September 13, 2003
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An
African-American Woman Critiques VDARE.COM; Peter
Brimelow replies
A Former Hill Rat Notes A
Staffsenor’s Tantrum About Mexifornia; Peter
Brimelow sympathizes.
From: Bob Vandervoort
Somehow, I stumbled upon
a copy of this week's
Roll Call in the
"City of Broad Shoulders." (Cough, cough, OK,
Borders had it). There was a great story on the front
page on "Heard on the Hill" which I wish I could send
you, but Roll Call is pure subscriber.
[VDARE.COM
note: Boo! We
found the story on the Claremont Institute site
here!]
Here are some of the
highlights:
Heard on the Hill
By
Ed Henry
"Pelosi's Pizza Problem"
A
lively debate on immigration during the dog days of
August nearly turned into a sort-of food fight as a
staffer for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
tried to protest by walking off with a pizza.
Federico DeJesus, who handles Hispanic media outreach
for Pelosi, was infuriated by Victor Davis Hanson's
presentation at the Aug. 19 event, sponsored by the
Center for Immigration Studies.
Hanson, author of the book
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, is an outspoken
advocate of stopping the flood of illegal immigration
from Mexico to California. [BV's note: see my
letter in VDARE.COM for what a wet noodle NR's
Hanson really is on immigration].
At
the end of the speech in the Longworth House Office
Building [BV note: where I used to work!],
DeJesus stood up to deliver the first question from the
audience and launched into a long rant accusing Hanson
of penning a "racist" book…
[BV
note: now this is just great!]
The controversy was compounded by the fact that Hanson
had earlier noted that he is a "classicist," as in
classics professor at California State University at
Fresno.
'You yourself admitted that you're a 'classist,'"
DeJesus shouted, apparently believing that the professor
had confessed to being an elitist or some such taboo.
'I
thought Pelosi would have had more sensible staff," Mark
Krikorian, executive director of the CIS, told HOH.
"Some basic democratic civility would have been
appropriate."
(...)
The fight reached a climax when DeJesus [BV's note:
sadly playing to stereotype] stormed away from his
seat and decided to grab one of the many boxes of pizza
in the back of the room on his way out the door.
"He tried to steal one of our pizzas," charged Krikorian.
"One of my guys had to get it back…"
Peter Brimelow comments:
You just have
to feel sorry for Mark Krikorian. First the
Steinlight slump, then
the Mowbray
mess, now the Hanson
heist. It’s tough to be a
triangulator!
On Mark’s behalf, we at
VDARE.COM would be happy to assure Sr. DeJesus that he
Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.
I must say, though, that I
find it difficult to believe Mark would expect any
liberal ethnic enforcer to be “sensible." In my
observation, they are simply an unmitigated curse
upon free debate - and upon America.
The interesting question is
how Victor Davis Hanson reacts to this sort of attack,
which will become more common if immigration reform gets
moving again.
Noodle or not? We’ll see.
