by Ann Coulter
11.Dolnick, “Asylum Ploys Play Off News.”
12.See Andrew Jacobs, “Bronx Suspect May Be Rapist of 51 Women,” New York Times, April 8, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/08/nyregion/bronx-suspect-may-be-rapist-of-51-women.html; Juan Forero, “Serial Rapist Gets 155 Years; Judge Suggests His Crimes Contributed to Diallo Shooting,” New York Times, August 2, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/02/nyregion/serial-rapist-gets-155-years-judge-suggests-his-crimes-contributed-diallo.html.
13.Alan Feuer, “$3 Million Deal in Police Killing of Diallo in ’99,” New York Times, January 7, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/nyregion/3-million-deal-in-police-killing-of-diallo-in-99.html.
14.See, e.g., Angelica Medaglia, “Diallo Cousin Still Fights for a Foothold,” New York Times, July 31, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/nyregion/31diallo.html?pagewanted=all.
15.Dean Meminger, “NY1 Exclusive: Amadou Diallo’s Family Thinking of Buying Property Where He Was Killed,” NY1, May 22, 2014.
16.Medaglia, “Diallo Cousin Still Fights.”
17.Bonnie Gunn, “Diallo’s Mother on Race and Justice,” Student Life (Washington University in St. Louis), April 6, 2001, http://www.studlife.com/archives/News/2001/04/06/DiallosMotherOnRaceandJustice/. (“‘He was killed because he fit a stereotype,’ [Diallo’s mother] said.”) See also “Parents of Amadou Diallo Mark Five Years Since Their Son’s Shooting—Part Two,” NY1 News, February 3, 2004. (“It’s always the old story—a young black man.”)
18.Celia W. Dugger, “After a ‘Kafkaesque’ Ordeal, Seeker of Asylum Presses Case,” New York Times, April 1, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/01/nyregion/after-a-kafkaesque-ordeal-seeker-of-asylum-presses-case.html?pagewanted=print.
19.Ibid.
20.Ibid.
21.Ibid.
22.Ibid.; C. O. Awani, “Nigerian Asylum Seeker Claimed False Identity,” letter to the editor, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/12/opinion/l-nigerian-asylum-seeker-claimed-false-identity-034002.html; and Dugger, “Doubts Cast on Identity of Nigerian Who Says He’s a Political Refugee,” New York Times, May 24, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/24/nyregion/doubts-cast-on-identity-of-nigerian-who-says-he-s-a-political-refugee.html?src=pm&pagewanted=2&pagewanted=print.
23.Ibid.
24.Ibid.
25.Suketu Mehta, “The Asylum Seeker,” New Yorker, August 1, 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/01/the-asylum-seeker.
26.Dolnick, “Asylum Ploys Play Off News.”
27.Gerry Harrington, “Studies: 70 Pct. of Immigrants Want to Cry,” United Press International, May 29, 2012, http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/05/29/Studies-70-pct-of-immigrants-want-to-cry/42731338276600/.
28.Sarah Stuteville, “Hate Crimes Inflict Fear That May Never Fade,” Seattle (WA) Times, February 27, 2015, http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/hate-crimes-inflict-fear-that-may-never-fade/.
29.“New SPLC Report Finds Growing Hostility, Discrimination against Latinos in Wake of Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law,” States News Service, February 27, 2012, available online at the Southern Poverty Law Center, http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/southern-poverty-law-center-report-finds-growing-hostility-against-alabama-latinos.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: I WROTE THIS CHAPTER AFTER NOTICING HOW STUPID RICH PEOPLE ARE
1.David S. Broder, “Carter Yields Early in Night,” Washington Post, November 5, 1980.
2.“U.S. Elections: How Groups Voted in 1984,” Roper Center, http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_84.html.
3.The only other Republican presidential candidate to win as small a percentage of the black vote as Reagan in 1984—9 percent—was Bush in 2000, presumably because of Bush’s fixation on sucking up to Hispanics. “U.S. Elections: How Groups Voted in 2000,” Roper Center, http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_00.html.
4.Richard Harwood, “Middle Class Gave Victory,” Washington Post, November 7, 1984.
5.Peter Brimelow has noticed. Peter Brimelow and Edwin S. Rubenstein, “CA GOP’s Problem: Not Hispanics, But Whites (and, Of Course, Idiot Leadership),” VDARE, July 31, 2012, http://www.vdare.com/articles/ca-gops-problem-not-hispanics-but-whites-and-of-course-idiot-leadership.
