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Originally Posted by golfhobo
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Well, if they DID, it would be hard to haul a load of illegal Mexican immigrants from say... Kansas to Long Island! Only trucks coming out of MEXICO could haul such illegal "freight."
What's this got to do with illegal immigrants? Oh that's right, JACK SHIT.
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Maybe it's just a COMMON PRACTICE for Mexican drivers, and there was an eyewitness to it!
Eyewitnesses can be wrong, just ask any defense attorney.
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Oh yeah, it happens quite OFTEN..... usually when the driver is an "illegal." MOST reports of accidents lately, involving American Drivers, indicate that the driver stuck around, co-operated with the police, and was CHARGED!
I had a driver damage my mirror in a pilot pulling out and he didn't stop.
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Ah.... but they DID!! And I suspect that all those companies you mentioned WOULD, indeed, make a public comment if one of their drivers caused an accident that killed 34 people!
They did? Find me a video link.
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No, it's not terribly unusual..... but it usually makes the FoxNews and CNN headlines! And, if it caused the death of 34 people..... it would be ALL they talked about for 3 days!
It's newsworthy because it killed 34 people, not because it exploded. It just happened to explode at the wrong place at the wrong time. Which has nothing to do with it being Mexican, or illegal immigrants or whatever you happen to come up with.
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You accused the reporter of "grasping at straws." That indicates that you didn't believe it was newsworthy, and was only "sensationalized" because of the Mexican Driver issue. Had it not been for that issue, you indicated that you believed it should NOT have been reported.... or at least not linked to a viable issue. This equates to "sweeping it under the rug" which is tantamount to "hiding something."
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No, I said the writer was grasping at straws trying to tie this into the Mexican driver issue, not for reporting the story. There's a difference. It's a newsworthy story, but trying to tie in to the other issue is the reporter trying to press his opinion on the reader.