Before Cantor there was Hume

To get a flavor of the reaction to this rare demonstration of decency by a conservative commentator, one need look no further than chief immigrant basher, Laura Ingraham, whose xenophobic callousness toward the plight of the kids who are currently flooding the border from central America is well documented. She claims to love the Hume, but thinks he’s a bit addled for holding those views:

Of course there are wonderful children. I love children. I remember the children in the Iraqi orphanages that I had to leave behind … heart broke for them. But we have something going on here that is profound. In our sovereignty, our rule of law, our financial resources, our military bases.

By the way when he said they are happy to eat whatever they’re giving them the consul of Honduras is saying that the illegal immigrant children are complaining that the burritos and eggs they’re being given in their holding areas are making them sick. So they’re complaining about the food. I’ll bet there are American kids who would like free food before they go to bed at night.

They’re already complaining.

Yo quiero Taco Bell

You read that right. She played the Taco Bell tag line at the end of that rant. Her misanthropic disregard for the welfare of these little kids remains a bizarre counterpoint to the fact that she is the adoptive mother of three foreign born children, one of whom is from Guatemala. If one were a cynic, one might assume that this is a performance. The right wing talk audience is rabidly anti-immigrant, so it’s a good, perhaps necessary, career move. But if it’s a performance, she deserves an Oscar. She sure sounds like she means it.