Senator Lindsey Graham /Gomez (S.C.): I can't tell you how impressed I am with Senator Kennedy..."

Apparently, and unfortunately, the House takes up consideration of the Kennedy-Bush Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration bill tomorrow, and the MSM Treason Lobby is unlimbering the big guns. Bloomberg News has activated Washington managing editor Al Hunt.

Bush-Kennedy Alliance May Win the Day on Immigration [1]- July 17 2006 is basically a shoddy specimen of what Peter Brimelow this morning called a template or "stereotype" [2] Omnibus Immigration article, complete with cliches like reverential genuflections to the Statue of Liberty [3], references to the "No Irish need apply" myth [4], and the usual denigration of the patriots who ultimately succeeded in stemming [5]the immigration flood in the 1920s.

And of course Hunt fails to present the economic or demographic facts accurately- for instance he notes

About 12 percent of the U.S. population today is foreign born; in 1910, it was 15 percent.

but fails to disclose that, back then, the birth rate of the native born was similar to the immigrants- unlike now [6], which accounts for the rapidity of the country�s present transformation.

As often the case with these advocacy-disguised-as-Journalism pieces, much effort is devoted to flattering an important ally, in this case Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a true martyr to the cause:

Lindsey Graham, a pro-immigration American politician, knows the ugly side of this issue: Some of his constituents derisively call him Lindsey ``Gomez.''

Quite a good deal could be said about Graham, who otherwise distinguished himself by helping the Washington Establishment side-track opposition to China's egregious exchange rate policy, but all those experienced in the Immigration Wars need to hear is:

``I can't tell you how impressed I am with Senator Kennedy's willingness to try to solve this problem,'' Graham says.

Yes, that Senator Kennedy--the legislator more responsible [7]for the current mess than any other.

I doubt this remark will do Graham much good. Al Hunt was careless--he must have been anxious to get back to the beach. Tell him. [8]