Last night I just got home in time to catch HardTalk, a BBC show in which famous folk are ‘interviewed’ by a geezer named Stephen Sackur.
His guest turned out to be Eric Cantor, the former Republican Majority leader in Congress, who was humiliated by his electorate, losing his seat to a real Republican in the primary election last year.
Eric Cantor
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Predictably enough, the man who was booted by his constituents in Virginia ( and is now busily making millions in the private sector) lashed out viciously at conservatives both in and out of Congress, notably the Tea Party patriots.
He ranted that the “so-called Tea Party” was merely “a very small but very vocal minority.”
Fed lots of leading questions by Sackur, he smeared the TP as NOT conservative but ‘radicals!’ Not satisfied with that, he added the fashionable hate-word ‘populists!‘
I watch this programme from time to time, as Sackur usually manages to restrain his own left-lib bias long enough to ask some serious questions.
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- Last night he did raise the question of how, if the conservatives of the ‘so-called Tea Party’ are just a ‘very small minority’ – as Kantor had just claimed – Donald Trump had 27% against Jeb Pinko Bush’s 6% in the primary polls.
‘Voters are angry,’ was Kantor’s explanation.
No wonder they’re angry, and were angry enough to throw Kantor out of his House seat.
But when it came to immigration, and Trump-bashing, Sackur lost it, casting aside his role as questioner to don the mantle of malignants’ champion.
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- Recognising that most Republican voters want the illegal influx reversed, he openly derided their demands for action, scoffing that ‘practical politicians know they can’t deport millions and millions of people.‘
Has America not got trucks, trains, container vessels aplenty?
Sackur gave no rational explanation for his outlandish opinion.
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- Nor did he explain why, as a supposedly objective journalist, he felt entitled to insert his own pro-crimmigrant prejudice into the ‘interview.’
America is of course a sovereign nation, and thus can deport whomsoever it wishes. US immigration law has a green card system by which decent people who wish to live in America can apply to do so, waiting their turn like decent people do.
Why should their legitimate aspirations be traduced by herds of wannabe welfare-hogs?
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- With twelve million crimmigrants already in their country, it would be madness NOT to vote for candidates committed to expelling the law-breaking queue-jumpers.
Needless to say, Kantor agreed with the BBC policy statement on the key issue in the US election campaign.
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