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Here are a few mainstream media rules of thumb: Minority Democrats in pu blic office are inspirational role models. Minority Republicans in publi c office are embarrassing sellouts. Minority Democrat politicians represent the hopes and dreams of all Amer icans. Minority Republican politicians are traitors to their "communitie s" These rules are unwritten, of course, but the minority politician do uble standard is glaringly obvious in the national media fawning over ne wly elected US Sen. After Obama's Democratic National Convention address this summer, The Ne w York Times exulted: "As Quickly as Overnight, a New Democratic Star Is Born." A headline in the Christian Science Monitor echoed: "A Star is B orn." USA Today panted: "Rising star brings Democrats to their feet." NB C's Andrea Mitchell enthused: "I think the real breakout tonight is Obam a I mean Teresa is a fascinating story, but Obama is a rock star!" And Newsweek's Howard Fineman proclaimed: "He is the best argument for the A merican dream that's around in politics." The biracial Obama is so n of a Kenyan immigrant and a rarely mentioned white mother (who raised him after his father ditched the family and returned to Africa when Obam a was 2). A civil rights lawyer, Obama skyrocketed in the Democratic ran ks from Illinois state senator to US senator in just a few short years . He has been blessed with good looks, good luck, polished speaking skil ls and prodigious fund-raising abilities. After his historic election vi ctory, he appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," ABC's "This Week," and a s lew of cable and local news shows.
Dreams from M y Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," was a recent best-seller, an d he has now signed with DC "superagent" Robert Barnett for future luc rative book deals. Obama isn't the only example of "the American dream that's around in pol itics," however. At least two other noteworthy minority politicians won unprecedented election victories last week. But you won't hear Andrea Mi tchell or Howard Fineman swooning over their success stories -- because these invisible American Dream candidates belong to the wrong party and believe all the wrong things. Republican Van Tran, a Vietnamese-American, is a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, immigration enforcement, traditional marriage, tax cu ts, the war in Iraq and the sanctity of life. He is also a self-describe d "Reagan kid" and an outspoken anti-communist who escaped his native la nd when he was 10. He has been targeted for his views and carries a conc ealed weapon to protect himself. Tran was elected to the California Stat e assembly and is the first Vietnamese-American to serve in the statehou se. Republican Bobby Jindal, 33-year-old son of Indian immigrants, was elect ed to Congress with a whopping 78 percent of the vote in his Louisiana d istrict. A pro-life Catholic, Rhodes Scholar, free-market health policy guru, reform-minded college administrator and Bush adviser, Jindal bounc ed back from a close gubernatorial loss to become the first Indian-Ameri can in Congress since 1956. He raised so much money for his campaign tha t he showered $25,000 of it on the Republican National Committee, $12,50 0 on the Louisiana Republican Party, and an estimated $125,000 on 45 Rep ublican candidates around the country. Tran and Jindal are remarkable rising stars, but as New York Times edito rial writer Adam Cohen seemed to suggest in a derisive profile of Jindal , minority conservatives are regarded by the mainstream media elite as " freakish" -- no matter how impressive their resumes or resounding their electoral victories or moving their personal stories are.
In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World Wa r II and the War on Terror In a time of war, Michelle Malkin insists, the survival of the nation mus t come first. In this provocative new book, she explains why civil liber ties are not sacrosanct.
In Defense of Internment offers a ringing j ustification for the most reviled wartime policies in American history: the evacuation, relocation, and internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II. It also defends racial, ethnic, religious, and nat ionality profiling as effective defensive measures in today's War on Ter ror.
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