Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger raised a little bit of a ruckus yesterday when he had the gall to suggest the obvious -- that it's easier to learn a language if you immerse yourself in it.

“You've got to turn off the Spanish television set,” the Republican governor said Wednesday night at the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. “It's that simple. You've got to learn English.

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“I know this sounds odd, and this is the politically incorrect thing to say, and I'm going to get myself in trouble,” he said. “But I know that when I came to this country, I very rarely spoke German to anyone.”

Schwarzenegger, who immigrated to the United States from Austria, made the remarks in response to a question about how to improve the academic performance of Latino students. The audience included journalists who work for Spanish-language media outlets, many of whom were surprised by the governor's remarks.

Even with digital cable, how many German-language channels are there? Where I live, the number is zero. Schwarzenegger knows of what he speaks, but that doesn't stop the muliticultural left from denying the obvious.

“I'm sitting shaking my head not believing that someone would be so naive and out of it that he would say something like that,” said Alex Nogales, president and chief executive of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, who called the remarks “preposterous.”

Alex Nogales is preposterous.

I especially liked this little bit of bias too.

In the past two elections, Schwarzenegger has garnered more Latino support at the polls than most Republican governors, despite some seemingly anti-immigration blunders, such as the time he praised the Minutemen border militia group on a talk radio show.

What's the unstated assumption there? That Latinos are necessarily pro-illegal immigration. The story says "anti-immigration," but the Minutemen are opposed to illegal immigration.