Posted on 09/24/2010 12:43:52 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
OK, the story is all over the Old Media edifice: forty-one-year-old Teresa Lewis has become "the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years."
Every news outlet from TV and cable, to newspapers, to radio, to the Internet is using this line, this "the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years" line. They are all playing the same narrative.
So, here's the question I have. How exactly can anyone be the "first" anything "in five years"? Doesn't the whole "in five years" presuppose that someone else came first? See, the one "five years" ago was at the very least the real first one, not the one that came today. And in this case, the real "fist" woman executed came over a hundred years ago...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Right. It makes no sense to say the first anything in 5 years. It’s just the media’s way of making out that it’s new news and trying to get us upset over it.
Fine with me, she assumed room temperature just about a year ago. I'd rather not deport any other cancer stricken murderers to Libya. Seems Libyan doctors have found the cure.
“An interesting read on this subject comes from the “Son of Sam” case, particularly the conversion of David Berkowitz. Berkowitz argues that he should spend the rest of his life in prison, and actively asks for his own parole hearings to be canceled. To me, this is true belief in Christ... not some sham to be used to stoke up sympathy in people. “
Very interesting to note, and evidence of a true conversion in my book.
Praise God.
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