You are currently browsing the monthly archive for June, 2008.
Dear Mr. Todd,
I need your help.
I’m desperately trying to understand why you, The Head Political Analyst at NBC News, could consistently confuse the term “anti-ILLEGAL immigration” with the term “anti-IMMIGRATION.”
Sure, on the surface they may seem similar. After all it’s just that one word, that pesky “illegal”, that separates them. But the two terms describe very different points of view.
It’s pretty simple.
“Anti-ILLEGAL immigration” describes any of the majority of Americans who are fed up with the Federal Immigration Laws being blatantly flouted by unscrupulous businesses, and concurrently ignored by our Government.
“Anti-IMMIGRANT” describes people who, quite simply, don’t like immigrants for some reason.
One does not automatically equal the other. Their meanings are very different. They are not the same thing.
And one would think that you, a highly educated man, a veteran of the punditry, and head political poobah at a vaunted network news outfit, of all people, would know the difference.
So, why do you keep making this mistake?
Is it just a simple slip-up? The result of verbal laziness? Not having the mental energy to include that all-important “ILLEGAL” when describing those hundreds of millions of Americans who simply want their Country’s laws enforced?
Or do you really think that the majority of Americans are, well, jerks?
Well, in case you really are confused, I’ll explain again.
The vast majority of Americans, represented by poll-after-national-poll, simply want our laws enforced fairly, and without prejudice.
These people are “anti ILLEGAL immigrantion”.
They take issue with the upwards of 20 million people who are currently breaking our laws by blatantly ignoring our country’s immigration laws. Laws that are extremely important to our National Security, and our economy.
These people also take major issue with our Government not doing anything about this obvious, massive violation, especially after the ’86 Amnesty, and then of course, 911.
They also have a big problem with the cheating, profit-at-any-cost businesses who brazenly employ these illegal aliens with impunity, creating job scarcity and depressing wages. And they wonder why their Government could be so inept, or corrupt, as to not see such a blatant money grab, and flouting of our laws and not do a darn thing about it.
And, perhaps just as importantly, they wonder why you, the Media, refuse to take them seriously. When you’re not outright ignoring them.
These millions, and millions of proud, and law abiding citizens are not, as you refer to them, “anti-IMMIGRANT”.
These people are not haters.
They love America. And they absolutely appreciate the contribution that legal, controlled immigration, gives her.
They are not racists or xenophobes.
These people are, simply, Americans. Millions, and millions of regular citizens, of all ages, races, creeds, and colors, who are beyond frustrated their Government, and you, their Media… because they can’t trust either to do their jobs anymore.
Their Government turns a blind eye while greedy businesses import waves of neo-indentured servants.
While you call them names like hicks, protectionists, or worse.
Anti-IMMIGRANT?
You should be ashamed.
Oh yes, there are certainly jerks on all ends of this. Just like there are on most other emotional, and politically charged issues.
For every “Skinhead” there’s at least one “La Raza” (The Race) member. And you know it.
But the funny thing is we’ve never heard you, or anyone in the Media, refer to the Pro-Amnesty crowd as “LaRaza”… or, come to think of it, even as the “pro amnesty crowd”.
No. You’ve anointed them “PRO-immigrant”. You know, instead of “pro-ILLEGAL immigrant”.
How nice.
Chuck. You’re a college graduate, right? And judging from your resume, you’ve been in the thick of the political fray for many years.
So how could you make such an egregious error?
Or… well, the only other explanation there is, and I hate to ask this… are you doing this on purpose?
Because if you are, for whatever reason, you don’t deserve to be the Political Director for a High School Newspaper, much less a respected television network.
So, why?
Please. I must know.
Sincerely,
Your Audience.
I’m writing this post in the brand-new-ish Microsoft Word 2008. But just barely.
The good news is Microsoft really kicked some ass with Office 2008, and made it better (mostly), sleeker, and “Mac”-ier. And most of the reviews out there say essentially that.
The only problem is that Word (the only program of the bunch I use every day) doesn’t work with Mac’s “Spaces” (a feature I use every minute).
It’s so bad it essentially renders Word 2008 unusable.
When you switch Spaces, you “take” a part of Word with you into the other Spaces; be it the main window, the formatting palette, or the menu bar. And when you click on any of these, you get zoomed back to another space, with another piece. And try-as-you-might, you can’t seem to get them back together again.
Like Humpty-Dumpty.
This is too bad, because almost everything else about Office 2008 is hat’s-off to M$oft. And 6th sense about these things tells me that the ball is in their court on this one.
Achem?
And they’re taking the case!
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the situation (long-winded spew here), I essentially asked my NYAG to see if the ‘ol Get-Out-of-Your-Cell-Contract “net legend” -where if you don’t have a WRITTEN contract, you’re only liable for ONE year-… was bullshit or not. Apparently not. Or maybe. Whatever.
Proof, here:
It just occurred to me that some of you might want to see the “legal forms” I filled out concerning my challenge of Tmobile, and their evil insistence.
Of course, some of you would rather see a snuff film than legal documents. And that’s okay. You don’t have to partake. However, it is just 2 simple pages… frankly, a surprise coming from Government. Enjoy.
e
