This article reminds me of an exchange between Homer Simpson and Apu, the Indian (South Asian - not American) manager of the Kwik-E-Mart convenience store:

Homer, to Apu, (about to Re-enact a civil war battle): " C'mon Apu we need more indians for this civil war re-enactment"

Apu: "Oh my. That is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start".

This article and the mind-set that produces it is wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to begin. Here are some of the most egregious examples of bias and wrong thinking:

Britt Minshall is a United Church of Christ pastor... He calls the current administration "evil, wrong, treasonous ... a pack of monsters."

Ok, I'll buy that, as long as he also calls all of the previous administrations the same. Otherwise, he is just a partisan bigot.

Minshall says he sees the pain every day. Baltimore, he says, is full of young, black men who are "unemployable because they won't work for $4.50 an hour."

They are unemployable because they are all too aware that the government will take my money and feed, clothe, and house them.

"The customer will always buy the $2,000 roof and not the $2,500 one," Minshall says, adding, "We've gotten so addicted to cheap goods."

A glimmer of truth. If only the words "both liberal and conservative" were added before the word "customer". When it comes to voluntarily paying more for something we all say "capitalism rocks!"

There are conservative Democrats, civil rights activists and leftist multiculturalists calling for legalizing undocumented immigrant workers...

What, no plain old conservatives? Not even one? What a biased statement. What is a "conservative democrat" anyway? How do you tell them apart from a conservative republican

"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me"

Two things. First, that poem assumes they will be sent legally, and second it's no longer germane. We have enough homeless, poor, huddled masses. We don't need any more, thank you.

In a March 29 column posted on the progressive Web site Common Dreams, Thom Hartmann described the fight between supporters of the Senate and House bills as one between "corporatist Republicans ('amnesty!')" and "racist Republicans ('fence!')."

First, who the heck is Thom Hartmann, and who cares what he has to say? Second, the description of both groups he claims are fighting is negative. Another prejudicial statement. What no "good guys" in the fight? I am neither "corporatist" or "racist". I just want the law to be enforced!

African-American unemployment, she (Doris Meissner) says, "obviously has something to do with a broader set of sociological and racism issues.

Puhleeeeeeez

"Do we create a path to citizenship to all who have earned it with their hard work, to all who love and respect America? Or do we reject our heritage and put up signs that say, 'The American Dream belongs only to the few?'"

U.S. citizenship is not earned by "hard work". This statement is a misconception, a lie.

Lastly:

But by cooperating in a reinvigorated labor movement, some progressives say, both Americans and immigrants can elevate the pay scale and receive a decent wage.

The phrase is "honest wage" not "decent wage". I believe this concept is so foreign to the writer, that it has been driven from her mind.

I could go on, but I know you get the idea, whether you will admit it or not.

Poco

We live in an amoral society now. Where's the harm in a little "teacher - student interaction"? No victim, no crime! It seems that society has become a bunch of prudes. Where are the attitudes of the 60's? Where's the free love? People don't get married any more. Choice, choice, choice! Can't a fifteen year old boy make the choice to get down with teacher? Jeeeeez. Where's Bill and Hillary when you need someone to explain why we have traded legally enforced morality for socially enforced morality?

I guess you can legislate it after all. But you gotta ask yourself which one is preferable. We've become a pack of dogs, and "oh, my, my" we are soooo repulsed by it. The muzzles and chains are coming out, and they will be affixed to us not by society, wherein there was once reasonable restraint, but by the law...

Poco

Just don't put a gun to my head and make me do it too, because nine times out of ten, the conclusions that humans arrive at are wrong.

Poco

Big deal...

Mr. Colbert maintains his brilliance when the democrats are in power, which should be pretty soon, by the way. When Newt Gingrich starts providing campaign slogans to the dems, you know there is a serious rift coming (he genuinely offered this one: "had enough?" - Really - he wasn't kidding. Even he is sick of the GOP)

Poco

to life. Oddly enough you will find it in the Bible. However, you won't understand the bulk of it unless you are modified by conversion. If you are curious, don't ask a catholic, baptist, jew, or presbyterian. Ask only that person that swears to you that they adhere only to the teachings of Yahshua, and nothing else.

Poco

Humanism, defined as liberalism or progressivism is crumbling and feeding on itself. What, are Russia and China not good enough examples for you?

Poco