Charlie Pierce challenges Granite Staters: Ask Scott Walker about undocumented immigrants from Zontar
Yesterday on Meet the Press, Gov. Scott Walker – once considered a serious presidential candidate – declared building a wall along the nearly 4000-mile border between the United States and Canada is “a legitimate issue for us to look at" because “some people” at a New Hampshire town hall meeting suggested it.
“Do you want to build a wall north of the border, too?” NBC’s Chuck Todd asked. “Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire,” Walker answered. “They raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at.”
Twitter erupted. “Scott Walker: On Day One of my presidency, Canadian bacon shall be renamed ‘freedom bacon,’ “ one tweet declared. “BREAKING: NORAD apparently monitoring convey of zambonis assembling on Canadian border after Scott Walker’s comments this a.m.!” read another.
Esquire’s Charlie Pierce challenged civic-minded Granite Staters to press Walker on the immigration issue:
I will pay anyone a shiny buffalo nickel if they will show up at a future town hall meeting in New Hampshire and ask Scott Walker if we should fire sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads into synchronous low earth orbit to prevent undocumented immigrants from Zontar from entering the country. It probably would be declared a ‘legitimate issue for us to look at.’