Recently, on the front page of his so-called "blog", Markos Moulitsas carried out, unbidden, a public discussion of his nationality and ethnic identification.
Mr Moulitsas’ piece opened with this passage that has left many perplexed:
Yup, there are a lot of us Salvadorans in this country, over 1 million (while El Salvador itself has 7 million). Technically, I don't fit in this stat, since I was born in Chicago, but whatever.
I have taken the liberty of highlighting the salient details.
Mr Mousehat claims that, although he considers himself a native of the dusty, cactus-ridden, socialist republic of Salvador; his true birthplace is the great American city of Chicago, Illinois.
This apparent contradiction has unfortunately presented some of the more unsavoury elements of the far Right in our country with the opportunity to question whether Mr Moulitsas has anything to hide regarding his true nationality.
Any rational person will of course dismiss claims that the respectable and upstanding Mr Muleheater could possibly be lying about his place of birth in order to, for example, pose as an American citizen and undermine our democracy from within. I certainly distance myself from such wild, if totally understandable accusations.
Thankfully, there is a simple solution to such unwarranted slurs against Mr Moulitsas’ reputation. The confidence of the American people could be easily restored through the simple act of making his original, full birth certificate available for examination by Congress, the media and by the Department of Immigration.
I strongly urge Mr Moulitsas to take this simple step and release this small piece of documentation that any natural-born American would be delighted to hand over with a sense of patriotic pride.
Until this document is available for scrutiny, with a (no doubt) positive outcome, I am afraid that reasonable people will be unable to counter the rumors that Moulitsas is a yellow-eyed, tequila-guzzling, hashish-smoking, donkey-riding, fence-hopping illegal immigrant, here to steal our jobs and plunder the innocence of our cream-skinned women before knifing us all in our beds.
Yours Very Seriously,
A Concerned Citizen.