Video: Tancredo’s new immigration ad pretty much what you’d expect
posted at 7:08 pm on December 4, 2007 by Allahpundit
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What really cinches it is the narrator’s inflection on “raping kids.”
Second verse, same as the first. Instead of focusing on jobs and benefits, he turns the issue into a hamfisted “red scare”-era newsreel about barbarians coming to burn and/or pillage America. Those victims’ photos didn’t come from nowhere; as much as the left may pretend otherwise, gang violence is a component of having open borders. But it’s only a component, and the more he tries to inflate it the more sensationalistic and less convincing it becomes.
Even money says his next ad is about illegals importing exotic diseases.
Update: From Slublog in the comments, “He’s turned immigration reform from a serious campaign issue into what looks like a promo for Dateline NBC.”
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He’s right here, but the emphasis should be on how illegal immigration saps our socialist system of funds.
Tzetzes on December 5, 2007 at 3:13 AM
What’s the matter with this ad? The things that are mentioned in the ad are frequently fodder for HA & MM and rightly so. Aren’t we, unnecessarily, afflicted with illegal gangsters, rape, murder and drunken sots killing citizens on our highways and road? And isn’t that just what we know has come over the border? What of what we don’t know?
Good ad.
thegreatbeast on December 5, 2007 at 8:17 AM
Yes, there probably are. But scaremongering, either through statistical studies or that ad, is not the most efficient way to communicate an important truth.
And what would be the most efficient way to communicate this important truth? The media? Excuse me while I snort in disgusted disbelief.
And screw statistics. Isn’t ONE child being raped when it could have been prevented by enforcing our laws too many?
thebaldchick on December 5, 2007 at 9:15 AM
This ad is only “scare-mongering” for those who don’t have a grip on the dark reality of the war we’re in. This ad is only a “set-back” for those who wish to compromise on this issue.
The truth is that it’s as bad as that ad portrays and worse.
The truth is uncomfortable, isn’t it? Because it might actually make people think that half-measures and compromises won’t work and that we better do something about this – NOW.
Redhead Infidel on December 5, 2007 at 9:19 AM
And yes, I called it a WAR. Watch those panties wad up real tight.
Redhead Infidel on December 5, 2007 at 9:22 AM
Romeo13 on December 4, 2007 at 7:13 PM
Agreed. I’m so tired of these mamby-pamby fuzzy-wuzzy types that are more concerned with hurting someone’s feewings than dealing with a real crisis. Too bad Tancredo’s a single-issue candidate, though.
jdawg on December 5, 2007 at 9:28 AM
What about them? Let them come here legally, do the work, then go home.
jdawg on December 5, 2007 at 9:29 AM
And yesterday’s Phoenix news reported the police have to deal with four or five illegal immigrant Mexican gang vs. illegal immigrant Mexican gang kidnappings (against each other) every week…
desertdweller on December 5, 2007 at 9:58 AM
Actually the ad seems aimed at Black folk like myself. It says the same things a lot of Blacks have been saying (I’ve certainly beat this horse on my blog) and Tanc is riding in to scoop up we minorities of a minority waiting for a candidate to say “We’re picking a side-The black folk” and at least pretend to care about what even the Southern Poverty Law Center has called ethnic cleansing by Latino gangs of Black areas.
Tancredo came out to offer aid to the families of the Newark murder victims when all the other candidates (including “Black guy Barack) said nothing. My mother passes through Newark every day to get to work, my family is from Essex County and they’re scared, and so am I.
Tanc can’t win but if more Republicans came right out and said what Blacks know first hand, that gangs of Latin American illegals are as violent as the klan, we could get more Blacks into the GOP as they we see the left giving tacit approval to MS-13 et al to rape and murder our children.
Rob Taylor on December 5, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Allah,
What about fruit-pickers who are taking jobs but otherwise doing no harm?
Please.
These “fruit pickers” commit a crime by obtaining false social security documents.
These “fruit pickers” commit a crime by presenting false documents to employers.
These “fruit pickers” commit crimes by collecting money under false identities.
These “fruit pickers” commit crimes by obtaining insurance under false identities.
No harm here. Enjoy your 10-cents-cheaper lettuce.
bucktowndusty on December 5, 2007 at 11:24 AM
Thank you.
baldilocks on December 5, 2007 at 2:20 PM
Rob brings up an excellent point…
Now….just imagine if that warning had been about racist white gangs instead of racist latino ones.
But instead of widespread public outrage and extensive local news coverage, it instead gets swept under Mayor VillarMEChA’s carpet.
As a valley-dweller myself, I was not even aware of the problem until I happened to hear about it on Al Rantel’s radio program.
Black Americans in 2007 being warned about walking down their own gawdamn city streets………..just shameful.
The Ugly American on December 5, 2007 at 3:04 PM
This problem exists, Tancredo did not create it. Is Patterico guilty of “red scare”-style propaganda? He addresses the same issues.
aengus on December 5, 2007 at 7:06 PM
Incidentally why is the “raping kids” angle gleefully taken for granted when the Vatican is being ridiculed yet becomes reds-under-the-bed McCarthyite paranoid hyperbole when the rapists are illegal aliens from the planet Mexico?
aengus on December 5, 2007 at 7:12 PM
What an odd approach to debating. Instead of refuting his arguments just ring someone up and have your opponent removed. No one running, even Ron Paul, deserves to be “kicked” out. If the other R’s have a better argument they can debate it – hence the word debate.
aengus on December 5, 2007 at 7:16 PM
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