This article stands out for me Mr. Rich goes where the mainstream media, our elected politicians from both parties and even the President are POOPIN IN THEIR PANTS AFRAID TO SAY.
The bottom line in this rise to all this hate from the Right (and it is all hate there is nothing else there) is their centerpiece slogan:
GIVE US OUR COUNTRY BACK!
Raise your hand if you do not know what that means. Gosh… It’s kinda like Rich implies, denying the what of it is like a Jim Burton movie.
I also enjoy his point that this has turned political correctness on its ear. It is not politically inccorrect to impunge racism or bigotry on anyone. In fact even Mr. Rich must succumb to the new kidner gentler word for it, "nativism". Here are some excerpts, though the entire article is worth the read.
If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem
By FRANK RICH May 1, 2010DON’T blame it all on Arizona. The Grand Canyon State simply happened to be in the right place at the right time to tilt over to the dark side.
The more you examine the law’s provisions and proponents, the more you realize that it’s the latest and (so far) most vicious battle in a far broader movement that is not just about illegal immigrants — and that is steadily increasing its annexation of one of America’s two major political parties.
The crowd that wants Latinos to show their papers if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” of illegality is often the same crowd still demanding that the president produce a document proving his own citizenship. Lest there be any doubt of that confluence, Rush Limbaugh hammered the point home after Obama criticized Arizona’s action. “I can understand Obama being touchy on the subject of producing your papers,” he said. “Maybe he’s afraid somebody’s going to ask him for his.” Or, as Glenn Beck chimed in about the president last week: “What has he said that sounds like American?”
To the “Take Back America” right, the illegitimate Obama is Illegal Alien No. 1.
McCain, like Arizona, shouldn’t be singled out for censure: He is far from alone in cowering before his party’s extremists. Neither Mitch McConnell, John Boehner nor Eric Cantor dared say a word against Arizona’s law.
In this Alice in Wonderland inversion of reality, it’s politically incorrect to entertain a reasonable suspicion that race may be at least a factor in what drives an action like the Arizona immigration law. Any racism in America, it turns out, is directed at whites. Beck called Obama a “racist.” Newt Gingrich called Sonia Sotomayor a “Latina woman racist.”
The rage of 2010 is far more incendiary than anything that went down in 1988, and it will soon leap from illegal immigration to other issues in other states. Boycott the Diamondbacks and Phoenix’s convention hotels if you want to punish Arizona, but don’t for a second believe that it will stop the fire next time.