August 20, 2008, - 11:05 am
Why is the Media Making Such a Big Deal Out of the Anchor Baby Gold Medalist?
By Debbie Schlussel
Is it just me . . . or are you also bothered by the mainstream liberal media’s heavy coverage of Henry Cejudo’s Olympic gold medal win in wrestling?
Usually, no-one cares who won the gold medal in wrestling, whether it’s an American or not. Unless you are a big wrestling devotee or fan, I doubt you can name a single American medalist in wrestling from any Olympic Games.
But Cejudo is different. Why? Not because he won the 55-kilogram men’s freestyle event in Beijing. But because his parents are illegal aliens from Mexico–ahem, “undocumented aliens”, as AP and NBC News’ Brian Williams all called them in their PC coverage of Cejudo. And Cejudo is an anchor baby. (At least The New York Times had the guts to call his mother an “illegal immigrant.” That’s progress.)
Kudos to him that he won an Olympic gold medal, but he’s an anomaly–the exception, NOT the rule. His story is great. His mother worked hard as a janitor and construction worker, and he’s clearly proud to be an American. But she took jobs from and lowered wages for American citizens. And she was breaking the law by being here. Whether or not her son won a sporting event on behalf of America does not excuse that, nor is it anything other than an anomaly from the usual illegal alien “contribution” to America.
We see these stories occasionally–about the high school valedictorian going to Harvard who is an anchor baby or an illegal alien that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) seeks to deport. And now, there’s this touting of Cejudo.
But most illegal aliens and their birthright citizenship-endowed kids–anchor babies–are not Olympic gold medalists or Harvard-bound valedictorians. They are leeches on the system, at the very least. And often, criminals. Or worse–if you go to Dearbornistan or Brooklyn or other Islamic centers around America–they are America-hating, Medicaid-abusing, terrorist-supporting burdens (and possibly terrorists themselves).
So while the mainstream media wants to impress upon us that illegal aliens are the producers of Olympic gold medalists for America and that anchor babies are the Olympic gold medalists themselves, that’s a nice fairy tale which the odds don’t support.
Henry Cejudo is the aberration, not the usual manifestation of the mass problem of 12-20 million illegal aliens and many more anchor babies in our midst.
And was Cejudo’s Olympic gold medal worth anything to American taxpayers versus the cost of services his parents likely took from American tax-funded coffers? Does his Olympic gold medal win give you, the American taxpayer, anything of value other than a fleeting, ephemeral sense of pride (if that)?
Exit Question for the mainstream media touting Cejudo’s gold medal win:
How many kids of illegal aliens, how many anchor babies have won Olympic gold medals for America? Versus how many continue to take American jobs, leech American tax-funded services and benefits, commit crimes against Americans within America?
One (and possibly up to a handful) versus millions?
Sorry, but those stats don’t back up the singular and rarely duplicated Henry Cejudo narrative.
You know the old saying about how if you work hard in America, you can do anything? Now, the media is changing the trite adage:
If your parents sneak into America, evade immigration authorities, and cheat the system, you can do anything.
Not that Henry Cejudo didn’t work hard. But his parents worked harder . . . at piercing America’s borders and breaking the law.
So Cejudo’s parents are illegal aliens, and now this illegal family has gotten a lot of publicity. Why don’t any of these media hacks call for the immediate deportation and/or imprisonment of these illegal aliens in his family. If we follow the law, especially with these now-prominent people, the law would be applied to these criminals immediately. And I wonder how many of this ‘handful’ are exaggeated due to PC and affirmative action considerations.
c f on August 20, 2008 at 11:54 am