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[Inlander]

Raban's article is here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23723. It's not too long, and it's quite an interesting read.

These three paragraphs will give you the gist:

The drollery vanished as he climbed aboard his old anti-immigration hobby horse. "The revolution has come. It was led by the cult of multiculturalism, aided by leftist liberals all over, who don't have the same ideas about America as we do." Since George H.W. Bush's administration, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) had been conspiring with Democrats to boil us like frogs in the "cauldron of the nanny state." "Then something really odd happened," Tancredo said, "mostly because, I think, we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

Though a ripple of cheers and applause spread through the ballroom, I was taking my cue from a middle-aged couple sitting immediately in front of me. When they clapped, I clapped. When they rose to their feet, I did too. Now they exchanged a hard-to-read glance and their hands stayed in their laps.

My guess was that few in the room were offended by the association of the "literacy test" with the Jim Crow laws, though some may have been. But everyone I'd met so far was in a position to know immigrants, legal and otherwise; they employed them in their houses and businesses, to look after their children and work on their yards. The idea that Maria and Luis, or Tatyana and Dmitri, had somehow subverted the political system to bring about Obama's election struck them as insulting and absurd.

[Dimmukane]

man how do we go from talking about ricky martins' tight leather pants to the fucking teabaggers

how are these things connected

someone do one of those six degrees things so i can understand

dammit edward

[Zingoleb]

man how do we go from talking about ricky martins' tight leather pants to the fucking teabaggers

how are these things connected

someone do one of those six degrees things so i can understand

dammit edward

I'm sorry!

Though to be fair connecting 'Ricky Martin' and 'teabagging' probably isn't much of a stretch

[Theriandros]

Argh!

Okay, so there's pretty only one coffeeshop in this county - Elsewhere. It's run by this Polish woman who laughs bitterly at the idea of global warming and holds Tea Party conventions inside of it. One guy keeps showing up who looks like Ian Anderson and keeps advocating getting together guns and going to war with the Democrats

It

drives

me

fucking

crazy.

Ah, so heeeere's where the thread went off-topic.

[look out! Ninjas!]

man how do we go from talking about ricky martins' tight leather pants to the fucking teabaggers

how are these things connected

someone do one of those six degrees things so i can understand

dammit edward

I'm sorry!

Though to be fair connecting 'Ricky Martin' and 'teabagging' probably isn't much of a stretch

Not now that we know, anyway.

Before, I was completely and utterly sure he was straight. I also ate pop-tarts and drank Dr Pepper.

[Thrillho]

Ricky Martin has also admitted publicly that he enjoys giving golden showers.

Basically, Ricky Martin likes to piss on dudes.

It's like boarding school all over again.

[David_Dovey]

Source please