Arnold Schwarzenegger has apparently dived headfirst into a debate I wrote about last year: the ubiquity of Spanish-language TV and its impact on the country's Hispanic immigrant population.

Turns out, the Gubenator takes the Steve Sailer line that the Univision and Telemundo networks allow Hispanic immigrants to "cocoon themselves in a Spanish alternate universe."

Said Gov. Schwarzenegger: "You've got to turn off the Spanish television set. ... You're just forced to speak English, and that just makes you learn the language faster."

Hispanic leaders in California, predictably, had a cow.

Schwarzenegger's is a sensible position. I'm inclined to agree -- while acknowledging what one of my sources, American University's Robert Pastor, told me: that the major Spanish-language networks are most popular among first-generation immigrants; not so much their children. And because there's such a constant flow of new immigrants -- and thus viewers -- this phenomenon somewhat artificially amplifies the degree to which Hispanics here are "cocooned" in Sailer's Spanish alternate universe.

Whatever the case, Glenn Reynolds has a great line about the hostile reaction to Schwarzenegger: "Because what would Arnold know about people who come from a different land, raised in another language, who want to make a life for themselves in America?"

- Scott Galupo