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The WSJ’s open-borders obsessive compulsives

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 22, 2008 09:42 AM

Notice how this Wall Street Journal editorial bashing critics of the Catholic Church’s open-borders policies without addressing a single, specific point we’ve raised about the enforcement-sabotaging efforts of the Vatican and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops–which, as I pointed out, has interpreted the Pope’s remarks during his visit as an endorsement of their illegal alien amnesty-promoting work. Go read the whole thing.

Instead, the WSJ snobs are content to deride Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs as obsessive, compulsive, and “anti-immigrant.”

Might as well have called them “bitter” and “clingy,” too.

(Hat tip - Reader Eric P.)

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  1. #101
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm, NBF said:

    what would be your reaction, pal, if a burglar broke into your home, and your priest said “oh, leave him there. we must have compassion for the poor”

    Sigh…I don’t see what this has to do with the lies and mischaracterizations regarding the Pope’s comments and Church teaching….. but, I’d disregard the ill-informed priest, and I might break out the Catechism later to instruct him on the Church prohibition on stealing and on the section of defense of innocent life from aggressors.

  2. #102
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm, NBF said:

    I didn’t know that the RCC advocates socialism!

    And I’ve see we’ve learned nothing from this whole exercise in rash judgement and calumny. I hope you’re being sarcastic.

  3. #103
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm, Patriot1 said:

    talking about written church rules vs. their real-world actions is like the planks in political party platforms. they are disregarded all the time.

  4. #104
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm, Solo said:

    Hunter or Tancredo?

    Tancredo.

  5. #105
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm, WestCoastCoconut said:

    What I love about being bilingual is that I can see how the open borders media/ UNIVISION constantly feeds the Spanish speaking crowd this crap and it does put the words into the pope’s mouth directly. Yes the church is solely dependent on immigrants illegal and legal to fill its pews. So the Pope panders directly to the illegals, and its supporters on UNIVISION while the gabachos watch on English speaking channels…. You guys missed half the story!
    Michelle Can I put daily UNIVISION quotes to really get you blood boiling?

  6. #106
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm, Patriot1 said:

    but, I’d disregard the ill-informed priest, and I might break out the Catechism later to instruct him on the Church prohibition on stealing and on the section of defense of innocent life from aggressors.

    exactly what those of us who are pro-enforcement are doing. we have compassion for the VICTIMS of crime, i.e. American citizens

    not the perpetrators.

    or those who abet them.

  7. #107
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm, Bob in Myrtle Beach said:

    rooster said:
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 am, … If a million dollars is collected from a million dirt poor people, one dollar per person, how much money is collected? …”

    I don’t think the riddle ever got answered correctly…

    The answer is…ALL OF IT!

  8. #108
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm, Ignatius Reilly said:

    Let’s build a fire and throw all NBF’s comments on it. We can call it “bonfire of the inanities.”

  9. #109
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm, rooster said:

    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm, Bob in Myrtle Beach said:
    rooster said:
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 am, … If a million dollars is collected from a million dirt poor people, one dollar per person, how much money is collected? …”

    I don’t think the riddle ever got answered correctly…

    The answer is…ALL OF IT!

    Dog gone it Bob, you used the fuzzy math, not 1+1=2 cipherin’ we learnded back in the day with Jethro Bodine.

  10. #110
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm, Patriot1 said:

    I see Newt Gingrich doing a commercial with Pelosi about climate change.

    what’s next, an ad with Ted Kennedy about the evils of border security?

  11. #111
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm, ThackerAgency said:

    I think that if NBF saw the Pope leading a group of illegal aliens into the country across the river, and was caught by border agents, he’d say ‘the pope wasn’t advocating for illegal immigration. . . he was SAVING THEM FROM DROWNING - what compassion’.

    This catechism you point to is as meaningful as having a law saying that if somebody robs someone or steals from them, have them sign a note saying they did bad and let them go for COMPASSION.

    How is it compassionate to allow people (sometimes pregnant women) to wander in the desert in life threatening conditions because we have lured them here with the promise of citizenship? That is DANGEROUS for these people.

