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Further to last week's White House showdown between Stephen Miller and CNN's poetry correspondent, Mark shares a few more thoughts on how a Statue of Liberty became a statute of immigration. Click below to watch:
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While a bit late for the dance - so to speak - I am a new Founding Member playing catch-up. As a grade schooler in the 1940's into the early 50's, I vividly recall my NY City public school lessons regarding the Statue of Liberty (indelibly etched in a corner of my mind). The thrust of it all was the poem - yes, the poem. Sitting nearly within view from my classroom window, was the majestic Lady - albeit green. She held a torch symbolizing what we were told was a beacon to follow in order to reach, what for many, was to be a sanctuary. Whether any of that was true is not my point - it is what was being passed on in my classroom. I wish the true meaning had been imparted - the Liberty-part that is. Thank you, Mark. A digression: I am a second generation American with three grandparents from Germany and one from Ireland; 1910 was the year they arrived at Ellis Island. They demonstrated proficiency in the language of the land and held skill-sets of value for their new country. They were hardly wretched or poor in the sense that they could not fend for themselves. They were contributors and contribute they did. English was spoken in the home. Wouldn't it be luv-er-lee if all who arrived here held true to those practices?
Never fail to enjoy Steyn's commentaries. The Statue of Liberty is actually memorializing our commitment to and support of the concept of LIBERTY, and NOT an invitation to every scumbag on the planet to immigrate here??? No, say it ain't so!! Duh. The path upon which we currently tread is an exceedingly dangerous one, and if we don't get back on the RIGHT path, we can kiss everything goodbye that we fought so hard to earn. That doesn't mean we have to turn our backs on compassion; it means only that the compassion should focus on our own people first. As soon as all our Vets (and their families) are taken care of, all our own people have jobs, and all our children have stable, loving homes, then and only then should we even consider immigration.
With regards to North Korea, I think this great American pronouncement sums up everyone's feelings: "Let's get ready to rumble!". I realize this is not, technically, US law...
I'm with you 100%! I think we should make South Korea an island. Every time I see that fat little NoKo lunatic on TV, I just want to smash the screen in. Trump responded exactly how he should have: Replying to this bully's rhetoric with a firm statement that essentially says "you really don't want to mess with us". What was it Japan said when we entered WWII? Something about waking the sleeping giant??
Sheesh, what a curmudgeon. Enough with the poem already! The New Collosus was a paean to legal, assimilable immigrants taking up an invitation to buttress the land of the free towards the turn of the 19th Century. Wiki tells me Emma Lazarus was a forerunner of the Zionist movement, so I somewhat doubt she'd take kindly to her poem (which I think is magnificent) being appropriated by the Nazi left who wish to import Islamists and Tammany Hall recruits to buttress their totalitarian aims.
Mark Steyn re conflation of liberty and immigration Another compelling persuasive Steyn post A speech from atop the Conservative anglosphere. A speech that should be heard by millions An agile mind conducts a two sided debate How do you best monetize Mark's content ? Is Fox the best video live/streaming platform for Marks content ? General Electric sponsored Ronald Reagan , the man not a talking head. Should the Trump administration wrangle PBS to sponsor a Steynpost series Would the perfect Corporate sponsor for Mark be Chick Filet ? This backwoods family production is 95% network quality. The right executive producer could bring Mark to the best 25% of the "masses"
Mark needs to view his shows as a front for merchandising -- killer lines of ties, mugs, t-shirts -- there's a t-shirt in this whole statue of liberty brouhaha yearning to be born and breathe free. And I dare Mark to deny he is taunting us with that mug -- he knows we all want one!
Enjoyed that post tremendously! Mark has the storytelling talent and shoots straight about the mass immigration problem. He's logical and clear. I need to watch that Munk debate again. What a concept! Export the great ideas America was founded on and stop importing what weakens us. Looking forward to the FOX appearances!
Great, Fox is having an all day Steyn Wednesday. Why doesn't FNC finally hire Mark full time at the highest salary possible. It will be a bargain for Fox and the audiences will also benefit. It's obvious by Mark's many appearances that he is valued by some in the network so who is holding up the inevitable full time hiring. FNC should also revive a weekly (or more) taped Mark Steyn Show in its original format with in depth interviews, singers and political commentary without breaching any copyrights of the former show etc. It would create a new type of show for the network but I'm convinced it would attract a significant Fox audience if enough people learn of it and it is promoted effectively. Fox is not as appealing as it once was and I think many die hard viewers are hanging on by their fingertips. They need relief.
Be careful what you wish for. Do you really think Mark wouldn't be hobbled by such an arrangement? Better that he be allowed to range freely across any medium of his choice. Show me a Fox host that does that now if you can, but I'm not aware of any.
Surely those Haitians newly arrived in Canada will be welcomed by their French-speaking brothers and sisters in Quebec, mai oui? I for one am awed by our northern neighbor's Trudeaupean largesse.
LOL! Only the great Mark Steyn could politely use, "There once was a man from Nantucket..." to destroy Acosta's egomaniacal tirade. Thank you!
Doggerel? I rescind the crush I had on you Mr. Steyn.
Mark, your ancesters also suffered under the unpleasantness of 1812. As a rabid hockey fan, I always note the irony of cross border NHL games where the Star Spangled Banner is sung on Canadian soil. Talk about a poem that doesn't belong in polite Canadian society.
'Acosta is the unacknowledged idiot of the media'. He won't be happy till the USA looks and functions as well as Mexico, or Brazil.
Or Cuba, the country his father fled.
Perhaps we can send PM Trudeau a bronze plaque of The New Colossus to staple to the inside of Olympic Stadium. "Send me your tired, your poor, your transgendered decathletes."
". . .yearning for a pair of ramadan athletic socks."
... "seeking to sip the elixir of Tim's"
That's a great story about your great grandparents settling in Ireland! It reminds me of the Italian parents in Mambo Italiano who ended up in Montreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdbEcuH4Lo