The Republic’s Next Stop: La Brea Tar Pits
Once again, the Arizona Ministry of Truth pens an editorial urging that folks stop “squabbling” over the illegal immigration problem and “achieve reform.”
Ah, yes… achieve a result, no matter what. Spoken like the true leftist propaganda arm it has become for liberal causes everywhere. The Arizona Republic now lands squarely in the camp of those who advocate ignoring the rule of law and achieving equality of outcome over equality of opportunity. And all because a few million illegal immigrants - aided and abetted by the likes of Janet Napolitano when Arizona Governor and now as Secretary of Homeland Security under the Guy from Chicago - don’t want to play by the rules.
Stand in line like those other fools who do it the right way? Como se dise in Mexican (which is, after all, merely a dialect of Spanish): “¡Surely you jest!”?
The Rag, as it is affectionately known by those with the intelligence to have stopped buying it, also seeks to lay blame for the deaths of many illegal border-crossers not on those who are intent on breaking the law. Perish the thought. No, the real culprits here are those who would callously observe the rule of law and who have purportedly had the gall to “… deny the humanity of these people (i.e., the illegal border crossers) [by successfully blocking] the comprehensive immigration reform that could reduce the annual death toll count.”
Ummm… memo to the editors: the death toll could be reduced to zero if the illegal obrder crossers would get in line with everybody else.
And the Rag’s reliance on quotes from Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union (”SEIU,” the soul-mate of ACORN and Obama’s cadre of foot soldiers in the march to a socialist America) is particularly telling of its hard left turn, as if it could further tighten the radius path of its editorials. Editorial translation: “Amnesty Now!” “Healthcare for Illegals Now!!” “Free Bus Tickets to Phoenix, L.A., Denver, Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Houston!” ”¡Si se puede!“
The Arizona Republic has thus cemented its proper place in the ranks of the rest of the dinosaur media plodding mindlessly toward that editorial La Brea Tar Pit called Chapter 7. While the journey perhaps will not end, in the literal sense, in bankruptcy court (although with its readership in unrestrained free-fall, that destination is by no means out of the question), in terms of moral, intellectual and journalistic bankruptcy, the Arizona Republic is giving The New York Times a run for its money.