Since the swine flu has been all the news, we have seen right wingers like Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck using it to promote their racist agenda against Mexico, calling for the border to be sealed. Now it turns out the outbreak may have actually started right here in the United States. Let me remind […]
I blogged yesterday about Malkin blaming immigrants for the outbreak of swine flu. It now looks like she was just getting the ball rolling for the racist right. The fact is that most people in America who have contracted the flu were recently in Mexico, or around someone who has been there. Facts like this […]
This headline from the AP pings out the ironic-a-meter: US anti-kidnapping expert kidnapped in Mexico Such a serious story, with such irony in the headline that it strikes me as funny.
This is a very interesting decision: Fox News Channel is going off the air in Mexico in advance of Sunday’s presidential election to steer clear of that country’s restrictions on campaign ads and public surveys, cable channel executives said Wednesday. Fox News decided to temporarily halt transmission into Mexico because of concerns that the channel’s […]
The neo-con fright machine is still in full force. Now the fenatics on the right are saying that Mexicans are coming into our country to wage war against us. The reason – take back the parts of the U.S. that Mexico lost to us. John has all the details.