Posted on 06/05/2007 5:47:35 AM PDT by gpapa
ENOUGH Emma Lazarus. For many of us, the definitive pro-immigration speech comes from Bill Murray in "Stripes": "We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans. With a capital 'A.' And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts…. But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more lovable than the mutt. Who saw 'Old Yeller'? … I cried my eyes out."
Murray's speech may lack poetry and intellectual rigor, but most Americans have a similar visceral attachment to our national immigration story. To be perceived as anti-immigration is to be seen as un-American.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
a dying horse tends to crap a lot.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Let’s shut down the borders and the smuggling... but when you go after Stripes, you go too far.
Put that in your little crack pipe and smoke it, LA Times.
He's warning conservatives they should not accept the stereotyping of themselves as anti-immigrant when they're not.
A good read. Goldberg evicerates the politicians calling conservatives racist. I’m surprised the LA Times ran it.
There is nothing comical about being a United States' soldier.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
They were probably in a hurry and did not read the entire thing before publishing it. It could happen!
Americans have no problem with LEGAL immigrants because almost all of us are related to such folks. Folks that came here legally..DUH!
When will the president come out for legalized murder, rape, burglary, etc? If you can have legal immigration and illegal immigration why not?
You have clearly never been drinking with soldiers.
Either that, you were the humorless 2nd LT that was mercilessly mocked... and in hilarious ways.
Except it’s not the Democrats conflating the two this time. It’s our very own President, his cabinet members and spokespeople and several “Republican” Senators. I don’t mind being called racist by liberals, since namecalling is all they know. But when members of my own party do it, I get outraged.
What Bush et al don’t seem to have realized is that when you have to resort to namecalling, you’ve already lost the argument.
So true. Sometimes, in the military, humor is all that keeps you going.
Either that, you were the humorless 2nd LT that was mercilessly mocked... and in hilarious ways.
I was a W-5... I earned what I got...
Not quite right. As I remember it, the sergeant was indeed injured accidentally, but it was not the fault of his men, but of an idiot officer.
You need to email this to Jonah Goldberg.
Good analogy.
`Groundhog Day’ was a better movie and more relevant to the issue of the invasion of our country by Mexicans, and President Bush’s attempt to apologize to them while insulting/demeaning his base.
And Caddyshack. Coneheads. And the Chevy Chase films.
All deeply allegorical. Yeah, pure fried gold, Jonah.
Go for it! There is something comical about everything if you look. And if you’re not looking, you’re in big trouble. And, yes, I do like a good laugh as much as (probably better than) the next guy.
TURN THE ENEMIES WEAPON AGAINST HIM
Call the “Senate Immigration Reform Hotline” at 1 800 417 7666
Press 1 for your senior senator, 2 for your junior senator.
This will connect you DIRECTLY to your senator without going through the congressional switchboard.
JAM THE LINES. LET THEM HEAR OUR ANGER AND FURY.
I don’t consider myself refuse...She speaks for herself and from authority on trash...She doesn’t speak for me...
But, I will in the future, direct any gaseous erruption, in her general direction to make her feel at home...
“...would you like some more beans there Mr. Taggart???”
“Murray’s speech may lack poetry and intellectual rigor, but most Americans have a similar visceral attachment to our national immigration story. To be perceived as anti-immigration is to be seen as un-American.”
Well...To reiterate...
She can crawl up real close behind me and I ‘ll be glad to give her something “similarly visceral”...
Well when the rubber hits the road and you have to take the hill...Then you betcha...
But during times that become monotonous,humor and practical jokes kept us from being bored...And the humor was spent at everyone regardless of rank...It went up and down the chain...
My first C.O. on the ship I was assigned to was he direct victim of a real doozy...And look at him now, he’s the superintendant of the Naval Academy...He’s a better person for it...I’d like to lay claim to it as well...
Good things happen to good people, and if you never caught a good one, it meant no one particularly cared about ya...That makes for a miserable enlistment or commission...
I’ll have to look at it, but I’m pretty sure one of the dummies in the squad pulled the grenade pin.
I was in the Army. It was my job to take everything seriously. I did and it made me the better man.
Call the democrat donation hot line it is free 1-877-336-7200 I have never donated to the dems doubt I ever will, but they dont know that.. I told them just what I told the RNC, and the lady was mumbling all over herself..
I agree with Bill Murry’s take on mutts. But what the LA Slimes will not say is that a mutt, once he had found a good home becomes very faithful to that home. I just don’t see that in alot of Mexicans.
Geez "Francis", no wonder you don't see the humor in "Stripes"! LOL! Blackbird.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
I don’t see anything humorous in the mocking of our military by Hollywood and their left wing actors.
"Lighten up Francis!", is a widely used quote from that comedy. Did you take that personally? I'm an Army Vet too Chief and I still LMAO when I watch it, and yet was still able to take my job seriously. FE on a Chinook will do that to you. It's just not worth being wrapped that tight brother. Blackbird.
I had too many people depending on me to care about movies or what some lunatic actor had to say in one, I was infantry in real life. Maybe that explains my paygrade.
People value trash more than the soldier.
Take all that money spent on crap coming from Hollywood and give it to the real heroes.
You mean monies that Americans FReely earn then FReely spend? I think NOT Comrade. Blackbird.
People value trash more than the soldier.
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