Illegal Immigrants Killed Off The Indians

Illegal Immigrants Killed Off The Indians

by digby

Minneapolis prankster Robert Erickson punk’d anti-immigration zealot Roy Beck of Number USA (whose bodyguard attacked female mimes for being “hateful” at the rally on Sunday) into agreeing that illegal European immigration has been a huge problem going back to Columbus:

I think this is the kind of thing O’Keefe and Giles were aiming for, but like typical wingnuts, they had to doctor the tapes and lie because they just aren’t good enough to pull it off (and that’s just how they roll.) And, of course, they had to use crude racial stereotypes to make their point because they were aiming at a lizard brain response. Sadly, they got it.

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