Loretta Sanchez on Univision: The Vietnamese are trying to take my House seat
posted at 9:10 pm on September 22, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Breitbart, she of course means “our House seat.” I’m honestly curious: Does she talk this way in front of English-speaking audiences too, counting on her Absolute Moral Authority as a Democrat to shield her from criticism for racializing things with Van Tran, or is this something she saves for when — she thinks — big media isn’t listening? And another question: Did Univision challenge her when she said it or is this acceptable politicking there?
DoublePlusUndead points to a poll from last month showing the race between her and Tran within two thin points. Some press attention to this clip tomorrow could tip it. Think they’ll come through?
Update: Looks like it was the OC Weekly, a paper in Sanchez’s own district, that first broke this on Monday. Nice to see some press willing to cover it.
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Is this the one who beat Bob Dornan with a handful of questionable votes?
ddrintn on September 22, 2010 at 9:13 PM
But Democrats are so racially tolerant, or something.
John the Libertarian on September 22, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Una palabra: Ella es una puta.
Apologetic California on September 22, 2010 at 9:13 PM
What struck me most about this video, as a fluent Spanish speaker, was that her Spanish was very stilted. I wonder how fluent he really is? She seemed to be searching for the right word at one point.
Did anyone else pick up on that?
ericdondero on September 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM
ADIOS
picklesgap on September 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM
She deserves to lose for the stupidity alone. Plus, Van Tran? Cool name.
changer1701 on September 22, 2010 at 9:15 PM
That’s racist.
lorien1973 on September 22, 2010 at 9:15 PM
I don’t understand Hungarian.
Bishop on September 22, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Sanchez is an idiot who won her seat initially via illegal votes. I’m sure she thought her race-baiting comments were safely hidden because she was speaking in Spanish.
Oh, and Univision is a bunch of Leftards, too.
irishspy on September 22, 2010 at 9:15 PM
I’m overwhelmingly white so any opinion I might have must be racist. I’ll be in my cell flagellating myself mercilessly if anyone needs me.
ronsfi on September 22, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Macacca!
ThePrez on September 22, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I will be so happy if she gets tossed. I really think she is an empty head.
lexhamfox on September 22, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Since Van Tran has an “R” next to his name, he can safely be considered an Uncle Tran, and therefore race baiting is ok.
Liberal Rules mean never having to say you’re sorry.
trubble on September 22, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Someone tell Loretta how to say “Dey tuk er jerbs!!” en espanol.
Good Solid B-Plus on September 22, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I HATE it when Republicans focus on RACE as a way to win!
oh wait…she’s a DEMOCRAT?? Oh, ok…no problemo!
Justrand on September 22, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Well, more race baiting from a Democrat, I am not shocked.
bluemarlin on September 22, 2010 at 9:17 PM
[ddrintn on September 22, 2010 at 9:13 PM]
yeah
Dusty on September 22, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Archor Jorge Ramos did not challenged her assertion or said anything about the race-baiting. His favorite topic is amnesty, so he immediately asked her why does she expect Hispanics to go out and vote for democrats if they didn’t push for it when they have full control of congress.
You can find the original video here.
ujorge on September 22, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Absolutely…
lexhamfox on September 22, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Loretta who ?? Who is this waste of food?
Please don’t respond , fellow HAers. Honestly I couldn’t give a sh*t!
cableguy615 on September 22, 2010 at 9:19 PM
What a bigot and racist.
theotherone on September 22, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Tran interned for B1 Bob.
Hey Loretta: This payback is gonna be a b*tch.
annoyinglittletwerp on September 22, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Spend every day identifying people first or nearly so by their race (something all Democrats do), and stuff like this is inevitable.
David Shane on September 22, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Her mecaca moment?
Luka on September 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM
That got me laughing so hard, Im CRYING!!!
Good one!
catmman on September 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM
I remember “B-1″ Bob’s claim of illegal alien votes falling on deaf ears…
… Now she can suck on it!
Seven Percent Solution on September 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Judging individuals first and foremost by their race, gender, “class,” etc. is at the core Modern Liberalism. It’s what it’s all about, really.
visions on September 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Van Tran is the Republican candidate who is running against Rep. Loretta Sanchez.
Learn more about Van Tran at his campaign website:
http://joinvantran.com/
Let’s all do what we can to help Van Tran win this election!
wren on September 22, 2010 at 9:23 PM
She’s my pet.
docjeff on September 22, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Read his bio. It’s impressive.