    I also saw the O’Reilley priest and it was basically socialism 101. UNREPENTANT socialism 101. I just love it when they willingly spend other people’s money and deride you for not thinking they should be allowed. . . after all they’re CATHOLIC!

    The priest on the factor said we should allow whoever wants to come here the ability to come here and be American citizens. As I said, it’s real nice of them to claim some moral superiority on how awful our laws are and how much we should give people who have no interest in anything but taking from us. That priest was an eye opener. . . and he didn’t seem to think he was being too radical to me.

    APOLOGIZE! APOLOGIZE! APOLOGIZE! I think we have a candidate for Catholic Rage Boy, and his name is NBF. What say you NBF, got a picture of you looking real mad? Maybe in front of a Church or holding a Bible or a crucifix would add to the image appropriately.

  12. #112
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 4:56 pm, brad_sk said:

    Tacnredo - Isn’t he the same liar who announced OVERDUE immigration bill last year but did not even bother to introduce it in House?

    We need conservative politicians who get the job done and not just talk mouthful like Tancredo.

  13. #113
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm, Trollman said:

    NBF said:

    But that doesn’t give you the right to assume that the current Holy Father is endorsing lawlessness.

    Actually, given today’s context, my suspicions are sufficiently justified.

    But I will have you know that I have every right to assume and say whatever I please. It is called freedom of speech and religion. Jesus taught separation of church and state, even though the Catholic church hasn’t always. Thankfully the Catholic church no longer wields political power.

  14. #114
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm, tizzidale said:

    Well, Michelle is at it again.

  15. #115
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm, Ignatius Reilly said:

    On April 22nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm, tizzidale said at 114:

    Well, Michelle is at it again.

    Do you think we are obliged to watch you deride MM with your agitprop link and still stifle our desire to call you a mackerel snapping idiot?

  16. #116
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm, tizzidale said:

    Do you think we are obliged to watch you deride MM with your agitprop link and still stifle our desire to call you a mackerel snapping idiot?

    You don’t have to read it. And you don’t have to stifle your desire to call me names. Fair enough?

  17. #117
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 7:13 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The editor just quit or was fired or some such arrangement…

  18. #118
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 pm, Concerned Citizen said:

    On April 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm, tizzidale said:

    You don’t have to read it. And you don’t have to stifle your desire to call me names. Fair enough?

    Wow, you cherry pick sentences and then attempt to refute or make fun of them. This makes you special, how?

  19. #119
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm, feebiebabe said:

    mackerel snapping idiot

    lmao

  20. #120
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm, tizzidale said:

    Wow, you cherry pick sentences and then attempt to refute or make fun of them. This makes you special, how?

    I’m just trying to emulate Michelle apparently.

  21. #121
    On April 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm, Laree said:

    If it is true and we are in a recession imagine if Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama suggested our own Working poor should have the jobs that non legal aliens have taken? There are no jobs Americans won’t do. Oklahoma proved it already how come no one is talking about it?

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/04/22/oklahoma-unemployment-way-down-will-media-look-why

  22. #122
    On April 23rd, 2008 at 1:53 am, Papa Louie said:

    I have no problem with allowing legal and law-abiding immigrants to work in this country if they are truly needed and are not putting US citizens out of work. However, I would like them to enter this country through the front door and sign the guest book on the way in. I don’t know if the Pope would agree, but I’m pretty sure the Bible does:

    John 10: 1
    Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

  23. #123
    On April 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 am, Trollman said:

    Another parable concerning Jesus’ Kingdom:

    But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, and he said to him, “Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?” And the man was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, “Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” For many are called, but few are chosen. (Matthew 22:11-14)

  24. #124
    On April 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 am, Concerned Citizen said:

    On April 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm, tizzidale said:
    This makes you special, how?
    I’m just trying to emulate Michelle apparently.

    There’s a lot more analysis and commentary in Michelle’s work than yours. Yours is just bitter and spiteful and comes across that way. The fact that you posted the link here proves that.

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