Brit Hume is unhappy with the media’s “grossly overdone” hysteria about Arizona’s new law which essentially copies and pastes a bunch of federal penalties for illegal immigration onto the state books.  He says, “a lot of the news stories simply flat had it wrong, and a lot of the critics of the bill itself have also got it wrong.”

Mr. Hume is too kind. They didn’t simply flat have it wrong. They’re willfully lying because they know if they keep it up long enough the lie will take hold and they’ll win.  They’re relying on us not to fight back effectively.  And they’re probably right.

CBS, while moaning that Arizona has made illegal aliens feel “unwelcome” disingenuously reports that 51% of people think the law is about right.  The screen graphic omits the 9% who feel it doesn’t go far enough.  Sixty percent of Arizonans support this law, versus 36% who oppose it, a fact CBS downplayed while it hyped the heartbreak of the 12 year old girl whose best friend’s family fled Arizona for California because of the mean ol’ law!!

A couple hundred people crowded into the grade-school gym to hear a chilling message from Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West.

“You farmers, I’m telling you right now, arm yourselves,” he said. “As they say the old story is, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don’t want to see six people carrying you.”

That seems like a real sensible approach. As opposed to preemptively announcing that we won’t use our most powerful weapons to impede narcotics traffickers smuggling poison over our border.  Or even better, prosecuting homeowners for defending themselves and their property.

Here’s a nice change, after the rash of shootings in New Orleans:

Neighbors initially called police about 11 p.m., while the men were yelling, playing loud music and urinating outside their home at 945 N. Magnolia St., Foltz said. Officers told the men, who appeared to be drunk, to tone it down and take the party inside, and had to return about 20 minutes later to repeat their warning, he said.

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I can’t believe she actually thought this, much less said this out loud. It’s like some kind of sick media trifecta – an apology for illegal aliens, a swipe against an economy which is weak by our standards but still has lower unemployment and better metrics on pretty much everything compared to – well, pretty much everywhere else, and the typical MSM quest for the ultimate victim. Which seems to be the mother of the murder victim’s three children. I guess. Or sweet, kind, gentle “undocumented immigrants” in general, having to tolerate those vicious, evil white people. Or just everybody, since we’re ALL victims of the Chimpy McHalliburton/ Darth Cheney theft of everybody’s share of the extremely limited supply of wealth in this country. But she went there. Oh, yes, she did:

When economic times are tough as they are now for so many, it can put a big strain on families as they struggle to get by, and that same tension can spread through an entire community as more people compete for fewer jobs. It can even pit one ethnic group against another. Some believe economic hard times played a part in the explosion of violence one night this summer in a poor Pennsylvania town.

Some believe that. Nobody in the story seems to, but somewhere, some believe it… like in the newsroom where Ms. Couric works amidst a cloud of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

I wonder what her theory is for why illegal aliens commit murder. So what happened?

A late night street fight punctuated by ethnic slurs ended in Ramirez’s death. Four high school students, all on the football team, are charged in connection with the homicide.

Let’s see – small town, big shot football players, pumped up on testosterone like high school boys generally are, driving up and down the strip because there’s nothing to do. Yep, only in small towns with large populations of illegal aliens and weak economies does that that scenario EVER end up with someone yelling ethnic slurs and fighting. The video clip showed the victim in the hospital, so evidently they beat him so bad he needed to be hospitalized, and he subsequently died. Another report gives a bit more detail:

Preliminarily, though, they have determined that Ramirez, who worked in a factory and picked strawberries and cherries, got into an argument with a group of youths that escalated into a fight in which he was badly outnumbered.

“From what we understand right now, it wasn’t racially motivated,” Nestor said. “This looks like a street fight that went wrong.”

I guess since there aren’t enough bodies to satisfy them in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mainstream media has to resort to small town thuggery and street crime. But using the economic angle, as an indirect way of blaming it on Bush? Well played, Ms. Couric.