Buh-bye, Lorrie!
Dusty on September 22, 2010 at 9:23 PM
This is the chick who STOLE that seat from that GOPer with the help of a bunch of illegal Mexicans in CA! She has a hell of a nerve!! Wow! She’s playing the Spanish-speaking race card against the Vietnamese guy!
SilentWatcher on September 22, 2010 at 9:24 PM
She would probably get really angry if she saw any Vietnamese sitting in the front of the bus.
Luka on September 22, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Calling Van Tran, a guy evaced here from Saigon a week before the fall in 1975, calling this guy – a true immigrant – “mui anti-immigrante und mui anti-spano”…
that’s some serious balls right there…
catmman on September 22, 2010 at 9:27 PM
This witch..with a capital ‘B’ is my congresscritter. Yes, she won her seat with fraudulent votes. Dornan had the data and records to show that the total of illegal votes garnered by her support groups was larger than the margin of victory (as I recall, she’s had the seat for a few elections now) but the GOP didn’t want to rock the boat.
As ever, I will happily vote for Tran.
Fighton03 on September 22, 2010 at 9:27 PM
+2
p40tiger on September 22, 2010 at 9:28 PM
I’ll top you, my congresshooker is Maxine Waters.
Apologetic California on September 22, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Sa langue espagnole est le pire que mon français.
rickyricardo on September 22, 2010 at 9:30 PM
This isn’t the only skeleton in this woman’s closet, IIRC.
She also walked away from a mortgage on a house in Sacramento which, by itself, isn’t a huge deal. The fact that the house was supposed to be paid for with her per-diem money as a Cali state legislator IS a big deal, though.
teke184 on September 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Allahpundit,
I had to watch it twice because her Spanish sounds so twisted (meaning, she doesn’t have her “Univisión neutral accent”. So it tricked me at first if she was Venezuelan or Mexican, but indeed she is.
Q1-Does she talk this way in front of English-speaking audiences too, counting on her Absolute Moral Authority as a Democrat to shield her from criticism for racializing things with Van Tran, or is this something she saves for when — she thinks — big media isn’t listening? I doubt it. She’s “Americanizing” herself. Don’t know anything about her, nor care. The fact that I am Latina does not mean I must or should support illegal immigration. That is ab-so-lute-ly back asswards. That seat shall not be used to promote or help illegal immigrants. If she’s doing so, she is violating Federal law. Period.
Q2- And another question: Did Univision challenge her when she said it or is this acceptable politicking there?Univisión is and has always been pro-illegal immigration; I got sick of watching it; one: Because there are so many Mexican news and ads I can tolerate; two: Because they spend 1/3 of the whole hour on this damn thing. I don’t think that they are hardball people; they save that stuff for government leaders or presidents and even then it doesn’t sound that significant or controversial.
ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM
BTW…John and Ken were going to devote some time to this today. Those guys have an audience and some publicity clout.
Fighton03 on September 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM
I tossed him a contribution to help kick her a$$ out. I hope he’s getting a kind of money bomb and I further hope his staff takes a pic of him when they tell him about it and post it for us.
Dusty on September 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Q3-Some press attention to this clip tomorrow could tip it. Think they’ll come through?Naaahh; I’d be surprised to find anything, I hope FOX covers it. Perhaps the benevolent alphabets will do. ;)
ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM
gah……you win….so to speak
Fighton03 on September 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM
“I’ll do all I can for Tran.” Catchy. Kinda like “Stay clean for Gene.”
DrStock on September 22, 2010 at 9:35 PM
“I’ll do all I can for Tran.” Catchy. Kinda like “Stay clean for Gene.”
DrStock on September 22, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Here is the link to Van Tran’s very impressive bio:
http://joinvantran.com/Group/Group.aspx?ID=1000060289
Van Tran reached Republican “Young Gun” status on Sept. 16, which means he has a real chance to win this race.
Let’s win this seat!
wren on September 22, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Ow my nose!…Ow my nose!…Ow my nose!…
Coronagold on September 22, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead…in the head.
Dark-Star on September 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Van Tran fan, man!
