January
17, 2000 (Martin Luther King Day). On the Sean Hannity show (WABC radio) the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a black minister and talk show
host from Los Angeles,
criticizes the Rev. Jesse Jackson for failing to
speak out against mass immigration, which
he says has taken jobs and housing away from blacks.
Hannity, who has been critical of current
immigration policy, politely refrains from
interrupting.
Friday, January 14,
2000. Tony Snow
subs for Rush Limbaugh. Takes a call from an
unusually articulate
woman, who after getting past the screener
with an issue deemed
"acceptable" to ABC-Disney changes the subject to massive legal
immigration, making a number of excellent points. Limbaugh
would have terminated the call upon hearing the word
"immigration." Snow launches a factually-challenged
defense of mass immigration,
using a personal anecdote to try to undermine one of her irrefutable
points -- that immigration
has driven up real estate prices. The caller, finally having been cut
off by Snow, has no opportunity
to respond.
