Who Knew? Atlantic editor Michael Kinsley listens “to a lot of talk radio,” where, he says, “you can often hear an idea or talking point spreading out among conservatives like a meme, or a weed…”
Recently, says Kinsley, “the theme was that anyone who criticizes Arizona’s new get-tough-on-illegal-immigration law is a hypocrite, because Mexico’s immigration laws are even tougher.” Kinsley, who lives in Seattle, says he “heard it on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved and a local guy named David Boze” and decided “it is an absurd point.”
Kinsley believes most Mexicans “would probably have no trouble agreeing with Rush and Sean and Glenn that Mexico is a dreadful place with a corrupt government that has terrible, onerous laws on many subjects.”
Obviously Kinsley doesn’t agree with the conservative shock jocks on this one — but I doubt many Mexicans agree with him either!
