so here we are
Someone give this man a book contract!
What an odd set of values a large portion of this country has adopted. Sending one's fellow citizens to fight in a distant wars is somehow the hallmark of strength and courage. But standing up a few feet away from the President of the United States, and delivering very substantive and stinging criticism while knowing that nobody in the room would support you, is an act of uncouth rudeness, even cowardice. The national media is, with few exception, beyond salvation.
Someone give this man a job!
According to one account by people who have listened to all the tapes, American Airlines people were anxious to keep what was going on secret. An American Airlines tape, according to Gail Sheehy in the New York Observer, shows the managers were concerned about keeping things secret. People who listened to the tapes said there were statements including the following: "Keep it close,’’ "keep it quiet’’, "Let’s keep this among ourselves.’’
So in those terrifying minutes before the first hit, two brave women on the phone inside Flight 11 were calmly telling American Airlines ground officials exactly what was happening.
The airline’s reaction: Nothing. It did absolutely nothing.
Someone call Errol Morris, because this chick's a funny/sad documentary waiting to happen!
Are any of the people Malkin cites "among Mexico's intellectual elite and political class"?
Er, no.
Can she cite any examples of those "elite" -- or hey, even some shoot-from-the-hip right-wing pundit -- advocating "Reconquista"?
Er, no.
As for MEChA, there is no instance of "Reconquista!" advocacy on its record. The phrase does not appear in either El Plan de Santa Barbara or El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, two of the 1969-era documents that get the "MEChA is racist" crowd all worked up. Nor can you find it in the more comprehensive, and current, "Philosophy of MEChA". None of them talk about returning Southwest territory to Mexico.
Someone buy me this or I'll join the Scientology thingy!
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