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Video: The ‘Sheriff Babeu for @MexicanMitt’ TV spot

by Moss Kratloff February 20, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from ARIZONA) It’s the commercial the Mexican Mitt Romney campaign didn’t want you to see — an explosive TV endorsement by anti-immigrant Sheriff Paul Babeu calling for the erection of a GAYDAR border fence. The six-figure TV buy on local stations was cancelled over the weekend after Babeu faced hard questions about how [...]

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Mexican Mitt Romney: ‘Sheriff Paul Babeau’s GAYDAR got to the bottom of the illegal problem’

by Mexican Mitt Romney February 18, 2012 El Now
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Anti-Immigrant Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has resigned as Mitt Romney’s Arizona GOP Primary Campaign Co-Chair.  Sheriff Babeu is facing explosive allegations that he tried to intimidate a former Mexican immigrant lover with deportation threats. Especial Guest Columnist Mexican Mitt Romney offers his Opinión: Sheriff Babeu has stepped down from his volunteer position with the campaign [...]

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Sabado Pochonte Video: Welcome to 2040 on ‘The Other Side’

by Obeah Juan Xenobi February 18, 2012 Cultura
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Exterior, day: Destitute desert town in the year 2040. Audio: Spanish newsradio tells the story — unemployment is 86%, gangs are everywhere and food and water are getting scarce. There’s only one thing a father can do — smuggle his family across the border to the prosperous country on The Other Side.

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If a tree falls in the forest, and hits someone in the head…

by Eric J. Garcia February 8, 2012 Cartoons
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This just in from from Arizona! Tree falls in forest and …

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AZ official has a dream: White Appreciation Day

by Lalo Alcaraz February 7, 2012 El Now
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Cecil Ash has a dream — a dream that one day white people will have a day to celebrate their accomplishments. Dubbed by some as the “White Martin Luther King Jr.,” Arizona State Rep. Cecil Ash (R-MESA) has long campaigned for wider recognition of the U.S.’s most invisible ethnic minority, white people.

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Hispanics For Wilson’s first press release touted ‘Self-Deportation’

by Lalo Alcaraz January 31, 2012 El Now
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This is the first-ever recorded instance of “Self-Deportation,” an original Hispanics For Wilson press release dating from Mexican Independence Day, 1994. Daniel D. Portado was then known as “Dr. D. Portado.”

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Listen: Daniel D. Portado’s NPR debut, 1996

by Andalé Mono January 31, 2012 Audio
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Daniel D. Portado is no newbie. Check out this interview with NPR’s Ira Glass on This American Life. Click here to listen.

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Week of Ñews: AZ showdown, FLA follies, CT jerk, MX mischief

by Comic Saenz January 29, 2012 El Now
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President Barack Obama flew into Arizona and was greeted on the tarmac by a nasty Gov. Jan Brewer; POCHO has the audio. In political news, Herman Cain backed Newt Gingrich in the GOP nomination race and released a new poster, while Newt’s peeps supplied a subtitled version of his Spanish-language TV commercial. Jerkiosity spread to [...]

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BARACK vs. BREWER! Exclusive audio: When Obama met Brewer at the PHX airport (NSFW)

by Barney Asada January 26, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from ARIZONA) When Gov. Jan Brewer met visiting Pres. Barack Obama at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport Wednesday they appeared to have engaged in a testy verbal exchange. The PNS crack mobile team of forensic audiologists have managed to extract the sound of the conversation from the background noise. Here’s what Obama and Brewer [...]

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Badges? Badges? Steenkin’ badges you don’t need IRL!

by Comic Saenz January 23, 2012 Cultura
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“We don’t need no steenkin’ badges,” actor Alfonso Bedoya told Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Well, sorta. Although his line is one of the most-often quoted and parodied lines of cinema dialog, almost everyone has it wrong. Click to peep some badges you definitely don’t need to see In Real Life.

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