PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:
So the next time anyone dies from a DUI repeat offender the situation is "out of control"?

If they really want to put the sqeeze on illegal immigration they would go after all the companies that employ them en masse. They're coming here for jobs.

Yes.  Though the fact that drunk driving is out of control is another story. 

When an Illegal immigrant has been arrested multiple times for problems like that... it is out of control. The fact that it happened once means it's likely there are others in a similar circumstance who have gone unreported.

Also, yeah they should go after the companies as well.  However, that won't get rid of most of the people living here illegally... and without proper deportation would just lead to the illegal immigrants having a higher crime rate then normal people.

And O'Reilly was exploiting a tragedy from the DRUNK DRIVING problem to stir up emotions about the IMMIGRATION problem.  Can we agree on that?

[edit:  And it's true, I should have said "also" go after the companies.  Otherwise it's no use because more will come to fill the jobs.]

I'd say he used the tragedy from an Immigration and drunk driving story to stir up emotions about immigration... and Drunk Driving.

Pretty much every repeat offense by an illegal alien is one that shouldn't of happened because illegal aliens shouldn't be in the country in the first place.

I think that was his point that gets lost in the baiting for geraldo... and it's a true one.

Although the two issues are embodied in this one man, they are in fact two separate issues and combining them is a mistake.

Although I stand by the above, I'd like to amend my main response to something much more direct and simple:  I think you're wrong. 

Neither of us can know exactly what goes through Bill O'Reilly's mind.  And I freely admit that I have barely watched his show.  But how many times has he done segments on drunk driving, and how many has he done on illegal immigration?  I'd be surprised if the answers aren't "very few" and "very many", respectively.  If this is true, I think Geraldo and I are right to be extremely suspicious of his motives given the tone of the segment in question.