A tiny bit of sense on the right is met with incredulity on Fox
by digby
You don’t even want to know what the Fox News gasbags thought of this today:
In a comments that seemed to surprise some of his fellow panelists, Fox News contributor and conservative columnist George Will said Sunday that the U.S. should welcome the unaccompanied minors surging across the southern border, fleeing violence in their home countries, reported Raw Story.
“We ought to say to these children, ‘Welcome to America, you’re going to go to school, and get a job, and become American,’” Mr. Will said on Fox News, according to Raw Story.
He added, “The idea that we can’t assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.”
Fox News host Chris Wallace challenged Mr. Will, Raw Story reported, saying, “Why should we be dealing with Central America’s problem? We can’t import the problem. They’ve got to deal with it there, and our border has to mean something.”
Mr. Will countered that the U.S. should handle the problem because it is capable of doing so.“We’ve handled what [American poet] Emma Lazarus called the ‘wretched refuse of your teeming shore’ a long time ago, and a lot more people than this,” Mr. Will said, according to Raw Story.
Let’s just say they treated Will like a dotty old auntie who simply didn’t know what he was saying. Dana Perino said she admired him for “speaking his mind” but added that it’s easy for someone standing on the sidelines to have such opinions. It’s different when you have to be elected. (She neglected to add “by selfish assholes …”) The rest of the panel just yelled “get in line!!!” you’re “illegal” as if sending refugee kids back to their violent cities to be tortured and/or killed to “wait their turn” makes any sense.
Both Will and Brit Hume have made this argument now and the rest of the younger Fox crew looks at them like they’ve sprouted a second head. They honestly have no experience with people being decent toward anyone who isn’t part of their little club. It’s literally unimaginable to them.
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