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MSNBC star Joy Reid downplays MS-13, says only Fox News viewers have heard of dangerous gang
January 31, 2018, 05:41 PM
JALLENMSNBC star Joy Reid downplays MS-13, says only Fox News viewers have heard of dangerous gang
Often-misinformed MSNBC star Joy Reid is under the impression that international criminal gang MS-13 isn’t a major issue and the only people that have even heard of the thugs are regular viewers of Fox News.
During Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Trump kicked off the immigration portion of his speech by detailing the horror of two teenage girls who were killed by MS-13, an international crime gang comprised mainly of El Salvador immigrants, while their parents were in the building.
“Two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown,” Trump said. “Four men associated with MS-13 have been charged with the killings… I am calling on the Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country.”
During MSNBC’s coverage of the State of the Union, Reid mocked the president’s remarks while analyzing the speech with “Hardball” host Chris Matthews.
“He gives a speech tonight, in which he makes it sound like the biggest issue in the United States, the biggest threat is MS-13, a gang nobody that doesn't watch Fox News has ever heard of. So he makes it sound like they're the biggest threat.”
Reid said Trump simply mentioned the deadly gang to accommodate the “audience he wants applause from.”
Well, it turns out Reid needs to consume more news.
A search of “MS-13” on CNN’s website reveals dozens of articles that mention the gang. The gang has been mentioned in an assortment of New York Times headlines in recent memory, such as a June 2017 article titled, “39 members of MS-13 are arrested, authorities say,” and a July 2017 article headlined, “Trump will visit Long Island in the wake of MS-13 gang arrests.”
If the Times is too high-brow for the MSNBC star, USA Today has also covered the gang extensively. A video on the site from Nov. 2017 is headlined, “MS-13 gang member arrested in Maryland murder.”
USA Today even covered the gang back in 2012 when the Obama-era feds decided to label MS-13 a criminal group.
"This designation allows us to strike at the financial heart of MS-13 and is a powerful weapon in our fight to dismantle one of the most violent, transnational criminal organizations operating today," then-ICE Director John Morton told the paper.
“MS-13 is an example of some of the worst of criminal gang behavior,” Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., told Matthews on the very same show on which Reid appeared.
News organizations, including the Washington Post, HuffPost, The New Yorker, The Hill, New York Post, PBS, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail, Time and Slate have all covered the dangerous gang.
If Reid doesn’t consume any of the aforementioned outlets, surely she remembers the coverage that her own network dedicated to Trump July 2017 speech to law enforcement officials on Long Island, N.Y. when he famously warned police officers not to be “too nice” when arresting “thugs.”
Well, somebody should tell Ms. Reid that the president was referring to MS-13 members when he made the controversial remarks.
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When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown January 31, 2018, 05:45 PM
rat2306Heard about them some years ago, thanks to their graffiti on a ground power transformer unit in my neighborhood...
January 31, 2018, 05:51 PM
Il CattivoYeah, and it wasn't so many years ago that MS-13's attempts to drive black people out of 'their' neighborhoods in LA made the front page of the New York Times.
January 31, 2018, 05:55 PM
parabellumClueless, dishonest, and proud of it.
January 31, 2018, 05:55 PM
JALLENIs she the one who broke out in uncontrolled laughter when Ann Coulter projected Trump as the next President?
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown January 31, 2018, 05:57 PM
RHINOWSOCalling her stupid is an understatement.
January 31, 2018, 06:00 PM
nhtagmemberquote:
Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Calling her stupid is an understatement.
yeah, thats an insult to stupid people
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
January 31, 2018, 06:01 PM
SigmanicToo bad Reid can't experience MS-13 firsthand. Maybe that would leave a lasting impression.
January 31, 2018, 06:07 PM
egregore
quote:
“Two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown,” Trump said. “Four men associated with MS-13 have been charged with the killings… I am calling on the Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country.”
It may not be a big deal to the likes of Joy Reid, but I'll bet it's a big deal to the victims' family and friends, and who knows who else the gang victimized before getting caught.
January 31, 2018, 06:13 PM
GWbikerI guess she never heard of the "Bloods" and the "Crips" and the "Latin Kings", "Mexican Mafia", "Black Dragons", and dozens of other illegal Hispanic/Asian/Black gangs.
Reid is as dumb as a rock.
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"Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them".
January 31, 2018, 06:14 PM
Scoutmasterquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Clueless, dishonest, and proud of it.
And how many of her kind willing swallow, and promote, the kool-aid, knowing full well it is a lie.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it"
- Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 January 31, 2018, 06:19 PM
recoatliftI hope you walk down a dark alley, alone & this is the last thing you'll see, you will understand.
January 31, 2018, 06:27 PM
Edmondquote:
Originally posted by GWbiker:
I guess she never heard of the "Bloods" and the "Crips" and the "Latin Kings", "Mexican Mafia", "Black Dragons", and dozens of other illegal Hispanic/Asian/Black gangs.
Reid is as dumb as a rock.
But I bet she knows about all the white gangs.
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January 31, 2018, 06:45 PM
recoatliftquote:
Originally posted by Edmond:
But I bet she knows about all the white gangs.
Edmond, even Vegas wouldn't take a bet on that!
January 31, 2018, 06:49 PM
oddballEven fuckin' liberals in San Francisco and Los Angeles are aware of them.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
January 31, 2018, 07:04 PM
TigerDorequote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Clueless, dishonest, and proud of it.
Perfect summation. That should be the official motto of the DNC.
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January 31, 2018, 07:08 PM
bobtheelfJoy Reid is the pinnacle of dishonest leftist scum. Not a day goes by that she's not shamelessly spewing bald-faced lies.
January 31, 2018, 08:13 PM
John Steedquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Clueless, dishonest, and proud of it.
You'd think reporters would at least listen to the news on their own networks. I guess not.
... stirred anti-clockwise. January 31, 2018, 08:22 PM
nhtagmemberquote:
Originally posted by GWbiker:
I guess she never heard of the "Bloods" and the "Crips" and the "Latin Kings", "Mexican Mafia", "Black Dragons", and dozens of other illegal Hispanic/Asian/Black gangs.
Reid is as dumb as a rock.
hey hey hey now
I have some really nice rocks in my yard that don't deserved to be slandered...
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
January 31, 2018, 09:23 PM
DoctorSoloquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Clueless, dishonest, and proud of it.
That should be the new democratic party motto.
They will say anything as long as they can get a pat on the head from the socialist cognoscenti...
In the end they do nothing of value other than cause me to change the channel. Turn the knob. This is still America and I don't have to listen to your endless hypocrisy. Eat a fat one, dumbass.