Son of Geno
Oh Geno, the story that has become a saga & just won't let me give it up. I was sure I was done with it, especially after the media saturation on the issue. But no, the Philadelphia Daily News reports, In plain English, Rick backs Vento, that the cheesesteak Senator from PA, Rick Santorum, has staked his claim with Joe Vento:
It makes all the sense in the world? Sure, if your goal is to make someone who may not speak English feel embarassed or uncomfortable it does. Sure, if your goal is to exhault bigotry against anyone who may be different from you, then it does. If your goal is to pander to those who hold those beliefs, then it does.He voiced support - albeit in an odd, indirect way - for owner Joe Vento's much debated "Speak English" sign.
"It makes all the sense in the world to have a sign like this," he told a Daily News reporter after the paper was tipped off to his late-night visit. (Emphasis added)
But maybe not if you ascribe to the motto of the Statute of Liberty:
"Give me your tired, your poor,Have we forgotten the Statue of Liberty, the Symbol of Immigrant dreams? Did we topple the statute of Sadam or Lady Liberty?
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
And since I'm on the subject of Vento, there was an Inquirer piece, Joey Vento is a man of many parts. Vento, who sports a "rebel flag" tattoo and bike, doesn't like whiners who think his flags may be racist. He was called names like wop and dago, so I guess now it's his turn. The article provides a hint of another side of Vento, a more sympathic person, but that just doesn't make up for the rest. Joey, as my grandmother would say, whattsa matta for you?
And last, but not least, Arthur Caplan, Chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has a few words to add, And now, for a completely different point of view...
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