Bruce Told To Leave Podium After Mexican Comment

CBS4Denver.com ^ | 04/21/2008 | Steven K. Paulson

[calcowgirl]

He must hold some kind of record for being banned:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~dane/

This account has been banned or suspended.

[Aria]

My understanding of most of these “immigrants” is that they can’t even read and write in their native language. Someone here said he works with these people in LA and they’re proud if they made it through 3rd grade. That makes them illiterate.

My Dutch brother-in-law has a PhD and he had to go through misery to get into this country....but then, he wasn’t going to be doing manual labor and wouldn’t likely become a member of a dumbed down voting bloc.

[buccaneer81]

for much of the period between 1848-1917, the first language of a large percentage of North Dakotans was German.

True. Lawrence Welk for example.

[buccaneer81]

It’s amazing he lasted as long as he did.

[ElmoMobito]

Definition - A peasant is an agricultural worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th centrury French païsant meaning one from the pays, or countryside. The term peasant today is sometimes used in a pejorative sense for impoverished farmers.

When will we have a constitutional amendment listing words one must not ever say? The list is getting longer.

Of course some us can be called anything you wish to call us - no problem.

Too many Californians moving to Colorado and converting it to their ways.

[mountn man]

Millions of Germans came to the US in 1800s, a highly literate people who generally knew no English.

But a large percentage of english words are of germanic origin.

Also, the immigrants of the 19th and early 20th century wanted to be Americans. Their desire was first and foremost to be Americans and germans second or somewhat farther down the line. They wanted to be assimilated by our country. There was a time when being an American was a PRIVELEDGE, and people were PROUD of becoming one.

There are some today who still come to this country and value that.

But there is a certain contingency that view BEING IN the United States as a personal right and equivalent to being a citizen.

My great grandmother spoke read and wrote english and german fluently, she came here in the 1880's. My grandmother from the other side came here around WWI. She spoke wrote and read english and dutch fluently.

[pogo101]

I maintain that the Rep. was referring to their ability in English. You may feeeeel that his comment was unfair, but that’s your opinion, not a factual matter, no matter your balletic spinning.

This, of course, is in addition to the unconvincing/unsourced matter of your statistics and, worse, how one reasonably may assume that folks who illegally come here from Mexico are likely to be average in their literacy. (You also do some nice assuming, because education has been free there since the 1970s, that therefore most young illegals in the USA have been made young Cervanteses thereby.)

I think you and I are done on this topic. Enjoy your planet.

[Danz Family]

People need to be more niggardly in their use of words that others don’t understand and take offense to because they don’t know the definition of the word.

[mountn man]

And he spoke pretty good english too.

Ahoneah, ahtwoah, ahthreeah... :)

[Leo Farnsworth]

Ok, ok, ok.

Sure - they are literate - by MEXICAN standards.

NOT US standards.

For all practical aspects they are illiterate.

[geezerwheezer]

Did you add in the estimated 12-20,000,000 illegals from Mexico that are already here to get the percentages, or is it 95% literate on what folks are still in Mexico now? Seems to me figures always lie, and liars always figure. If Mexico is 95% literate, then explain why it is so third world and so damn poor. I do not believe this at all.

[redhead]

""There's no room for bigotry on the floor of the House," Carroll said."

Then, they sure wouldn't like me. I call them "Criminal Trespassers."

[Yaelle]

If illegals aren’t illiterate, then we are pandering FAR too much with everything bilingually labelled. Why else would simple things like SOAP and OPEN have to be put in both languages everywhere?? The bilingual ads for products must mean SOMEONE is a blooming idiot if they can’t figure out that it’s BEER in that ad.

I have traveled in many lands where I don’t speak the language and somehow survived. I always felt it was great that I went home having learned a few words by necessity.

[buccaneer81]

LOL! I loved it when he used to shill for Geritol!

[messierhunter]

Ok genius, are we talking about mexicans in mexico? No, we’re talking about mexicans illegally living in colorado. So they can speak, read and write spanish, great, but can they do the same with english? If not, they’re illiterate. And what jobs are they trying to do here illegally? What jobs do democrats want to create temporary work visas for, genius? Agriculture! What mexicans do in MEXICO does not pertain to the factually correct statement.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Are they illiterate? Are they peasants? Yes or no. Neither word is derogatory. We need to clearly see the situation as it is and not go through life with a bag over our heads.

[mountn man]

I grew up* older watching The Lawrence Welk Show. Every once in a while someone broadcasts his old shows, and I catch them. And I'm glued to the tv. Good memories. And thats what LW was about creating good things for the enjoyment of people.

*Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. :)

[albie]

Douglas Bruce for President 2012!!

[Uri’el-2012]

If I get killed by a drunk driver, I won't take any solace in the fact that the slob who killed me was a foreigner on a tourist visa, say, rather than an illegal immigrant.

During the same time as the Iraq war,
more Americans have been murdered by Illegal aliens
on our highways than soldiers died in Iraq

[buccaneer81]

Growing up is optional. :)

LOL! My wife says I haven't exercised that option!