Readers protest pro-illegal alien editorial …

… while editorial editor calls reader response “nasty”:

Paper Blasted for ‘Texan of the Year’

DALLAS (AP)—When editorial writers at The Dallas Morning News chose the illegal immigrant as the newspaper’s Texan of the Year, they expected some criticism. But not this: 800 blog postings and more than 150 letters to the editor blasting the decision….

Editorial writer Rodger Jones said he was “surprised at the nastiness” of the backlash, some of which came from readers who had only seen the editorial’s headline.

Yeah, but the headline, calling illegal aliens the Texan of the Year, which is tantamount to calling all illegal aliens Americans, was the whole point of your little exercise, wasn’t it, Rodg?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 05, 2008 06:13 PM | Send