Obama calls out Dobbs and Limbaugh- May 27, 2008 -- by DaveWell, we've been saying it here for awhile now, but recently, Barack Obama said it too:At a fundraiser in Florida Thursday night, Barack Obama accused anti-immigrant crusaders Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh of "ginning things up" to such an extent that there was a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics last year."A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year," Obama said. "If you have people...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-calls-out-dobbs-and-limbaugh.html Refuting Goldberg- May 27, 2008 -- by DaveLast week I made a trip up to Bellingham to provide a counter-event for local folks in Whatcom County, since Jonah Goldberg was gracing them with his presence to promote Liberal Fascism. It was a fun (if lightly attended) event that gave me a chance to explain what's wrong with Jonah to ordinary folks.The Bellingham Herald posted a follow-up report:Jonah Goldberg helps add to public confusion when he applies the term fascism to liberals and their policies, freelance writer David...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/refuting-goldberg.html Immigration raids: Harbingers of a police state- May 26, 2008 -- by DaveIt's telling that last week's mass immigration raid in Iowa, during which immigrant workers were rounded up and treated like cattle, was heralded by the whupping of federal helicopters hovering over the town and its meat-processing plant. One of its warning signs was that the feds showed up a week before and blackened out the windows of the Cattle Congress facility to prepare it for holding large numbers of detainees. As one of the locals put it: "What's that all about You know,..http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/immigration-raids-harbingers-of-police.html Dobbs bare his nasty nativist teeth- May 23, 2008 -- by DaveThe other day, when the folks at Media Matters Action Network released their scathing report on the mishandling of the immigration debate on the news networks, I made one of those tomorrow-the-sun-will-be-up predictions: However, I will also predict that the subjects of this critique will simply dismiss it out of hand because, well, that's what they do with their critics. MM, of course, is just a bunch of dirty Naziesque liberals funded by George Soros, right And now, I'm sure we can.http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/dobbs-bare-his-nasty-nativist-teeth.html The stupid it burns: Media fan the flames of immigation irtrationality- May 22, 2008 -- by DaveA note to my readers: My work at Firedoglake has been, unsurprisingly, awfully time-consuming these first few weeks, though things are starting to settle down a little. I apologize for my extended absence here, but I'll be posting here more now -- at the very least, I'll cross-post more now -- like the post following. In the meantime, I do hope you all are coming over to the lake to see what I've been cooking up there.It isn't exactly news in these quarters that the mainstream media...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/stupid-it-burns-media-fan-flames-of.html Y'all Come Now, Y'hear- May 17, 2008 -- by SaraIn about half an hour (2:00 PDT, 5:00 EDT), I'll be hosting the FDL book salon. I'm kind of excited about it -- particularly given that I've been discussing the coming generational shift for a while now, and 2008 is shaping up to be the year we finally get it.My guests, Morley Winograd and Michael Hais, have written entire book on this shift -- what's creating it, how the Democrats can best navigate it (and how not to screw it up), and what it means for the next 40 years of American...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/yall-come-now-yhear.html A thousand words redux- May 5, 2008 -- by DaveIn the fine tradition of previous great right-wing minds.From the Houston Chronicle.http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/thousand-words-redux.html The Passing of the Great White Kvetch- May 3, 2008 -- by DaveJust when you think Pat Buchanan's racism -- already evident for some time -- couldn't get any more explicit without him donning the pointy-headed white hat, he's always going out and topping himself.Now he's gone and done it again:An Augusta, Ga., group, The National Policy Institute, has meshed the figures on fertility rates with the continents and races on Planet Earth -- to visualize what the world will look like in 2060. In 1950, whites were 28 percent of world population and...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/05/passing-of-great-white-kvetch.html |