VA GOP chair refuses to apologize for comparing Obama to bin Laden.
In October, Virginia GOP Chairman Jeff Frederick compared Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden, telling an audience that they “both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.” Before a panel of Associated Press newspaper editors Tuesday, Frederick said his comment was stupid but he refused to apologize for it. He called it “a stupid joke” but also added that “what I said was true.”
Freshman Rep. Duncan Hunter: There Is More Violence In Tijuana Than In ‘Iraq And Afghanistan’»
In October, Virginia GOP Chairman Jeff Frederick compared Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden, telling an audience that they “both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.” Before a panel of Associated Press newspaper editors Tuesday, Frederick said his comment was stupid but he refused to apologize for it. He called it “a stupid joke” but also added that “what I said was true.”
Freshman Rep. Duncan Hunter: There Is More Violence In Tijuana Than In ‘Iraq And Afghanistan’»
Freshman Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), son of former GOP presidential candidate Duncan Hunter, recently was elected to Congress after campaigning on a staunch anti-immigration platform.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Luke Russert yesterday, Hunter defended his campaign pledge to end citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, arguing immigration increases domestic crime. As his evidence, Hunter made the outlandish and grossly inaccurate claim that Tijuana, Mexico has more crime than “Iraq and Afghanistan”:
HUNTER: In San Diego, we face a lot of crime. … There’s been more murders in Tijuana, Mexico than there have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s more dangerous to go to Mexico from San Diego than it is to fly over and stroll around a Baghdad market.
Continuing his tirade against immigration, Hunter claimed undocumented immigration “drives wages down, hurts hospitals, hurts education here in San Diego, and it’s doing this throughout the entire country.”
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