Katrina Vanden Heuval Not Quite Practicing What She Preaches

Reader Tom Stevens sends us this note:

Good Afternoon from Chicago.  I enjoy reading your blog.  I have been looking to move out west and am interested in SD - found your site doing some Google. 

 

Anyway, I saw the blog from Ken Blanchard last night regarding Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Didn't know if you saw ABC's This Week last Sunday; I tried to find the transcript on their site, but regarding Ms. V H and political rhetoric, this was rich.....

 

Vanden Heuvel told Stephanopoulos: "Tancredo, on your show today, he looked pleasant. But I will say that what's happened in our country is that some of the white supremacist thinking that used to be represented by David Duke has been absorbed by people like Tancredo."

Vanden Heuvel called the House immigration reform bill backed by Tancredo "very dangerous," "draconian" and "un-American," before praising the illegal population.

 

 

Take Care and Good Luck in the Future,

 

Tom

Thanks for the note, Tom. 

I believe that this remark of KVH was also noticed by James Taranto in his Best of the Web, at the Wall Street Journal Online.  In Ms. Vanden Heuval's defense (a role I am unaccustomed to playing), comparing Tancredo to David Duke, though altogether unfair, was not the same thing as comparing him to Hitler.  Likewise, the "very dangerous," "draconian" and "un-American," remarks applied to the bill, not the person.  Calling a proposed piece of legislation "un-American" seems to me fair under the rules of civil discourse. 

ps.  South Dakota would love to have you.