Topic: Immigration
Guest: Pat Buchanan
Summary: John talks to Pat Buchanan about his virulent new book about immigration. After trading racial reasons for opposing immigration, they are faced with a hispanic caller that says he loves the country, is assimilating, and is offended by the discussion. Buchanan's response: the caller is an example of the good kind of immigrant, but most aren't like that and instead boo our soccer team and fly the spanish flag.
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CARLSON: Pat Buchanan, as many of you know, former communications director for Ronald Reagan, former syndicated columnist, the right-hand side of the chair on Crossfire all these years, candidate for President. Many call him the conscience of the right, the conscience of the conservatives. And, every once in a while he writes a book that alters public debate. And I think he may have written the most politically important book of the year, and it has been out or all of one week.
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BUCHANAN: The people upset the most, John, are the people who live side by side with the illegal aliens and have an extremely high crime rate compared the normal Americans, or regular Americans. And they bring in all many of diseases into the schools because they haven't been checked medically when they come across the border. And they drive down wages, even Harvard scholars agree with that, and they make the situation, they make people feel like they're living in an alien neighborhood when they're in their own country and their own neighborhood they grew up in.
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BUCHANAN: The census bureau itself says there's going to be 102 million hispanics inside the United States, half of them in Texas and California alone. They will be heavily concentrated in the Southwest. And European Americans, Americans of European descent, are in real terms, real numbers, big numbers, leaving California already. I think what's going to happen is linguistically, culturally, and ethnically, this will become as much or more a part of Mexico as it is the United States.
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BUCHANAN: Unless something interrupts the trend that's going on John, for the first time white people , quite frankly, are leaving California and coming back over the mountains.
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CALLER: A friend of mine brought to my attention that most of the people coming across the border are not Spanish descendent Mexicans, but the natives. Do you concur with that?
BUCHANAN: Well, 85 to 90 percent are Mescizo stock or Amerindians. That is correct. So they are predominantly Indian and Mescizo, which I believe is a combination of Spanish and Indian.
CARLSON: Why does that matter?
BUCHANAN: Are you talking to me or the caller?
CARLSON: Pat.
BUCHANAN: Well, here's the problem. Englishmen for example are easy to assimilate into America. But if you're come from third-world cultures and countries and you come in the numbers that they are from Mexico, and Mexico has a general claim on the Southwest, and you are a different race, it makes it much more difficult and longer to assimilate and Americanize and bring folks fully into our country and our culture. We see what happened in Europe with folks from Muslim countries. They seemed to be assimilating and now there is a great reversion and there is no assimilating taking place.
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CARLSON: You know, Pat Buchanan and I don't always agree, we squared off on the issue of trade here on KVI about eight or nine years ago, but we agree on other issues, and you know, I find myself largely in agreement with him on illegal immigration.
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CALLER: I don't consider myself racist or prejudiced at all, and a lot of people will jump at me for saying this, but I think the white population in America has been trained to have this internal guilt and hate ourselves to the point where.
CARLSON: I don't think that's controversial at all. I think there is a great deal of guilt mongering, and I mean after all, if the cult of victimology requires an oppressor, requires a bad guy.
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CALLER: When our chief executive, who I've voted for twice and I've stood by and defended him adamantly, stands up and tells me that he's going to let people in because he's found jobs that Americans just won't do. And I'll tell you what, that's just not true. We've got people out there, and they're anglo saxons or whatever you want to call 'em, we better start calling ourselves white, that are out there pumping Honey Buckets. You got a guy out pumping a Honey Bucket, there's nothing that man won't do for a living. CARLSON: Well, let's put it this way. There is not a single profession in the United States where the majority of people are immigrants.
Time: 01:00 - 01:30
Topic: Internet Gambling
Guest: Adam Small, PocketFiles.com
Summary: John talks about anti-gambling legislation that is under consideration in the Republican-led U.S. Senate. His guest runs a gambling-themed website and speaks up for the right of people to blow off steam with the games of their choice. Similar to previous discussions about an anti-gambling statute in Washington State, John tries to frame this as invasive government without acknowledging that it's his religious-right buddies who are pushing this. WWRJFD? (what would Reverend Joe Fuiten do?). Later on the discussion gets conspiratorial as John trades "those durned Indians are behind it" theories with his callers.
Time: 01:30 - 01:45
Topic: John Mark Karr
Summary: John "calls an audible" (that's what they call it in the radio biz) and switches the discussion to the Jon Benet Ramsey saga and the day's revelation that Karr's DNA didn't match evidence collected from the crime scene. John's probing question to the audience: what should be done with this guy?
Time: 01:45 - 02:00
Topic: The Valerie Plame affair
Summary: John talks about a Michael Isikoff article that in John's view gives the real truth of the Valerie Plame spy-outing story, claiming that State Department official Richard Armitage was Novak's original source, thus excusing all of the various actions by Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, and the majority of the Vice President's staff.
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The man who leaked Valerie Plame's identity, and her involvement and how her husband got to Niger, Joe Wilson, and the whole thing with the yellow cake uranium, and when the White House found out and said "who sent this guy" he says the administration sent him, and insinuates it was the Vice President's office and it clearly was not.
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First of all, the leaker was not Karl Rove and it was not Scooter Libby either. In fact it was not anyone at the White House. They claim it was Richard Armitage, deputy Secretary of State and one of Colin Powell's closest friends.
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By the way, by all available evidence, she did not have covert status. Her covert status had expired by the time of her supposed outing anyway. Had you heard that before now?
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It all means that millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted investigating a completely non-existent crime. Innocent White House officials were distracted from their duty for over two years. Scooter Libby loses his job over actions that never would have occurred if not for the investigation. And the Democratic left showed its worst case.
Time: 02:00 - 02:10
Topic: Washington State elections
Summary: John talks about several Washington State election races. US Senate: discussion about Safeco cancelling insurance based on credit scores is "desperate". State Supreme Court: Candidate Michael Johnson is the most ridiculous looking state candidate ever.
Time: 02:10 - 03:00
Topic: Kidnapped Fox journalists
Summary: John talks about the release of Fox journalists kidnapped in Lebanon and a tape that shows them converting to Islam during their ordeal. It quickly deginerates into an overly religious zzzzzz.....