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The Two Faces of the News Media
Jun 25, 2008 | 7:21 PM
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By nature, I avoid watching most TV news. Having been in the print media for so long myself, I'm aware at how much the broadcasters simply can't give the public. The flip side of that, of course, is the fact that most Americans these days won't read past the first three paragraphs of a real news story, so us guys in print can't claim we actually inform anyone any better. People just don't want the whole story.

But every now and then I see some TV news coverage that makes the steam rise out of my ears, my blood boil and enrages me to the point I want to take that idiot box and chunk it. The case in point would be the coverage of the recent immigration raid at Action Rags USA in Houston.

The wife happened to have the TV tuned to the station which runs her nonsense "swap" shows, so the report in question was not on Fox, but I have little doubt that some manager at the local Fox affiliate had his hands full trying to convince a reporter that no, we don't need another "families broken apart" story. Or maybe they did it and just haven't run it yet, in which case I'll get mad at Fox, too.

Now, here's the situation: the undocumented workers who were "rounded up," who are in this country illegally, are criminals. The people at Action Rags who hired them are criminals. People who make and sell meth are criminals, as are people who murder other people.

Yet of course the sappy reporter for this (other) station had to interview "family members" of those being carted off in the raid to learn how this was "breaking up their families," like maybe Immigration and Customs Enforcement was doing something other than its job -- and God knows, I've been howling at them to do THAT!

But I have to ask: where is this reporter when a bunch of gang members gets rounded up for selling crack? Why is there no story about how these arrests are tearing apart THOSE families? Where is the human interest piece about how our cruel drunk-driving laws tear apart the families of the mindless sots who insist on breaking the law?

What this TV reporter, and the station she works for, are doing is betraying their bias. By supporting those who have invaded our country and are trying to replace our American culture with their own, they are affirming that the very concept of the "United States of America" is completely meaningless to them -- they're fully supportive of the reconquista of the American Southwest by Mexico.

The time is coming, folks, when we're going to have to choose sides.

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PBMom read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 8:43 PM

Yeah, I was watching that, too, and I remember going, "Huh?" Although to be fair, they did an interview with an official who said they were going to go after the employers which is exactly what they need to be doing. Cut off the source.
BayouVixen read my blog view my photos
Jun 26, 2008 | 3:10 AM

Well not only do "they" need to be going after these employers, WE need to be going after these employers. I will no longer patronize Shipley's, nor will I buy Pilgrim's Pride products. More people need to start boycotting these traitors.
It makes me physically ill to watch the snotty surburbanites who are too lazy to do their own yardwork hire landscaping companies which use exclusively illegal labor. Do they not realize that they will be the FIRST targets of the "ethnic cleansing?"
yahyamoro read my blog
Jun 26, 2008 | 8:04 AM

REQONQUISTA ? U.S. EMPLOYERS RECRUIT ILLEGAL MEXICAN LABORERS TO COME HERE TO WORK . CORPERATE GREED AND DISREGARD OF THE LAW ON THIS SIDE IS CAUSING THE " PROBLEM " . BESIDES , WHO WILL DO THE WORK THEY DO ? EMPLOYERS WON'T PAY A LIVING AMERICAN WAGE ANYWAY ... I'VE BLOGGED BEFORE ABOUT THIS AND I SAY A GUEST WORKER PROGRAM LIKE SOME COUNTRIES IN EUROPE USE WOULD SOLVE THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM . THE MEDIA REPORTS WHAT THEY SEE , WHAT THEY DON'T SEE : ABUSE OF THESE PEOPLE AND THE IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF THIS COUNTRY .
Sassy11 read my blog
Jun 26, 2008 | 10:00 AM

The employers are the problem - Corporate Greed. They don't want to adhere to State and National laws, therein lies the problem. They want to manufacture their goods or produce their products without having to provide healthcare.

There are plenty of decent legal citizens who want to be hired. Corporate blocks them! Everyone is buying into the Lulac rhetoric that there are not enough people that want to do the work. Heck, what a bunch of dummies we have become. Send them packing! Cut the loophole - pregnancy card which keeps them here and burdens our own health system. They specifically advertise for bilingual in order to block the legal citizens from applying. Where is Affirmative Action - isn't that being a bit biased?

