Posted on 08/21/2008 4:18:39 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Were the apparatchiks of CNN asleep at the PC wheel? Not only did the network air a balanced report on medical care for an illegal immigrant. It surprisingly failed to snip out a line by the reporter contrasting the illegal's use of the American legal system now with his disregard for it when he illegally entered the country!
Aired at 6:22 EDT today, the segment focused on the case of Francisco Pantaleon, an illegal Mexican immigrant who fell into a coma in July and who has since been receiving extensive care from a Chicago hospital--all at the hospital's expense. Now that his condition has been stabilized, the hospital wants to discharge him to an extended-care facility, in Mexico, and has offered to pay for an air ambulance to transport him there. But his family is protesting the move, and has enlisted a lawyer who also serves as general counsel to the Mexican consulate in Chicago.
Introducing the segment, anchor John Roberts referred to Pantaleon as an "illegal immigrant," not an "undocumented worker." Picking up the story, reporter Bill Tucker actually called Pantaleon an "illegal alien." I could hardly believe my ears, but replayed the video a few times to confirm it.
View video here.
Then came this shocker.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Flying CNN illegal immigration pig ping to Today show list.
I dunno, Bill Tucker is a pretty good reporter. He does a lot of reporting for Lou Dobbs’ program.
Right, and I point that out in the item. I also went back and checked and found that the item originally aired on Dobbs’ show last night. It was surely produced with that show and its audience in mind. But I’m surprised that CNN would replay it during one of its “straight news” hours.
where’s that picture of the sign for hell with ice on it?
Dobbs introducing the segment:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/08/20/ldt.tucker.illegal.comatose.cnn?iref=videosearch
We aim to please...
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>> Wryly observes NB Managing Editor Ken Shepherd: “Mexico has universal health care, so surely he’ll get better health care there, right? Isn’t that what the liberals tell us? So why the consternation about sending him back?”<<
BTT!
She was screaming "Racista!" and parading with her girls, who she undoubtedly popped out on taxpayer money after breaking into the U.S.
Just remember...it's racist to have borders, and the Gringos owe all of Mexico a free ride for life.
We allow ourselves to be Mau Maued by these morons. I’d fly him to a border town. Buy a used hospital bed and push him across into Mexico, land of liars
Same primitive, tribal morons doing the act, too.
You know what the deal is. I am beyond disgusted at the lack of American pride that allows tribal foreigners to walk all over us
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