Fox Defaulted To Bad Economic Policy During Debt Ceiling Debate: During the debt ceiling debate, Fox relentlessly pushed economic policies and positions that experts have said would be harmful to the economy, including downplaying default concerns, openly advocating for default and a credit downgrade, and actively lobbying for a balanced budget amendment. [ READ MORE ]

Elsewhere at MSNBC, the resident bigot, white supremacist Patrick J. Buchanan — while on Al Sharpton’s 6 PM show discussing President Obama’s debt deal — referred to the president as “Your Boy:”

“And let me tell you, your boy, Barack Obama, caved in on it in 2010 and he’ll cave in on it again,” he said.

Sharpton pounced.

“My what? My president, Barack Obama? What did you say?” he asked. “He’s your boy in the ring, he’s your fighter,” Buchanan responded.

“He’s nobody’s boy,” Sharpton thundered back. “He’s your president and he’s our president. And that’s what y’all have got to get through your head.”

The Bigotry of Patrick J. Buchanan; Calls Obama Al Sharpton’s ‘Boy’ on Debt Deal [ Pat Buchanan's Bigotry: Endorsed By White Nationalists ]

Sensing an opportunity to help her maintain relevance, the former ½ governor of Alaska, serial ding-bat Sarah ‘DEATH’ Palin — threw in her racist hat. Apparently, vice president Joe Biden or a staffer had referred to the tea-bagging debt-ceiling hostage takers as — terrorists, which indeed they are — home grown domestic terrorists. Bone-crushing hyenas, for good measure.

Dingbat Sarah pounced — and went straight to her favorite Fox anchor — the relentless, syphilitic liar Sean Hannity a.k.a Sean KLANnity, to unearth her despicable 2008 claim that “Obama is Paling Around With Terrorists”

½ Governor, DingBat Sarah Palin Plays The Terror Card on Obama, Invokes Bill Ayers!

Ding-Bat Sarah Palin And Mr. Syphilis Sean Hannity Use Criticism Of The Tea Party As An Excuse To Bring Up Bill Ayers. SEE: Fox Hypocrisy: Calling Opponents Terrorists Edition

On Wednesday night, Sean Hannity attacked President Obama for hosting a birthday fundraiser, claiming that Obama was “turning his back on the American people” at a time when the nation is struggling with debt and a slow economy.

During the segment, Hannity aired a graphic prepared by the “Fox News Brainroom” that claimed Obama had headlined 37 “re-election fundraisers” “to date,” while President George W. Bush had only headlined three fundraisers “as of June 2003.” [ READ MORE ]

Racist & Personal: GOP’s Contemptible Disrespect of Obama Goes Beyond The Debt Fight

Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Worst Persons: Martin, Buchanan, Lamborn

Limbaugh Criticizes Republicans For Accepting Default Deal: “We Could Have Hung All Of This On Obama“

Bolling Laments “Horrendous Economy” Inherited By Reagan, But Ignores Severity Of Recession Obama Inherited

Fox Ties Someone’s Interpretation Of The Three Little Pigs To Obama Trying To “Share The Sacrifice“

Gutfeld Compares Panel Created By Debt Deal To “Fatal Attraction When You Thought Glenn Close Was Dead”

Bolling Attacks Obama For Giving Bin Laden A “Muslim-Approved Burial“

Bolling Rushes To Defense Of Alabama’s Controversial Law Targeting “Illegals“ [ FOX REVIVES IMMIGRATION MYTHS ]

Birther & Anti-Immigrant Bigot Lou Dobbs’ Conspiracy Theory: Moody’s Ratings Agency Is “Pushing Tax Hikes In Support Of The Administration”

Dobbs Falsely Claims Arizona’s Apartheid Immigration Law Has A “Prohibition Against Racial Profiling“

Dear Friend,

Immigrants are for sale in this country. Sold to private prison corporations who are locking them up for obscene profits!

Here are the top 3 things YOU need to know about the Private Prison money scheme:

1. The victims: Private prisons don’t care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives.

2. The players: CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations?combined these private prisons currently profit more than $5 billion a year.

3. The money: These private prisons have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state anti-immigrant laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates.

How is all this possible? They profit from locking people up.

Will you stand with Cuéntame’s “Immigrants For Sale” campaign and become part of a nationwide network of Prison Watchers as we follow and expose the players, the money and the victims in this corrupt money making racket? YES, I WANT TO!

Yours,
Robert Greenwald, Axel Caballero, Ofelia Yañez
and Brave New Foundation’s Cuéntame team

I invite you to join Cuéntame on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

American Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia

Reference: American Immigration Concentration Camps (Gulags)

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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana lawmakers started a push Wednesday for a crackdown on illegal immigration modeled after a controversial Arizona law that is being challenged by the federal government.

A Senate panel heard more than four hours of testimony on a bill that Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, the bill’s author, said would “put teeth into existing law — to say the citizens of Indiana welcome legal immigration but adamantly reject illegal immigration.”

It would do so in part by having law enforcement officers ask for proof of citizenship or legal immigration status from anyone they stop for violating any law or ordinance, if those officers have “reasonable suspicion” that the person is not here legally.

“The inability to speak the English language, I believe, will be a key component or a key factor for law enforcement to establish reasonable suspicion,” Delph told the committee.

   Xenophobe Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel

The bill allows officers to arrest those they have probable cause to believe are illegal immigrants and requires prisons to check the legal status of inmates. [ READ MORE ]

References:

1. Senate panel passes bill to crack down on illegal immigration
2. Arizona Apartheid

Immigrant Hate & Xenophobia PLAYLIST

It was just a matter of time. I saw it coming.

Fox, the totally biased, race-baiting channel, the dung-pit of bigots preaching loudly to a thoroughly racist and delusional Tea-Party America — finally snared the mother of all xenophobes, anti-Obama “birther,” Lou Dobbs — recently fired from CNN for reckless, extortionist anti-immigrant hate.

The Minister of ‘Propaganda and Enlightenment‘ — is back on TV!

Media Matters For America Reports: Dobbs left CNN after repeatedly embarrassing the network by dabbling in absurd conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birth certificate. Dobbs also caused friction at the network due to his years-long, falsehood ridden crusade against illegal immigration. So, Dobbs is heading to Fox, where they apparently aren’t bothered by such things. (He has already been popping up on Fox News in recent months to misinform their viewers about immigration.) [ READ MORE ]

For the record, this anti-immigrant, racist buffoon — is “happily” married to a Mexican! I wrote about it here.

Lou Dobbs – The King of Xenophobia (Playlist)

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RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: An exclusive report about politics and retaliation, and a politician who was supposed to be a rising star in the Republican Party, apparently running on fear — fear of exposure.

It starts with the issue of illegal immigration. As you can tell by the sheer volume of anti-immigrant politicking in the country right now, the illegal immigration problem must really be exploding. That is true if by exploding you mean that it is down 67 percent.

The Pew Hispanic Center, which is widely considered to be the most authoritative source of numbers on this subject, they have release a new report saying that in the past decade, the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States has dropped by two-thirds.

So, the sudden uptick in yelling about illegal immigration, blaming immigrants for everything from Obama being elected to swine flu to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, that is not happening because illegal immigration is getting worse. It is actually getting better.

The uptick in anti-immigration stuff is not really about immigration at all. It is about what makes good politics for anti-immigration politicians. And bits what make big profits, apparently, for some very well connected people. [ READ MORE ]

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July 22, 2010: KPHO investigates ties between the Brewer administration and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) – and how the governor’s rhetoric on border security may be damaging Arizona’s tourism industry for the benefit of CCA.

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