Ah’ll Be Politically Incor-r-r-r-rect
Arnold, asked at a Latino journos’ conference what his thoughts are on improving academic performance among Hispanic students:
“You’ve got to turn off the Spanish television set.”
No Univision? Unthinkable! Unacceptable! Unmulticultural!
“You’re just forced to speak English, and that just makes you learn the language faster,” Schwarzenegger said.
“I know this sounds odd and this is the politically incorrect thing to say, and I’m going to get myself in trouble,” he said, noting that he rarely spoke German and was forced to learn English when he emigrated from Austria.
I’m sitting shaking my head, not believing someone could be so bold to speak a simple unpopular truth in front of a crowd whose very bread and butter relies on being their audience’s language crutch. So what was the reaction?
“I’m sitting shaking my head not believing that someone would be so naive and out of it that he would say something like that,” said Alex Nogales, president and chief executive of the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
Habla Anglais en Los Estados Unidos? Que loco! Esperan, por que aman el Gubernator?
Schwarzenegger has garnered more Hispanic support than most Republican governors in the past two elections, despite some seemingly anti-immigration blunders — such as praising the Minutemen border militia group on a talk radio show.
Es posible ellos convience con el?
Rafael Olmeda, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, said most NAHJ members would agree with the governor’s statements.
“Most people I’ve spoken to walked away believing that he was trying to say that we must learn English to succeed in American society,” Olmeda said.
After all, it’s not like he said they should sign up for ESL in, say Mexico City.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:36 am Comments (5) on Friday, June 15, 2007
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June 15th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Go, Ahnold! Say what you will about the man, but I’ve always liked him. He’s the classic self-made man who says what he thinks and has a sense of humor about the whole thing.
June 15th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
The Governator had a chance to be a hero, but dropped the ball.
All he had to do was finish his remarks in German, leaving all those Hispanc journalists to complain that they couldn’t understand him, since he was speaking a foreign language.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Oh good O, Harry Bergeron. Brilliant. That’s one of those things that a person kicks themselves for not thinking of when they are 10 miles down the road.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Politics Goes Through The Looking Glass
As Hunter S. Thompson once said, when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. And at the moment, there’s nobody weirder than today’s professional politicians. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who’s apparently found his RINO soul mate in Mike Bloomberg, goes…
June 15th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Ah-nuld is exactly right and this nitwit from the National Hispanic Media Coalition is full of shit. I learned to speak Portuguese (and Spanish) just as the Governator said – by immersion into native-speakers. You could easily tell who the guys were who went home to English-speaking homes because they never learned to speak the language well.