For tonight’s Republican presidential debate, CNN chose to spend the entire first 30 minutes on YouTube questions about immigration policy. Immigration is not the most important issue facing the nation. It’s not the second most important issue facing the nation. It’s not the third most important issue facing the nation.
Yet, CNN chose to ignore the top issues, in order to spend time encouraging the Republican candidates to compete over who could be the most xenophobic. It’s a shameful display of how TV news channels have skewed strongly to the right. We need a progressive President to balance out that balance.
(Source: CNN, November 28, 2007)
I really don’t remember immigration being an issue before 9/11. It’s all in Lou Dobbs and the neo-cons xenophobic minds. I believe if you were born on this planet you should be able to live where you want.