Malkin Screeches More Propaganda

3 May, 2006. 337 words.

More Malkin immigration hysteria: Reconquista is real. I might even go so far as to call it “screeching,” a word she would no doubt find incredibly offensive. In this particular rant, she applies her trademark “hasty generalizations” along with a dash of “appealing to fear” in order to drive home her point that we are under attack from Mexico.

Malkin writes: “In Seattle, photojournalist Byron Dazey of CreativeFlashes.com snapped hundreds of pictures of extremist left-wing claptrap.” No link of course, so we have to look it up ourselves. We find that Malkin’s definition of “hundreds” is 257 (including 122 photos from an April 10 rally). Malkin does not mention that many of those photos do not contain any extremist left-wing claptrap at all (unless you consider, eg. a local news helicopter or a sign reading “we are not criminals, we work hard” to be extremist claptrap). She also does not mention that many of the photos are multiple shots of the same sign.

So let’s say all 257 of those photos are unique instances of extremism. Out of the supposed 1 million people who participated in the rally nationwide, we have photographic evidence that 0.0257% of them are extremists. (In reality, it’s probably more like 100 extremists, which would come out to 0.01% or 1 out of every 10,000 people.) And of those sign-carrying extremists, how many are college kids looking for the cheap thrill of publicity, and how many would actually act on their supposed beliefs? How many would, for example, take up arms and storm the Santa Fe capital building in a bid to re-conquer New Mexico? (It’s difficult to imagine reconquista happening through mere legal action.)

I’m not saying “open borders” is a great idea, mind you. I’m just saying that Malkin’s paranoid fantasies of a Mexican invasion are a little far-fetched: Mexicans come here simply because their own country is a giant reeking stinkhole and there are plenty of businessmen here willing to screw over their fellow Americans by hiring cheap foreign labor.

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