Washington Times
By Seth McLaughlin
October 21, 2015
A
leading Hispanic rights advocate called on NBC Tuesday to rethink its
decision to have Donald Trump host “Saturday Night Live” next month,
warning that it will be a
“corporate blunder.”
Rep.
Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat, joined a growing list of elected
leaders and immigrant rights activists that want NBC to dump Mr. Trump
from his scheduled Nov.
7 appearance on SNL.
“I
think I speak for a lot of Americans, especially immigrant Americans
and Latino Americans, when I say that if SNL is allowed to proceed, it
would be a huge corporate
blunder,” Mr. Gutierrez said in the letter sent to Brian Roberts,
chairman of Comcast Corporation, and Stephen Burke, president of NBC.
Mr.
Gutierrez and other immigrant rights groups have argued that Mr.
Trump’s rhetoric, and his plan to fix the nation’s immigration system,
has been insensitive to immigrants.
Some conservatives, meanwhile, have celebrated Mr. Trump’s approach to immigration.
For his part, Mr. Trump said the uproar over his hosting SNL is going to assure one thing: great television ratings.
“I
think that Gutierrez and everyone else is driving the ratings through
the roof,” Mr. Trump told The Washington Times on Tuesday. “It will be
the highest rated SNL ever.”
Mr. Trump also described Lorne Michaels, executive producer of SNL, as “a professional that knows what he is doing.”
The
Gutierrez letter comes after America’s Voice, a leading Hispanic
advocacy group, and MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group, launched a
petition for NBC to drop Mr.
Trump.
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