April 06, 2005
To All The Men I Loved Before…Limbaugh, O’Reilly,
Will, And Kristol?
By Bryanna Bevens
My Favorite Men List
(FML) is admittedly eclectic. As such, with each member
name I reveal, I receive an extraordinary amount of
complaint email.
It ranges from
"Yeah, he’s alright but have you considered so and so"
to "You should have your head examined."
But there seems to be
a consensus among VDARE.com readers that I have very bad
taste in men.
For example, there is
my column
Mainstream Media Content Warning,
in which I discussed my fondness for
George Will.
The criticism
continues to this day!
And I have something
to say in response: I am hereby issuing a moratorium on
the use of certain expressions when describing me.
Dim-witted, thick and
slower than a three-toed sloth are out. Frankly, it
offends the
sloth community.
P.S. I love George
Will. Yes, his
position on immigration is
appalling but the man knows his
baseball, alright? And he’s
cute.
Speaking of popular
conservatives befuddled by immigration…
Bill Kristol, editor
of the
Weekly Standard and
former Chief of Staff to Vice President
Quayle, was
not on the Favorite Men List (FML) until recently.
But then, he debuted
in the Top Ten.
While delivering a
speech on foreign affairs at private
Quaker college in Indiana last week, Kristol was
smacked in the face with a
pie.
Yes,
a pie.
Some student or
leftist radical in training
disapproved of either the speech or Kristol’s
presence and decided to hurl their dessert as a protest.
Displaying a level of
poise and dignity that left me gaping in awe, Kristol
simply wiped the pie from his face and said
"Just let me finish this point."
Immediately after
gaping, I Googled him to ascertain marital status.
Married, three kids…sigh.
Here is my problem:
I love conservative media men (and women, but in a
slightly different way and by slightly different
I mean as
gorgeous as
Ann Coulter is I wouldn’t want to, say, marry her).
But, for some reason,
many of them have decided to jump off the rational train
when it comes immigration policy.
Bill Kristol’s
Weekly Standard resembles a newsletter from the
consular services division of the
Mexican embassy.
Two examples:
- Again, the title reveals the
plot.
- It’s written by
Tamar Jacoby.
And that’s all I have to say about that…
Now look at what my
beloved Bill O’Reilly had to say about the current
illegal alien population on his
March 22 2005 Factor Flash segment:
"Any President who
cracked down on illegal aliens would be demonized and
accused of bigotry. Politicians know this and are
frightened. The Factor has done all it can to report on
this problem honestly. I favor a guest worker program,
understand the country needs new blood, and feel
diversity is a strength."
New
blood? Diversity a
strength?
Yuck!
Now, O’Reilly has posted an
online petition to President Bush urging him to
secure our borders. He has been an outspoken advocate
of immigration reform…for the most part.
But one aspect of the
Bush Administration's wild "Temporary
Worker" proposal (which O’Reilly supports, see
above) will reward illegal aliens by granting them
effective amnesty.
This puts them ahead of many would-be legal immigrants
who
obeyed our laws and filed the
appropriate applications.
My
question to Bill O: how can he justify that?
How do we defend ourselves against accusations of what
is undeniably preferential treatment for a single class
of people e.g. Mexican illegals?
Answer: we can’t.
Bush’s proposal is unfair (even apart from mad, in
bringing in yet more immigrants) and I am
saddened to see O’Reilly defending it.
Finally, we have
Rush Limbaugh.
Seriously, is there
any one name more
synonymous with conservative principles than
Rush Limbaugh?
(I don’t care if you
like him. I am asking a specific question here, so put
aside your little feelings and answer the
question objectively.)
The answer is no.
However, it is only recently that Limbaugh (Rushie Baby
as I call him and to which I am sure he does not object)
really started commenting on immigration.
The Immigration Problem
from the Rush
Limbaugh Show 1/31/05
CALLER:
…I would say 70% of the
labor in harvesting our food we gotta eat every day,
comes from illegal aliens, and if we don't have a guest
worker program, we're going to run out of food grown in
California.
RUSH:
Well, what makes an illegal immigrant far more
employable to you than a legal immigrant?
Then
they moved on to the solution part of the call.
RUSH:
…both parties are afraid to
tackle it, for fear of offending.
CALLER:
No. Tom Ridge and George Bush are both willing to
tackle it. Don't say they're not.
RUSH: …they
want to turn
illegals into legal with a stroke of the pen and
with a program. But to become a legal immigrant in this
country you've got to go through a
process, and these people are not, and we're going
to just waive that process and we're doing it on the
basis, "Ah, so many here we couldn't take backward steps
on it anyway."
The
next part of the call restored my faith in my
dearly-loved Rush. He said:
"Okay,
even if you have an
amnesty program, at some point, whether you call it
that or not—guest worker program, whatever you want to
call it—at some point we're going to have to start
enforcing all of this so that the immigrants that do get
in here are legal, even the ones that end up working for
you."
Here’s
the bottom line: I don’t understand how
"conservative" commentators can support illegal
immigration or Bush’s Amnesty/Guest Worker Plan and
still be considered conservative.
Immigration is drawing a line in the sand.
Unfortunately, when once the line separated liberals
from conservatives, it is now carving the
genuine conservatives away from the counterfeit.
As for
the FML, Rush maintains his slot in the upper echelon.
Kristol,
O’Reilly and
Will may face disciplinary action resulting in a
probation period and possible removal.
But I still love them.
Bryanna Bevens [email
her] is a political consultant and former chief of staff
for a member of the California State Assembly.
