This is How Jorge Ramos Proved He’s a Total Bad-Ass
Emmy Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos has had quite the spectacular year. Let’s review some of his biggest moments, shall we?
In April, Jorge Ramos graced the cover of Time.
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Time printed five different covers for their “100 Most Influential People” issue and the Fusion and Univision anchor was on one of the covers. Kind of a big deal since, up until recently, Ramos was not all that well known by non-Spanish speaking audiences.
At the Time 100 Gala, Ramos called out Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto. And he used the C-word!
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Corruption! Ramos said, “Mr. Peña Nieto, buying homes from government contractors and then giving them millions of dollars in contracts – that’s corruption.” OUCH!
He also used social media like a BOSS to call out foolishness.
On August 17th, Ramos called WTF on Trump’s immigration reform plan in a series of tweets.
Trump's plan: walls, human rights violations, mass deportations, separation of families. That's not the America that says all men are equal
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 17, 2015
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He pointed out the obvious.
Absurd and a waste of money to build a wall at the border with Mexico; almost 40% of undocumented immigrants come by plane & overstay visas
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 18, 2015
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He asked questions:
Still short on specifics: how do you deport 11M? How do you deny citizenship to children of undocumented?How do you build a 1,900-mile wall?
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 18, 2015
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And he dropped some interesting facts:
A reminder: 16 M Latinos will vote in 2016. The 2012 election was decided by less than 5M votes. And most Latinos want immigration reform
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 18, 2015
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And remember that time when Donald Trump threw Ramos out of an event in Iowa? Oopsy!
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Ramos got a lot of attention due to that incident. It was kind of epic and the video of Trump’s goons “deporting” Ramos from the event for supposedly being rude or speaking out of turn or quién sabe qué was EVERYWHERE.
But wait, this led to another viral video moment for Ramos.
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Some pendejo in the hallway told Ramos to “get out of my country!” Uh, only problem is that Ramos is an American citizen, so it’s his country too. The guy was an ass, but Ramos handled it with class.
He went on The O’Reilly Factor, which is basically like going into the lion’s den and held his ground.
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When O’Reilly said that Ramos is an activist who can’t possibly cover immigration fairly, Ramos replied, “I don’t think you are the right person to lecture me on advocacy and journalism when you spend most of your program giving opinions and not asking questions, defending Republicans, criticizing Democrats, and, frankly, conducting interviews—soft interviews—with conservatives that you agree with. The difference between you and me is that you are partisan, and I’m independent.”
BURN!
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Then, Jorge Ramos interviewed Stars Wars: The Force Awakens co-stars Lupita Nyong’o and Oscar Isaac in a way that no one else would.
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He got them talking in Spanish about topics like identity, stereotypes and, yes, even Donald Trump because, of course he did!
