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Immigrants and disease
[Cross-posted from earlier this week at Orcinus.]
If you want to see how extremist-right talking points work their way into the mainstream of our political discourse and eventually attain "conventional wisdom" status, watch how Lou Dobbs' phony leprosy statistics continue to be repeated and given official media imprimatur.
Last week, on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, host Joe Scarborough had the following exchange with Patrick Buchanan (whose descent into unreprentant extremism has already been remarked):
- SCARBOROUGH: Now, Pat, let me stop you right there, and let me ask you this question...
