers "Immigration-overhaul supporters hope their hour has come/With Obama in office, a sympathetic Cabinet and more Democrats in Congress, supporters hope to revive a reform package next year. But the economic downturn sparks worry about protecting U.S. workers" (link). She quotes various "immigrant advocates" who think that the Obama ...

Jesse Washington/AP's supposed "outbreak of racial anger" after Obama win - 11/16/2008

... continues, as Howard Witt of the Los Angeles Times offers the same article as those above: "White extremists lash out over election of first black president", link. It also quotes Potok, and it would be interesting to know whether Potok reached out to those "reporters" or whether they reached out to him. 11/23/08 UPDATE 3: You have to give it to Potok, he's able to get a ...

Because of immigration, Democrats think Texas, Georgia, and Arizona might turn blue (Peter Wallsten/LAT) - 11/10/2008

Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times offers "Democrats set sights on Texas" (link): Texas is one of several reliably red states that are now in Democrats' sights as party strategists begin to analyze a victorious 2008 campaign that they believe showed the contours of a new movement that could grow and prove long-lasting. A major shift in the Latino vote took place in Florida ...

How to get the Khalidi tape (or at least make Obama look bad) - 10/30/2008

... Rashid Khalidi videotape that the Los Angeles Times refuses to release? OK, then here's how to either get the videotape, or at least make Obama look bad: ask Obama to help get the tape released. No, really: go to an Obama appearance and ask him this question: When will you be calling on anyone who has a copy of the Khalidi videotape to make it publicly available? If you won't be issuing...

Los Angeles Times: McCain camp accuses us of suppressing Obama/Khalidi tape - 10/28/2008

An unnamed Los Angeles Times staff reporter offers "McCain campaign accuses L.A. Times of 'suppressing' Obama video" (link): John McCain's presidential campaign Tuesday accused the Los Angeles Times of "intentionally suppressing" a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet where then-state Sen.

Peter Wallsten/LAT refuses to release Barack Obama/Rashid Khalidi videotape - 10/24/2008

... 10, 2008, Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times offered "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama" (link), about Barack Obama's friendship with Rashid Khalidi, an "internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights". Per Wallsten: the warm embrace Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the professor's going-away ...

Endorsement: Barack Obama for President - 10/17/2008

I'm sure you're as shocked as I am that I'm coming out in support of Barack Obama. However, after reviewing this blog's postings for the past couple of years, I've come to the sudden realization that I've been on the wrong track. Now, I am officially on the right track. I am on the track for Obama! I deeply regret all the lies I've told about Obama. Now, I pledge...

Mitch Weiss,Jeffrey Collins/AP intro new immigration article device: the Sympathetic Victim/Representative - 10/08/2008

In the past there were PIIPPs. Now, a growing number of articles about immigration raids and the like are employing a device that I'll henceforth refer to as the use of SVRs: the "Sympathetic Victim/Representative". When an immigration raid occurs, instead of interviewing the local residents who saw their wages decline, hack reporters turn to one of the "victims" of the ra...

1150+ arrested in SoCal immigration fugitive sweeps - 9/29/2008

From this: U.S. immigration authorities said Monday they arrested more than 1,150 people in California in a three-week sweep, the state's largest of its type since since 2003. The sweep targeted immigration violators including those who have ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported... [U.S.

Nicole Gaouette/LAT: leftwing groups on the "lookout for immigration raids" - 9/14/2008

Criminal enterprises that have fixed locations usually employ lookouts in the neighborhood where they operate who warn them of impending police raids and they frequently pay off local officials or cops.

Miguel Bustillo,Richard Fausset/LAT confused about legal vs. illegal workers (Howard Industries raid) - 9/02/2008

Last week, Howard Industries in Louisiana was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement; as the raid was happening the legal workers at the plant reportedly cheered ICE, and the raid was initiated by a complaint from a union worker. Needless to say, such cannot stand to those who support illegal immigration.

Los Angeles may "require" home improvement stores to have day laborer centers - 8/14/2008

Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times offers "L.A.

CDC: increased TB due to immigration; others: tropical diseases due to immigrants, others - 7/23/2008

From the AP as printed in the Washington Post (link): Tuberculosis cases continue to fall in the United States, but some immigrants have disturbingly high rates of the disease, according to a study released Tuesday that called for more aggressive action... TB rates were highest among residents from lower Africa and parts of Southeast Asia.

John Trasvina of MALDEF lists his demands - 7/20/2008

... Congreso, Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times says: John Trasvina, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund [MALDEF], said he wanted to see

Obama gives interview to Access Hollywood; MSM pretends they do real reporting - 7/08/2008

Barack Obama gave an interview to Access Hollywood over the weekend, which was shown on their show as well as the Today Show.

Lou Dobbs not running for governor of New Jersey "right now"; Frank Sharry starts fake site; Nicole Gaoutte/LAT promotes - 6/13/2008

Lou Dobbs is rumored to be considering running for governor of New Jersey, but in a voice mail message to an NJ newspaper he denied it (link). Note, however, that he said he wasn't "considering anything right now", so that might change.

Mexico-linked Peter Schey sues over immigration raid; Anna Gorman/LAT fails to note his links - 4/26/2008

Immigration lawyer Peter Schey of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law is suing the feds over a recent immigration raid in Van Nuys, California.

AVWatch: Antonio Villaraigosa complains to Michael Chertoff about ICE raids - 4/10/2008

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - a former leader of the racial separatist group MEChA - has sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking him to back off on recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the city.

"Under the Same Moon": Mexican-government funded pro-illegal immigration propaganda film - 3/15/2008

... (Nickelodeon). UPDATE: Reed Johnson of the Los Angeles Times offers a review in "Latino immigrants and their northern exposure" (link), and, yes, it's about what you'd expect coming from the LAT. He refers to the INS, an agency that hasn't existed for about five years. And, only on the second screen are we informed about the Mexican government link: Shot mostly in and aro...

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