whenever i take a long road trip, i always make a point of flipping the dial over to a.m. to hear some of the blather on right-wing radio.
you can always count on conservative talk radio for a good laugh. or a good cry. but these days, the folks over on the a.m. dial are in rare form. the fact that both abortion AND undocumented immigration are in the news at the same time means they have a rare gold mine of news to distort and sensationalize.
if there were academy awards for right-wing radio, i think the oscar in the "most preposterous claim to suit one's own agenda" category would have to go to a man named charles w. colson. his show, "breakpoint," claims an audience of more than a million good, christian listeners.
on april 11, colson told his audience that abortion was the "root of the problem" of illegal immigration:
"the reason we must allow millions of illegal aliens in to fill these jobs is because we have murdered a generation that would otherwise be filling them: 40 million sacrificed since 1973 to the god of self-fulfillment."
media matters has more on this. brilliantly twisted, colson! bravo!
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I also once heard one of these "enlightened" minds claim that our economy would be booming from all the additional tax dollars those 40 million zygotes would be contributing to the system.
No mention, of course, what they'd be taking from the system, too.
Nah, too logical for the feeble-minded
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