AP, ABCNews.com Omit Convicted Killer's Illegal Immigration Status, MS-13 Gang Membership
Correction: My initial post incorrectly conveyed that Chandra Levy was an intern for then-Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.). She was in fact an intern for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
"Salvadoran Immigrant Ingmar Guandique Found Guilty of Murdering D.C. Intern Chandra Levy [12:45 p.m. ET]"
That was the breaking news headline that was blasted to my inbox from ABCNews.com regarding today's murder conviction of the suspect in the 2001 murder of federal government intern Chandra Levy.
In the Associated Press story by Matthew Barakat at the ABCNews.com website, there is no mention of the fact that Guandique is an illegal immigrant nor of the fact that he is involved in the ruthless gang Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13. This despite the fact that numerous news reports during Guandique's trial noted that he often wore turtleneck shirts in the courtroom to hide his gang tattoo.
You can clearly see that gang tattoo in an April 2009 file photo ABCNews.com included in their breaking news story.
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All the news that's fit to omit (part 1,267,818,311)
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 2:26pm.
Associations, legal status, what are you "loco", we don't need no stinkin' facts to complete "the story".
Gangs, guns, violence, illegal, legal, eh, don't mean nothing to the story.........
I just wonder what other
Submitted by d1carter on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 2:54pm.
I just wonder what other unsolved crimes this thug committed. I blame the elite media and our government for not protecting Americans. Rest in Peace, Chandra Levy...
Arizona Republic
Submitted by SnapTie on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 3:03pm.
My brother called and said The Arizona Republic is claiming they framed a salvadoran immigrant.Not illegal or a gang member. He calls the paper The Arizona Nazi.
AP: (gwan DEE'-kay)
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 3:44pm.
Hmmm, odd pronunciation for scumbag.
But thanks for providing ALL the minute details, as always AP.
If he was a muslim, we
Submitted by Thoreau on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 3:49pm.
If he was a muslim, we wouldn't even know his name.
You know they could not
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 4:22pm.
You know they could not identify him as an illegal immigrant because they had already identified the Congressman who was caught up in this as a Democrat. You either identify him as an illegal and drop the "D" from the Congressman or keep the "D" and drop the "Illegal", you cannot have both in the libturd hand book.
The omissions are as bad as the admissions
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 4:22pm.
Decades when I was in the Navy serving in the Norfolk, Virginia area, the local MSM was notorious for including a suspect's military service in their crime reporting regardless of its significance.
A headline might read "EX-NAVY MAN RAPES 13 YEAR-OLD GIRL," but when you read the story, you found out that he was kicked out of the Navy 15 years earlier.
Thanks to NB, we've seen the same thing with politicians and scandal. If the politician is a Republican, the MSM always includes party affiliation. If the pol is a Dem, no party label.
Good on ya, G
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 4:32pm.
Thanks for your service. I was stationed in the Hampton Roads area, too, "back when". I remember those anti-military headlines. There was one that ran something like "Airman Robs Liquor Stores", and it turned out the punk had washed out of Basic and never so much as set foot on a local military installation. It was nothing but a purposeful tar job.
OTOH, the LSM holds up jackasses like John Frickin' Kerry and that Blumenthal joker from Connecticut, who inflate their own service for political purposes--why they're just American heroes.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Good times.........
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 5:09pm.
I was stationed in Norfolk myself and there was this sweet little lass named "Sunshine" who worked at "Nicks" right outside the base, good times..........
Burger King was near there, a little dinner, cold beverages, ZZ top on the ol' jukebox and "Sunshine".......... provided the entertainment.
We get kinda close.....................
For the purposes of matrimony, this posting will self destruct in 3,2,1......
Va beach is a beautiful place as was Kings Dominion and Six flags.................
Loved pulling into port after a looooooooooooooong deployment.
My bad, you were also correct about the newspapers and the local news did that shit all the time.
Dogs and Squids Stay Off the Grass Signs
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 6:07pm.
were my favorite. They disappeared quickly during the buildup to Desert Storm.
Just doing the job Americans
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 4:24pm.
Just doing the job Americans won't do.
The only way the media will ever start to take this seriously is if one of their "own" gets murdered in a horrible way. Until then, it doesn't matter.
You forget Danny
Submitted by ninerdog on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 4:59pm.
You forget Danny Perl…. He was one of them and they still think that terrorists are cute little fuzzy happy people who are just misunderstood pranksters…
Point taken. I stand
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 6:53pm.
Point taken. I stand corrected.
They are scum...
It's disgusting to see not a
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 5:36pm.
It's disgusting to see not a single day goes by where at least 12 to 15 douchebags in the lame street media get down on their knees and suck Obama's c@ck for all the world to see.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Ouch!
Submitted by Rukus on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 9:22pm.
No you d'int! I like your stuff but that is overboard, sorry...
