Alabama's anti-immigrant law recalls Bull Connor, and MLK

When Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed the nation’s harshest anti-immigrant law in June, I was correctly quoted in the media as saying that the law is “so oppressive that even Bull Connor would be impressed.” The Washington Examiner’s Gregory Kane has since made a minor cottage industry out of disparaging me and this statement. Over the course of four columns, three of which appeared in the Examiner, he’s called this statement “a pathetic spectacle,” “demagogic drivel,” “a cheap shot,” and less than eloquently told me to “shut the hell up.”