Phoenix Mayor Blames New Illegal Alien Law on Talk Radio, Lack of Fairness Doctrine

Fairness Doctrine

From this story on NewsRealBlog, we learn that Phil Gordon, the Mayor of Phoenix, is blaming passage of Arizona’s illegal alien law on (you’ll never guess) talk radio and the lack of a “fairness doctrine.”  I wonder what Mr. Gordon blames for his city being the number two city in the world for kidnapping – second only to Mexico City.  But I digress.

Whenever the American public overwhelmingly expresses an opinion contrary to the leftist/progressive agenda, the leftists always blame it on something other than honest public sentiment.  I believe there’re two reasons for this.

First, I think they have truly deluded themselves into believing they’re so enlightened and have all the answers that any disagreement to their positions can’t be from honest disagreement, but from the unenlightened, uninformed and ignorant.  George Stephanopoulos perfectly summed up this attitude when he said during the Clinton administration that sometimes the people don’t know what’s best for them.  Likewise, Obama’s comments (after admitting he knew nothing of the facts) that the police “acted stupidly” in the arrest of his professor friend, as well as the professor’s screams to the police that “you don’t know who you’re dealing with” also show this attitude.  Anyone who holds a position in opposition to the progressive is simply an idiot and not even worth the progressive’s time to listen to the person’s position – after all if the person actually knew what he was talking about, he’d agree with the progressive’s position. 

Second, leftists and progressives very, very clearly operate off talking points developed by a select few.  Don’t believe me?  Just pay attention whenever a big issue comes up.  For some reason, the mainstream media and leftist politicians start using almost the exact same words.  Perhaps they’re just so enlightened they’ve developed telepathy and are like the Borg with one thought for the collective.  Since they don’t tolerate free thinkers among their ranks, they simply assume “the other side” (which actually consists of people of all sorts of political stripes – including “old-fashioned” Democrats) must simply be operating off talking points as well.  Since they rely on a select few to tell the masses what to think, they simple assume that’s how “the other side” operates as well, so in their eyes, “talk radio” (which I believe means Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck) and Fox News are the mouthpieces for dissemination of carefully crafted and approved talking points.  The idea that many Americans remain free and critical thinkers, who examine all sides and evidence before forming their own opinion, is a completely foreign concept. 

Finally, while slightly off-topic, is the progressive’s use of language.  Have you noticed we keep talking about “immigration?”  Notice even NewsRealBlog uses “immigration” in their headline.  But in reality the issues we’re discussing and the issue the Arizona law addresses is not immigration, but illegal aliens – people who are in the country illegally.  If we talk about illegal aliens, the vast majority of people would agree we should not allow people to sneak into the country just as every other nation, including Mexico, prohibits people from sneaking in illegally. 

However, progressives don’t want to discuss facts.  They prefer to sway people with emotion, most often attempting to get people to feel sorry for another group.  Therefore, instead of talking about illegal aliens, they use terms such as “illegal immigration” or the new buzz term, “undocumented workers.”  Both terms designed to lessen the truth and instead create empathy for law-breakers.  The vast majority of people sneaking in are not immigrants in the real sense of the word.  They are not coming to the US to become Americans who share in our system and contribute to our nation – those are the real immigrants who come in the front door and willingly jump through all the hoops because they so love American and want to become American citizens.  Instead, most illegal aliens are here to make money and mooch off the welfare system.  Never mind as well the large numbers of illegal aliens engaged in gang and violent drug-related activity or even the fact illegal aliens, since they’re “off the books,” are paid a patience and kept in worse than slave-like conditions.

The progressives know they can never win on the facts, instead all they are left with is talking points, name calling and appeals to empathy instead of law.