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Immigrant kids bring out the phobias in conservative xenophobes
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 25, 2014 | by David Horsey

Posted on 07/26/2014 7:24:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 07/26/2014 10:04:10 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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Anyone who has ever wondered what happened to that strange-looking, banjo-playing kid from “Deliverance” should check out Rep. Louie Gohmert. Imagine that kid all grown up and you’ll have the spitting image of the Texas Republican.

Like banjo boy, Gohmert is weirdly mesmerizing. What swamp did he wander out of and how in the world did he get elected to the United States House of Representatives? The scary answer: There are thousands of people just like him in Texas's 1st Congressional District.

It is time, he says, to “use whatever means,” including troops and ships of war, to stop an invasion that he compares to the D-day invasion of Normandy. The invaders? All those children who made their way from Central America, stepped across the border and put themselves in the hands of federal authorities.

They think they live in country where the president is a terrorist-coddling, Kenya-born socialist who wants to take their guns, close their churches, turn their kids into pagan homosexuals and open the borders to a horde of brown-skinned marauders who will all become loyal Democratic Party voters.

If things are really that bad, maybe it’s time for them to follow Mitt Romney’s advice and self-deport.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; border; illegalaliens; invasion
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To: mountainlion

Xenophobia = irrational fear of furriners.


81 posted on 07/26/2014 12:09:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (They're not illegals, they're crimmigrants!)
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To: martin_fierro

They’re really very artsy-looking people. I’m sure we could sit down and have tea with them.


82 posted on 07/26/2014 12:13:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (They're not illegals, they're crimmigrants!)
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To: Kaslin; All

Some others and I were wisecracking on a Sen. Blumenthal picture here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3181990/posts?page=2
My number five reply to that post: “Yea, he looks like a grown up banjo boy. More rope-a-dope (war on women) for the low info women prior to November elections.”
Does this look familiar, lol.


83 posted on 07/26/2014 12:38:46 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: Olog-hai
Isn’t this guy normally a cartoonist?

Looks like it. His thought processes (if he has them) are pretty simplistic. You can see his cartoon of Superman as an illegal immigrant child on the Times website (and a link to his e-mail is there as well -- not saying anybody should use it but he wasn't afraid to put it there as another poster said).

There ought to be some way of finding out if his word pieces are actually published in the paper or just put up on the website. I guess it matters less and less nowadays as the webpage may get more readers than the actual printed newspaper and the paper is responsible for all of their content, but it would be nice to think that editors still had some standards.

84 posted on 07/26/2014 12:59:36 PM PDT by x
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To: x

The Superman cartoon was in the worst taste possible. It’s not like all of Central and South America blew up after all. Now (within the context of the fictional planet), if Krypton were still “up there” and masses of Kryptonians were coming down from the sky to sponge off the welfare system of us Earthlings, you can bet that even liberals would not be welcoming our new super-powered overlords and would be looking for the nearest cache of kryptonite.


85 posted on 07/26/2014 1:03:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There’s no argument that having 52,000 undocumented children land in the lap of the Border Patrol is a problem.

Only line of truth in the entire op ed.

86 posted on 07/26/2014 4:09:46 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (false claims of racism--the first refuge of a liberal scoundrel)
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To: ohioman

True that.


87 posted on 07/26/2014 5:15:02 PM PDT by Himyar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The view from the anti-American hardcore left. They've lost the battle over Obama's open border invasion and the only argument left is name-calling.

The left went immediately to name calling. As usual.

It was the RINOs that attempted an argument before going to name calling.

88 posted on 07/26/2014 6:10:32 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: martin_fierro

89 posted on 07/26/2014 7:11:51 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They think they live in country where the president is a terrorist-coddling, Kenya-born socialist who wants to take their guns, close their churches, turn their kids into pagan homosexuals and open the borders to a horde of brown-skinned marauders who will all become loyal Democratic Party voters.

Yeah, well, ya got me there.

90 posted on 07/26/2014 9:31:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Jane Long

WHat are they saying? I can’t seem to get the comments.


91 posted on 07/27/2014 11:20:20 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (The last good thing that the UN did was Korea.)
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To: Puppage

No. It would make you an iminal!


92 posted on 07/28/2014 3:53:27 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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