Schooling with truth and civil discourse: Michelle Malkin, Jose Vargas tweet-talk illegal immigration

Fascinating Twitter conversation today about #immigration b/w @joseiswriting and @michellemalkin. Really worth checking out.

— Kicker (@goKicker) April 3, 2013

Fascinating, indeed. It is a must-read conversation. But, how did this conversation come about?

For those of you just joining the discussion with @joseiswriting – Background: http://t.co/5Ymz6Za61X and http://t.co/ebKfQtxVyQ

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April 3, 2013

As Twitchy reported, the Associated Press caved to political correctness and open borders bullies by dropping “illegal immigrant” from its Stylebook. Twitchy founder Michelle Malkin wrote more about it today.

Just look at the ABC News coverage of the AP’s decision. “Journalist” Cristina Costantini praised the move and patted her own colleagues on the back for their progressivism. “Fusion, the ABC-Univision joint venture, does not use ‘illegal immigrant’ because we believe it dehumanizes those it describes and we find it to be linguistically inaccurate.” On her Twitter account, “journalist” Costantini gushed that AP’s capitulation came “thanks to the hard work of great people like @joseiswriting.”

“@joseiswriting” is Jose Antonio Vargas, the former Washington Post reporter who spearheaded the whitewashing of our language and our laws on behalf of illegal aliens. In 2011, with great fanfare and elite media sympathy, Vargas publicly declared himself an “undocumented immigrant.” Except, as he himself confessed, Vargas had documents coming out of his ears — including a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinko’s.

Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) tweeted to Malkin this afternoon.

I'd love to cook dinner for @michellemalkin, make her adobo (traditional Filipino dish) and talk #immigration. Name a time/place.

— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) April 3, 2013

@joseiswriting Thanks. I like my adobo with an extra-heavy dose of vinegar.

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April 3, 2013

@michellemalkin, I can cook it w/ more vinegar. I can make pork adobo or chicken-and-pork adobo. Name a time, place, I'm there.

— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) April 3, 2013

That's fitting. I understand you're very good at delivering whine. RT @danavachon @joseiswriting @michellemalkin I'd volunteer as sommelier.

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April 3, 2013

Heh. Dana Vachon is a Whiner McWhinerson, as Twitchy readers know.

Not in my book. I sincerely want to hear your views on #immigration “@michellemalkin: Because having diff pol views makes me a traitor.

— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) April 3, 2013

@SundevilSal @latinovoter @michellemalkin, yes there is a big difference. Undocumented people like me want a process to become legalized

— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) April 3, 2013

They decided not to wait for dinner, as yummy as the proposed dinner sounded. The conversation took place sans food … on Twitter. Guess what? Honest and blunt conversation can also be civil. Who’d have thunk it?!