Los Angeles Times Skips the I-Word As California Grants Law License to
The Los Angeles Times decided, as one of California’s leading arbiters of political correctness, that they would skip the ironic headline of “Illegal alien wins license to practice law.” That kind of direct language is a bit too honest. The use of the I-word will be banned in all civilized and "inclusive" forums in the future, and this may mark the beginning.
“California court grants law…
PBS NewsHour Guests Plot Ways Obama Can Push His Agenda in
On Thursday night’s edition, the PBS NewsHour held a discussion about President Obama’s prospects for making 2014 more successful than 2013. Of course, the panelists defined success as the president enacting more of his left-of-center agenda.
Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal posed a “really interesting strategic choice” that he thought the White House had to make: [Video below. MP3…
CBS Trumpets 'Historic', 'Unprecedented' Move to Let Illegal Immigrant
Friday's CBS This Morning hyped the California Supreme Court's decision to allow the Golden State to issue law license to illegal immigrants. Substitute anchor Anthony Mason touted the "historic ruling that could give millions of undocumented workers new freedom." Norah O'Donnell trumpeted how "supporters of undocumented immigrants are praising an unprecedented ruling."
O'Donnell later…
CNN Congratulates Illegal Immigrant on His Receiving Law License
An illegal immigrant can now practice law in California, and CNN marginalized the controversy on Friday's New Day by giving new lawyer Sergio Garcia a soft interview with little voice from his critics.
After reporting that the state's supreme court ruled in Garcia's favor, co-host John Berman congratulated Garcia and asked him to share "what this decision means to you, personally." CNN…
Seahawks Lose, Wash. State Democrat Trashes Arizona as 'Desert Racist
Beware angry Democrats when they're football fans. AP reporter Mike Baker wrote up Washington state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, who grew angry over the Arizona Cardinals upset of the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Referring to Arizona's fight over illegal immigration, he tweeted "Losing a football game sucks. Losing to a desert racist wasteland sucks a lot."
Washington state Republican Rep. J.T.…
MSNBC's Hayes: GOPers 'Screwing Over' People, View 'Poverty as Punishm
On Thursday's All In show, MSNBC's Chris Hayes repeatedly used words like "screwing over" to describe Republican policies toward the poor, and claimed that Tea Partiers in Congress believe in "poverty as punishment" as he fretted over a delay in the extension of unemployment benefits and then hyped Georgia Republican Rep. Jack Kingston's suggestion that school children do chores in exchange for…
Omission Watch: Conservative Woman Spurs Biden to Insist His Ancestors
On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden and domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz held a Skype question-and-answer session on immigration. The national media barely noticed. What Biden didn’t count on was Melissa Mullins, who was a reporter for our CNSNews.com site about a decade ago.
TheBlaze.com reported that Mullins caused Biden to insist that some of his ancestors entered the United…
Networks Skip Special Treatment for Obama's Illegal Uncle, But Univisi
All three broadcast networks have, thus far, ignored the special treatment given to Onyango Obama, Barack Obama's illegal uncle who was arrested in 2011 on drunk driving. In contrast, however, the Spanish language channel Univision on Wednesday covered the story with a skeptical take about possible "favoritism."
Onyango Obama will be allowed to stay in the country after a Boston judge…
Obama: I Can Tell Who Is An Immigrant By 'Just Looking At Faces
Real Clear Politics spotted a sentence in President Obama’s remarks at the DreamWorks animation studios in California on Tuesday that would have been a surefire gaffe if it came from a white Republican president -- even someone like George W. Bush, who supported amnesty proposals for illegal aliens.
“As I was getting a tour of DreamWorks, I didn't ask, but just looking at faces, I could tell…
Networks Hype 'Interesting' Moment With Liberal 'Heckler'; Obama Handl
All three networks on Tuesday hyped an "interesting" exchange between Barack Obama and a liberal heckler. ABC, CBS and ABC declined, however, to specifically note that the man's concern was that the President simply wasn't liberal enough on the issue of immigration reform. On NBC's Today, Natalie Morales praised, "You know, I think that the President handled it well by engaging." [See video…
Obama Heckled During Immigration Reform Speech In San Francisco
Moments ago, Barack Obama was interrupted in the middle of a speech in San Francisco about immigration reform.
As the President addressed the crowd, a man standing behind him started yelling about deportations.
CBS's Norah O'Donnell Badgers Scott Walker on 2016 Election, Immigrati
Norah O'Donnell and Charlie Rose unsurprisingly conducted a hostile interview of Scott Walker on Monday's CBS This Morning. The two anchors, who have a long record of hammering Republican/conservative guests, badgered the Wisconsin governor on ObamaCare, the 2016 presidential race, and over the immigration issue.
O'Donnell, in particular, went after Walker, asking, "You have said that the…
Yet Again, WashPost Omits Illegal Immigrant Status of Vanessa Pham's M
On Friday, convicted murderer and illegal immigrant Julio Blanco Garcia was sentenced to 49 years' imprisonment for the June 2010 murder of northern Virginia resident Vanessa Pham. True to form, in covering the story, the Washington Post's Rachel Weiner and Justin Jouvenal completely omitted the fact that Blanco Garcia was an illegal immigrant.
But in addition to omitting Blanco Garcia's…
Virginia Duo Hooked Up 300 Illegal Immigrants with Photo ID; WashPost
A former DMV clerk, Maria Cavallaro, and her accomplice, Jose Calderon, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to helping roughly 300 individuals "most of them illegal immigrants" to obtain Virginia-issued "driver's licenses, learner's permits and identification cards for those... [who] were not eligible for them," Washington Post staffer Matt Zapotosky reported in the November 7 paper.…
