I’ve lost all respect for the man after this comment:

O’REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you’re a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have. In that regard, Pat Buchanan is right. So I say you’ve got to cap with a number.

MCCAIN: In America today we’ve got a very strong economy and low unemployment, so we need addition farm workers, including by the way agriculture, but there may come a time where we have an economic downturn, and we don’t need so many.

O’REILLY: But in this bill, you guys have got to cap it. Because estimation is 12 million, there may be 20 [million]. You don’t know, I don’t know. We’ve got to cap it.

MCCAIN: We do, we do. I agree with you.

What’s worse is that McCain agreed with him.  Or even if he’s not directly agreeing with the comment about the “white male” power structure, he didn’t contest it.

Here’s the video (the exchange is near the end):

Does America have a white, Christian male power structure?  Maybe.  Certainly that’s been our history, what with slavery and segregation and the nation being founded by Christians seeking religious freedom, but to suggest that we should deny immigrants access to this country in order to preserve some sort of perceived dominance by white Christian males is...disgusting.

I detest illegal immigration and feel that it’s terrible for this country, but legal immigration from a diverse cross-section of the world’s cultures is a positive thing for this country.  Very positive, and O’Reilly is a small-minded twit for thinking otherwise.  I’d go so far as to say that the protectionism and xenophobia of people like O’Reilly.  If we encouraged more legal immigration, and made it easier to do, there’d be less incentive to illegally immigrate.

O’Reilly is, essentially, part of the problem here and not part of the solution.

(via Bart Hinkle)