Newshawk Torpedoes

Journalist Hit Jobs

Down on Border, 'La Linea' Isn't So Clear
Bush to Discuss Illegal Crossings and Drug Trade at Three-Way Summit in Cancun

By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, March 30, 2006

NOGALES, Mexico -- Troops. Barricades. Guns.

--- I don't really need to read any further. The big mean gringos are eeeeevil. Of course.

On the border, this is the vocabulary of U.S.-Mexico relations. Here at one of the busiest crossing points, dingy metal walls separate the United States from Mexico, rich from poor.

--- Dingy, oooooooh. Rich from poor; the gringos are eeeeeevil and rich too. They call this journalism? Hey Manuel, get your own blog or something if you just want to cheerlead for illegal, sorry, "undocumented" immigrants. Estupido.

The walls are spray-painted with crude images of American border patrol agents, their pistols leveled at brown-skinned men.

--- Pistols leveled at brown-skinned men! Such objective journalism. Yes, this is all about racism. It has nothing to do with the fact that drug dealers, thugs, and terrorists are trying to get in the country. It's all about big white guys shooting innocent brown-skinned folks. Look, this site is about terrorism, so I'm not gonna get into a discussion about immigration, except as it concerns al-Qaeda terrorists. But this shooting "brown-skinned men" stuff is hyperbolic ranting, and I hate newshawks who do this crap and then defend their supposed "objective" high-brow journalistic credentials against anyone who points out their verbal diarrhea.

--- Reuters reporters are goooooooood. Just look at some of these word choices in bold (emphases mine).

Democrats see political port in Dubai storm

By Patricia Wilson Sun Mar 12, 11:51 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats have seized on the collapse of the Dubai ports deal to buttress their case that George W. Bush is an incompetent president unable to get the job done at home or abroad.

Democratic congressional leaders, who hope to seize control of the Senate and House of Representatives in November elections from Bush's fellow Republicans, are using the political frenzy surrounding the president's support for an Arab company taking over some U.S. port operations as a metaphor for broader deficiencies.

--- Did Howard Dean write this? Besides the obvious cheerleading, what's with the lack of imagination? You have to use seize twice?

From the conduct of the Iraq war to the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina, to warrantless eavesdropping, the chaotic rollout of a new prescription drug benefit for seniors and the handling of the ports deal, Democrats believe Americans are seeing Bush differently and cite the lowest job performance ratings of his presidency as evidence...

--- He did bungle it, but Nagin and Blanco did too. They never say that. Everybody bungled it. Chaotic rollout? Would you prefer that he didn't roll it out at all? You're the ones complaining about deficit spending.

Democrats were gleeful at the spectacle of congressional Republicans turning on Bush and looking for political cover on a deal that was overwhelmingly opposed by the American public....

--- Euphoria. Hey, I believe gay marriage is also overwhelmingly opposed by the American public. Since when do you care about the American public? Looks like a whack job to me.

What media bias!!!???

Group: U.S. Has Failed to Stop Torture

By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer
5/3/06

LONDON - The United States has failed to eradicate "widespread" torture of prisoners in its war on terrorism despite the outcry from the Abu Ghraib scandal and abusive behavior at U.S. detention facilities in Cuba and Afghanistan, Amnesty International charged Wednesday.

--- So what's new. Amnesty International + Associated Press = Death to America! Why don't you guys say one fricking word about real torture going on in... well just about everywhere in the world.

The London-based human rights group made its criticism in a report to the U.N. Committee Against Torture, which is meeting in Geneva this week to consider American compliance with the U.N. convention against torture and other cruel forms of punishment...

--- What about the mental torture you're causing me by making me read this crap over and over again! Does Amnesty put out these propaganda pieces like, once a month?

"Although the U.S. government continues to assert its condemnation of torture and ill-treatment, these statements contradict what is happening in practice," said Curt Goering, senior deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA.

"The U.S. government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate torture. It is actually creating a climate in which torture and other ill-treatment can flourish — including by trying to narrow the definition of torture," he said.

--- Go to hell.

The U.N. human rights watchdog has expressed concern over domestic U.S. violations of the U.N. torture convention, including use of excessive force by police and electroshock weapons and abuses against women in the prison system. The latter allegedly include sexual abuse by male guards and shackling of women while pregnant and in labor.........blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

--- It's not that I like torture, but Christ, put things in perspective. This is just puke from a bunch of Marxist thugs.