Best of 2010: Media Scolded Americans as Anti-Islamic, Anti-Immigrant Bigots
Condemning everyday Americans as racist, anti-immigrant Islamophobes was a favorite media theme in 2010, as documented by the Media Research Center's year-end Best Notable Quotables of 2010 . Polls showed most Americans supported Arizona's effort to curb illegal immigration and opposed building an Islamic center near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center towers — but on both scores the media elite stacked their coverage against the public. Winning the ” Hazing Arizona Award for Denigrating Immigration Enforcement ” was longtime New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, who summoned images of resistance to Nazi occupation in an April 27 op-ed hoping for protests of the “police state” she claimed Arizona had become for trying to protect itself from illegal immigration. read more
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Best of 2010: Media Scolded Americans as Anti-Islamic, Anti-Immigrant Bigots
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