I expect that by now we’ve all seen the blow up that took place on FOX News last week between Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera. Almost as important as the story they were arguing over were the things that were revealed about the two men.
The story that caused the eruption had to do with the terrible tragedy of the lives of two young women lost to a drunken, illegal alien driver. Bill took the position that:
A. The man should not have been in this country because he was here illegally. That makes the story a ‘border enforcement issue’.
B. The man had broken other U.S. laws in the past and should have been deported except for the bizarre Leftist concept called ‘Sanctuary’ for illegal aliens. That makes it a Leftist issue, too.
Geraldo took the position that the issue had nothing to do with the fact that the man was an illegal alien and that the issue was strictly drunk driving.
Since all three points are, in fact, relevant to the case it must be granted that the winner of the argument was Bill – hands down. Geraldo lost on the grounds that he attempted to limit the cause of these women’s deaths to the single issue of drunk driving. O’Reilly’s position was that the most important of the three issues was that the man should not have been in this country in the first place. He is correct in his argument for a reason stated by Geraldo himself. He said that the people are killed every day by drunk drivers and the only reason this is a ‘news story’ at all is because the man is Mexican.
With that statement Geraldo played the race card. In fact he played the first of two race cards that he would eventually throw down in this argument.
Geraldo is a closet racist. That should be no secret to anyone who’s followed his career with an open mind. But he’s a racist of the new Left breed. Leftist style racism was created over the course of the last few decades as a response to the ages old traditional racism most of us are familiar with. It is an overreaction to the extent that it is every bit as virulent a form of racism as any ever practiced. Its insidious nature lies in its ability to blind a person to his own racist positions as he attacks anyone around him who he judges to be a racist. I believe that what ticked O’Reilly off was his instinctive reaction to the sense that Rivera was accusing him of racism using that tactic.
And he surly was accusing O’Reilly of racism. He was implying that the only reason Bill was making this into a news story was because the killer was a brown man. Twenty years ago there was no such race as the “Brown Race”. This is strictly an invention of the race fixated Left. Brown Man is code for illegal alien. It transforms people who oppose invasion of our borders from the south into racists. It gives bigots on the Left the authority to label others as racists. It cedes the moral high ground to the purveyors of low expectations.
The first race card played by Geraldo was of the type so common that it hardly stirs a reaction in most of us; credit Bill for catching it and not standing for it. But when Geraldo threw down that second card the man totally exposed his racist/Leftist identity. He actually had the incredible audacity to say (to paraphrase), ‘The USA lures poor Hispanics here with the temptation of riches and good jobs.’
Can you imagine? He dares to suggest that we Americans have spent more than two centuries building a model civilization for the sole purpose of tempting poor Hispanics to come here and violate its laws! This kind of rationale is the mainstay of Leftist thinking. It is blatant justification based on self-righteousness born of an overdeveloped sense of empathy. It is an empty argument in defense of a racist position. Don’t blame the poor oppressed brown man – blame Americans.
I’ve heard some of the shallower people among FOX’s competitors belittle the televised argument as a put up job for ratings. I don’t think so. I don’t believe Geraldo would have intentionally scripted his position in words that so obviate his racist temperament. I expect that in the not too distant future he will be sitting in for regular interviews with Chris and Keith.
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1) illegal alien cabbies (drunk)
2) local cabbies (drunk)
3) Illegal cabbies (sober)
4) local cabbies (sober)
5) sober cabbies
6) drunk cabbies
And you're saying that (3) out numbers (6)
I suggest that drunkenness figures into far more accidents than the nationality of the driver.
I could be wrong ... but O'Reilly and Gerardo are both mush mouths (first class)
You may not think the debators expressed themselves very well but under the restraints of programming they unloaded a lot of material to digest (and I don't mean digested material).
It is only with the greatest hesitation that I support the notion that our border laws should be enforced by businesses. This stinking government is shirking its responsibility in this matter. It abdicates its duties to business in tax collecting and makes them the villain. It is in the process of villainizing business for failure to enforce border laws. This responsibility is not and should not be dumped on them. The government is destroying the free market system that made this country great.