Chavez hits bottom, while Gerson steps from the shadows

I've known for a lot of years that Linda Chavez is a bad actor. But her latest column, on the immigration debate, is shockingly egregious, unbelievably bad. Mark Levin duly expresses his indignation about it at National Review Online:

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Just when you thought it couldn't get uglier, this stunning screed comes long.

To reduce this debate to the most base level, mindlessly accusing wide swaths of the conservative movement of racial prejudice, is reprehensible. As the president of an organization that claims to be "the only think tank devoted exclusively to the promotion of colorblind equal opportunity and racial harmony," this is pretty malignant stuff. This issue isn't about any particular race or group of people, and any honest observer knows it. But it didn't take long to pull out the race card. Shameful.

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And while we're speaking about egregious persons, here again is Michael Gerson's Washington Post column that was discussed in the previous entry. I've heard that Gerson now has a regular column at the Post, which is bad news indeed.

Reading the Gerson column is an enlightening experience. For years he was known as President Bush's eloquent and gifted speechwriter, but we--or least I--knew nothing about Gerson himself. Also, during those same years, VFR engaged in repeated speculation about the sources of Bush's worldview, especially when it comes to his support for open borders. And now that Gerson has come out and is speaking in his own voice at last, we realize two interesting things: that Gerson has been a principal source of Bush's ideas; and that Gerson is some kind of Christian fanatic who thinks that Christianity calls on us, in the name of our common humanity, to betray and destroy our country.

It is good to know these things.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 27, 2007 01:41 AM | Comment | Send