Wolf Blitzer has struck a nerve...

[DAMANgoldberg]

Link to tweet

You rarely hear explicit commentary from him, so I pay attention when he does. It's personal for him, and it should be with everybody. We all came here from somewhere else, or at least most of us, somewhere in our family trees and forests. #justsayin

[iluvtennis]

1. Thanks for the post. Just want to say that the Native American Indians are the ONLY indigenous

people of America.

EVERYONE else is here from immigration -- direct immigration like Dr Fiona Hill and LtCol Vindman or indirect via immigrants parents coming here and having a family like Wolf Blitzer's parents.

And then there was immigration via enforced slavery.

America really needs to grow up and recognize of what she is made of.

[sandensea]

5. Hear, hear.

That's one of the great and central differences between us and our Republican friends.

I think most of us know I mean when I say that when the issue of "what it means to be an American" comes up in conversation with most Republicans, they think it has to include having forbears that had a 'Little House of the Prairie' experience - and that, of course, it's limited to people with northern European surnames and features.

For a lot of them, being a "real" American is above all an ethnic question - and if you don't fit that, you should leave.

That, more than anything, seems to be what's behind the Trump phenomenon and the radicalization of the GOPee in general.

[iluvtennis]

12. Exactly

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Actually, even the Native Americans

were immigrants.

The first ones who came here had the good fortune to find an empty continent. But they didn't evolve here. So technically, all humans outside of Africa are immigrants. Just some did the immigrating more recently than others.

[pangaia]

8. To carry that even farther, almost EVERYBODY everywhere is an immigrant...

[PJMcK]

2. Damn it, Wolf!

Do this every damn day!

You have the pulpit. If you truly believe what you're saying, continue to push it.

You can do it. People will hear you.

[marked50]

3. Not just draw attention to it but actually fight against the forces that deny it!

[George II]

4. That's what I was thinking. He's the most dead-pan, unemotional commentator on television today....

When I heard him saying that I was shocked, very much out of character in a good way.

[Stuart G]

7. This is a great video..Yes, outstanding!! Everyone here has 1 min 28 seconds to view and listen.

K and R

A speech or presentation doesn't need to be long to be great. 156 years ago, on November 19, 1863, a famous American gave one of the greatest speeches ever. It was 272 words long, and lasted 2 minutes plus a few seconds more.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. And the photographer missed his shot, because he thought he'd have plenty of time. nt

[maxrandb]

9. Please... someone wrote that for him

He'll be back to bothsiderism before you can say "butter emails"...or when the check from Vlad clears.

[colsohlibgal]

10. The Clueless Right Wingers

They are so ridiculous not realizing we white people are not the original inhabitants of America. We broke treaty after treaty with the real native Americans and took this land by force.

A brain is a terrible thing to lose but the far right is losing them big time.