While the liberal media studiously avoids the 800-pound corpse in Maria Cantwell's closet, they'll eagerly parrot any silly accusation that left-wing crackpots level at Mike McGavick. The latest such charge is that McGavick's ad which uses the word 'illegal' to refer to, uh, illegal immigrants is somehow racist "McGavick under attack for 'illegal' word". Huh?
What race are illegals anyway? Some are from Nigeria, and some are from Ireland
The Irish government estimates that about 25,000 illegal immigrants from Ireland live in New YorkBy implication, the liberal media are accusing Michael Sean McGavick of racism towards the Irish, which seems more than a little implausible. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 08, 2006 12:01 PM | Email This
So which party really supports inclusion? I'd say look to deads rather than words.
Posted by: deadwood on October 8, 2006 11:54 AMThis was on the CNN Foly and all the other left stream mongrals out there!
Posted by: dcat on October 8, 2006 12:03 PMBill H
Posted by: Bill H on October 8, 2006 12:50 PMSo what's your beef? The fact that a TV station is covering an issue raised in the Senate race about political ads running on the TV station? An issue McGavick felt legitimate enough to respond to?
Sheesh.
Posted by: thor on October 8, 2006 01:06 PMIt's well past time for these darned cowardly Republicans to call them on it, to define and put forth (hells bells, SCREAM FORTH) the true issues and not allow the issues be hijacked by PC minutiae that no one with half a brain cares about.
If this current group of GOP jelly-fish don't get a spine soon I fear they will be kissing their offices and majority good bye.
Mike, stand up and call a spade a spade, turn the tables on the PC creeps and tell it like it is .... then call the gutless jelly-fish in DC and tell them to get their act together and the message back to important issues for this country.
Posted by: Cheryl on October 8, 2006 01:07 PMWords have meaning. These people are in fact "illegal immigrants". In the twisted world of the left they are "undocumented aliens", the implication being that the immigrants have done nothing wrong and it's our fault they aren't "documented".
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 8, 2006 01:20 PMKeep using that phrase, Mr. McGavick. there is NOTHING wrong with it. Forge on and ignore those who would seek to divert from the truth.
Posted by: Michele on October 8, 2006 01:27 PMBut of course you have to "say something" and we all know about our Silent Senator.
Keep talking Mike. Just because they don't have a real issue with your words, dont let them deflect, press on, and make your points. It is more that what we have now for reprentation in DC
Posted by: chris on October 8, 2006 01:37 PMCantwell truly is vulnerable re: her Dotzauer relationship.
The real issue IS NOT how the Federal Election Commission views this..........
The Dotzauer/Cantwell issue is one for INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. The IRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is a complete SHAM for people to pay consulting fees to Dotzauer's Company and deduct those fees.....when Dotzauer in turn distributes that money as CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS claiming they are an ordinary business expense.
HELLO OUT THERE!!!!
It's a SHAM Transaction.
SHAM SHAM SHAM SHAMSHAM SHAMSHAM SHAMSHAM SHAMSHAM SHAMSHAM SHAMSHAM SHAMSHAM SHAM!!
Do not worry about the affair.
Do not worry about the FEC.
It's an IRS issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get the focus right.....NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Fine I'll stop calling them illegal immigrants.
I'll call them from now on:
CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS"
Posted by: JCM on October 8, 2006 02:46 PMThe "beef" is making it an issue at all. Just because some "offended" group invents an offense does not make it "an issue". I'm sick of all these "offended" groups coming forward to complain to us about what they are offended about. Now, do you think King5 would give a news story to my being offended by this idiot group "Hate Free Zone"? Then why give this ridiculous assertion an inch of space?
That's the problem with Political Correctness and Multiculturalism--it is a disease that disengages common sense and treats all complaints that fall under that rubric as equally reasonable.
