Radley Balko is reporting from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and quotes Phillis Schlafly today saying some outrageous things, including,
"The majority of people getting a degree at the University of Texas are illegal aliens."
That's so stupid that I can believe she misspoke, was misquoted, or is too roaring drunk to know what she was saying.
Radley writes, "I'm almost certain most of her [speech] is outright bullshit, but I don't have time to research it at the moment."
I have the a spare two minutes, so I found ethnicity statistics for the student body at UT.
2003-2004 school year by percentage.
White 60.6
American Indian 0.4
African American 3.6
Asian American 17.0
Hispanic 14.3
Foreign 3.5
So over 60% of the students are white. So unless she's talking about some mass illegal immigration from the Ukraine then it's safe to assume she's off her rocker. I suspect her other statements are similarly easy to debunk but my two minutes are up.
Living here in Texas, and right on the border, I find it hard to believe that the people who knock on my door willing to clean my house for $2 an hour are actually UTEP students looking for some beer money. :)
Canadians. I tell you, she's talking about the Canadians.
Evil freakin' Canadians...