6.“California: Presidential Election Results,” NBC News 2012 Decision Desk, http://elections.nbcnews.com/ns/politics/2012/California/president/#.VM1ja2TF8rP.
7.Nate Cohn, “Why the Numbers Say Texas Stays Red,” New Republic, August 12, 2013, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114280/dont-bet-blue-texas-methodology-addendum. (“Unfortunately, Texas was scrapped from the state exit polls in 2012, making it hard to say just how much worse Obama performed than he did four years ago. But the county results make it quite clear that Obama fared much worse among white voters than he did in 2008. . . . Depending on the exact increase in Latino turnout, there’s an outside chance that Obama fell into the teens . . . with 75-plus percent of the white vote, Republicans will be able to endure incremental increases in the Hispanic share of the electorate for a long, long time.”).
8.Ibid. (“In fact, Obama’s performance among Texas whites last November was historically bad: Probably the worst in the history of the party.”)
9.Vlae Kershner and Susan Yoachum, “Wilson Gambles on Immigration Plan: Must Appeal to Moderates,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 1993.
10.See, e.g., Bill Stall, “Governor Is One of Few to Dismiss Wilson Presidency,” Los Angeles Times, November 12, 1994, http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-12/news/mn-61607_1_pete-wilson. And USA Today editor Al Neuharth, for example, wrote that Wilson “is far out front for the rejuvenated Republican Party’s presidential nomination.”
11.Barbara Boxer won a regular Senate election; Dianne Feinstein won a special Senate election; and Bill Clinton won a presidential election.
12.William Safire, “Self-Deportation?,” New York Times, November 21, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/21/opinion/essay-self-deportation.html.
13.Tim Golden, “The 1994 Campaign: Mexico; Government Joins Attack on Ballot Idea,” New York Times, November 3, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/03/us/the-1994-campaign-mexico-government-joins-attack-on-ballot-idea.html.
14.B. Drummond Ayres Jr., “The 1994 Campaign: California; Huffington Admits Hiring Illegal Alien,” New York Times, November 1, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27/us/the-1994-campaign-california-huffington-admits-hiring-illegal-alien.html.
15.“After Proposition 187, Heading North,” Economist, November 19, 1994 (source: Voter News Service).
16.The legislature flipped from 47 to 33 Democrats to a 40–40 tie. See Mark Gladstone and Carl Ingram, “Brown Reign as Speaker in Jeopardy,” Los Angeles Times, November 10, 1994, http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-10/news/mn-61020_1_speaker-willie-brown.
17.Ibid.; and Gebe Martinez, “Los Angeles Times Poll: A Look at the Electorate,” Los Angeles Times, November 10, 1994, http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-10/local/me-61453_1_times-poll.
18.Ken McLaughlin and Mary Anne Ostrom, “Proposition 187 Drew from Wide Spectrum in Lopsided Victory,” San Jose (CA) Mercury News, November 13, 1994.
19.John King, “In Defeat, Democrats See Even More Trouble Ahead,” Associated Press, November 10, 1994, http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1994/In-Defeat-Democrats-See-Even-More-Trouble-Ahead/id-f516aee4edf7c2f29e239c14bbf431cd.
20.Robin Toner, “Bitter Tone of the ’94 Campaign Elicits Worry on Public Debate,” New York Times, November 13, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/us/1994-election-advertising-bitter-tone-94-campaign-elicits-worry-public-debate.html?pagewanted=1; and Philip J. Trounstine, “Why Are Voters So Angry?,” San Jose (CA) Mercury News, November 13, 1994 (white men “abandoned the Democrats in droves,” while “it was women who stood for sanity”).
21.Cathleen Decker and Amy Wallace, “Wilson and Brown Cap Long, Grueling Race,” Los Angeles Times, November 8, 1994, http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-08/news/mn-60401_1_governor-campaigns.
22.Martinez, “Los Angeles Times Poll.”
23.Tod Robberson, “Mexicans Angered by Proposition 187 Approval,” Houston (TX) Chronicle, November 10, 1994.
24.“Enrollment by Ethnicity for 2011–12,” Educational Demographics Unit, California Department of Education, http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEth&cYear=2011-12&cSelect=1932276—CEA+LOS+ANGELES+CO&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B.
25.This Week with David Brinkley, ABC News, October 30, 1994.
26.“After Proposition 187.”
27.Byron York, “Winning Hispanic Vote Would Not Be enough for GOP,” Washington (DC) Examiner, May 2, 2013, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-winning-hispanic-vote-would-not-be-enough-for-gop/article/2528730.
