CNN, the New York Times, ABC News and C-SPAN all took it out of context and reported it as if the VSG had called all immigrants, or at least all illegal aliens, animals.SHERIFF MIMS: But now ICE is the only law enforcement agency that cannot use our databases to find the bad guys. They cannot come in and talk to people in our jail, unless they reach a certain threshold. They can’t do all kinds of things that other law enforcement agencies can do. And it’s really put us in a very bad position.THE PRESIDENT: It’s a disgrace. Okay? It’s a disgrace.SHERIFF MIMS: It’s a disgrace.THE PRESIDENT: And we’re suing on that, and we’re working hard, and I think it will all come together, because people want it to come together. It’s so ridiculous. The concept that we’re even talking about is ridiculous. We’ll take care of it, Margaret. We’ll win.SHERIFF MIMS: Thank you. There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.THE PRESIDENT: We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.
Now, this level of rottenness is to be expected from these organizations. They have but one interest: putting some anti-Trump points on the board. But is it too much to ask that an ostensibly conservative pundit - namely, Jennifer Rubin - not try to wax righteous, splitting the difference in a ridiculously contorted tweet acknowledging that the VSG meant one specific group, but then, without so much as a sentence break, gets into some kind of "conflate" crud:
Even if he was referring to the tiny percentage of immigrants who commit crimes, his efforts to conflate criminals with all illegal immigrants is repulsive, as is calling any human being an “animal.”And, no, Jennifer, "animal" is the exactly accurate term for MS-13 members.
I can't stand the term "fake news," mainly because when I come across it, the odor of the Very Stable Genius and Sean Hannity wafts off of it. But the mainstream media is permeated with a demonic force. It's no longer in the information-conveying business. Just this week we've had this "animals" lie go viral, as well as reports about "protestors" on the Gaza border. Also the NYT trying to downplay the importance of the revelation in Kim Strassel's WSJ piece about the DoJ planting a spy in the Trump campaign.
I'll leave you with another tweet, from David Bahnsen, that sums up the LITD position:
I beg for my conservative friends to be honest about his shortcomings, & then you people come in w/ this complete, abject nonsense. That is not what he said, and you know it. Your indefensible lies feed the Trumpian wave. There was no ambiguity that he was talking about MS-13How fast the truth gets mutilated in a world driven by gotcha politics.
I wouldn't denigrate animals by calling Trump one. I heard him whining about the greatest witch hunt in American history against him today. He hasn't the insight to realize that what he reaps he sows. He sows more fake news than all the media in history. And now you're Jonesin' (as in Alex) about demonic forces permeating the main stream media. Trump gets what he gives.
ReplyDeleteThis era, more than any previous, requires one to be able to see two disparate facts as both being true. Donald Trump is loathsome, and the "mainstream media" is beset by a demonic force.
ReplyDeleteSorry, guess I don't meet the "requirements" delineated by the exorcist of the prairie. Free press forever!
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be the case.
ReplyDeleteBut Donald Trump is one loathsome beast, I'll grant you that and I will likely second nearly every negative piece written by the media. How long are you and Alex gonna stay on this demonic kick?
ReplyDeleteUntil Jesus's final victory over Satan is made plain at the conclusion of space and time.
ReplyDeleteYou might conquer your own demons first before you try to cast them out everywhere else you think you'll find them. 40 days in the desert might be a good start. Can't wait to hear from you when you return.
ReplyDeleteWrong. It is urgent for all of us to point out the rottenness of our cultural institutions.
ReplyDeleteSeek ye first the kingdom of heaven, then all these things (whatever they are) shall be added unto you. You called the free press demonized. When you and cats like Alex Jones allege stuff like that you're full of crap, and, of course, certainly, if not demons, sin. Let he who is without that cast the first stone. And go work within the institutions you malign to cast those demons out. In the name of our Lord, of course. May the force God the Father, his only begotten son and certainly the Holy Spirit be with you! If you don't go forward in humility and love we shall know you as merely one of the harvest rotting on the vines, for lack of a harvesters.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. It is most important to go forward in humility.
ReplyDeleteI have gone to work within three of the most leftism-besotted institutions in our culture. I'm a journalist, a musician and a university teacher. That is indeed an important way to be a counter-force to the rot. But speaking out against the rot itself is also important.
ReplyDeleteI have addressed previously the "campaign spy" hoax you continue to promulgate. Like the man said, "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you." Cheers.
ReplyDeleteHoax? Kim Strassel begs to differ.
ReplyDeleteSee latest post.
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