Posted on 07/16/2009 12:58:05 PM PDT by Steelfish
Berkeley-based "Latino MoveOn" ticks off Rush and O'Reilly
The two-month-old Berkeley liberal online hub called Presente -- which wants to be the Latino MoveOn -- has scored the progressive daily double: It has ticked off both Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly.
How: It is airing a radio ad this week in on Spanish-language stations in St. Pete and Orlando, Fla. calling out El Rushbo for referring to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a "racist" and a "bigot." It called on local GOP Rep. John Mica to rebuke Rush's comments.
Uh, not a high chance of that happening. Even if Mica did, he'd probably be on his knees apologizing by sunset....or the start of Rush's program. It's the GOP way.
Here's Rush's react to all this.
"Republicans have been speaking out of both sides of their mouth to Latinos," Presente co-founder Favianna Rodriguez told The Politcs Blog. While the GOP is trying to woo them politically, they're also backing policies on immigration that "most Latinos are against" Rodriguez said, and using hateful rhetoric.
In the Presente family, O'Reilly notes the presence of former MoveOn organizer James Rucker, founder of San Francisco's Color of Change, which Rucker told us way back when that he wanted to be the black MoveOn, and connects the dots back to the "radical left" of MoveOn.
No, Bill didn't rrrrrrrrroll his r's when he said "radical" the same way he did when he said Prrrresente.
Apparently, Presente isn't Bill's cup of bile. He prefers The Minutemen, who he has referred to as being in "in the great tradition of neighborhood watch groups." Check out Bill and see.
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Any organization based on race is by definition, racist. Piss on them.
The cover story when MoveOn was founded was to appeal to the American public to urge congressmen to “censure Bill Clinton and move on”. They weren’t a grassroots organization.
And they made their socialist agenda public on their website for awhile.
I usually don’t care for O’Reilly, but I do agree with him about preferring the Minutemen over some radical-left latino front group for the RATS. Isn’t the SF Chronicle bankrupt yet?
just remember... from now on, we are able to say:
“I would hope that a wise [insert your ethnic group] with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a [insert target ethnic group] who hasn’t lived that life.”
therefore,
“I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a black or hispanic who hasn’t lived that life.”
is now allowed.
Stomayor is hung up on her race, imo. And why should Mica be responsible for what Rush says, it’s a free country, Rush is entitled to his opinion.
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