28.Chris Cillizza, “The Republican Problem with Hispanic Voters—in 7 Charts,” March 18, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/18/the-republican-problem-with-hispanic-voters-in-7-charts/.
29.Belinda I. Reyes, ed., A Portrait of Race and Ethnicity in California (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 1996), Figure 9.1, http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_201BRR.pdf.
30.“U.S. Elections: How Groups Voted in 2012,” Roper Center, http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_12.html.
31.Greg Pierce, “Inside Politics,” Washington Times, July 5, 2004, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jul/5/20040705-122634-4736r/?page=all. (John Kerry on Al Sharpton: “[T]here was one person who consistently was always there, keeping the peace and the compass going in the right direction. And that was Rev. Al Sharpton.”)
32.See e.g., Frank Bruni, “Bush Seeks to Boost Image with Minorities,” New York Times, July 6, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/06/us/bush-seeks-to-boost-image-with-minorities.html; Alex Kuczynski and Matthew Purdy, “The Props Talk Back: Young Performers Mix Bush’s Message with Their Own,” New York Times, August 4, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/04/us/philadelphia-diary-props-talk-back-young-performers-mix-bush-s-message-with.html; Eric Schmitt, “Two Amigos Visit Toledo and Court Its Mexicans,” New York Times, September 7, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/world/two-amigos-visit-toledo-and-court-its-mexicans.html; Christopher Marquis, “Bush, and Democrats, Plan Speeches in Spanish,” New York Times, May 5, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/05/us/bush-and-democrats-plan-speeches-inspanish.html.
33.Frank Newport et al., “Democrats’ Election Strength Evident across Voter Segments,” Gallup, November 9, 2006, http://www.gallup.com/poll/25399/democrats-election-strength-evident-across-voter-segments.aspx.
34.“Centrists Deliver for Democrats,” Pew Research Center, November 8, 2006, http://www.pewresearch.org/2006/”11/08/centrists-deliver-for-democrats/.
35.Bush’s proposal for the partial privatization of Social Security was dead by early 2005.
36.“Iraq,” Gallup, http://www.gallup.com/poll/1633/iraq.aspx.
37.“Washington Post-ABC News Poll,” Washington Post, April 10, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_immigration_041006.htm.
38.“Fact Sheet: The State of American Public Opinion on Immigration in Spring 2006: A Review of Major Surveys,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, May 17, 2006, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2006/05/17/the-state-of-american-public-opinion-on-immigration-in-spring-2006-a-review-of-major-surveys/.
39.Similarly, between March and April of 2006, Harris Research polls showed that Americans citing immigration as a problem soared from 4 percent to 19 percent. Fourteen percent of respondents volunteered “immigration” as the main problem facing America in an AP/IPSOS poll in April—four times the number as before the Senate took up comprehensive immigration in March. In a Pew Research poll in April 2006, 10 percent of all respondents cited immigration as the nation’s biggest problem, including nearly 20 percent of Republicans. Almost all of these poll results were available by subscription only—and, needless to say, few news outlets reported the findings. The poll results were, however, recorded at “Salience of Immigration Rising,” Mystery Pollster, April 20, 2006, http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2006/04/salience_of_imm.html.
40.Lydia Saad, “Halting the Flow Is Americans’ Illegal Immigration Priority,” Gallup, April 13, 2006, http://www.gallup.com/poll/22408/halting-flow-americans-illegal-immigration-priority.aspx.
41.“Fact Sheet: The State of American Public Opinion.”
42.“Washington Post-ABC News Poll.”
43.From “Fact Sheet: The State of American Public Opinion”:
New York Times/CBS News Poll
Immigration is a serious problem: 89%
Very serious: 59%
Somewhat serious: 30%
FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll
Immigration is a serious problem: 91%
Very serious: 63%
Somewhat serious: 28%
Time Magazine Poll
Immigration is a serious problem: 89%
Extremely serious: 32%
Very serious: 36%
Somewhat serious: 21%
Quinnipiac University Poll
Immigration is a serious problem: 88%
Very serious: 57%
Somewhat serious: 31%
44.“Salience of Immigration Rising.”
45.Ibid.; and “Fact Sheet: The State of American Public Opinion.”
46.Jeffrey M. Jones, “Majority Says Population Growth Is Major Problem for U.S. Future,” Gallup, July 14, 2006, http://www.gallup.com/poll/23770/majority-says-population-growth-major-problem-us-future.aspx.
47.“Conservative Leadership Declaration Opposing Amnesty/‘Guest Worker’ Proposals,” HowardPhillips.com, June 19, 2006, http://www.howardphillips.com/archive0606.htm.
