Anyone help me out, I thought I heard a blurb on talk radio about a group blaming immigrants

[RB TexLa]

for the mortgage problems. Anyone know of any group saying such?

[soothsayer]

1. No, but i recently heard that minorities were only 4% of the subprime mess

(but i have no source, so who knows)

[stillcool]

2. Keith had something on tonite..

about some Republican party Chairperson or something talking trash. But I'm sure that the entire Right Wing Whacko's are blaming everything on minorities. It's what they do.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Michelle Bauchman was blaming the Black folk.

But I wouldn't fall over in shock if I found out she was also blaming immigrants.

[TexasObserver]

11. she's replaced Kathleen Harris as the most despicable GOP female

[Adsos Letter]

4. A recurrent theme in American history....

...when the economy suffers, blame those nasty Catholics, Irish, Chinese, Mexicans, whatever... :(

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. add baby boomers to that one, we've seen that one here

as well

On edit

It pisses me off

[Adsos Letter]

6. Indeed. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

7. Yah. Conservatives. Here's the explanation + debunking....

http://www.stephenbainbridge.com/index.php/punditry/they_make_you_embarrassed_to_be_a_conservative/

[The 12th Guru]

8. Cavuto twice linked freddy and fannie failures to risky minority lending practices

Was not on the radio, it was on tv, Fox News, what a shocker on the station, haha.

On September 18, Fox News' Neil Cavuto conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that there should have been "a clarion call that said, 'Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster.' "


http://mediamatters.org/items/200809190021


Neil Cavuto, host of Fox News' Your World, conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that efforts to increase homeownership among minority borrowers contributed to financial problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Discussing the decision by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to place Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship, Cavuto asked Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) on September 18, "hen you and many of your colleagues were pushing for more minority lending and more expanded lending to folks who heretofore couldn't get mortgages, when you were pushing homeownership ... Are you totally without culpability here? Are you totally blameless? Are you totally irresponsible of anything that happened?" Cavuto later said, "I'm just saying, I don't remember a clarion call that said, 'Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster.'"

Previously, on the September 16 edition of Your World, Cavuto said to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD): "ou wanted to encourage minority lending -- obviously, a lot of Republicans did as well. There was a lot of -- expand lending to those to get a home," Cavuto went on to ask, "Do you think, intrinsically, it was a mistake, on both parties' part, to push -- to push for homeownership for everybody?"

[TrogL]

9. I heard a guy on the CBC saying people of certain races shouldn't have gotten mortages

But it's a wacko right-wing show known for its idiocy. No, not Rush, somebody else.

[EFerrari]

10. Callers to Washington Journal have blamed immigrants

and poor people this week. The New York Times reporter who was a guest this morning also blamed poor people.