Mainstream media skews immigration reporting
For us regular folks, measuring: wealth, debt, balancing a check book, or just about any daily arithmetic, isn’t all that hard to do. Mathematics is a pretty absolute science. Numbers are what they are and mean what they mean. Of course there is that business about the value of “Pi” that goes on forever in an infinitesimal sort of way. Since there’s no absolute answer to what the circumference of a circle is, there’s an exception to the rule.
However, when you keep adding 2 plus 2 and get 5, you’re missing something.
Recently, I tuned into MSNBC; because they don’t pretend to be objective. I might think they’re wrong, but at least they’re honestly wrong. I wanted to hear what those of you on the other side of just about everything are saying regarding the Trump Administration’s efforts to get a grip on immigration (legal and illegal) here in the United States.
I found Stephanie Ruhle crying and kind of freaking out as she was reporting from somewhere in Texas. At first I thought: “…what the hell did Trump do now? Is she breaking some story that the President is eating the little children of Central American asylum seekers?”
This almost seems to be what’s happening this “blame season” with the discourse about enforcing our immigration laws. Everybody’s talking about it and a lot of columnists are writing some convoluted arguments.
On May 2, Cokie and Steven Roberts; she was a reporter for ABC (I don’t have a clue what he was, but a pretty good idea what he is), tackled it. On May 27 one of our weekly columnists dared to touch it. On June 10, Graham F. West, Communications Director for the Truman Center for National Policy and Truman National Security Project (impressive, but what the hell is it?), chimed in. On June 19, Michael Gerson, who appears twice a week in The Post added his two-cents. On June 21, Gene Lyon called the President a “bully.”
On June 22, Paula O’Connell, an “ad hoc” local columnist and retired school teacher wrote a pretty interesting: “Right at this very moment (pre-June 22)” emotional piece on the subject.
On June 25, the other local weekly columnist somehow took a “victory lap” about the quagmire? I wonder if, like the leftist comedian on Showtime, he’s praying for a recession, too.
If you go back to March 22, one of our occasional local columnists, Mr. Shaporka, took his best shot at it. It might have been dumb luck, or he might have been perceptive enough to anticipate?
The problem is, they ALL wrote authoritatively about a subject before it was ripe for discussion. They didn’t know what they were writing about. They were all adding 2 plus 2 and arriving at 5.
Main Stream Media has an agenda and that takes precedence over what the facts of the matter might be. Where else can we get our news? Is it surprising that “regular” people can get it wrong? We depend on MSM to get our information and if we limit our dependence to one side of an argument, ignoring the other, we’ll never really figure it out.
Now we’ve discovered that the picture of the little girl crying on the cover of Time Magazine allegedly wasn’t separated from her asylum seeking Central American parents. We’ve learned the pictures of little children in something akin to cages in a kennel were apparently taken during the Obama Administration.
We’ve also learned that it isn’t a crime (misdemeanor, or felony) to go to a Port of Entry and apply for asylum. If asylum seekers follow the law and go through the procedure, they aren’t detained for committing a crime and separated from their children.
However, if those who elect to immigrate into the United States illegally sneak across the border, where there isn’t a wall, and get caught by our border patrol, that’s another story.
That’s when they switch to “Plan 8” and apparently profess to be asylum seekers. The children with them didn’t knowingly break the law. The adults did! The adults also put those children in jeopardy by taking them into a dangerous American desert, barren wasteland or smack dab in the middle of nowhere, to break those immigration laws. Who’s really guilty of child abuse? Is it those adults, or the border control agents that most likely rescued them with the arrest?
I read Congressman Elijah Cummings had a lot to say about incarcerating ” … children behind walls made of metal cages.” He was just hypocritical in what he was talking about. He was silent when President Obama was doing it?
Everyone’s blaming someone else for creating the problem. At this point in time, that’s irrelevant. What’s relevant is that our porous southern border facilitates it. Kate Steinley is still dead, shot with a stolen gun by an illegal alien. All of our “Angel Families” are still permanently separated from their children and family members killed by people who were illegally here. What’s a government whose only function is to serve American citizens, supposed to do?
“If people that aren’t supposed to be here weren’t, whatever they did here wouldn’t have been done.”
John Lucas is a resident of Vanderbilt.