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.
