Tom Tancredo Wants Border Fence Built North Of The Border

3:07 pm EST April 29th, 2008 | Republicans | 17 Comments

Tancredo is so aftaid of Hispanics he wants to put American soil on the other side of his wall. Idiot.

Republican Tom Tancredo supports the border wall. The U.S. representative attended the hearing in Brownsville yesterday.

During the hearing, he told the Brownsville landowners, “I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city…” implying that all of Brownsville should be on the Mexican side of the wall.

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17 Responses to “Tom Tancredo Wants Border Fence Built North Of The Border”

  1. Sean D. Martin says:
    April 29, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Right now NEWSCHANNEL 5 is working to get clarification from Congressman Tancredo.

    How about, oh, I dunno, getting clarification before running the story? Or blogging about it?

    If you don’t want the MSM making a manufactured distraction out of a poorly phrased “bitter” comment you really shouldn’t be jumping on things like this.

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    April 29, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    When Tom is ready to put all of Texas on the other side of his fence, I’ll listen.

  3. Duros62 says:
    April 29, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    See, it’s all part of Mexico’s plan to get Texas back.

  4. I'm a Hick says:
    April 29, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    “When Tom is ready to put all of Texas on the other side of his fence, I’ll listen.”

    Hey now, Hoss!

    As Kinky Friedman says, the only thing a 10′ high fence will do is sell 11′ high ladders.

  5. Quaker in a Basement says:
    April 29, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Tom is a double-agent in the service of teh Reconquista? ¢Dios mio!

  6. Quaker in a Basement says:
    April 29, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Crap. That was supposed to be:

    ¡Dios mio!

  7. Quaker in a Basement says:
    April 29, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    “As Kinky Friedman says, the only thing a 10′ high fence will do is sell 11′ high ladders.”

    Haw! Friedman never disappoints!

  8. TLB says:
    April 29, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    He said that in the context of those to whom he was speaking illustrating divided loyalties. Of course, what matters context, right? No one comes here expecting much thought from ODub.

  9. SpiderJ says:
    April 29, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Well, it is “Brownsville.” Maybe he thought it belonged on the Mexican side because of that.

  10. ListenToLeon says:
    April 29, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Tom Tancredo needs to cut this foolishness out. He’s the type of legislator that will go down in history the same way Senator McCarthy did: An obsessed, overzealous persecutor of innocent people, all to make a name for himself while conveniently championing a so-called “cause.”

    This whole “secure our borders” crap has given bigots everywhere an excuse to voice a bunch of ignorant, racist rhetoric that basically amounts to a nation of jackasses living in fear that Hispanics might one day pose a threat to America’s white-dominated poser structure.

    A message to all the Minutemen and proponents of the manure Tom Tancredo is shoving down your respective throats: WHITE PEOPLE OWN AND/OR RUN PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING OF MAJOR SIGNIFICANCE IN AMERICA. Your spot is safe, regardless of who you let in the country…So stop being fanatics for 30 seconds…think about that reality…calm your angry @sses down…Then go find something better to do with your time.

  11. Southern Quaker says:
    April 29, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    “Context” as in, if you object to the border fence you’re not real ‘Muricans? Because, in context, that is what he is implying. Just build the fence north of Brownsville, and fence out all of those pesky unAmericans especially the brown ones) who don’t agree with you.

  12. Duros62 says:
    April 29, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Either that or he doesn’t know his geography from his ass.

  13. Zython says:
    April 29, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Or both.

  14. Sean D. Martin says:
    April 29, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Or he misspoke.

    As someone who once drove west for a couple hours because I just didn’t process that the occasional highway marker didn’t say “east”, I find it quite possible it could be just a north/south mixup.

    I’m not a fan of Tancredo by any means, but I find it interesting how everyone here is jumping on this, for which even the news which reported it was “working to get clarification from Congressman Tancredo”. And how many of you objected to the over-analysis of “bitter” small town Pennsylvanians?

  15. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    April 30, 2008 at 5:15 am

    “He said that in the context of those to whom he was speaking illustrating divided loyalties.”

    Fuck that. He was pissed off that people think his fence idea is stupid. It’s as simple as that. People booed his fence, so he figured they weren’t ‘true Americans.’

    Southern Quaker: “‘Context’ as in, if you object to the border fence you’re not real ‘Muricans? Because, in context, that is what he is implying.”

    Exactly.

  16. Duros62 says:
    April 30, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Well, in that context, yeah. He’s a moran.

  17. daniel rotter says:
    May 3, 2008 at 12:52 am

    “He said that in the context of those to whom he was speaking illustrating divided loyalties”. Of course, what matters context, right?

    Even in that context, it’s still a pretty inflammatory thing to say, especially when those words are coming from an elected official.