It also might surprise many of you to know that there are legal citizens who also work alongside of the illegals. So you see, people do want to work.
mik1of3 read my blog view my photos
Jun 26, 2008 | 11:03 AM

The news agencies say that they are pursuing charges against these employers..however, no charges have been filed in the Shipleys case yet.
I agree..I have not patronized a Shipleys since, I do not buy Pilgrims Pride..and we, as a people need to start holding these employers accountable. But before we do that, we need to look at ourselves. Are the employees of the lawn service you hire for your yardwork legal?
What about the pool guys, if you have a pool?
Your housekeeper? Your babysitter, or the employees in the daycare you use?
I'm about to email the headmaster of my daughters school and ask him if the janitorial service they use to clean the school verify the legality of its workers...and if they are employees of the school, are they legal?
How can we scorn the employers of corporations that hire illegals if we are bankrolling them ourselves?
The Houston Barnacle is a print rag who is sympathetic to the illegals as well. If you go on to their comments section and post anything slightly negative about it, they will delete your comment. Too many, and they will ban you. I know..they've banned me.
I find it ironic that ANY news agency that operates under 'freedom of the press'; will take full advantage of that freedom, and who will fight for that freedom, practices censorship in ANY form.
mik1of3 read my blog view my photos
Jun 26, 2008 | 11:13 AM

And I agree with Sassy..the basis of all this is greed, corporate and otherwise. That's why neither party will do anything about illegals.. the businesses that shore up the GOP love the cheap labor, the Dems love the cheap votes. It's win-win for Washington, unless WE THE PEOPLE regain control of the reins of government instead of letting it just run our lives like we do now.
Build the fence.
Give the border land owners permission to protect their land BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. You would be DISGUSTED by how many owners have spoken of how local gov'ts, community groups, and church groups have come down HARD on them for trying to protect their property. Threats of ostracization, civil litigation, and even criminal prosecution are common. They expect you to install comfort stations, complete with water, food and shade, at YOUR EXPENSE. Sounds like aiding and abetting to me..but they pressure you like CRAZY to do it.
Can you imagine...strangers traipsing all over your property, killing your livestock for their consumption, helping themselves to clothing off your clothesline, food out of your refrigerator? Can you imagine being a housewife home alone and a pack of illegals knock on your door expecting water and food? Having to clean up human feces, urine, trash, condoms, clothing from your property..or your pet dogs doing what they are supposed to do but being killed by illegals trespassing on your property?
And local law enforcement refusing to do anything about it, and making YOU feel like a criminal for reporting it?
Gottaluvit read my blog view my photos
Jun 26, 2008 | 11:14 AM

We need to compile a list of vendors and suppliers who hire these guys and boycott the entire list. That would be a start. Hospitals need to butch up and start turning these freeloaders away. My insurance is way too high now, (auto and healthcare) because of all these uninsured illegal two legged jackasses.
Enough is enough!
murphy2747 read my blog
Jun 26, 2008 | 1:58 PM

NO PAPERS----NO FOOD STAMPS
NO PAPERS----NO WELFARE
NO PAPERS----NO MEDICAL
NO PAPERS....NO JOB
NO PAPERS....NO HOUSING
NO PAPERS....GET ON THE BUS!!
BayouVixen read my blog view my photos
Jun 26, 2008 | 2:54 PM

Gottaluvit, there's one site called wehireillegals.com that has compiled a list and in particular is targeting the beer companies who fund the May Day protests and Bank of "America".

I think we're all in agreement that we have to hold the EMPLOYERS accountable criminally. In Arizona and Oklahoma, they passed tough state legislation and the exodus was so quick that the Mexican state of Sonora talked about suing Arizona because it couldn't handle the influx of its OWN people.

We also have to stop electing idiots who keep passing legislation giving our tax dollars away to the invaders.

Yahya, that's probably the most lucid post I've ever seen from you. I have absolutely no problem with establishing a guest worker program and even making it easier to emigrate and become a U.S. citizen. I have a severe problem with amnesty -- it's called the equal protection clause of the Constitution, if they can break the law and get away with it, then *I* want to be able to break the law (say, not paying taxes for a few years) and get away with it.
kagua2 read my blog
Jun 26, 2008 | 3:34 PM

I called a lawn service advertised in the Yellow Pages because it stated it was owned by a former Harris County sheriff's deputy, although nowadays who can really trust them either? Anyhow, he told me that he didn't service my area, but to be careful who I hired because most of them employ illegals who will fabricate a reason to become hurt on your property in order to sue. Well, dumb hubby hired some illegals to do it and although they didn't claim to be hurt, they did nothing except mow the lawn. The agreement was that they were to rake, clean out the shed, and dispose of the trash. My husband gave them $50 for mowing the lawn; they had demanded $150 and did almost nothing.
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