Friday, February 10th, 2006...6:54 pm
Lou Dobbs Tonight
My poor brother had to suffer from too many minutes sitting next to Russell Pearce today. Don’t worry, he was given some pills and he will be okay.
For those that missed it, he debated Rep. Pearce today’s Lou Dobbs Tonight on the issue of the National Guard on the border. It will be repeated a couple of times. My brother was arguing for Napolitano’s limited plan (which I wouldn’t have voted for) and Pierce was arguing his regular, well founded, sensible border plan, with such evidence as this:
Arizona’s No. 1 in crime. You know, the illegal aliens kill more people on an annual basis than we probably lost in the Iraq war to date in the United States. It’s enough is enough.
Where do we start on that one? The last year I could find statistics for was 2004, when there were 486 homicides. I don’t have a breakdown by who was killed by illegal aliens and who by upstanding American citizens, but this stat alone puts a lie to Pierce’s numbers. There has been an increase in homicides in recent years, but many experts, you know people who have an actual background in law enforcement, believe that the recent spike is more due to the use of methamphetamine, a home grown drug, by the way. Some guy who couldn’t run the DMV knows better though.
Besides, I thought these guys were coming up to sponge off welfare, or maybe take our jobs…I can’t remember which.
Unfortunately, such “factoids” are common for Pierce, then regurgitated by the media. Another of Pierce’s “factoids” is that 80% of state inmates are aliens. Turns out it is 12%. The intereview was rushed so Tom didn’t feel like he could call him on the phony murder stat, and I couldn’t expect Dobbs to refute it, given he suggested the Mexican Army was ready to invade.
What the hell are you talking about, Lou?
2 Comments
February 13th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Check your Pearce vs Pierce spellings.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Geez…I did that again? I get him confused with former New England Revolution player Rusty Pierce…easy to do, they look a lot alike.