John King Bashes Arizona's 'Notorious' Immigration Provision
While Arizona's "Show Me Your Papers" provision spawned plenty of controversy, it was still upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court on Monday. But CNN's John King thought it was more than "controversial," blasting the law as "notorious" not once, but twice on Monday.
Near the beginning of the 11 a.m. hour of Newsroom, King called the provision "that one -- and I'll call it 'notorious' – part, the controversial part about 'Show Me Your Papers,' part of the Arizona law left into effect". [Video below the break. Audio here.]
Later in the hour, he dropped the label again while analyzing the Supreme Court decision. "[I]t's a mixed decision, the federal government won on some counts, the state of Arizona won on that notorious 'Show Me Your Papers' provision."
As a negative label, "notorious" alludes to some malicious or dubious intent, and "controversial" was the term CNN used most to describe the law, which did indeed stir up controversy. However, as a journalist King had no qualms about using the label normally reserved for obvious wrongdoing.
The provision in question allows law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of someone they have "reasonable suspicion" to be an illegal immigrant, if the officers are already enforcing some other law. The law was widely decried, mainly by the left, in the wake of SB 1070's passage.
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Of course it's notorious to
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:12pm.
Of course it's notorious to you asswipe. An illegal has yet to murder or rape a member of YOUR family or trespass on your property.
LOL. Ever see the Mrs.? She'd scare a Mexican druglord off.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 6:35pm.
"Vámonos!!!"
Give me a break! This is
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:23pm.
Give me a break! They are just whining now! Sweet music to my ears. This is almost as bad as Milbank claiming he would love cover a scandal if they could find one.
LOL!
That's like being in the middle of the Pacific and saying "Man, I wish I could see some water!"
They can't find the truth for the same reason a thief can't find a police station.
Occupy King's Front Lawn
Submitted by ZuccoZoid on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:22pm.
Show em you care. Give a few hundred or so a nice place to live. OK ?
classic example!
Submitted by Barabbus on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:28pm.
That's how they do it/have done it, for decades. A classic example! Not "historic", or "landmark". No. It's gotta be "notorious" to John King. Like The rape of Nanking or something of that order. Great catch Matt!
What is
Submitted by nolefan2 on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:31pm.
notorious, John King, is a government that refuses to enforce its own laws. These people are here illegally. AZ's law mirrors that of the Federal government. They are trying to uphold what the Feds should have been upholding all along. If this gets your panties in a wad, whatever will you do if Obamacare is thrown out?
papers
Submitted by kinijane on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:34pm.
I have yet to understand these people and so called "journalist" have no idea what
the definition of " illegal" is. I have to show papers all the time in this country, in many
different situations, you don't hear me crying about it.
Profiling, pure and simple.
Submitted by Shreve on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:43pm.
A blonde haired blue eyed resident of Arizona won't ever have to worry about this. It's those who are darker who do.
nah
Submitted by Barabbus on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 5:46pm.
That's only your own inclination to stereotype run amok.
Shreve is partially Correct
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 6:20pm.
A blonde haired blue eyed resident of Arizona won't ever have to worry about this.But a Blonde blue eyed illegal will.
So what do illegals look like?
Submitted by LordGav1n on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 6:17pm.
Where do most illegal immigrants in Arizona come from? I doubt they're coming from Norway or China. They come from Mexico.
John Kings opinion?
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 6:23pm.
Do beleive that so few people care about his opinion that his show was cancelled.
Related
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 7:19pm.
It is time to put government employees on notice. If you obey an unlawful order of President Obama's, you will be held accountable for your actions. You will be charged, arrested, tried and convicted for violating your oath of office. Just like the Nazi military was held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials, you will not be able to claim you were just following orders.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Really?
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 8:25pm.
Are you going to c/p this on every thread?
The number and e-mail the feds set up for illegals to complain
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 10:05am.
I agree with putting federal employees on notice that they MUST enforce federal law.
This is the contact info I found on line this morning.
1-855-353-1010
e-mail - SB1070@usdoj.gov
I assume everyone can use these to complain about the feds NOT enforcing federal law and how American citizens and legal immigrants are being discriminated against because of the feds refusal to enforce immigration law.
Post everywhere you can and use often.