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Re: Fox News faces heat for using the word 'illegals' when referring to wetbacks

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From: Lauren Orda
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:35
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<striker714@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:37:12 -0600, Jose@Casa_Mierda wrote:
>
>>Media Matters today is taking Fox News to task for the network's 
>>persistent
>>use of the word "illegals" as shorthand for illegal immigrants.
>>
>>The media watchdog organization cited this on-screen text during today's
>>edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: "Estimates: 980,000 illegals living in 
>>FL."
>>
>>Media Matters described Fox News' pattern of using "illegals" as a 
>>pejorative
>>and unprofessional way to refer to immigrants in the United States without 
>>legal status.
>>
>>Says Media Matters in a statement:
>>
>>Prominent journalists' associations have denounced the use of the term 
>>"illegals"
>>by the news media, noting that the term "criminaliz[es] the person, not 
>>the action,"
>>and "skew[s] the public debate on immigration issues."
>>
>>http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/archives/2010/02/post_344.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fimmigration+%28NewsWatch%3A+Immigration%29
>
> If some folks want something more scientific-sounding how about this:
>
> "mestizo parasitosis rodenta";
>
> with an apology to many useful four-footed rodents.
>
> striker

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duch and walks like a duck, then it 
sure as hell is a duck!!!

Maybe they should be referred to as illegal legals, which evens out the 
issue!!!! 
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