Campus Race-Baiting Games, Round Two
Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 09:16:29 AM PDT
As
diaried here, the College Republican National Committee last week drew a national firestorm of criticism when one of its operatives announced plans to sponsor a "Catch the Illegal Immigrant Day" as part of the CRNC's fall GOTV effort at the University of Michigan.
That brilliant marketing idea catapulted said operative Morgan Wilkins into her fifteen minutes of shame: in just two blog-hyped days, she shot from the relative obscurity of race-baiting NCRC hired gun to being named Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World, earning the wrath of Howard Dean in the process. No small feat, that. But now, apparently unwilling to let such a repugnant stunt die its deserved death, yet another wingnut from the same campus has re-launched the CAIID brand in the wake of its de facto recall last week:
College Republicans Plan "Catch An Illegal Immigrant Day"
Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 03:51:00 PM PDT
"Be veeewwwy quiet! We'ew hunting iwweego immigwants!"
That line might be funny if it weren't so sadly close to the truth, as reported by student Andrew Grossman in U of Michigan's Michigan Daily:
It's still early in the election season, but the College Republicans and College Democrats have already launched campaigns to seduce your vote in November.
...Morgan Wilkins, the intern hired by the Republican National Committee to win the hearts and minds of Michigan 20-somethings, is planning events that some may find odd. To others, they may be offensive.
One such idea is "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day," in which a volunteer would play the part of an illegal immigrant and hide somewhere on campus while others try to find him. The winner would receive a prize.