The right-wingnuts are using swine flu as an excuse for racism and xenophobia. as if they needed an excuse.
(MSNBC)
“No contact anywhere with an illegal alien!” conservative talk show host Michael Savage advised his U.S. listeners this week on how to avoid the swine flu. “And that starts in the restaurants" where he said, you “don’t know if they wipe their behinds with their hands!”
And Thursday, Boston talk radio host Jay Severin was suspended after calling Mexican immigrants "criminalians" during a discussion of swine flu and saying that emergency rooms had become "essentially condos for Mexicans."
That’s tepid compared to some of the xenophobic reactions spreading like an emerging virus across the Internet. “This disgusting blight is because MEXICANS ARE PIGS!” an anonymous poster ranted on the “prison planet” forum, part of radio host and columnist Alex Jones’ Web site. (more...)
Margaret Carlson joins Countdown to discuss wingnut Michelle Malkin's allegations (putting it charitably) that "uncontrolled immigration" is to blame for the swine flu.
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