A few days ago, we shined a light on Univision’s Fernando Espuelas. His on-air response, on the Univision America radio network, was quite interesting, to say the very least.
Espuelas devoted his entire show (two hours broadcast from coast-to-coast!) to denouncing nameless, faceless “right-wing media organizations” and “Latinito” sell-outs who had the audacity 
to offer any critique of his broadcast, his network, or the ideology he attempts to sell his audience. Trust me, you haven’t lived until you’ve had a paper-white South American of European descent lecture you on selling out to the White Man…but I digress.
Espuelas began his denunciation of these grave aggressions against All That Is Good And Pure by suggesting that we unsophisticated conservatives were unable to distinguish between journalism and opinion media, and cited our comparisons of his broadcasts and those of Jorge Ramos as evidence of this conservative idiocy. In response, I would suggest that the second paragraph makes this distinction quite clear. The paragraph asserts therein that the aforementioned “fiery leftist demagogue” has no “journalistic pretense”, which leaves opinion as the only other alternative. Reading comprehension is way underrated.
When responding to our quote of his Conexión Texas remarks, Espuelas doubled down on his “Jesus and the Devil” remarks, by suggesting that there is no need to give space to ideas that are so obviously wrong, and that it is unnecessary to consider the other side when one has the truth. Such arrogance is a staple of the hard Left as is the presumption of exclusive ownership of the truth, but Espuelas consistently packages it as tough truth-telling. Listeners who dare to take a different line are often told to “read more” or “do more research” on the matter before being promptly cut off.
And then, like a good radical leftist, Espuelas went to the racial authenticity card. Espuelas went so far as to refer to conservative Hispanics as Uncle Toms, giggling like a schoolgirl when one of his callers suggested that Hispanic conservatives are, in fact, “malinches” (a Mexican term for race traitors).
I understand the Left’s sense of ownership over our different minority groups, and its explosive, visceral hatred of those of us who see beyond the liberal plantation and dare to step outside of it. And I am fully aware that this is a part of the game for any of us who enter the public sphere and the marketplace of ideas. Indeed, my being called an “Uncle Tom” or a Malinche pales in comparison to the vile racial invective and threats endured by African-American conservatives such as Allen West or Tim Scott, the gross sexual innuendo endured by female conservatives (for exhibit A see Dana Loesch’s Twitter timeline), or in the case of conservative women of color such as Michelle Malkin- a disgusting combination of all of the above. To be clear, the Left and their media allies are terrified of minority conservatives, and will stop at nothing to disqualify or discredit them (recall Univision’s 2011 attack on Marco Rubio, for example). As I said back in 2011:
There are those who make a handsome living by selling the twisted notion of submission to progressivism as proof of Hispanic authenticity (counter, in many cases, to traditional Hispanic values), and will do anything to keep that gravy train flowing. Some of these identity merchants (the true sell-outs, if we are to really going to have this conversation) work in grievance organizations, some work in mainstream newsrooms, and others ply their trade on Capitol Hill.
I long asserted that left-of-center views on Hispanic media often ran unabated and unchallenged, and that a conservative response lagged its English-language counterparts by decades. I was thus pleased to see the formation of MRC Latino, and honored to join as a contributor when invited. This preening display of leftist bigotry and hatred of The Other by Fernando Espuelas proves that we’ve struck a raw nerve barely concealed under the thinnest of skin, and reaffirms our mission within that of MRC Latino.
