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On Fox News tonight substituting for Bill O’Reilly, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham made a point in a discussion of immigration to note that someone can be “American OR Latino”. Because surely nobody could be both, right?
Sometimes the mask slips and cons say what they truly believe. We must cherish those moments.
Even better is the big Christian gold cross she wears around her neck.
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That’s standard operating procedure for GOP scum. Kind of like when Chris Matthews says that Obama represents blacks and educated whites against “regular Americans.” Horrible.
Give the lady a break, Oliver. I disagree with Mrs. Ingraham on most issues, but we all have awkward verbal slip-ups now and then.
This Mexican-American (Latino) saw it the same way Oliver did.
Ingraham probably thinks that “Latino” describes a person who is a citizen of a Latin American Country (which, by definition means then that said individual is not an American, unless he/she has dual citizenship); in other words, she’s not bigoted (at least not in this instance), just stupid.
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1915
Atracking hyphenation was really easy for a rich early 20th century white guy.
Theodore Roosevelt was a great man, but he was rather over-the-top in the quotation that matt621 provided. That’s my opinion, anyway.
Teddy Rossevelt can go to hell. I’ll keep my hyphenated lineage until ALL Americans are treated as equals.
Speaking of which, you know this country is screwed up when terrorists can ignore the word before the hyphen and our homegrown bigots concentrate on it.
It was easy for TR to eschew the epithet “Dutch-American;” when you have cubic dollars at your disposal, you don’t need to identify with anyone.
Garibaldi
I try to contextualize this for my friends at the Irish-American Club by comparing this anti-Latino rhetoric to what our ancestors suffered. They look at me like I’ve gone soft in the head and go back to talking about how great it’ll be once the wall goes up. My only consolation is that the institutional violence directed toward immigrants has, largely, disappeared. Now if we could just get these Know-Nothing jackasses to shut their fucking mouths, we’d be all set.
I am what would be considered a hyphenated American, and not one of those ones who easily blends in with the majority of American society.
I rarely, if ever, refer to myself in the hyphenate.
The problem is when others do it for me.
Laura Ingraham was done dirty by her Latino fiancé, Jimmy Reyes, a wealthy director of Reyes Holdings, a big, family-run company that is one of the top 25 beer distributors in the country.
He royally dumped her after she turned up with breast cancer in 2005. And THEN, to burn salt in the owunds and add insult to injury he turns up as hated Liberal KATIE COURIC’s new squeeze!!
You think Ingraham has Latino issues much?
Hah!
I can see her manning the shotgun seat in a Minuteman Border Patrol SUV and screaming “This is for you, JIMMMMYYYYYY you baaastardddd!!!!” as she squeezes off clip after clip at those fleeing Latinos…
LOL!
Please tell me you’re not defending Laura Ingraham now.
Wellstone, you’re the absolute worst. Seriously, the worst. Please go away.
Wellstone, that was bad but there could be some truth beind that. At least the part about the Minutmen shooting immigrants in the backcountry here in San Diego County. If you watch enough YouTube videos and read the SPLC web site, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
I thought Katie Cougar was dating a 33-year-old?
Paging Dr. Pedro. Dr. Pedro, line one.
Technically speaking, isn’t a citizen of the USA NOT an ‘American’? What with America being the name of the whole continent, I’m thinking the term should be ‘columban’ (I’m sure I read this somewhere). For a say mexican-american, the term, technically, is like saying american-american, which is like twicethe american as this bigot!
Yeah, but United Statesian is too tough to say.
I would NEVER, EVER excuse any of Laura Ingraham’s madness. She is a functioning nutcase; if you listen to her shows, she can say the most evil, outlandish things and never even realize that what she just said is completely immoral and against every tenet and precept of humanity, compassion, and just plain decency.
We are talking here about a person who went to Dartmouth, and one of the things she’s proudest of is that she mailed a letter home to each of her classmates who she knew was gay, notifying the family of exactly what their kids were doing. Without the kids’ knowledge.
She is among the worst of her kind, in serious Ann Coulter territory, where literally any means are justified as long as the end is achieved. In Ingraham’s case, where she feels strongly, imperiously, smugly, self-righteously Catholic, that can get really, really scary.
http://www.kipaddotta.com/katie-couric.html
“…Rumors are that Katie Couric briefly dated in 2006, 43-year-old Jimmy Reyes, one of the Reyes brothers from Reyes Holdings LLC, a Republican billionaire who owns a large distribution company, the Headquarters are located in Rosemont Illinois, with holdings company Martin Brower LLC. They are a distributor for McDonald’s, which is based in Oak Brook, and are listed on Crain’s as one of Illinois’ largest private LLC’s. Katie Couric is currently said to be single according to an interview in the August 2006 edition of Parade magazine…”
Dunno what Couric’s up to since, but that was the first hit-and-run for Reyes after dumping Laura.
Are there two of you?
Fox should just change the ‘Fair and Balanced’ bit to ‘Bigots R Us’. People should get over themselves and all this phony nationalist crap. Try considering yourself a citizen of the Earth.
Laura Ingraham was done dirty by her Latino fiancé, Jimmy Reyes, a wealthy director of Reyes Holdings, a big, family-run company that is one of the top 25 beer distributors in the country.
Actually Reyes Holdings is the largest beer distributor in the country. But I can’t think of a family less Latino than the Reyes. They insist on the rays pronunciation rather than the hispanic sound of rayess. By the way, Chris Reyes, the oldest brother, gave money mostly to Democrats before 2000. Now he and his wife and several others of the family give heavily and almost exclusively to the worst of the GOP. They happen to be big FoxNews fans.
If you don’t like who the Reyes donate their money to, then consider boycotting all Miller products and don’t eat at McDonalds.
The Reyes supporting Dems is news to me, thanks.
And I DO boycott all Miller products, and Coors as well. THAT family has a buncha nutcases in it too. I do miss the Coors Light silver bullets sometimes, though.
Gimme ice-cold Coronas, or my personal favorite, Negra Modelo, any time!!
I was in Houston a couple years ago leading a teachers’ conference on new test-oriented educational software at a Houston Middle School, and I was introduced after work to the pleasures of the ice-cold Negrita in an ice-cold glass with fresh lime juice and salt around the rim.
Wow, just wow.