Blood In The Water

Now that Don Imus has been fired, the media is all abuzz about what is racism. Did you see the O'Reilly program the other night when O'Reilly's producer confronted Joanne Ostrow, the t.v. columnist for the Denver Post? Ostrow accused O'Reilly of "spewing racist bile" because he uses the term "illegal alien." Ostrow claimed superiority because she uses the term "undocumented worker," although now some of her older columns have been dug up in which she used the term "illegal immigrant." The term "alien" is the traditional term that has been used for decades. Recently, however, there have been movies about aliens, and those give the term a new popular meaning. Oh, and by the way, they are often not "undocumented;" very often these individuals who illegally come in to the United States have forged documents in their possessions.

Of course, the left, as personified by Ostrow and the Denver Post, love to group people together under politically correct terms invented by the left. Seeing people as individuals on a case by case basis just does not occur to them. When they refuse to face facts, such as the fact that cities like Denver have a sanctuary policy for all "residents," they resort to calling people who do not use their politically correct terms "racists."

One local talk radio program host, Peter Boyles, says that the politically correct leftists now see "blood in the water," as a result of their victory in getting Don Imus fired. The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News are supposedly rivals competing against each other. Yet, today both papers prominently featured the same column by "guest" commenter Bill Menezes. I have never seen both papers feature the same column before in the 37 years I have been reading both papers, so I would say that Boyles is correct in saying that they must see blood in the waters, meaning that they want to piggyback on the Imus firing and get some local scalps, and Menezes cast the net broadly, including local talk radio hosts Dan Caplis, Jon Caldera, Bob Newman and Boyles as people who use "falsehoods and ethnic smears" on their programs.

I do not always agree with Pete Boyles, but I listen to him regularly because I know he is a fearless searcher for truth, as are Caldera, Newman and Caplis. I applaud Bill O'Reilly for not just lying down under the politically correct runaway train. O'Reilly is doing the right thing in pursuing people like Ostrow and exposing them for what they are: people who throw around terms like "racist" when they cannot back up their own positions with facts. It is time for Boyles, Caldera, Caplis, and Newman to fight back like O'Reilly. The claims made by Mr. Menezes are completely unsubstantiated libel. I doubt if he will have the courage to come on those programs and make his false allegations face-to-face.