More on Drive-By Journalism

Not sure who coined this term. Rush uses it a lot. But it's meant to compare journalism&mdash'as it's practiced today by writers who call themselves journalists but are really Marxist propagandists—to inner city criminal perps who drive by, guns a-blazing, and slaughter anyone that's in their way.

A prime example happens in this morning's Washington Post, never, even at its best, a reliable bastion of truth. An editorial today (along with an article last week) viciously whacks suburban Prince William County Virginia for being the latest Northern VA county to attempt to tackle the problem of illegal immigration before its consequences turn suburbia into one huge, lawless barrio.

Here's another point of view from someone who lives there, John Miller, who just happens to write for the National Review Online:

Last Sunday, the Wash Post described life in the Virginia county where I live:

Some cowered indoors, wary of police sweeps. Others said they'd leave for another county, or state — anywhere that didn't seem as unwelcome as Prince William suddenly did. ... Hispanic residents there say a clasp of fear has gripped their community in recent days, as anxiety and confusion over the policies ripple through supermarkets, job sites, hair salons and living rooms.

This is in the aftermath of the county board approving an anti-illegal-alien resolution. Among other things, the police are supposed to check the residency of people they take into custody. Judging from the Post, you would think that Prince William County is now gripped by fear.

Well, you wouldn't know it from driving around here this week. Want to hire an illegal alien? You can still go to the same 7-11 on Route 1 in Woodbridge, where they gather every single morning for day-labor opportunities to pull up. Let me assure you: nothing has changed. And that goes for the Post's journalistic biases, too.

Oh, and no hugging, no learning at the Post. Here's some excerpts from today's hatchet job editorial, arrogantly titled "Nativism's Toxic Cloud":

TOXIC FALLOUT from the Senate's failure to enact immigration reform is drifting over the Northern Virginia suburbs. This month, Prince William County approved a resolution whose purpose is to make life unpleasant for illegal immigrants by denying them services and using local police to hound them. Now neighboring Loudoun County is moving in the same direction, spurred by a member of the Board of Supervisors who contends that immigrant "hordes" are ruining the county. In both cases, the favorite fantasy of elected politicians is that the pressure on undocumented residents will drive them out of the county and into the waiting arms of the feds. Not likely.

Illegal immigrants are in Northern Virginia for the same reason that they are in so many other parts of the country: Their labor is in demand. That's not going to change, unless the powers that be in Prince William and Loudoun have discovered a way to defeat market forces.

Boy, are they hitting the memes here, or what? In a sub-head, the smarmy editorial writer further warns that "In Northern Virginia, Immigrant Bashing Could Get Ugly." How much uglier than the lies in your editorial, El Smuggo? The Post is pushing the real toxic fallout here.

Lefty pols and journos who hate to cross the river from DC or suburban Maryland, still have an abiding belief that all Virginians are neanderthal racists, in spite of the fact that nearby Arlington and Alexandria are run by and for socialists. Hence, it's simple and easy for the Post to smear all Virginians with the absolutely unfair (and historically inappropriate) charge of "nativism." The left, of course, never wants to engage in an actual argument, which it will lose, but instead chooses to tar its opponents so it doesn't have to deal with their valid concerns. In this case, the increasing concern across the entire country that ILLEGAL (not legal) immigration and its casual acceptance by the government and the industries that exploit their cheap labor, are visiting a creeping disaster upon this country.

The Posties are furthering the leftist mythology here. But further, in an ironic bit of cheekiness, they are claiming that "market forces" are demanding MORE illegal immigration. These, we presume, are the same "market forces" that the Post editorial page roundly condemns, 24/7, except when they can use "market forces" to prove a false point. Once again, situation ethics at its best.

States and local jurisdictions are, in fact, stepping into the breach left by the feckless and irresponsible inside-the-beltway crowd, which is peopled, sadly, by plenty of members of both political parties. Their ultimate fantasy is that by casting a blind eye on the lawbreakers of whom illegals constitute the largest number, they will earn their eventual votes when amnesty is ultimately declared.

Well, American citizens, and LEGAL immigrants who have become or are becoming American citizens, are fed up. Fed up that, by observing the law, they are gradually fated to become marginalized as voters and citizens who actually believe in the rule of law, not situation ethics.

That, Posties, ain't "nativism." It's common sense.