BTW, I hate barry too.
A violent illegal, a gang
Submitted by winston smith on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 5:36pm.
A violent illegal, a gang member and he'd already been twice convicted of assaulting 2 other women in Rock CReek park. Talk about the wheels of justice turning real slow....
But I'm sure the liberal/leftist politicians are hanging their heads in sorrow today-- but not for Chandra --- an oppressed "undocumented worker", here to do the kind of work spoiled Americans just won't do, being convicted in a Washington DC court room for the murder of some suburban middle-class white chick. There is no justice in this world.
Yes, Grandique's an "illegal" and Condit's a "D"...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 6:02pm.
Anyone who follows the news is or should be well aware of Grandique's status as an illegal immigrant. To repeat that fact in evey article published about this defendant would be an act as gratuitous and superfluous--and inflammatory--as continually citing, for example, his religious affiliation or upbringing. The Washington Post noted Grandique's immigration status in delineating the cast of characters involved in the Levy case, but didn't re-emphasize it in every follow-up piece. That's responsible reporting.
Jer
Grandy is an illegal alien,
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 8:36pm.
Grandy is an illegal alien, not an immigrant and a MS13 gang memmber to boot. It is important to illustrate the idea, backed up by a study, that supporting the idea illegal aliens are ok and embracing them into the community raises crime. I say deport him to Cuba.
Dan...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 11:05pm.
Are you saying that even the term "illegal immigrant" fails to satisfy you? Is so, then youi are also at odds with Ken Shepherd as well as the ultra-conservative Washington Examiner.
Jer
Yes Jer, it does not satisfy
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 12:24am.
Yes Jer, it does not satisfy me because I believe it legitimizes the alien. Look at what has happened in the last couple of years and the words illegal are dropped. Its a sanitizing of terms like saying neutralize a person instead of murdering them. But I figured you might not object to sanitizing words.
Then, Dan...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 4:36am.
why didn't you object when Ken sanitized it?
Jer
I did in my post, I could
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:23am.
I did in my post, I could care less who sanitizes it. If you will read my original post to you I objected to sanitizing the term period. I relied to you because you thought teh whole idea of saying he was illegal was in your words "To repeat that fact in evey article published about this defendant would be an act as gratuitous and superfluous--and inflammatory--as continually citing, for example, his religious affiliation or upbringing". Truthfully when you use words like these it reminds me of you being a LAWYER. Lawyerese bugs the crap out of me and reminds me of Obama in the worst way.
"Gratuitous", "superfluous",
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 5:55pm.
"Gratuitous", "superfluous", "inflammatory", and "affiliation" are legalese?...hardly more so than "sanitize" and "neutralize" and "legitimize" or "plethora" [which you have recently used]. The truth is, Dan, LAWYERS bug the crap out of you, a fact which you have made abundantly clear in dozens and dozens of insulting and abusive posts for years. We get it. Why don't you open a forum and pour out your infinite hatred for lawyers and the legal profession and then refer folks to it from time to time. I think it would simplify matters.
Jer
Its the idiotic way you
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 6:09pm.
Its the idiotic way you string them together.
Dan, I"m sorry, but there's
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 6:46pm.
Dan, I"m sorry, but there's nothing I can do to help your comprehension difficulties. But, there's no need for it to be a permanent hindrance. You can help yourself. Work on it.
Jer
Illegal immigrant and illegal
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 12:57pm.
Illegal immigrant and illegal alien are relatively synonymous, however the illegal action taken is the act of immigrating in contravention of the law. Guandique illegally immigrated to the United States. He didn't immigrate via the proper legal method.
By contrast, saying he's an illegal alien would be to say that he's being an alien illegally, which makes little sense. There's no law against being a foreigner in the United States. There is a law against violating immigration laws to reside here without having secured the proper documentation to do so.
But for many years the term
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 1:35pm.
But for many years the term illegal alien has been used, people understand what it means. As I see it its like the difference between saying gay and homosexual. There is a slow decline in meanings of words and some have stronger meanings than others. So using the word gay would mean a happy person and not a homosexual as the term now means in common usage?
More LIke Irresponsible Bias
Submitted by IrateNate on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 10:55pm.
Responsible reporting, Jer? I disagree, and believe the omission to be intentional. The goal of the liberal media being to obfuscate the difference between illegal and legal immigrants if the giant push towards amnesty is to ever reach fruition.
The public must be deceived into believing there are no dangerous criminals swarming across our southern border. Anyone who believes otherwise is just an extreme right-wing fanatic.
We must be made to understand that blanket amnesty is a good thing. We must believe that all immigrants only want a better life, and they only take the jobs Americans don't want - such as butchering our interns, for example.
Guandique was and is a citizen of El Salvador, period. It is irresponsible reporting to claim he was a "Salvadoran immigrant". He is either a legal immigrant or a criminal trespasser. There are no "gray areas" here, Jer.
