Fake Hispanic Ruben NAVARRETTE gets another fix of Shrub-ass-kissing & blasting Vietnam generation

O.K., his latest drivel isn't on the web yet, and I only read it in the paper when the headline writer alerts to another Rick SANCHEZ type doozy. While I find a link, suffice it to say that this dude does nothing but excoriate Dems as "White Liberal males" who did the dastardly deed of providing him with an Affirmative Action ticket to Harvard, which so scarred him that he wrote a book about it and launched a column, sort of a weaker sister to Michelle MALKIN, bashing all traditional Hispanic ties to Dems.

He twists himself in knots constantly to find ways to kiss Shrub ass and bash anything-Dem. Plus, he's got a generation thing centered on Vietnam. In '04 he trashed KERRY with slurs specifically about his Vietnam HONORABLE AND COMMENDABLE service (compared to Shrub's AWOL-ity) with comments like, "While John KERRY was RUNNING AROUND THE JUNGLES IN VIETNAM...". He said then and in the latest drivel that he is TIRED of hearing about "what we learned in Vietnam," saying that he was born within a few months of the Tet Offensive and has been hearing about nothing except Vietnam his whole Gen X life.

So in today's trashfest, the headline writer titled it something like, "Shrub can't win with Dems." It was about how Shrub compared leaving Iraq to leaving Vietnam. He said that this should have won points for Shrub since Dems have been comparing Iraq to Vietnam for years, but NOooo, Dems turned around and bashed Shrub for the wrong comparison. And yet about two-thirds through the print inches, he says that "Still, invoking Vietnam was obviously not a smart move for Bush. Americans know that the president spent the war stateside in the Texas Air National Guard. So most people just tuned out, and Bush's remarks became little more than a late-night TV punchline. He should have stayed out of the Vietnam minefield altogether.

"And so should we all. We should eliminate the 'V-word' from our political vocabulary. As a member of Generation X who was born eight months before the Tet Offensive in 1968, I'm tired of hearing about this conflict. I felt that way before the 9/11 attacks, but I have even less patience for the discussion now. Why should Americans waste time arguing over the lessons of a war that ended in the 1970s, when we're at war with a new enemy right now?"


Ha-hahaha-HAH!!1 And in that last sentence, we find the source of the instinctive bond that draws NAVARRETTE to Shrub: That plain old anti-intellectual ingnorance. He don't want to know about the past. He gots NEW wars to fight NOW---well, not him himself personally/physically, but then, Shrub needed this war so he could learn the geography that Harvard and Yale just couldn't teach him!!1


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http://www.postwritersgroup.com/navarrette.htm

Ruben Navarrette Jr.

A fresh voice on political and social issues who challenges readers to think in new ways. ....

Ruben Navarrette Jr., a columnist and editorial board member of The San Diego Union-Tribune, is a fresh and increasingly important voice in the national political debate. His twice-weekly column offers new thinking on many of the major issues of the day, especially on thorny questions involving ethnicity and national origin. ....

Navarrette draws on both his knowledge of policy and politics and his life experiences to provide meaningful and hard-hitting commentary. He is a gifted and widely sought speaker on Latino affairs, has worked as a substitute teacher in classes from kindergarten to high school, and has hosted radio talk shows. ....

Navarrette was born May 11, 1967, in the farm country of the San Joaquin Valley. He attended public schools in Sanger, Calif., a town of deep roots where all four of his grandparents lived. His father is a 34-year law enforcement officer in Fresno. Ruben Sr. recently became an investigator for the California Labor Commissioner's Office where he enforces fair labor practices in some of the very same grape fields and peach orchards where he and his brothers, along with his parents, worked in the 1930s and 1940s. ....

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/navarrette/index.html

Aug. 29 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Gonzales did not 'fall from grace': As a defender of Alberto Gonzales, I was sorry to see him go. And I told him so when I spoke with him Monday after he announced his resignation.

Aug. 26 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Respecting the rule of law: When I heard that federal immigration agents had arrested and deported Elvira Arellano, a 32-year-old Mexican citizen who brazenly broke our laws and all but dared U.S. authorities to do anything about it, I wondered what the reaction would be from the National Council of La Raza.

