Thanks to our friends at MediaMatters for pointing out that the right-wing media and their member-organizations are hard at work blaming Latinos and immigrants for the flu.
Here are some examples they provide:
Savage: “Make no mistake about it: Illegal aliens are the carriers of the new strain of human-swine avian flu from Mexico.” I’ll tell you what I’m going to do, and I don’t give a damn if you don’t like what I’m going to say. I’m going to have no contact anywhere with an illegal alien, and that starts in the restaurants.” He added, “I will have no any illegal alien workers around me. I will not have them in any of my properties, I will not have them anywhere near me.”
Boortz: “[W]hat better way to sneak a virus into this country than give it to Mexicans? Right? I mean, one out of every 10 people born in Mexico is already living up here, and the rest are trying to get here. And, you know, then just spread a rumor that there’s construction jobs available somewhere, and here it comes.”
Malkin: 9/11 didn’t convince the open-borders zealots to put down their race cards and confront reality. Maybe the threat of their sons or daughters contracting a deadly virus spread from south of the border to their Manhattan prep schools will.”
Beck: “But if you are a family and you’re down in Mexico and you’re dying and those in America are not, why wouldn’t you flood this border? Why wouldn’t you come across this border? It’s exactly what I warned of — different scenario, different reason of — I was talking about economic collapse. People start to come and rush this border, then what happens? Gee, it would be nice if we had some border security.”
I’m waiting for the first Republican Congressman to move his mouth about this. Ted? Culby? McStupid? Heart Attack? What have y’all got to say?
