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This asshole:

But the commentary roster also includes a number of hard-right conservatives as well -- commentaries that normally reside at similarly hard-right sites such as American Daily and GOPUSA (sister site to Jeff Gannon's former employer, the late Talon News). Among them are E. Ralph Hostetter, Frank Salvato, Christopher Adamo and Alan Caruba. These in particular are prone to making misleading and outrageous statements.

Hostetter, who describes himself as "a prominent businessman and agricultural publisher," (and a current vice chairman of the Free Congress Foundation board of directors) has penned anti-immigration commentaries that veer toward the xenophobic. A June 21 column blamed Asian immigrants for "threatening America's cultural and ethnic future" (which is, if nothing else, a change from the typical conservative modus operandi of blaming Hispanic immigrants for doing so). How? Because a 1965 revision of immigration laws -- which Hostetter claimed is "described as 'infamous' by some and a 'disaster' by others" -- "gave 60 percent of the newly established quota -- 170,000 new openings -- to Asians, who bring a different culture to America." He doesn't explicitly say how that "different culture" has resulted in what he called "untold damage to America's heritage and cultural base," but he writes:

Until 1965, the immigration stock that had created and sustained the United States was drawn from England and some 22 nations of the European Continent, all of which shared America's Western civilization culture and its spiritual connections to Christianity.
In other words (since Hostetter won't actually say it), Asians aren't white or Christian, and there lies the problem. Hostetter concluded that a new immigration law must "provide the necessary quotas to preserve the 230 years of America's culture, heritage and traditions."


A June 28 column by Hostetter bashing The New York Times followed unsupported conservative talking points in claiming that by disclosing "the nation's secret intelligence collecting methods," the Times' motive "is the expressed seminal hatred the dominant media and, in particular, the New York Times has for President George W. Bush," and that by "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" through the disclosure, the Times "has placed the American public at risk of terrorist attacks and the American soldier in combat at risk of his life."

Hostetter also cited an apparently bogus poll in support of his argument. Hostetter wrote: "The failed argument that the public needs to know is refuted in a Fox News poll on Friday, June 24, showing 88 percent of Americans are satisfied with President Bush's use of his intelligence sources to protect America." But the Fox News website's poll page lists no such poll; it is more than likely that the poll Hostetter is citing is, in fact, an unreliable opt-in online poll promoted on programs such as "Your World with Neil Cavuto." Those polls have the disclaimer: "This is not a scientific poll," which Hostetter should perhaps have taken notice of.

Hostetter's xenophobic way also popped in an April 28 column, which started out by calling illegal immigration a "cancer" and a "tumor," and things pretty much went downhill from there:

Hostetter referred to phrases like "Immigration is good for America," "America was built by immigrants" as "pabulum phrases."

He claimed that the "nation" of illegal immigrants "has an 'army' (the real tumor), complete with flag and provocative posters that proclaim: 'This is our country; we're taking it back.'" This is presumably a reference to the alleged "reconquista" movement hyped by conservatives (not to mention white supemacists and neo-Nazis).

He predicted that the immigration rallies that occurred in May would be "more massive than anything this country has ever witnessed." And not only that, they're all a bunch of commies: "May 1, not so coincidentally, since 1889 happens to be Communism's Labor Day. Celebrations in Communist countries around the world will no doubt be played up as support for illegal immigrant demonstrators in the United States."
Hostetter lectured unnamed people who state, "Only Communists build walls," claiming that it "reveals nothing more than the ignorance of the person who makes the statement" because "he Berlin Wall was built to keep people in" while " wall on the Mexican border would keep unwanted illegal immigrants out." Despite that, he engaged in his own bad metaphor, claiming that the rallies may "erupt into violence. No one is checking backpacks. Does anyone recall the backpack explosion at the Olympics in Atlanta? Crowds are al Qaeda's favorite target." Of course, it was anti-abortion extremist Eric Rudolph, not al-Qaeda, that set off the Atlanta bomb.

Hostetter similarly linked al-Qaeda to immigration in an April 7 column, in which he claimed that "it is a certainty that al Qaeda terrorists have crossed along with the massive Mexican incursion," adding: "It is just as certain that a 100,000-person marching mob will have at least one al Qaeda terrorist marching in lock-step and ready to light the fuse that will ignite the mob to burn the city, causing far greater property damage and repercussions than 9/11."

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In a May 23 NewsMax column, E. Ralph Hostetter claims that the proposed compromise immigration bill "could very well take the United States from daylight into darkness." Why? We'll let him explain:

America's greatness and its continuing power were derived from the Anglo-European heritage and genius of the Founding Fathers. The Anglo-European heritage encompassed the concept of democracy from Greece, the rule of law from Rome and liberty under law (the Magna Carta) from England. The Founding Fathers wrote what has become known as "the greatest work of the mind of man" the U.S. Constitution. For the first time in the history of mankind, a covenant was written to guarantee man's God-given rights of life, property, and liberty. That document created a democratic republic that has functioned well for more than 200 years.

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America's Founding Fathers were undeniably Judeo-Christian and both the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution reflect this.

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