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Because the generation gap concerning war was created by the two different ways the generations saw war. World War two NO nukes, Baby Boom nukes everywhere. This cause a divide about the why the two thought about war. WW2, it's fun, you get to see the world, BB, it's not fun we could be annihilated. Also the BB was the first generation raised on TV. This also caused a split. Boomer's tended to believe everything was fake. Shows like "Leave it to Beaver' were referred to a lot.

I kinda feel sorry for gen X. All they ever did was shop! The shopping generation, if they protest at all, is only to get the approval of the corporations.

Who gets the next generation wins the 30 year cultural wars. The millennials. The "Christians" are making a big play for them. But as far as I can see the "shopping generation" isn't in play at all.I guess they could quit shopping for a couple of weeks to try to get some respect but I don't think they can do it.

This is a fight between WW2(culture) and the BB, to see who gets the MM's..

I'm putting my money on BB because the RW lies to much and everybody hates a liar especially young people!

BB and MM have a lot in common. Even the wars. They were both lied too. They listen to the same music watch the same shows were the same clothes. Re-creating the generation gap is impossible but that doesn't mean they wouldn't stop trying.

If you need a comeback "Leave my grandma alone" should work!

If you weren't in combat, maybe. Combat vets generally think differently, but lots of them won't even talk about it. Like my Uncle. He was a radioman and tailgunner in a bomber in the Pacific Campaign where he shot and got shot at.

I'm a boomer, but was too young to do anything but watch the '60s and early '70s on TV. I got tired of my Dad's endless WW2 stories (he saw little combat). Now older, I see things differently. WW2 was like all conflicts in which there was a general mobilization, meaning a large draft and a conversion of industrial capacity to manufacturing the materiel of war. It is a huge national and often change-producing experience. The WW2 generation had it; so do the boomers, particularly the older ones, and really, that's who we're talking about. As you point out, Gen-X doesn't have that experience. I wonder if Gen-X will come to terms with Vietnam, and indeed all large wars, as they age into their late 40s and 50s.

So you disagree with the guy. Fine.

But why attack his ethnic identity?

Navarette is not Spanish. Were his parents migrant workers? Where are they from? Does Ruben speak Spanish?

According to some genealogy sites. (Google is your friend.)

Ruben Navarette is Hispanic, according to his bio, on a number of sites. (Google really is your friend.)

doesn't mean the person isn't essentially Hispanic by ancestry. Non-Spanish surnames are fairly common thoughout South America. And I believe Navarette is a somewhat common name in Cuba and is a variation of Navarro.

recent ancestors were farm laborers in California.

my parents weren't migrant workers, i was born in this country, as were they.

i don't agree with navarette, however, etc.

with CRAIG vis a vis his voting against Gay issues. I really can't believe my drift was SO difficult for you to figure out.

In my book ANY minority member who is a wingnut and stands AGAINST the positions of his home minority group is a FAKE member of that group. This NAVARRETTE dude is plainly described in the o.p. for his Shrub-loving, including two links whose synopses on their own tell you all you want to know.

So, it's not ME attacking "his" ethnicity. HE does that daily. And yet he TRADES on his ethnicity the same way Linda CHAVEZ (hmmm, why doesn't she used her married, NON-Hispanic name?) does: He wouldn't reap a single penny but for the fact that he is a Hispanic who DOESN'T express the views of traditional Hispanics. It's not because he's DEEP. It's because he's a Clarence THOMAS----uh, oh-my-Zeus, there I've gone again and used somebody's identity against him!!1

Where have you been?!1 (& I'm talking, even these past couple of DAYS.)

where i come from, "h*spanic" is a slur. i'm chicano, latino. don't call me "h*panic". navarrette doesn't exactly hold up a fist and scream "white power" but that's what he means. send in the clowns.

“White Power!” the Nazis shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.
http://asheville.indymedia.org/article/107Clowns

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1709302&mesg_id=1709302


happy labor day weekend, gente.

mvs

http://labloga.blogspot.com

http://readraza.com

i hadn't heard that. eh, you know, whatever.

fwiw, could care less. rabid jackasses almost always get what they deserve (navarette).