If the intention of the WaPo
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 11:00pm.
If the intention of the WaPo is as you suggest, then why would the editors even bother to identify him as an "illegal" at all?
Jer
Small steps, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 11:44pm.
not large strides, as they would be too obvious and subject to blowback.
Boiling a frog by starting out with an acceptable temperature and increasing the heat slowly.
Illegal alien becomes illegal immigrant becomes immigrant becomes a liberal Democrat vote.
And not necessarily legally.
MD
..and Jer..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 11:08pm.
..if he'd had a tatoo on his neck that said, "Proud Tea Party Member"?
(;~/ gary
No way Jer
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 12:51am.
This was a blatant ommision.
When they start the piece off with "A jury has found Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique guilty..." It sounds like he was a legal immigrant. It would not have been hard for them to insert 1 more word into the opening sentence.
And what about those that don't follow the news? Or are just becoming interested now? Until today, I didn't know anything about this, I remember something from way back then, but this is the first I have seen since the original disapearance.
"Lib free or die"
We Are The 53%
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:25am.
If he had been a Republican who was convicted of littering they would of had it in each piece.
If the facts...
Submitted by ontheright on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 6:43pm.
...are not conveyed every single time the story (and all its updates) runs then the subsequent reader, who may not have caught the story in the begining, is being short changed - and one could argue - lied to.
You can't spin this any other way...
oTr
No Mistake Ken
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 7:41pm.
No mistake Ken. She was in-tern doing Condit. I wish I could have seen the look on his face when he first heard she was missing. He must have crapped his pants knowing the jig was up!
Can you even fathom the
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 11:55pm.
Can you even fathom the disgust you would feel if it was your wife, daughter, sister or mother that was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang-member? My gosh. I can't even imagine. And then, on top of that, to hear these cry-baby liberals whine about the Arizona legislation.
Could it be that the AP
Submitted by troglodyt on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 5:56am.
Could it be that the AP article you are quoting was a preliminary report?
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHANDRA_LEVY?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-11-22-12-45-32
Maybe troggie
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 8:30pm.
But in the story you linked they still didn't say he was in the country ilegally.
"Lib free or die" Denny Crane
We Are The 53%
Denny
Submitted by troglodyt on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 10:19am.
First I wanted to say "Oops" then I relized it wasn't the article I found and looked at the cache version and there it was:
Investigators eventually focused on Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, and brought formal charges last year. Prosecutors acknowledged they had little direct evidence but said Levy's death fit a pattern of other crimes committed by Guandique in the park.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nSlpsoGAjdsJ:customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHANDRA_LEVY%3FSITE%3DNVLAS%26SECTION%3DHOME%26TEMPLATE%3DDEFAULT%26CTIME%3D2010-11-22-12-45-32+http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHANDRA_LEVY%3FSITE%3DNVLAS%26SECTION%3DHOME%26TEMPLATE%3DDEFAULT%26CTIME%3D2010-11-22-12-45-32&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de
The word "dynamic" in the address I linked first is probably to be taken literally. And perhaps next time you are online the whole thing will have been recached and will be gone again.
So you're just proving more bias
Submitted by Denny Crane on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 8:30pm.
They scrubbed the illegal part out of the story.
"Lib free or die"
We Are The 53%
Or...
Submitted by troglodyt on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 7:50am.
After including it at one time and leaving it out the other time, maybe a sound conclusion would be: They/He don't see it as a an essential part of the story.
And that is a problem
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 11:06pm.
Because it is relevant to the story.
They don't see it that way, or they don't want to show others the truth.
We Are The 53%
And...
Submitted by troglodyt on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 12:26pm.
because you say it is relevant to the story, it really is?
what part of illegal do you NOT understand?
Submitted by stevo on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 10:36am.
Our Government, has allowed the invasion of 30 million criminals in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution. they force American tax payers to pay Billions to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders children, free medical care,massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WAKE UP PEOPLE!
.youtube.com/watch?v=tsH8xvjTAlo
.youtube.com/watch?v=Btj6IeOFkis&feature=player_embedded
immigrationcounters.com/
.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp
.immigrationshumancost.org/
.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty580.htm
Every Non-representative including obama and holder need to be IMPEACHED! for not upholding the oath of office they swore to defend the Constitution! If these clowns were to do their job, this would all be a Moot point!
Deport all illegal’s, now, all 12 to 20 million of them. Anchor babies and their criminal parents go, period, and cut the phony tears, you knew you were breaking the law when you crossed the border.
Next shut down any business hiring illegal labor and confiscate all property belonging to the owner. Property will be sold at auction and the proceeds to pay for the massive deportation. Oh and owners go to jail.
Got a better idea? Lets here it!