(so many possibilities for his marketing)
TugboatPhil on September 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM
What happened to it? Did you snort a fizzy/alcoholic/hot drink out of it from laughing? :-D
Mary in LA on September 22, 2010 at 9:37 PM
+10
Thread winner.
av8tr on September 22, 2010 at 9:38 PM
FIFM. trons = snort backwards
Mary in LA on September 22, 2010 at 9:38 PM
This is why they push bilingual never-teach-you-English education in the public schools. Because they think you can say macaca all you want as long as the gringos don’t understand
Sekhmet on September 22, 2010 at 9:40 PM
Marsha Brady.
Coronagold on September 22, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Spanish is a very soothing beautiful sound. Yet this was screeching worse than nails across a blackboard.
Oleta on September 22, 2010 at 9:42 PM
I hope so. But, in the immortal words of my late father: “Don’t hold your breath.”
tgharris on September 22, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Spanish is a very soothing beautiful sound.
I beg to differ.
Coronagold on September 22, 2010 at 9:43 PM
Seriously, this election season has been hilarious.
sandberg on September 22, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Spanish is a very soothing beautiful sound. Yet this was screeching worse than nails across a blackboard.
Oleta on September 22, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Tell me ’bout it. Doesn’t sound so pretty when you have to raise your voice to get your point across..ohh childhood memories
ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Child’s play. My old rep was Nasty Pelosi. I moved to Savannah because of her.
truth2power on September 22, 2010 at 9:45 PM
Learn some and use it in bed. Trust me, Mr. PPF likey ;)
ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:46 PM
You think Spanish is tough, try talking to a Brazilian.
Coronagold on September 22, 2010 at 9:47 PM
I’ve got you both beat. My old rep was Sheila Jackson-Lee….
djm1992 on September 22, 2010 at 9:51 PM
I’ll top you, my congresshooker is Maxine Waters.
Apologetic California on September 22, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Mine’s Triple J.
annoyinglittletwerp on September 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Loretta is a classic opportunist politician. She ran a few unsuccessful campaigns fro city council, congress under her married name Loretta Brixey and as a republican, she lost everyone of them.
Then a light went on, she changed back to her madden name Sanchez, starts speaking with a Spanish accent and changes to a Democrat! Bing! She wins!
DSchoen on September 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Oh man, this is fire. Straight fire.
swamp_yankee on September 22, 2010 at 9:53 PM
You know in PR we used to get lots of soap operas from Brazil (they were good!) so dubbing was involved. But if I read anything in Portugese, I will understand 80% of it and translate it. Yeap. Speaking it is way out of my league even tho I’ve been told if you hang out with Brazilians, you get it quick. I guess from Spanish to Portugese is not a big jump. Heh I can translate some Papiamento from Aruba!
ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Es una pinchi puta sin verguenza. Que onda con esa chica? Se transformo a una bruja. Tan fea!
True_King on September 22, 2010 at 9:55 PM
I came back from reading his bio and I thought I was not gonna make it! Geesh! Anti illegal immigrant? That’s the best you got? She wants to keep her seat out of spite of angry Latinos.
Go for it. Me thinks she’s gonna lose it too.
ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Eine sehr verrückte Frau.
Col.John Wm. Reed on September 22, 2010 at 9:57 PM
In other news: I am excited that Queen Rania is my friend on Twitter. She’s following lil’ ol’ me! :D
ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Sanchez?
…….. EL BOZO!!!
PappyD61 on September 22, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Spanish is a very smooth and beautiful sound?
I think that depends on what dialect and accent you are using. Classic Spanish with a Castilian accent can be very pretty and romantic at times. But some variations of “Trade Winds” Spanish can sound like machine gun, very fast and frenetic. I don’t find those accents or dialects to be very romantic sounding in general.
If you want romantic sounding then speak classic French. It “is like wiping your arse with silk” as mentioned in the Matrix Reloaded.
Hawthorne on September 22, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Geesh! Anti illegal immigrant?
[ProudPalinFan on September 22, 2010 at 9:56 PM]
The subtitles indicated Sanchez said anti-immigrant, not anti-illegal immigrant. I don’t speak Spanish; was there a nuance that was missed in the translation?
Dusty on September 22, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Haha, that’s pretty bad. However, you can not top the woman who said this during the 1992 riots : “If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable.” Her pet issue remains that the CIA introduced crack to the ghetto. And of course, she’s corrupt as hell.
Apologetic California on September 22, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Schadenfraude!
I cant over that clip.