48.Julian Aguilar, “A Young Bush Works to Nurture Hispanic Roots within the Republican Party,” New York Times, March 4, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/us/george-p-bush-works-to-nurture-hispanic-roots.htm.
49.“Young Voters Supported Obama Less, but May Have Mattered More,” Pew Research Center, November 26, 2012, http://www.people-press.org/2012/11/26/young-voters-supported-obama-less-but-may-have-mattered-more/. See the chart “Among Young Whites, Men Backed Romney, Women Were Divided.” Among eighteen-to-twenty-nine-year-old black men, 19 percent voted for Romney, and somewhat contrary to the chart’s title, more white women supported Romney than Obama, 49 percent to 48 percent.
50.Walt Harrington, “On the Road with the President of Black America,” Washington Post, January 25, 1987. (Jesse Jackson: “Reagan’s politics are racist.”)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: MOST OF OUR CHAMPIONS ARE SELLOUTS—HALF OF THE REST ARE INCOMPETENT
1.“Florida Senate Debate,” State of the Union with Candy Crowley, CNN, October 24, 2010. (Rubio: “First of all, earned path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty. It’s what they call it. And the reality of it is this. This has to do with the bottom line that America cannot be the only country in the world that does not enforce its immigration laws.”)
2.See “Video: Marco Rubio Immigration,” YouTube video, uploaded by user “CONREPALLIANCE,” March 25, 2009, starting at 2:19, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmLR2l4cR4&feature=youtu.be&t=1m29s; and “Rubio in 2010: I’ll Never Support Amnesty,” WND.com, April 9, 2013, http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/rubio-in-2010-ill-never-supportamnesty/#svp8IHvwAbLROHtV.99.
3.“North Korea Least Favorable Among Nations,” Gallup, February 19, 2014, http://www.gallup.com/poll/167489/north-korea-least-favorable-among-nations.aspx.
4.David McCabe, “Poll: Americans Dissatisfied with Immigration Levels,” Hill, January 29, 2015, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/231107-poll-americans-dissatisfied-with-immigration-levels#.VMppa98SXrQ.twitter.
5.Steve Bousquet and Alisa Ulferts, “Hijackers Got State IDs Legally,” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, September 16, 2001, http://www.sptimes.com/News/091601/State/Hijackers_got_state_I.shtml.
6.Jeff Zeleny, “A Florida Bush Stays Silent
, and to Many, That Says a Lot,” New York Times, January 30, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/us/politics/jeb-bush-remains-silent-on-endorsement.html.
7.Michael Luo, “Walking a Tightrope on Immigration,” New York Times, November 18, 2007, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E1DD1530F93BA25752C1A9619C8B63.
8.Peter Baker, “Jeb Bush Talks Approach If He Runs for President,” New York Times, April 7, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/us/politics/jeb-bush-outlines-campaign-strategy-should-he-choose-to-run.html.
9.Trip Gabriel, “Stance on Immigration May Hurt Perry Early On,” New York Times, September 24, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/us/politics/rick-perrys-stance-on-immigration-may-hurt-his-chances.html.
10.Gabriel, “Stance on Immigration.”
11.Peggy Fikac, “Perry’s Border Fence Quip Rings a Bell,” Houston (TX) Chronicle, October 3, 2011.
12.Robin Abcarian and Maeve Reston, “Perry’s View on Border Issues Is Migrating Rightward,” Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2011, available online under the title “Perry Moves Right on Immigration,” at http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/20/nation/la-na-0821-perry-immigration-20110821.
13.Adam Nagourney et al., “Immigration: Complex Test for 2 Parties,” New York Times, April 28, 2010, available online under the title “Immigration Poses Complex Test for Democrats and Republicans,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/us/politics/28immig.html.
14.See, e.g., Ashley Parker, “Paul Spells Out His Plan for Immigration Overhaul,” The Caucus (blog), New York Times blogs, March 19, 2013, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/speech-by-paul-expected-to-support-citizenship-path-for-illegal-immigrants/. (Paul said he wanted illegals to “join the workforce and pay taxes.”)
15.Raul Reyes, “Running Out of Time,” Daily Record (Morristown, NJ), April 13, 2014, http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/opinion/2014/04/13/gop-running-out-of-time-on-immigration-reform/7553743/.
16.Jeremy W. Peters, “G.O.P. Groups Offering Cover on Immigrants,” New York Times July 2, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/politics/gop-groups-offering-cover-for-lawmakers-on-immigration.html.