How come nobody's made the observation that the journalist felt compelled to note his citizenship? An attempt to head off negative comments at the pass? Why? Seems a little "Thou protesteth too much" to me. Comments?
The paper was probably deluged with phone calls wanting citizenship details.
As we saw yesterday on this board, the question of citizenship was the first thing many people thought of. I understand the reporter putting it in the article.
LOL...where have you been....this is the most contentious subject matter on the forum...this and south bashing.
Because there's been a lot of speculation, all over the place, most of it unfair and unfounded. Yesterday there were complaints that the media was suppressing information about his citizenship.
I can't speak for the journalist. However, the answer to why the perp's citizenship status is newsworthy is obvious.
The perp's citizenship was noted to make the peasants with pitchforks look like idiots.
That's my opinion.
There were only about a billion FR posts essentially stating that since it wasn't stated in the press whether he was illegal or not that he must be an illegal and they're covering it up.
Boy, this is a frustrating one for FR. Not a Muslim terrorist, not an illegal. Guess people could hold out hope he's gay.
Yeah, here's my comment: read Hamlet again, but this time, pay a little more attention.
I'll bet this is one of the most mis-quoted lines in all literature, outside of the Bible.
He's too late to head them off at the pass. Go back to yesterday's thread and see for yourself.
Commuter train derails in Glendale (Update: Crash escalates to criminal probe) ^
The author probably reads FR and when he found out the status of the perp he probably said to himself.
Dear God! I should note that in my article to smackdown some of the rabid idealogues....