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Tancredo Defends Terrorism Ad
Tom Tancredo has a new guest column in the Denver Post, defending his literally explosive ad after the paper had condemned it.
"If my advertisement is 'fear-mongering,' then Mothers Against Drunk Driving should apologize for suggesting that drunk driving kills innocent people. So do open borders," Tancredo writes. "The narrative text of my Iowa advertisement distinguishes between the 20 million illegal immigrants who come here 'to take our jobs' and those who come full of hate to conduct acts of terror. It is not fear-mongering to suggest that terrorists will join in taking advantage of our porous borders."
Again, here's that ad:
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It's hard to keep track of all the shifting explanations for what kills people.
Drunk driving kills people. Check.
Open borders kill people. Check.
Guns don't people because people kill people.
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I think Tancredo is a crazed, frothing wingnut. But I gotta give him high marks for comparing his ads to the work of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. That takes either a) guts or b) delusions. Either way, it's entertaining.
November 16, 2007 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tancredo's campaign is rooted in making "illegal immigrants" the new racist code-phrase comparable to "states rights" in the civil rights era. It's respectable to defend enforcement of immigration statutes, whereas it isn't respectable to decry an influx of Latinos. By conflating two entirely separate issues, Tancredo desperately tries to get five seconds more attention before the last of the hot air goes out of his balloon. By Trancredo's logic, shipping x-million "illegals" out of the country would make us safe from another terrorist attack. Does anyone believe that to any extent whatsoever?
November 16, 2007 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tancredo is the TRUE heir to Bush Republicanism. His campaign NEEDS to be fostered and favored. If the bat-shit crazy wing of the Party can hold power . . . The Republicans will end up in that honored and hallowed place in history held by the Whigs and the Federalists . . . The footnote .
Every true progressive NEEDS to talk up Tancredo at every watercooler in America.
November 16, 2007 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ohh... BoooHooHoo!!!
Are there actual explosions? Is there a nameless shadowy foreign group behind the ads? Do the ads feature mushroom clouds? no?
Then clearly the ads are not as bad as the ones the shadowy American "European security advisory group" ran on TV throughout Europe!
http://blog.bearstrong.net/archive/weblog/001461.html
Yes, this crap actually ran on major European TV channels for a while. It came together with lots and lots of prominent newspaper ads.
So who was behind this? *No one really knows*!!
All the ads where signed "European security advisory group". At some point the group got a website with the same fear mongering with a domain registered to a proxy group and a postal box address.
It turned out that a New York based advertising group called Vale international was behind "ESAG" and the guy in charge hinted that a bunch of wealthy "philanthropists" came up with the idea of "advising" Europeans about their "security" much in the same way Tony Soprano "advises" people with payment issues.
BS! And isn`t that the same story they tell about the 1 million dollar matrix style ads that are on Iraqi TV and that everyone knows come from the pentagon?
IIRC ESAG was active at the time when Rumsfeld still had his "office of strategic influence". IIRC in 2005 it quietly disappeared. It reminds me of that bogus GOP pro poll-tax "voter fraud" group that loudly spread its disinformation and then disappeared overnight.
And no one has bothered to figured out if there were US tax dollar behind these ads! Why has noone done a FOIA request for any Vale international contracts with the DoD, specifically with "information operation" groups like the "office of strategic influence" and whoever inherited their paperwork.
November 17, 2007 8:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
"The narrative text of my Iowa advertisement distinguishes between the 20 million illegal immigrants who come here 'to take our jobs' and those who come full of hate to conduct acts of terror"
A valid point, I would suppose, were there any evidence whatsoever that even one hatred-filled illegal immigrant has crossed the border (illegally, I presume) to conduct acts of terror. Do note, Tancredo, that Mohammed Atta and his eighteen pals all took airline flights into the USA on legal visas - no wetbacks here! So until you can identify a single illegal crossing the Mexican border with havoc and terror in mind, perhaps, Tancredo, you should zip it.
November 17, 2007 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
JO,
You act like Tancredo is actually in it for the presidency. He's only out there to push this one issue. And whats wrong with pointing out that 11 million illegal aliens have crossed into the country ILLEGALLY, are living here ILLEGALLY, and stealing our tax dollars ILLEGALLY.
God forbid we call a spade a spade and actually enforce our immigration laws.
Anyone want to guess how many of our illegal southern friends are in our federal, state and county prisons?
Build the fence, make it watertight, round them up and send them packing. Hide out in a church? We'll come in and get you? Santuary city? Say goodbye to your federal funding.
You want to come to America? Do it legally or stay the fuck out.
Red Anjin
November 17, 2007 12:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
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November 18, 2007 2:15 AM | Reply | Permalink