Saturday, August 16, 2014

Note to Laura Ingraham

Look, I'll admit it here. Your resume (Dartmouth, University of Virginia Law School) is a lot more glistening than mine is (all of my degrees having come from state schools). But at least I try and do a wee-bit of research prior to popping off.....................................................................................Lets just take immigration, for example. I saw you on The O'Reilly Factor the other night and damned if you didn't dust off YET AGAIN that thoroughly discredited notion of an illegal immigration crime wave sweeping America. It is pure bullshit and, while, yes, I really do hate to lecture an attorney on the concept of evidence, a smidge of a tutorial IS in order here.......................................................................................a) Anecdotal evidence (of which you speak in plenitude) is the weakest type in that science advances via aggregates and b) the hard evidence here is unequivocal AND YOU ARE WRONG (the fact that even undocumented immigrants commit crimes and are imprisoned at a significantly lower rate than that of native-born Americans). I mean, I know that you, O'Reilly, Dobbs, and the rest of those nativist schmucks in the blogosphere just love to stoke the fire, demonize, etc. but enough is enough, lady.

6 comments:

dmarks said...

It is rooted in a hatred of foreign people (sometimes tinged by racist bigotry). It is an affliction of the Right. just like the similar hatred and bashing of workers that comes from those on the Left who oppose free-and-fair trade.

But both are related, and it seems to make more sense to oppose both types of hatred/bigotry.

To give in to either side advances fascism, state control over peoples lives and decisions.

dmarks said...

I do have one humorous memory of Laura though. The day after Howard Dean bellowed his campaign chances to smithereens on national news, I had not heard of the incident at all.

The morning after, I tuned into Don Imus on the radio in Manchester NH. Laura was the guest. About every minute, she would Dean-scream into the microphone. A very effective imitation. It was quite a while before they explained what it was again (I had tuned in mid-program)

BYEAHHHH!!!!!

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

And wasn't that (the scream) after he came in 4th or something? Can you imagine if he won?

Les Carpenter said...

She is better looking than O'Reilly or Dobbs however.

dmarks said...

Will said: "And wasn't that (the scream) after he came in 4th or something? Can you imagine if he won?"

Yeah, pterodactyls pecking on the roof of the capitol building 15 or so minutes into his "State of the Union" address, answering his scream as if it were a mating call.

"The state of the union is STRONG!!! BYAAHHHHHHHH!"

Rusty Shackelford said...



I'm not an Ingraham fan....but I cut her some slack because she has faced breast cancer and she's adopted a couple kids as a single mom.