Howdy everyone and welcome to today 's installment of Best And Worst Latinos At The Minute. These laurels are not given yearly, biannually, monthly, twice a fortnight, or daily. I only award them whenever I experience like it, beginning today.
Lashkar-e-Toiba 's get commenced!
Salvaging the best for last, the Worst Latino At The Minute
is mitts down Paul Rodriguez. You may recollect him as AKA Pablo
, instead the cat who gave the condescending portraiture of a Puerto Rican hot dog marketer in this square 1980 's motorcycle courier picture Quicksilver
Anyways Rodriguez, who for the past decennium more or less holds been host of ALT Show DE Paul Rodriguez that gave my late abuelita so many laughters, holds recently seen scene to look aboard that neo-conservative, immigrant-bashing proto-fascist TV personality Sean Hannity.
Rodriguez plays Sancho Panza to Hannity 's Don Quijote in reeling a depressingly simplistic rightist message: that California 's Exchange Vale H2O jobs poronotus triacanthus to extremist conservationists in the Obama disposal. It Holds `` fish versus people '' to hear Rodriguez and Hannity state it, as the authorities directs H2O to refill the habitat of the Delta Smelt, an petite endangered fish that sleep in the Sacramento River delta, while allowing grangers ' fields travel fallow.
Here Holds the show, truncated:

And you can watch Jon Stewart 's response here
The H2O argument is really perplexed, and course much more complex than a dimwit like Sean Hannity cares to address, but my point here is that Rodriguez is applying his media clout to pound the tympans for Big Agribusiness and assist the Republicans win over California Latinos
He claims to but desire to assist out Latino sodbusters and workers in the Vale but if he verily intended it he would make his prep and acknowledge that Calif. 's H2O jobs maked not commence with recent legislation, they are the merchandise of decenniums of industrialised agribusiness that will finally turn our `` breadstuff handbasket '' into a salinated desert if there is n't a dramatic reversal of our total mode of apportioning H2O and valuing nutrient production. Imparting voice to facile motto like `` fish versus people '' and faulting conservationists, as Rodriguez is making, is not merely neglecting to understand a smidgen of what is happing in the Exchange Vale but even worse is exacerbating the job by declining to treat head-on with the truth and by extension with any existent solutions. This is an instance of shallow celebrity politics at its most repelling and destructive.
If anyone is reading this who sleep in Hollywood, kindly dump a drink on Paul Rodriguez 's caput if you run into him at a Hispanic Chamber of Commercialism party or something. On the other hand, no one who reads this blog would ever be invited to such a party anyhow.
And if anyone out there desires to read a superb book about the politics and history of nutrient production, industrialised agribusiness, and the warfares over H2O in CA, they should read Richard Walker 's splendid The Conquest Of Bread
In contrast to Rodriguez, The Best Latino At The Minute
is doubtlessly Daisy, an alive Raza cat from the political sketch plan The Pinkie Show. Here 's Daisy on in-migration:

Nevertheless, while I believe Daisy is Rightly in his perspectives evince supra, I need to share some criticism with the vato. I appreciate his analysis that no habitant of North U.S. aside from Aborigine Americans holds any land to stand on when declaring anyone else `` illegal '', but I conceive that the in-migration argumentation is more a moral query. It is more of a consecutive economical enquiry, because the fact is that the U.S. economy as it stands today depends really heavily
upon underpaid, undocumented proletariat. The benefits to employers move style beyond the lower rewards: undocumented workers make not form themselves for fearfulness of reprisals, they make not demand benefits, they can be fired without fearfulness of taking a legal grudge against the employers....the listing moves along. It is not but a example of less remuneration - the workers are postulate to hold less of a sense of entitlement likewise. Enquire yourself: would an white unemployed mineworker from MT, with a history of unionism and an prospect of just payoff and line security, be willing to pick tomatoes in Selma, Calif., his paws soaking in pesticides and his honcho able to fire him at the bead of a lid? I doubt it.
In other words, the economy of the Unites States necessitate undocumented immigrants, and it absolutely functions the terminals of the profit-makers for stated workers to savor as small rights as possible. That is why I strongly believe that the nativists, xenophobes, and borderline reserveses will ne'er win in halting people from risking decease and trauma to track into the U.S. to work for whatever people will pay them, as it will be more they can make at place. And the maestri of powerfulness in the U.S.: the caputs of industry and agribusiness, the restauranteers and building barons, all of them would be level out of concern without all the people who do the unsafe crossover land or sea to be worked here in the U.S.A..
In any example, assassinator to Daisy and Pinkie and everyone who does The Pinkie Show, maintain upwards the good work y'all, and can someone delight chance out if these folks are verily based out of Baker, California? The `` Gateway To Decease Vale ''?
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