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Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Young Turks have some fun with the Voter Photo ID issue | MinnPost

The Young Turks have some fun with the Voter Photo ID issue
By Eric Black | 02/22/12

...The "Young Turks," a duo of satirist/commentators who have built a large audience online and now also appear on the cable channel "Current TV" (which, to make sure I push all the buttons, is affiliated with Al Gore), did a segment mocking what they considered racial stereotyping in the Minnesota Majority graphic, since the cartoon convict is a black man and the illegal immigrant is portrayed as man in mariachi costume and a sombrero.

The Young Turks (one of whom is actually a Turk or Turkey-born American but the other of whom is actually a young Armenian-American woman, which makes all the ethnic references in this post that much more stupefying and/or politically incorrect) mocked the flyer for a while, but also included the response of Minnesota Majority (which they also mocked)...

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