Some in England are starting to become fed up with this nonsense as the link below shows:
Bill H
Posted by: Bill H on October 8, 2006 03:11 PMNo joke indeed, as I'm sure Mike McGavick will tell you.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 8, 2006 03:45 PM
"I would say that elements of the political class are starting to notice that increasing numbers of the fifty eight million non-Muslims in Britain are growing a great deal less tolerant of intrusive Muslim demands on their tolerance. There comes a time when people start to think enough is enough. In the end, democratic politicians stay in business by positioning themselves to be on the right side of that sort of 'mass market' issue and that is something Muslim 'community leaders' would do well to ponder when they do a little projecting into the future, assuming they actually want Muslims in Britain to have a future."
I see a direct connection between the attitude of Muslim extremists in Europe and the illegal alien extremists in the U.S...and I think people here are getting as fed up as the British are starting to get with the Muslim extremists.
Bill H
I agree, Patience is a very English name, but it sounds like the populace is starting to run out of it!
Bill H
Posted by: Bill H on October 8, 2006 04:14 PMdo we need a Dr Seuss lesson here?
every dollar for a trespasser is one less for legal citizens who paid into the system. period.
cheat your family to aid a criminal? seems like twisted logic to me.
Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on October 8, 2006 04:34 PMGuantánamo defense lawyer forced out of Navy
By Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers
NEWARK, N.J. -- The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Osama bin Laden's driver to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and won -- has been passed over for promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, 44, said last week he received word he had been denied a promotion to full-blown commander this summer, "about two weeks after" the Supreme Court sided against the White House and with his client, a Yemeni captive at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
Under the military's "up-or-out" promotion system, Swift will retire in March or April, closing a 20-year career of military service.
A Pentagon appointee, Swift embraced the alleged al-Qaida's sympathizer's defense with a classic defense lawyer's zeal, casting his captive client as an innocent victim in the dungeon of King George, a startling analogy for the attorney whose commander-in-chief is President (George) Bush.
"It was a pleasure to serve," said Swift, who added that he would defend Salim Hamdan again, even if he knew he would have to leave the Navy earlier than he wanted.
"All I ever wanted was to make a difference -- and in that sense, I think my career and personal satisfaction has been beyond my dreams," he said.
Swift, a Seattle University Law School graduate, also said he will continue to defend Hamdan as a civilian. The Seattle law firm of Perkins Coie, which provided pro-bono legal work in Hamdan's habeas corpus petition, has agreed to support Swift's defense of Hamdan in civilian life, he said.
Hamdan, 36, who has only a fourth-grade education, was captured along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan while fleeing the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, launched in reprisal for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He admits working as bin Laden's $200-a-month driver on a Kandahar farm but said he never joined al-Qaida and never fought anyone.
Still at Guantánamo as an enemy combatant, Hamdan halted his war-crimes trial by challenging the format's constitutionality through civilian courts.
The justices ruled in June that Bush overstepped his constitutional authority by creating ad hoc military tribunals for prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, sending the Pentagon back to the drawing board for the trials.
In the end, it developed a system very similar to those struck down, setting the stage for a likely new challenge this session.
In the opinion of Washington, D.C., attorney Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, Swift was "a no-brainer for promotion," given his devotion to the Navy, the law and his client.
But, he said, Swift is part of a long line of Navy defense lawyers "of tremendous distinction" who were not made full commander and "had their careers terminated prematurely."
"He brought real credit to the Navy," said Fidell. "It's too bad that it's unrequited love."
Swift's supervisor, the Pentagon's chief defense counsel for Military Commissions, said the career Navy officer had served with distinction.
"Charlie has obviously done an exceptional job, a really extraordinary job," said Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan, a former American Civil Liberties Union attorney, calling it "quite a coincidence" that the Navy promotion board passed on promoting Swift "within two weeks of the Supreme Court opinion."
In June, the prestigious National Law Journal listed Swift among the nation's top 100 lawyers, with such legal luminaries as former Bush administration Solicitor General Theodore Olson, 66; Stanford Law constitutional-law expert Kathleen Sullivan, 50; and former Bush campaign recount attorney Fred Bartlit, 73.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, Pentagon spokesman on Guantánamo topics, did not respond to a query about the up-or-out system by which Navy lieutenant commanders are retired if they aren't promoted.
