Tucker Carlson falsely suggested Puerto Ricans...are immigrants to U.S.

[ProSense]

Wed, Jul 12, 2006 3:43pm EST

Tucker Carlson falsely suggested Puerto Ricans living in Texas are immigrants to U.S.

Summary: On MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson said to guest Jesse Diaz, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, "you may be counting Hispanic immigrants from Puerto Rico," after Diaz said that "only 55 percent of illegals are of Mexican descent." However, all native Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

On the July 10 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson said to guest Jesse Diaz, Dallas chapter president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, "you may be counting Hispanic immigrants from Puerto Rico," after Diaz said that "only 55 percent of illegals are of Mexican descent," even though all native Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. During a discussion about illegal immigrant women giving birth at a Dallas hospital, Diaz challenged Carlson's assertion that the United States should "bill Mexico" for services used by illegal immigrants, by pointing out that illegal immigrants come from countries other than Mexico. In response, Carlson recited census http://dallas.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm">data indicating that less than 2 percent of Hispanics living in Dallas are of Puerto Rican or Cuban descent. However, that statistic is irrelevant to the discussion of illegal immigrants -- or "immigrants" at all in the context of Puerto Rico: The http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/jonesact.html">Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917 granted U.S. citizenship to all residents of Puerto Rico. In addition, almost all Cubans who reach U.S. shores are automatically http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32621.pdf#page=24">granted asylum, so few, if any, would be here illegally.

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[acmavm]

1. Maybe he's just that stupid.

[C_U_L8R]

4. He is that stupid

[The Wielding Truth]

6. Yep.

[LeftCoast]

13. You nailed it

The Bow Tie isn't really all that clever.

[smokey nj]

17. That would explain the bow tie. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

19. I think that is it

He was ranting about the Iraqis last night because they don't appreciate being "liberated" by us and the idiot said "they (the Iraqis) even rape people who don't deserve it."

I checked the MSNBC transcripts today and they cleaned it up.

Don

[ContraBass Black]

2. More proof

That he has a very strange idea of just what America is.

[marmar]

3. Bad personality. Easily agitated. Goofy-looking. Dumb.

Tell me again how this troglodyte landed a TV show?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

24. i think you answered your own question.

[AspenRose]

5. What a dumbass

Boriqua=CITIZEN, you idiot!

[rurallib]

7. Any one with dark skin or who doesn't speak English

probably not welcome in Tucky's Murica. (Hear that dimmest son?)

[zulchzulu]

8. Well, that just puts a speed trap against the War Against Brown People

"Heck", says Lil' Tuckie Boy, "they're all damn spick wetbacks, so what's the difference...huh Ann...." Skinny Ann Coulter just smiles and looks him in the eye.

:nuke:

[AspenRose]

10. "...and they all look alike"

"Heck, they even all speak the same language! What's the problem?"

:dunce:

[ClassWarrior]

9. That could be the lead-in for every episode of that lying weasel's show:

"Tucker Carlson falsely suggested...<fill in the blank>"

NGU.

[smtpgirl]

11. Leave it to a RW to think

that Puerto Ricans are immigrants, since Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the US!!

Asshole, and he preaches that he knows history!!

Can I make $3 mil a year to spew that BS

[Czolgosz]

12. tucker = turd + fucker

[AlCzervik]

14. Tucker Carlson wishes he was a smart as he tries to portray himself as

to me he seems to act like he is the smartest guy in the room and only he is in on the inside joke.

[rhiannon55]

15. I've always wondered

how people like Tucker :dunce:


get their own shows. He's one of the more obvious morons. Is his daddy a rich media executive or something?

[Touchdown]

18. Yeah, I think he's the son of some Goldwaterite gasbag from the 60s

His bowtie is some sort of homage to David Broder, or another gasbag from the 60s. His hair? Pure 6:30am Today.

[LincolnMcGrath]

16. Front Page with this!

[Octafish]

20. My Puerto Rican cousins fought in Vietnam.

One is in Iraq now.

My grandfather and his brothers all served in World War II. They were Puerto Ricans.

They all were and are citizens of the United States.

They were and are veterans and heroes of our nation.

Unlike the coward Tucker.

ANOTHER SMALL
COWARD AND
DRAFT-DODGER

[Gabi Hayes]

22. hey! Octafish!

Lucid tenacles test 'n sleeved
'n joined 'n jointed jade pointed
Diamond back patterns

[Octafish]

26. Heyo, Gabi Hayes!

Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top



Sam with the showing scalp flat top,
particular about the point it made.
Why, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper,
this black juice came out on a hard shelled chin.
And that called that 'tobacco juice'.
I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx.
My entire room absorbed every echo..
The music was.. thud like. The music was.. thud like.
I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug.
Opaque melodies that would bug most people.
Music from the other side of the fence.
A black swan figurine lay on all color lily pads.
On a little conglomeration table of pressed black felt.
With same color shadows, and seamed(?) knobbed knees, and what-nots.
The long hallway rolled out into oddball odd.
Beside the fly-pecked black doorway,
that looked closed on the tar-lattice street.
Up a wrought iron fire escape.
Rolled out a tiny wooden platform with
dark, hard, dark rubber wheels.
Roll, skreek! Roll, skreek! Roll, skreek!
Sam with the showing scalp flat top,
particular about the point it made.

Sam was a BASKET CASE!

A hardened dark ivory clip held.. saleable everyday pencils.
I wish I had a pair 'o bongos!
Bongo Fury! Bongo Fury!
Oowwwww! Bongo Fury!
(boogie!)
Bongo Fury! Bongo Fury!

-- Don Van Vliet

b]UH MORON

[Quantess]

30. Captain Beefheart...

are they anything like Meatloaf?

[Gabi Hayes]

21. he really is unwatchable....I tried, for the last time today, to stay

with him during his "interview" with Larry ODonnell

he is completely incapable of letting others finish a thought if they disagree with him in the slightest.

he is THE most obnoxious person I think I've ever seen; worse, even, than Coulter. it's close, but he wins, because he thinks he's even clever, funnier than Coulter thinks she is. It just radiates from him. He has the occasional interesting topic, but his personality is just TOO off-putting to deal with.

I can't believe he gets a stage. what is Abrams thinking, besides not wanting to eat his contract?

[ourbluenation]

23. I smell a Top Ten Conservative Idiot coming on...

I mean seriously...how does this man have his own show?

Paging Dan Abrams.

[MsKandice01]

25. Looks like Bowtie Boy needs a geography lesson..

What an imbecile.

[Bacchus39]

27. I've seen people here say the same thing about Puerto Rican

"immigrants".

[calico1]

28. Tucker is stupid, not doubt. But there are a lot

of people who think Puerto Ricans are immigrants. When I was signing my papers for a job I took in a bank back in the late 80's I remember the very educated seeming HR woman asking me if I was a legal citizen or resident alien and if I had my green card with me. I politely reminded her that Puerto Ricans have been citizens since the very early 20th century. And I have had other such encounters with people. Oh, and I sometimes get asked for help on how to make this or that Mexican recipe. I mean, to some people we are all the same.:eyes:

[w4rma]

29. Immigrants = U.S Citizens; *Illegal* immigrants aren't U.S. Citizens.

He's still wrong though but not for that reason. The territory has been under the U.S. government since, I believe, the turn of the century, around 1900.