'¡Asking For Honesty!' About LA Times Book Review

'¡Asking For Honesty!' About LA Times Book Review

By Dave Pierre (Bio | Archive)
May 29, 2007 - 07:20 ET

Gustavo Arellano got a book review in the Los Angeles Times that every writer dreams of. With glowing prose they dubbed his book ¡Ask a Mexican! as "hilarious and testy," "insightful," and "witty and fearless." "Arellano ... offer[s] much-needed common sense," added the Times. A nice color photo of Arellano accompanies the review. (See an image of the article here.) Sounds great, doesn't it?

So ... What's the problem? Nowhere in the review does the paper bother to disclose that Arellano is a contributing editor to the Times. For the paper he has penned no less than ten columns in the last 11 months, including a book review that was published only a couple of weeks ago.

In other words, Arellano had about as much chance of receiving a negative review as it snowing in Santa Monica this week.

Honesty and integrity at the Los Angeles Times? Not in this case, folks.

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Well, it's not like he got

May 29, 2007 - 07:36 ET by Hyunchback

Well, it's not like he got to review his own book. Unless he actually did.

Is this one of those jobs that Americans won't do?

Racist too

May 29, 2007 - 07:52 ET by Cool Arrow

Isn't this the same book that trots out every stereotype of the Mexican culture known to man?

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe I saw this guy on a talk show a few weeks ago.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

The Times will put out a st

May 29, 2007 - 09:02 ET by motherbelt

The Times will put out a statement saying that the fact he is employed by them had nothing to do with the fantastic review. End of story.

Well, the latimes greases itself again

May 29, 2007 - 09:08 ET by SportPolitics

I note in the review in OC, the whole book discussion is how the la- times spic can go into a thousand racist slurs and explanations of the whitey they have to deal with as spic. It's another one of those garbage racist spewfests where the minority in power gets to spew racism with their anti-bigot minority skin color shield, and apparently, their mega corporation hidden shield, revealed here above in the lead.

So, this of course, by PC terms, requires the variously colored and gendered new progressives in power heap scores of accolades upon their own stealth player, lest they be insensitive bigots...

The real deal is they can't get enough of interracial joking and sarcasm and stereotyping and putdowns and all the rest, and this stealthy in their own fold spic is their vehicle to become more indoctrinated in their own favorite pasttime. It's cool if you know all the interracial garbage spewing, then you're "in with the hip" or whatever they think it is.

In the end, they can apply the moron retard clause, claiming of course "Bush denigrates and we celebrate ". Then they flutter off with their self-applied angelic fairy wings and invisible horns.

License to slur

May 29, 2007 - 11:06 ET by Cool Arrow

I share your opinion on this subject. There's the sheepish retelling of the joke that starts like this: Here's what this (fill in the blank) guy told me.

And of course Conservatives don't have any ethnic friends so everything they say has racial overtones.

Gore lied. Nobody fried

Speaking of our "friends" the Mexicans....

May 29, 2007 - 09:38 ET by RJ

Speaking of our "friends" the Mexicans....In Mexico City, Miss USA was loudly booed and heckled by the Mexican audience at the Miss Universe pagent and elsewhere yesterday.....

http://www.breitbart.tv/missusa.html

Classy!

May 29, 2007 - 09:46 ET by dahliatravers

Classy!

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