I hail from the race baiting, identity politics capital of the world, Boston (Maybe SF/Berkeley can give us a run for our money).
I know its wrong. This ad is so wrong. But I love it so much.
swamp_yankee on September 22, 2010 at 10:04 PM
I’m listening to John Batchelor’s national radio show now. His guest just listed Loretta Sanchez as being one of the top 4 vulnerable Democrat Congressional seats in California.
But according to the FEC.gov website, Van Tran is going to need some financial help. As of 6/30/10,
Van Tran’s Cash on Hand = $287,551
Loretta Sanchez’s Cash on Hand = $1,267,685
http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch/HSRefreshCandList.do
Go Van Tran!
http://joinvantran.com
wren on September 22, 2010 at 10:07 PM
BTW, Van Tran is NOT A LONG SHOT. This one of the seats that will flip when the House flips. The race is very competitive so your donations will go far. He actually received more votes than Ms. Puta in the primary: a tall feat since the GOP is outnumbered by 15 points in the Central OC.
Donate joinvantran.com
Apologetic California on September 22, 2010 at 10:07 PM
Người phụ nữ là một phân biệt chủng tộc.
CWforFreedom on September 22, 2010 at 10:07 PM
Lets go real conservatives:
B1 Bob! B1 Bob! B1 Bob! B1 Bob! B1 Bob! B1 Bob!
The ghost of Bob Dornan lives. God bless you my friend.
May the forces of identity politics that defeated you suffer an ignominious defeat created of their own bile.
swamp_yankee on September 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM
…come now…one can generally count on this sort of racial atomizing getting the “dog bites man” from the establisment press….
…it’s a long-established tactic by politicians in general, and collectivist politicians in general, to balkanize the overall population — even in a market as small as an urban congressional district — dividing citizens from one another into “demographics”…by age and gender “national origin”, as well as by the many designer colors on offer…they’d even try to divide neighbors from one another by “creed”, if anyone actually knew what that was supposed to mean….
…look at Marx…he even assigns moral catagories by ones place in the economic pecking order…the less in control of your future you are, the more moral you are…the solution being NOT to see that you get more economic and personal sovereignty, but to impose HIS version of authoritarianism over you…tyranny the heart of an accountant….
…after all, people are at their most gullible when the herd’s been cut down and they see themselves as part of a group with interests impinged upon by some other group…the Tutsis and the Hutus aren’t anything new in history, in other words…and for the politician, such a situation is a target-rich environment…all they have to do is either to espouse the interests of the most likely (read: clueless) “demographic”, or (in grudge-politics’ most sinister incarnation) be one of the group being “worked”, and lead them down the garden path…at the behest of the “greater good” (read: party)….
…ever hear a pol appealing to every listener regardless of grievance, as a collection of citizens, and you’re listening either to a novice or to a true-believer…somebody who, howver flawed his or her beliefs and ideas, at least actually believes what he or she is saying…heady stuff….
…besides, if the last four decades have taught us anything (and Obama’s victory indicates that it hasn’t), it’s that “minorities” can get away with the sorts of behavior they themselves condemn in the “dominant culture”, so long as it’s in their own communities and especially if it’s in another language….
…oh…and I didn’t hear her say “my seat”…I heard her say “this seat”, although the overall point of her seeming to think that the seat is a sinecure of the Hispanic community is preserved….
Puritan1648 on September 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM
Bob Dornan will have his revenge.
A buzzed Swamp Yankee is on the prowl and his loss has left me sick in my stomach years. It is time B1 Bob.
swamp_yankee on September 22, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Good ol B-1 Bob! Whatever happened to him?
I remember that election. She won this seat while he was out running for President or something.
JellyToast on September 22, 2010 at 10:12 PM
RCP has one poll up from the end of August indicating he’s within 2. RCP has kept it in the leans D column, not in Toss-up, but it looks very doable for Tran.
When were the primaries?
Dusty on September 22, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Eine sehr verrückte Frau.
Col.John Wm. Reed on September 22, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Ja! Das stimmt!
Rudemeister on September 22, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Oh, by the way it the poll was 45-43 so she’s under water and there’s room for movement — 13 points unless there’s a riff-raff in the race, too.
