A MayorNo supporter exchanges with Tim Steller of the Arizona Daily Star
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Dear Tim, I heard your interview with Bill O'Reilly, and as usual, he turned you into toast like he does everyone else who comes on the show to apologize for the Mexican government. Are you kidding when you said the Mexicans are helping to stem the illegal tide by sealing their own Southern border? That has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH HELPING THE UNITED STATES, and everything to do with helping Mexico with its own illegal immigration problem. The Mexicans are the world's worst hypocrites. They care about illegal immigration only if it affects them, not us, and they actively encourage their poorest, brownest citizens to go to the U.S. so the white power elite can continue to run the country (into the ground). Now Tim, on the count of three, you will wake up from your politically correct stupor and see things they way they really are....
Name Withheld, Ph.D
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Dear Mr. Name Withheld, Ph.D.:
It never ceases to amaze me what people will say to someone else via e-mail or on the Internet that they would not say in face-to-face conversation. Even doctors of philosophy sully themselves.
The funny thing is, if O'Reilly had truly been interested in what I've reported, and if he had given me a decent chance to talk about it, my reporting would have strongly supported the conclusion Mexico isn't doing much about the U.S. border. Indeed, my reporting on Mexico's southern-border plan showed that it has little significance for the U.S.
But - as I suspected before but truly found out Thursday - O'Reilly often uses people as props to vent his opinions. He was only half-interested in what I know. I've appeared on other talk shows, and usually the hosts are truly interested in finding out what you know. They ask questions, rather than setting traps.
Take one example: After a tirade during his interview with me, O'Reilly came to the thumping conclusion: Why doesn't Mexico care about the border? That was his question to me. That's not really a question, though; it's a trap. Now, if he had asked me an open-ended question, such as, "What chance does Grupo Beta have of making a significant impact on illegal border crossings?", (The ostensible theme of the segment) I could have laid out my evidence. For example: Grupo Beta in Nogales is so small and mired in bureaucracy that for weeks agents have been paying for the gas in their three patrol vehicles with their own money. That's a detail that didn't come out thanks to the incompetence of the interviewer.
As to the "white power elite" that benefits from the immigrant flow. I've written a lot about who benefits from illegal immigration too. But O'Reilly didn't ask me about that either.
You should consider all this when you watch that show.
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Oh, believe me Tim, had I been interviewing you, I would have given you the same treatment (or worse) that Bill gave you. :-) (People who know me would say I pull no punches whether it's in person or by email.) Frankly, I think Bill O'Reilly is a Godsend regardless of whether the show is constructed around his opinion or unbiased reporting. Basically, I am FED UP with the liberal media giving us the "human interest" stories about the hardships of the illegal immigrants instead of the truth about the problems it is breeding. (If you have ever read the LA Times, you'd know what I'm talking about.) No one EVER writes about the truth. (Your editors will see to that.)
Yesterday I was talking to a young schoolteacher who works in a south-central LA elementary school. She told me that most of the kids in her school were children of illegals, but the most shocking part was how much ethnic hatred there was. The Mexican kids hate the Central American kids and vice versa, the lighter skinned kids hate the darker skinned kids, and they all hate the black kids. The Hispanic parents nearly rioted the day the black principal first reported to work. This young schoolteacher was told by her administrators not to talk about Jewish Holocaust victims too much and to emphasize the non-Jewish victims because the Hispanics believe Jews are the Christ-Killer! Why don't we ever hear stories in the LA Times (or Arizona Star) about that stuff? Or the fact that 25% of California inmates are illegal? Or that 60% of births in (nearly bankrupt) LA County hospitals are to illegals who refuse to pay a dime but have no problem sending their money back to their home countries in the form of remittances? Gosh, if you guys started reporting the truth about what goes on here or in Mexico, the citizenry might actually get angry, and we couldn't have that now, could we? Anyway, feel free to pass along my email to your editors. I'm sure they will get a good laugh out of it. -MM
P.S. BTW, the "Ph.D.", which is my real title, is not to be arrogant, but to remind people that I am the furthest thing from an un-educated rube with ignorant opinions. I'm sure you get plenty of those, but that isn't me.
