A Tale of Two Protests

looks like Bill picked the wrong week to have Juan Williams sit in.

by: jayme evans | published: 05 03, 2010

The Tea Party Movement has known for a long time that coverage of their protests has held a decidedly liberal bias. That biased coverage is a damning indictment of the editors and publishers of mainstream media programming and publications who cannot be trusted to deliver anything close to the truth and who often manufacture the news with the goal of influencing public opinion, rather than fact-finding.

During coverage of the Tea Parties, conservatives were equated by my own, washed-up representative as Brown Shirts. The protesters were portrayed by the media as an angry, racist mob. The Department of Homeland Security issued warnings that health care opponents, ex-military members, abortion foes and Ron Paul supporters had all the markers of domestic terrorists. They were derided as "Tea-Baggers" and mocked by everyone from pimply-faced ObamaBots steeped in so much liberal claptrap they are clueless to the reality that their Savior has bankrupted their entire generation, to Barack Obama himself. Liberals hurled allegations of racist and homophobic epithets and Congressmen being spat upon, but no conclusive proof has ever materialized, despite a large monetary award. Indeed, no effort has been spared to demonize Americans who have profound and unwavering ideological differences on the direction their country has taken.

Contrast that with the softball treatment that illegal aliens and their supporters are receiving while trying to convince Americans to dissolve the border and devalue US citizenship even more than it already is by granting it to those who cut in line and have no legal right to it.

The knee-jerk response to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's signing of legislation that simply requires enforcement of existing federal law was as swift as it was ignorant. Illegal aliens and their supporters took to the streets, hurling rocks and bottles at police, spreading graffiti that called for burning Arizona down and, quite comically, smearing swastikas on store-front windows with none other than refried beans. They're calling Americans racists, yet they are perpetuating their own negative stereotypes by using their favorite side-dish to spread their message of hate, but I digress.

The apologists for this Communist movement come from every conceivable walk of life. Many aren't even US citizens, so their opinions aren't worth that pile of beans smeared in the Phoenix streets. Politicians, presidents, priests, pundits, police officers, pretenders and performers have all spouted off with a barrage of hyperbole that would be the laughing stock of the entire world, were they not drop-dead serious about their claims of the Gestapo coming to check your "papers".

The hypocrisy of fascist San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom knows no bounds. The hands of this little dictator, who proudly promoted San Francisco as a sanctuary city to illegal aliens, are stained with the blood of Anthony, Matthew and Michael Bologna, who were gunned down on the freeway by one such illegal who was repeatedly caught, released and deported, only to keep returning. Newsom is the last person on Earth who should be throwing stones concerning illegal immigration. Why not just welcome all Arizona aliens to San Francisco and quit complaining?

Last week, the Mexican government issued a travel advisory, warning its citizens of the imminent dangers of travel to Arizona. This from a country awash in blood from beheadings and drug-related murders that were the impetus for the Arizona law in the first place.

Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva has called for ignoring federal law and a boycott of his own state, a clear violation of his oath of office and an abdication of his responsibility for the well-being and livelihoods of his constituents.

Even rising conservative star Marco Rubio thinks the Arizona law is "problematic", though he did not elaborate. Did anyone ever stop and think to ask Rubio where he stood on illegal immigration before elevating him to sainthood?

ABC, Diane Sawyer and her goons masquerading as journalists have shown yet again what a complete lack of journalistic ethics looks like. During the push for health care, David Muir characterized Tea Party protests as "ugly" in the absence of a single, documented arrest. But, in response to rampaging Latinos, ABC's Mike Von Fremd said that notwithstanding the mobilization of riot police and protesters hurling rocks and bottles at Arizona police the riots were "Mostly peaceful". Barbara Pinto lied straight-faced into the camera that the Arizona law "forces police to stop and arrest anyone who "appears to be illegal".

Even law enforcement officers, whose job it is to enforce the law, not interpret it, have chosen to step into the fray. Several have filed suit to have the law overturned. Their departments have either remained silent or stated that the officers were acting as private citizens, not on behalf of their departments. Contrast that with the treatment of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, who was ordered to have his head examined and was then court-martialed for the very same issue; questioning the constitutionality of the orders he was given. Lakin gets a court-martial, supporters of illegal aliens get a pass. What a country.