Dusty on September 22, 2010 at 10:17 PM
The Primary election in California was on June 8.
wren on September 22, 2010 at 10:19 PM
dumbass.
blatantblue on September 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Yep, B1 got screwed. Loretta won by preaching identity politics, (She herself was a former Republican). But the grass is greener in Orange County when you pander to the rapidly growing Hispanic population by calling the white people like B1, aka Patriotic Americans, racist.
While B1 was saving the country, Loretta, the race baiter, was doing then what she is doing now, race baiting, but beating up on white guys only has so much mileage. Its whities an Asians in shallow Loretta’s world
swamp_yankee on September 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM
I lived for many years in Sanchez’s district, which is on the border of Little Saigon. There is no single ethnic majority but large populations of Hispanics and Asians. Trust me, this was a blatant anti-Asian manipulation of her Hispanic constituency. She probably just insured a large Asian turnout in a year when the Democrats are uninspired in general.
Van Tran is an appealing candidate and her first serious challenge since she beat Bob Dornan by 979 votes in 1996. Tran is well known for serving his community ably in Sacramento and locally.
When Sanchez, a former Republican, first ran against Bob Dornan, she used her then married surname, Brixley, and lost. Two years later, she returned as Loretta Sanchez and won. She ignores her constituents until election time and then plays the Hispanic card.
Terrie on September 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM
June, he won.
Apologetic California on September 22, 2010 at 10:23 PM
She’s a multi-ethnic racist. I went to college in her district and a friend of mine went to a Latino group’s dinner where she spoke (IN SPANISH to college grads!) badmouthing white people. It was so bad people got up and left including my friend.
PattyJ on September 22, 2010 at 10:28 PM
When is Eric Holder going to sue Sanchez?
MeatHeadinCA on September 22, 2010 at 10:29 PM
K, thanks. I was just trying to decide how to read the poll in light of when the primaries took place. It’s too bad there was only one poll.
Dusty on September 22, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Sanchez, just another reason that California is going 3rd world.
GarandFan on September 22, 2010 at 10:32 PM
You’re absolutely correct. Loretta Brixey, opps I mean Sanchez. Until she decided to run as a Dem and change her name to Sanchez she spoke like any other kid born and raised in Southern Cal.
She’s as fake as her now blond hair.
DSchoen on September 22, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Eso es rediculoso!
Por que!
Ella es muy mal.
“Van Tran que es muy anti-imigrante, y es muy anti-Hispano!’
No es verdad!
Ella es el Diablo!
Puulllleeeaaasse!
What a smear this lady is putting forth!
Van Tran is anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic/anti-Latino?
How does she arrive at that?
She is trying to drumb up hatred against him in an ethnocentric war that she is declaring. Based on Loretta Sanchez’s diarrhea of the mouth it would’nt surprise me if Van Tran were a gazillion times more intelligent, and has a better attitude than she.
She does not have to prove a thing. All she has to do is toss enough excrement at the wall and hope it sticks, ignorgint the fact that Tran is of Vietnamese ancestry.
So now we have racist blacks and racist Hispanics-Latinos using racism, race baiting, race mongering, bigotry, and racial hatred to score points with their Klan, so they can hold onto political power.
“The Klan with the Tan” as Professor, Dr. Walter Williams calls some of them.
Asians-Orientals are the targets of reverse discrimination, are NOT included when blacks and Hispanics use the word “minorities” to try for government largess, goodies, preferential treatment, and free passes, and Asians-Orientals have been and are frequently discriminated against in College entrance consideration and other areas.
Entertainment thugs of the so called “preferred minorities” get away with racist attacks against Asians-Orientals more often than a clock ticks while the second hand moves, mocking and trashing Asians-Orientals, as blacks and Hispanics do against Caucasians, yet blacks and Hispanics get a big free pass in doing so.
If blacks and Hispanics want to see racism, it is the speck in their own eye. Their voluminous vomitting of racist diatribes is nauseating.
Please, go look in the mirror, and end your racist diatribes.
In that video clip Loretta Sanchez is seething to overflowing with racism and hatred. What a vicious person!
Now, maybe Loretta Sanchez will go away.
William2006 on September 22, 2010 at 10:40 PM
What stops her from using the same tactics she used to get the seat in the 1st place?
BruceB on September 22, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Liberals make me sick.
Elizabetty on September 22, 2010 at 10:49 PM
I am glad Obama brought about a post-racial America.
JamesB on September 22, 2010 at 10:52 PM
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