I’m looking forward with anticipation to Scarborough Country on MSNBC tonight. My curiosity has been piqued by the previews for the program describing how a “nice kid’s” rights are being violated because he is being deported from the US.
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with his being white, with what looks like a decent mane of blond hair.
For now, I can only assume this has something do do with immigration, maybe his family’s visa has expired or something. I could stand corrected once the program airs and I see the details.
But one thing I do not doubt is that if this kid happened to have brown skin and be a Muslim, Uncle Joe would be screaming about the inefficiency of the government bureaucracy and why hasn’t this potential terrorist been deported or locked up yet?
Just like the only missing children of concern to the blond tv hostesses are blond girls, why do the only people that deserve protection from overzealous immigration officials happen to be white?
One of life’s great mysteries, I suppose. :rolleyes:
I’ve gone from sorta-liking Scarborough to not being able to stand the guy within just a couple of months. The endless parade of garbage stories about rich women gone missing and other tabloid garbage, and his populust attacks on actually sound policy have pretty much driven me away from the show.
He came into the U.S. with his step-grandfather (haven’t seen the backstory on that) when he was nine or so. The adult screwed up and failed to file the proper paperwork for the kid to stay here. When the bureaucracy discovered the error, they cited law that demanded that he be deported within 90 days. The kid needs two credits to graduate high school and there is a big effort to get the the rules bent to accommodate him.
I’ll start this off saying I’m a senior from Pandora and have gone to school with Manuel since he came here from Germany in the fourth grade. I don’t know all of the information, but, being in the thick of things here, I can find out relatively quickly.
If anyone is still interested, we could turn this into an ‘Ask the Bartsch’s classmate’ thread…
What’s funny about this guy, O’Reilly and even Hannity is that they can be smart, engaging people but turn into raving, self-promoting, blow-hards when given their own shows. I’ve seen all three of them in venues where they were participants rather than the center of attention, and they are completely different people.
I disagree that Hannity has ever been smart. I think he’s the worst of the bunch. O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Scarborough, even Coulter- assholes that they are- are not morons. Hannity is. I’ve never heard him express an original thought, a clever angle or a meaningful insight into anything. He’s a completely empty suit. A vaccuous, smarmy shill who has never in his life departed from the Republican party talking points or showed any ability for independent thought whatsoever.
I thought it was revealing during the 2000 Republican primaries (before W had been anointed) when Hannity steadfastly refused to endorse any candidate or betray any personal opinion at all. It was a show of pure cowardice. He didn’t want to guess wrong. He just patiently waited to find out who his new master would be and then began to suck up like the obsequious party tool that he is.
He’s also a pathological liar but so are they all.
Well, it’s a good thing you’ve been tailing him his entire life, noting everything he’s ever said or done! Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to make the broad, sweeping claims you just did.
Sheesh, Dio. Your post refutes itself. You can do better than that!
I think part of what makes this story interesting is that they bureaucracy didn’t discover the error, the KID did. He* called them, hoping to find some help to correct the error, and they jailed him.
Of course people would care. We cared about Elian Gonzalez. The general public “cares” about whatever case is brought to their attention and played up for drama in the media. I think it has fuck all to do with race or nationality.
I believe the point people in this thread are making is that if he were Mexican or Haitian, then the media would not have brought it to the public’s attention, or played it up for drama. Correct me if i’m wrong though.
The only reason we (I use that term loosely) cared about Elian was because he was from Cuba. Had the kid been from Haiti, I seriously doubt he would have garnered attention in the local news, let alone national.
Elain was from neither Haiti nor Mexico- he appeared Caucasian, and from a nation that has exported a lot of people that self-identify as white, and who have carved out a political stronghold in the area where he came ashore.
If Elian had been Haitian, his story would never have mad it to light- or been buried very quickly.
The media feeds people what they want- and people like to handwring over the plight of displaced Causasians, while railing against roving bands of swarthy illegals. They also tend to care more about pretty blond girls going missing, even though there are plenty of other folks disappeared as well. Not to mention cute human interest stories about white people ‘finding’ food, and headlines that call out for action against blacks looting.