Discussion: American Crossroads Group Cites Debunked Heritage Immigration Study

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a widely panned Heritage Foundation study on immigration reform which was co-written by a scholar who once argued against letting immigrants with low IQs into the country.

Too late…Rafael “Ted” Cruz is already here.

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Damn you…that was my first impulse to write too. :frowning:

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It’s something we’re all thinking, for sure.

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How very Republiscum. People should remember (but probably won’t) that when it was pointed out to the Romney campaign that some of their claims were, umm, grossly inaccurate, the response on behalf of Mr. Etch-A-Sketch was, “So?”

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Give Turdblossom a break. All he has are lies.

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Except that Ted Cruz is very, very smart. We denigrate him as not very smart, but the truth is, he knows exactly what he is doing. In my view, this makes him especially dangerous.

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“co-written by a scholar who once argued against letting immigrants with low IQs into the country.”

Methinks you could come up with a more accurate word than “scholar.” For example, you might pick from the following list:

Bigot
Douchenozzle
Lunatic
Xenophobe
Escape Mental Patient
White Supremacist
Nativist
Imbecile
Shill
Grifter
…
etc.

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“The study was panned even by libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, which called the research “fatally flawed.” Richwine resigned from the Heritage Foundation following the criticism, and the Heritage Foundation itself eventually disavowed the study.”

But it exists and is doing precisely what it was designed to do: provide false evidence to feed conservative confirmation bias and give them an excuse for making political advertisements just like this to spread these beliefs.

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Karl Rove lie just to get his candidate elected? Never happen!!!

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FACTS? We don’t need no stinking FACTS!!!

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Goebbels propagandizing: repeat a lie enough times, people will believe it.

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Doesn’t matter, people only need to hear a commercial once and they idea is set in their minds, especially if they already lean that way in their thinking. They don’t care whether the information is right. The die is cast with the first lie.