Guilty.
Posted on 10/17/2007 8:23:36 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Monday night, KDFW-Channel 4 ran a piece about 70-year-old James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in West Dallas, who, early Sunday morning, shot and killed and man trying to break into his business. What made Walton's story so extraordinary was that it was the second time he'd killed an intruder in three weeks. As it happens, Walton also lives at his place of business.
But today you will not find the Fox4 story on the station's Web site; there's a page for it, but no accompanying video. (Update: It's available here.) That's because Rebecca Aguilar's piece elicited a torrent of outrage, both on local blogs (chiefly FrontBurner but also elsewhere) and from viewers who began deluging the station with angry calls Monday night and much of the day yesterday. As Trey Garrison pointed out on D's blog:
This is her idea of journalism? Ambushing a 70-year-old man who has been through life-and-death twice in three weeks? "Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what what you wanted to do? Shoot to kill?" Good Lord, I hate the people in this field.
Well, Trey need not worry about Aguilar, at least for a while: Unfair Park has confirmed that Aguilar -- who was just named one of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Broadcast Journalists of the Year -- has been indefinitely suspended, based on concerns about how Aguilar treated Walton. She could not be reached for comment, but Unfair Park did leave Aguilar a message on her cell phone. (When we tried her number in the newsroom, another woman answered and said, "Rebecca isn't available today.") We also left a message for Maria Barrs, the station's news director.
I just finished watching the video when I saw your story. What an awful woman. Glad she met justice.
Give James Walton two medals.
She should be fired.
Woo! Hoo! Hope they fired the stupid dimwit!
Excellent! I guess this scumbag Aguilar will have to go back to Mexican radio.
I don’t think anybody else will touch her.
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Thanks for the good news post. One down and many more to go.
Is is too much to hope for that she will ultimately be fired and that no one else will hire her?
Yes. She was so biased and stupid no wonder she is a “journalist”.
My computer is unable to handle video links.
Can you point me to a transcript?
BUMP
Guilty.
I don't know about that. She would fit in perfectly at MSNBC or CNN. Maybe she did it on purpose so she could get out of her contract and join Keith Olberman.
I wonder if the dead perps were of the hispanic persuasion, by chance?
We Dallasites seem to be sending a rather loud message to home invaders. Here’s another one: http://www.breitbart.tv/html/6879.html This guy’s watch parrot gave away the burglar, who ended up ringing down the curtain and joining the choir invisible. I’m in Dallas, I work at home, and I’m a gun owner with 15 parrots, so you can imagine how wide a birth the burglars give me.
“Jimmy Gannon” and “Raul Laureles” were the two dead perps’ names.
Last month, Walton shot and killed Raul Laureles after he tried to break into his business.
“We’d just gotten that stain out of the carpet, and then it happens again!”
http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2007-10-15&ID=202573
If these dead criminals have any money in their estates they should have to pay for the carpet cleaning.
A veritable rainbow.
I'm sure she never did it in private, but when she was on camera she was "Rebecca AguiLARRRRRR".
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