Okay, Okay! Enough of Ian! Unleash the Maria!

New American Digest ^ | 30 Sep 2022 | Gerard Van Der Leun

[Rummyfan]

Maria. Turned back at the Rio Grande after attempting to swim across while pushing her paraplegic autistic daughter on a reed raft. Handmaid.

Already being front-loaded at near hurricane strength into the barrels of media bluster and blather will be the endless "Maria" stories aimed at denigrating and damaging Governor DeSantis. Within the next three days, the flood-sodden Maria stories will be pumped out of a hundred media outlets to be immediately replicated by ten thousand Twitterbots in an intense round of retweeting autofellatio. The aptly named headlines will all be a variation of "Papertowel DeSantis! Worse Than Trump!" Marias will come swarming out of the low-lying poor Florida neighborhoods like Bill Burr's "epidemic of gold-digging whores."

Once upon a time I had an intimate relationship in which I learned in pillow talk what went on in story conferences at the New York clone of NPR. In these Sancta Sanctorum meetings, one was often asked if the morning story line-up could be juiced up with a "Maria Story."

The "Maria Story" was a handcrafted piece of journalistic lying through dramaturgy. The assigned journalist --who knew what was expected of him-- visited one of his minority harems of (mostly) women who excelled at projecting a quiet dignity shining through their grave situation. These "assets" as it were had mastered the art of faking sincerity so the rest came easy; especially the standard "Maria Story" situation. This situation could be of the every suffering Maria who was turned back at the Rio Grande after attempting to swim across while pushing her paraplegic autistic daughter on a reed raft. Handmaid.

Since this was news from the days of morning NPR radio throbbing in the background of liberal kitchens across the land the only limit to the imagery was that of the "reporter's" imagination...

[Bon of Babble]

Lots and lots of those “Marias” in California - bringing their disabled and sick kids to Los Angeles for free treatment.

Saw it all the time in the schools.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Every time I see one of these stories showing an “underprivileged” woman bearing up under the alleged crimes of DeSantis, I’m going to add the keyword “Maria.”

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Another huge lie/disinformation story recently was the one about Attorney General Ken Paxton and the process server Ernesto Martin Herrera trying to serve him. Once the server had identified Paxton, all he had to do was drop the papers on the ground near him and he would have been served. It didn't matter whether he was running into his garage or coming out of it. Also, Paxton saying an "unidentified" man accosted him and his wife. ALL servers identify themselves as such upon serving a paper. Required. So, both side are not clean in this matter.

The Herrera obviously had an agenda to then go to the media with a distorted story about what happened and should be sued for libel. To have revealed private information about serving an individual a Subpoena is against Texas law. He should also be prosecuted and lose his certification for that. Why in the world governments will NOT enforce the law depending upon who breaks the law blows my mind.

[TornadoAlley3]

DeSantis should play Brooks and Dunn’s My Maria at his events.

[Organic Panic]

I thought we were going to start naming hurricanes with “diverse” names. Like Darquvious and Laquisha.

[sauropod]

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