Perhaps the worst example of journalistic malpractice and race-baiting last week was on none other than the O'Reilly Factor. Again. It looks like Bill picked the wrong week to have Juan Williams sit in. Williams spent an entire segment forcefully stuffing words into the mouth of Georgetown PhD in public policy, Chris Metzler, who analyzed the Arizona law and who also happens to be black. The exchange, with regard to racial profiling, between Williams, Metzler and liberal Latina publisher Cathy Arue went like this:

Metzler: "If I were a law enforcement officer and a fox robbed a chicken coop, I'm certainly not going to look for an armadillo."

Williams: "Alright, hold on Chris. So then every fox, you see, like every Hispanic person, you might see in Phoenix or Tucson you're going to stop?"

Metzler: "That's not what I said."

Williams: "That sounds like racial profiling to me."

Metzler: "That's absolutely not what I said."

Williams:"Well, I don't know, Ms. Arue, how did you interpret what he said?"

Metzler: "That's what you interpreted, but that's not what I said."

Arue: "If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck, I mean... It's racial profiling."

Unfortunately for Arue, her analogy is an example, not of racial profiling, but of deductive reasoning, something that generations of liberals have long ago dispensed with.

Williams, who was genuinely upset last year at being called "Uncle Tom" and told to "Get back on the porch" by another black man should know better than to race-bait. But, what do you expect from an NPR hack sitting in for an alleged conservative? Nice job, O'Reilly.

Finally, those who oppose this legislation seem to have no problem with the government levying fines against and even possibly jailing American citizens for refusal to obtain health insurance, but dangling US citizenship and its attendant benefits to illegal aliens, who shouldn't even be here, but have been breaking our laws, stealing our jobs and murdering our citizens for decades.

Opponents neglect to mention the kidnappings, beheadings, murders and drug trafficking that plague the state. They neglect to mention the shootings of cattle ranchers, law enforcement officers and border patrol agents. They neglect to mention that these squatters have thumbed their noses at our laws, ignored our border and stolen millions of jobs that belong to unemployed Americans who need them now more than ever.

As a sovereign US state, Arizona has every right to determine who belongs within her borders, without federal interference. Despite the emotion and exaggerations offered by opponents of the Arizona law, this legislation does NOT open the door to racial profiling. It simply removes barriers to enforcement of existing federal law and allows the state of Arizona to remove those who are in the state illegally, once they are detained by police during a lawful stop.

Unlike the federally-legislated takeovers crafted by the 111th Congress behind closed doors, Arizona's law does not add a single bureaucrat to the line at the taxpayer's teat. It spells out in detail what actions are legal and what actions are not; what the information obtained on illegal aliens can be used for and what it can't.

Like our our financial regulatory structure and health care system, our immigration system is not broken. An entire generation of politicians, both Republicans and Democrats decided decades ago that they just didn't have the intestinal fortitude to enforce the laws that they themselves enacted, creating such anarchy that they believe the path of least resistance is to simply legislate the problem away. With the economy, it was bailouts and stimuli, with illegal immigration, it is legislating the lawbreakers into overnight citizens.

After all of Obama's attacks on conservatives over ObamaCare, it turns out that their concerns of the cost and consequences were well-founded, while the emotional response to the Arizona law is based on nothing but propaganda and lies.

If Barack Obama thinks the health care debate was tough, just wait until he attempts to sell US citizenship to illegal aliens at bargain basement prices.

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  Adrian G.

  Spot on! Is Juan Williams a Conservative Democrat? I heard Ann Coulter refer to him as a Democrat. Is so, he never belonged in O'Reilly 's seat in the first place. Did Fox News think that because he is a person of color he could field race baited questions without or with less negative feedback? Meghan Kelly should've taken the helm in Bill's absence. I highly doubt Fox News willbe makng that mistake again in the near future.

  
  

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  Adrian G.

  Spot on! Is Juan Williams a Conservative Democrat? I heard Ann Coulter refer to him as a Democrat. Is so, he never belonged in O'Reilly 's seat in the first place. Did Fox News think that because he is a person of color he could field race baited questions without or with less negative feedback? Meghan Kelly should've taken the helm in Bill's absence. I highly doubt Fox News willbe makng that mistake again in the near future.

  
  

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