Posted by: StefanFetch It on October 8, 2006 04:35 PMNo, I don't think a TV station would give you coverage because you feel offended by a group that's offended because the TV station is running an ad that offends them. The TV station is still running the ad.
Mike McGavick gets not only the TV ad on the station, but an opportunity to disagree that the ad is offensive and explain why. That's not media bias. That's a charge that's been answered in a fair way.
If someone is offended, I'll take their word for it. Your judgement is that they are "idiots."
I'm all for multiculturalism. I'll bet McGavick is too. That's basic Americanism. Nothing really new in our country on this topic. The type of issues raised by the Hate Free group are as old as the country. I'm glad to live in a place where they can raise them and be heard. And I trust voters to make judgements about whether they are right.
Skol!
Posted by: thor on October 8, 2006 04:53 PMand--why the heck do illegal aliens have any standing in the first place suing at MY expense here against my LEGAL companies?
trespassers are not entitled to squat. they're usually arrested in a normal world. Alice in Wonderland.
here is link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-07-immigrants-wendys_x.htm
my sentiments exactly, dont you have rights AFTER you become a legal citizen?
Bill H
Posted by: Bill H on October 8, 2006 05:29 PMThe movie also portrays a shared heritage of American immigrants and minorities. Chinese as well as black railroad workers are portrayed as equally oppressed. In the scene in which the Indian Chief speaks with Bart's family in Yiddish, three abused cultures are meshed together in harmony despite their obvious differences. Even as the townspeople are obliged to unite in order to fight their oppressors, Olsen Johnson announces, "All right! We'll give some land to the ni**ers, and the ch*nks. But we don't want the Irish!"
Thor above is full of you-know-what. The race-spoils crowd is part of the larger statist crowd and attacks on Republicans for stuff like this is done for leveraging. The MSM push it because they too are statists. Nothing new here. But, the only response is to expose these frauds.
A respectable media outlet would not have covered this as a story about Mike's possible insensitivity but would have covered it as another example of race spoils grifterism. The frauds and con artists that feign offense to setup their political marks are the real story here. Fraud and grifters all. The MSM, to their eternal shame, go along with the con game.
Anyone who says they were offended by the advertisement is by definition a fraud and a liar. No exceptions. Any media person who covers it as "news" is a fool.
Bill H
Posted by: Bill H on October 8, 2006 05:43 PMIt cuts deeper than politics, it is all about the culture war - those who don't want to see the USA with borders. They would rather be useful idiots for the one-world order George Soros anything goes crowd. Their motto; "Noone is illegal"
Posted by: KS on October 8, 2006 06:10 PM
I thought I read somewhere that Maria's family was super political, and her brother was charged with Murder in the 70's of a "renter" the family had. The charges were later dropped though. Not sure what the brother is doing now, or if he is even alive. But if my memory serves me right, after the arrest of the brother, her father drifted away from politics.....
Anyway, fun to watch. Even though we all know McGavick doesn't have a chance in hell of winning.
Posted by: iconoclast on October 9, 2006 09:37 AMlet trespassers hop legislators' fences & help themselves to their refrigerators, books, beds and medicine cabinets.
that's what's happening in a nut shell in America. trespassers taking things from us. it's not tolerated in our personal homes, so why is it ok in our nation as a whole?
oh--and does wearing the Halloween costume that says "hard worker" get a trespasser off free in YOUR yard? i thought not.
it's not bigotry or intolerance--it's entirely about following the laws of the place you want to visit or work. not cutting in line.
Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on October 9, 2006 10:45 AMPosted by: Smokie on October 9, 2006 08:09 PM
well, the alleged murderer of a White City (Seattle neighborhood) infant was first described as an illegal alien. (sorry--"undocumented immigr.")
in today's follow-up, he's charged, but now called simply a "man"--removing another fact and important tidbit for--presumably--pc reasons. i think it's newsworthy, especially the fact that he's here ILLEGALLY in the first place.
but--have my answer--the Seattle Times, i noticed, has a "VP of Diversity and Inclusion"--'nuff said. (i.e., Re-education Commandant).
Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on October 10, 2006 06:43 AM