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July 13th, 2008

Not content with merely demonizing undocumented immigrants, radio commentator G. Gordon Liddy managed to attack the entire Spanish language - and by implication the millions who speak it:

LIDDY: You've just heard Barack Obama insisting that we all teach our children Spanish. Well, not mine, no way. 'Round here, let's see, I speak some French, some German as well as English. Franklin speaks fluent French, fluent Italian, as well as English. But none of us here, so far as I know, speak illegal alien.

It's hard to know where to even begin with this particular line of argument, although tempting to point out that we're talking about the language of Miguel de Cervantes, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Gabriel García Márquez. But it's a charming example of the hate-speak in what passes for immigration "debate" which demonizes people well beyond the immigrant community.

Kudos to Media Matters for pointing it out - you'll find their update and a clip of Liddy here (http://mediamatters.org/items/200807100006?f=h_latest).